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I just don't make the mistake of attributing every advancement of human living conditions to capitalism, all while conveniently omitting all of the horrible conditions capitalism also creates.

And I'm genuinely baffled that anyone can still support modern day capitalism, given the state of the world.

That’s literally how societies work.

There are many ways that societies can work. Criticising the way society currently works is not criticising all possible societies. The options are not "accept things the way they are" and "bugger off into the wilderness".

Not every criticism of capitalism is communism.

But also, is it any wonder that a platform built without a profit incentive and centred around the concepts of mutual voluntary interaction rather than hierarchical control would attract a more anti-capitalist userbase?

and if you know how to make money under capitalism without working why exactly aren't you doing that?

You cannot be serious.

What a nonsense reply. Describing any rest as "slipping".

The number one thing, by FAR, that earns money under capitalism is investment. Not work, not skill, not merit. Just having money to invest and shave off your share of someone else's work.

The "people doing better" actually rest far more than your average worker. They just have money, so they get to make more money even while they are "unproductive".

Given the fact that the government won't leave us alone, you can sod right off with your "nobody cares what you do" nonsense.

They very, very obviously do care.

They want a small government.

Specifically small enough to fit in your doctor's office, your bedroom, and your womb.

And I hope the community disobedience continues in response. If they replace the superintendent, just completely refuse to acknowledge them, shun them from every aspect of life these parents have any control over.

I know it's not simple. But I think it's time people start to make enforcing their nonsense as miserable and resource-intensive as possible.

Good. Student welfare and learning environment comes first. More places should refuse to enforce conservative's ridiculous crusade.

When you have a net worth measured in the billions of dollars, it's genuinely impressive to be able to lose money. With that kind of sum behind your name, you could just do nothing and out-earn most people on the planet with just interest alone. To actually be able to lose money? Now that takes work!

I tried a couple of times to get Docker running rootlessly on my local machine, without just granting root-like permissions to the user. Spent a few hours reading just the worst documentation that tells you to do things with absolutely no explanation of why, feeling like an idiot.

Then I installed Podman. It worked more-or-less out of the box, and I got on with the rest of my project.

I suppose that's up to Ukraine, right? They're the ones fighting so it makes sense for them to decide what terms they'd be willing to accept.

The only reason I opened the article, "whatchu mean fear of peace talks?!"

Like I get it, Ukraine shouldn't capitulate. But ending the bloodshed is a good thing, surely.

This comment is weird because it doesn't really follow from what I wrote.

I just find it strange that people value the tone of a message more that the content. Surely the content of the message is far, far, FAR more important than the tone it's conveyed in?

Like, when people post genocidal rhetoric, it's not better because they say it in a polite fashion. And it's not worse if they were raging while they said it. It's bad because of the content of the message.

But then people say stuff like you did, and it's kind of unbelievable to me because it seems like valuing the lipstick more than the pig it's slapped on.

I feel like we’re already being hurt by algorithms and whatnot only sending us what we want to hear and filtering out opposing views or ideas.

Wow. My experience is quite precisely the opposite. With algorithms on most social media constantly trying to shove "opposing views" in my face at all times. Except those "opposing views" are usually that I am a danger to society and should not be allowed to exist as an LGBTQ person. Because that is what drives engagement.

So uhm, maybe an echo chamber is a privilege you enjoy, but it's not universal.

If someone disagrees with me or has an idea different from how I already think, I should know that someone is out there who thinks differently than I do. Maybe I’ll even learn something or come to appreciate a perspective I hadn’t considered before. It can be interesting and even enlightening to see differing viewpoints, and that’s part of what’s so fun to me about the Internet. We can easily see there are all sorts of people out there with different thoughts and ideas.

But... I genuinely do not understand how you can say this? Because you have primed yourself to ignore anyone who disagrees with you with any degree of vigour. Some disagreements are not going to be civil. But those are often the MOST important disagreements! The ones that people are passionate and angry about.

I'm not saying every troll has something of value to say. But in my experience, you have it precisely backwards. The people who are angry are more likely to be sincere in their beliefs, while the dickhead who types like they're participating in a debate club is usually the one trolling.

I've always wondered why some people tout "forcing a consistent appearance across environments" as a pro for spaces. That's a bad thing.

To be honest I'm surprised code format converters aren't ubiquitous. Let the repo have it's master format, enforced on commit. Then converters translate into each developer's preferred standard dialect on checkout and back again on commit.

They want me to have a bad time. That's different from people dogpiling a bigot and showing them a bad time.

Sure. But some people are arguing that bigots don't need to be banned, just block them. And that's the position I was pushing back against in my earlier message.

note: not to be confused with things I don’t agree with. It’s about tone and tact, not content

I've got to be honest, I find this kind of wild. That the tone a comment is said in is more important than the actual content of the message.

That assessment is precisely backwards for me.

AC is more than a dex save… And in fact may not involve dex at all if the target is wearing heavy armor.

I'm well aware. I just said that Dex is represented twice, once in each "system".

There’s nothing arbitrary about it

I mean the division itself is entirely arbitrary.

a unified defense system would no doubt involve a lot of special-casing/ad-hoc calculations to be at all worthwhile, to the point at which it would be far more cumbersome and confusing.

What? No? Why would that be the case?

The two systems could be mostly merged by just having saves be passive, and having the attacker roll to overcome them. Exactly like AC currently works now.

Let’s say we only use AC as a defense and have no saves. How does a spell like Hold Person work?

The caster rolls their spell attack against the target's Wisdom defence/save. Exactly like how AC works now for physical attacks.

Buffs like could add a flat value to the defence stat, like AC buffs currently do.

The more I think about it, this would actually streamline combat a bit too. Because the "acting" party is doing all the rolling, rather than waiting for the defending party to roll a save to see if attacker gets to continue.