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Singular bad hot takes aren't something I take too seriously when it's fuelled by late night drinking. It's too high a standard for me to live up to.

When they also say it sober or follow it up with more terrible takes is when I start backing away slowly.

He's far from an idiot, but I am also of the opinion he has probably just heard some rumours and taken some satirical imagery at face value. I think that it's easy to do if it's not a genre that appeals to you musically enough to listen to voluntarily, like when people believe articles by The Onion unironically. And not everyone is good at subtext anyway, even if they are listening attentively.

I will admit to not trying out H&G because I don't know enough about them to figure their intent out.

I don't go to live music anymore enough to know there are no Nazis in the room who are there for the hate, let alone the majority, so I have no way to personally verify I'm not accidentally complicit in actual grossness that was never satire at all. And I would hate for that to happen.

I didn't see the interview, so I'm basing this on just the quotes from the linked article, but Biden stopped very short of criticism and appeared to becoming from a strategic "it's a bad plan, do it differently" perspective rather than a moral high-ground perspective.

Which is consistent with US foreign policy, even if I think it's casually glossing over some atrocities in a way I find truly revolting.

I appreciate the responses, I know they're not simple questions that lend themselves to quick answers.

As a follow-up:

• What would you say and do if I told you your websites currently employ some techniques that are considered hostile to users with some disabilities?
• What would be your process in addressing that, or is it not a concern/priority to you?
• If there are relatively technically simple changes that can be implemented, but they are not ones you consider aesthetically pleasing or enjoyable, would that affect your stance?

suggests Principle 5: Tolerance for Error is most applicable to Software Engineering

I would say they all apply in different ways, but it's clear you come from a backend architecture perspective, so I'm not surprised Universal Design isn't a concept you have run into previously. No hate, just interdisciplinary acknowledgement that some topics never get traction in other areas.

I purposely put out an OpenBSD honeypot to see which entities would try to compromise it! Results: Fair.

Now that is also intriguing! I... won't get into asking how you were able to attribute parties to that, even if I am very tempted.

What am I saying is Corporate dominance is think-tanking and policy making. Data selection is inherently profit focused instead of Humanity Progression focused.

Yep, I'm on board with that. One of my personal areas of interest is how we shift that focus, hence my interest in your approach.

EFF and UN are wholly ineffective

Mmm, as an enforcement system, yes, but I'm unsure they ever really were designed for that. I think they still have some very important things to contribute to ethical engineering. But that's another topic altogether too.

I started getting really worried when I had a German person tell me industrial was Nazi music and he didn't go near it. I couldn't help but wonder if I had grossly misinterpreted some intentions I assumed were social commentary and artistic condemnation of hateful ideology. It's not like I spoke native German, so, how would I know? I still suspect he isn't correct but I always get a little on edge as soon as I see a familiar name in these topics.

Having said that, Till also has a rumoured habit of casual unprotected sex and not paying child support or acknowledging his children too, so, you know. Doesn't need to just be Nazis to be awful and ruin things for me.

After the Rammstein Til-parties stuff, I'm relieved this was just a change of opinion in song discussion.

I should stop reading threads like these, I don't know why I feel compelled to find out people are human in shit ways, even though that's obvious because no human is perfect.

Ok, color me intrigued. I've got some general questions

• What is your stance on Universal Design as it applies to ethical engineering?
• Also, your site indicates you're a fan of 1 level thinking. What risks have you anticipated in developing/providing these resources?
• Also, Is there any thinking around how you might measure or address bias in data and source selection, or engineering decisions?

Yeah, it has been weird to see some songs that were completely unremarked on by media at release (rightly or not) become solid examples of really problematic cultural artifacts.

"Island Girl" by Elton John is one that never fails to stun me. I haven't listened to radio in years but I remember the song getting played occasionally even decades after release.

I see your teeth flash, Jamaican honey so sweet
Down where Lexington cross 47th Street
Oh she's a big girl, she's standing six-foot three
Turning tricks for the dudes in the big city

That's just the opening verse, it does not get better. This song was number 1 in the US in 1975.

I think by redefining its motivation. Instead of currency markets tracking just productivity and output, we also track environmental and social metrics like average lifespan and carbon output. That forces acquisition to be accompanied by responsible ownership.

100 years ago the world moved on from the Gold standard to fiat currency, if we can do that we can also move on from what is more like a Consumption standard to a Caretaker standard.

So dapper. ❤️

Awesome, thanks for the original too! It's amazing how much color affects the way a picture can make you feel.

I appreciate that you got the corona hues, but they seem a little too saturated on my screen. how was this processed?

Hungry actors from the country who didn't make it big in Hollywood?

Seriously though, I'm actually kind of interested in how much training and OSHA and insurance there is in this business to start with.

As for OP, you can do a bunch of things to support their strike, probably. Tell people you know this is happening and why it's a problem, leave the business a review on Google about it with whatever rating you desire, email the union and donate to any strike fund pool they might have. Even an hour of your wages/time spent helping them out will likely be of greater value than the percentage of the ticket price they would have received from you. And I'm sure they'll be excited to know someone other than themselves cares enough to do something to support them.

Edit: and you also get to show your kids how to constructively collaborate on solutions to social problems. Which would probably be cool for them to see too.

Your friend was wrong. All it required was that a designated group of people be consulted with to discuss an issue - if they wanted to discuss it. There was no veto power attached or any other additional rights or privileges conveyed.

Cool, there will just be a huge group of people marginalising different groups of people unnecessarily. I look forward to it between the news stories of other people in the world killing each other over the same millenia-old territorial disputes.

Please forgive my complete lack of excitement for that prospect; I don't have it in me tonight.

Electorates close to Melbourne and Sydney cbds voted yes.

The centre of Sydney has one of the largest populations of ATSI people, not sure about Melbourne, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's true there too.

I think it's easier to see people as people when you live closely with a lot of different variations on the base model.

If I never heard again about an American being grateful/surprised/emotion that other humans are just like the humans from the US, I would begin to suspect that simulation theory is real and that there's a huge glitch in the matrix. So, thanks for confirming this is all very real again, I guess.

Many is a bigger word than I would use. Some definitely did, but no group of people has a homogeneous opinion of what the right next actions on any big issue are, and it's kind of weird anyone would expect otherwise. Overall I got the impression that ATSI Australians supported the change, but others may not have felt it looked that way based on what they saw.

only be possible when most boomers are gone.

20 years ago I believed that might be true. Since then i have learnt to never rely on it being about age. Imcreased age can correlate with increased power and the reluctance to change the system to increase competition, but age isn't the cause of stagnant beliefs. In 50 years time there will still be a generation of old people afraid of social change and a bunch of younger people who are the same or just think change is not in their personal best interest, even though it's an entirely different set of people.

We're all going to have to do a lot more than just keep waiting for the elderly to shuffle off the mortal coil if we want something different for the future.

Also generations of non-ATSI Australian children being taught total dehumanising racist bullshit, and never being corrected largely because the genocide was very successful.

A society can't just start trying to correct some of the history taught to children over the last few years, and then be surprised by the outcome of a referendum when success relies on the judgement of people who grew up on the old lies. Correcting the record for the next generation is necessary, but it doesn't fix the existing damage the lies have done and continue to do.

I don't know what Labor was thinking when they took this path. From the outside it looks like a huge unforced strategic failure.

Shit's fucked and there are no simple solutions and I hate it.

Yet again, I'm sorry. And yet again, that's not enough.