elsonrodriguez

What kind of church…?

If you run out of gas you’re also stuck. Only upside is that the recovery service can bring you a few gallons of fuel instead of a tow.

> pg's reading of it is so blunt and misrepresentative that I'm nervous about what kind of content he's consuming.

Guy wrote an essay criticizing “woke” on the eve of Trump’s inauguration and is now running interference for billionaires causing an affordability crisis.

If someone is out of tune enough they are probably just playing a different song.

> I don't select my engineering tools because they give me a bad feeling.

Those bad feelings are often your years of experience trying to tell you something.

Self install?

One of the biggest fantasies in that book is that the "protesters" would be so unified and ethical in their plots.

In real life the attacks in response to climate change(and in this case, economic injustice), will be committed by such an uncountable plurality of groups that the violence will seem almost capricious.

There is a video of Elon performing a gesture in which he forms a heart shape with his hands, and then mimes giving it out to the crowd.

It is quite distinct from the multiple Nazi salutes he gave at the Trump rally.

The inefficiency of creating, transporting, and converting hydrogen into motion is way too much to bear for the purpose of eliminating a 45 minute charging stop.

There might be some political differences between these three women that may be relevant to the conversation.

He also came down the stairs calling Obama a secret Muslim Kenyan.

SPOILERS.

In B5 the only thing close to ineffable alien were the ones that went beyond the rim. Most of the day-to-day aliens were stand-ins for human nations and cultures.

The OPA and Mars were effectively the day-to-day aliens for the Expanse. The gate-builders were the ineffable aliens.

> but don’t pretend this is some novel or uniquely partisan creation.

There is no need to pretend. The specific excesses I mentioned are Republican actions. The Democrat failures do not excuse the illegal and immoral Republican cruelty.

Your argument is ultimately that it’s ok to ignore the constitution, civil rights, and human decency because it’s time to do things “the hard way”.

Even if the current state of immigration policy was forged in a bipartisan agreement(it wasn't), it would be inhumane and I would condemn it.

Fortunately the Republicans, specifically Tom Homan and Stephen Miller, can be shown to have a record of dehumanizing people to the point of cruelty.

As far as anyone could tell they were behind the effort to separate children from their families, and the decision to intentionally destroy records, and prevent the recording of data, which ultimately left over a thousand children orphaned to this very day.

I know someone in CBP who volunteered to try help sort that situation out, ready to get on a plane, paying out of pocket, and they were told to stand down by leadership.

The republican-led executive branch wanted to inflict pain despite the law, and despite "policy".

And now those same people (Homan and Miller) are behind the door-to-door raids, asking people for their papers, building detention centers(even though we're supposed to be sending them back home...), and targeting political enemies.

Obama managed to deport 3 million people without this excess use of cruelty, civil rights violations, manpower, or money.

This is something else.

This level of hatred towards the other is the type of seed that may or may not grow into a holocaust. It's understandable if some people want to kill it before it sprouts by drawing obvious parallels.

Are you trying to imply that Germany didn't deport anybody in 1939?

I wanted to play devil's advocate here, but unfortunately did find an example of a "politically disapproved position" in frumple's post history:

"The deportations will continue regardless of the tantrums of the hysterical and mentally ill."

Which ironically is similar to some "1939 Germany" views.

My point isn’t about the advancement of technology, it is about theft and destruction disguised as technology.

If what happened to my wife happened to Warhol the equivalent would be someone tearing his paintings off the gallery wall and selling xeroxed versions with sharpie written over them.

However your ultimate points are that art can’t be business, which in turn means artists shouldn’t necessarily be compensated, which defies reality and morality.

My wife draws comics and exhibits at comic con, and her website is basically being ddossed by AI scrapers to the point of NEEDING cloudflare to keep the site online.

Then people get to use the models that stole her work and crashed her site to sell derivative works right next to her booth?

> but at some point workers have to face reality.

If workers have to face the current reality, we are in for an unfortunate time.

The better outcome would be fixing the current reality before workers see what is being done.

> Sugarcane is mostly grown on degraded pastureland far from the Amazon.

I vaguely recall campaigns against turning Amazon into pastureland via slash and burn.

Anecdote: In the days of Quakeworld, for important games, I would reboot into linux for the match. Framerate and ping were better.

Being stupid and controversial is now a popular ideological option.

I have tried this approach to mixed results, got Boxer set up on their laptops with a few classics, but they didn't really gravitate towards it.

I searched for modern alternatives and settled on a mix of the Endless series of games on iPad(Endless Learning Academy bundles them all), and as they got older, GCompris. They can get lost for hours in GCompris exploring the different games and activities.

Tesla’s valuation isn’t based on their ability to make a BEV.

Same here, it's been so difficult to find good shows after Bluey and Avatar. The gap between those two shows and everything else is almost breathtaking.

Dinosaur Comics I believe.

It isn't quite the same thing. There is a difference between trying to empower historically marginalized groups, and trying to re-subjugate historically marginalized groups.

Improving the opportunities available to people tends to improve economic productivity, so it's hard to argue it is a total waste of money.

On the other hand, removing mentions or attempts to improve inclusion of these groups in the face of rising racism and sexism has no real upside unless you're a racist or misogynist. Purges of this sort don't have any real economic motivations, it's pure ideology.

One was more of an investment, the other is more destruction.

Of course while the DEI scrubbing is dangerous to just some people, the scrubbing of climate-related language is just genocidal.

> Is our society so fragile it'll fall apart if people are exposed to the wrong ideas?

Yes.

>Racism, for example, is a genuine problem. Not a problem on the scale that the woke believe it to be, but a genuine one. I don't think any reasonable person would deny that. The problem with political correctness was not that it focused on marginalized groups, but the shallow, aggressive way in which it did so. Instead of going out into the world and quietly helping members of marginalized groups, the politically correct focused on getting people in trouble for using the wrong words to talk about them.

Following this logic, the Emancipation Proclamation was "problematic" because the "correct" thing to do is free slaves quietly via the underground railroad, as we wouldn't want to get slave owners in trouble.

This is fundamentally an argument against systemic change, as "getting people in trouble" is both core to the genesis and the enforcement of things like the Civil Rights act.

Attacking "wokeness" with this argument is deeply problematic, and extremely tone deaf in the wake of the Meta moderation leaks, wherein their internal documents highlight that the new moderation changes allow statements like "Immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of shit.”

Holy shit.