tnones

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by tnones 9y ago
You can also see this in action with replies. Certain shadowbanned accounts will only show up in threads if you follow them. If you open the thread in an incognito window, certain people disappear. "Trust and Safety" is just Orwel
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by tnones 9y ago
It is both notable and unsurprising that the Drupal code of conduct [1] makes zero mention of any of the topics in this debate. Nothing about sexuality, nothing about feminism, or equality, ... Yet every discussion about this immediately tu
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by tnones 10y ago
That's a really oppressive patriarchy we live in, when a single blog post with no evidence and only hearsay is enough to spike a massive protest and boycott...
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by tnones 10y ago
The codes of conduct are unfortunately sanctimonious non-sense to beat people over the head with. Those who champion them never apply the rules to themselves, and those who really want to harass pay them no heed. This was already the case w
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by tnones 10y ago
Well. You've only graduated 2.5 years ago, so trying to push yourself as a Product Designer is probably out of your reach, and comes across as unrealistic. This is a senior-level role where experience is more important than ticking off
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by tnones 10y ago
Most of the criticism of Yarvin is by those unable to distinguish between descriptive and normative ideas. His writing is a giant "what if" that mainly rejects the provincial notion that only today's common views are the most
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by tnones 10y ago
Despite their protestations, I get the feeling that journalists are some of the most prolific consumers of social media, using it more and more as a source for their scoops and discussion topics. If so, it seems pretty disingenuous for them
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by tnones 10y ago
>you are a frigging master of the computer universe. Strange because this is exactly why I love OS X. Because it's empowering and gets out of the way. For instance, it's the only OS where multi-touch gestures for desktop/w
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by tnones 10y ago
>problematic >oppressive social relations >conceptualize I just wanna spray Pomo-B-Gone all over this.
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by tnones 10y ago
I understand the author's frustrations. Open source is lovely when it works, and communities can be fun when you're part of them. But I understand the other side too. Most people don't care, and they shouldn't have to ca
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by tnones 10y ago
Exercise for you: join the actual conversation instead of preaching from above like a schoolteacher and wielding the red marker that is the flag button when it doesn't follow your orthodoxy. It's funny though, because the other da
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by tnones 10y ago
This happens every time the identitarian left narrative stumbles and gets torn apart in subsequent comments. LambdaConf was the most memorable example. Perfectly reasonable post, intelligent discussion, flagged and memory holed by those who
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by tnones 10y ago
Are you sure you know what happened? Because all I saw was Pao being lauded as a hero for standing up to supposed misogyny, when the community was upset about how they fired a female community coordinator on top of bringing in other harsh c
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by tnones 10y ago
He said them in jest, and the audience didn't react in horror the way the original clickbait said they did, as proven by recordings. It was pure projection and misrepresentation on the author's part, and everyone else listened and
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by tnones 10y ago
It's also a great place for motivated actors to pour gasoline on some minor embers and turn them into a wildfire, allowing an irrelevant minority to seem like a representative majority.
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by tnones 10y ago
The only reason it looks alt-right white-nationalist to you is because anyone on the left who disagrees with prevailing left wing dogma is branded a heretic and a bigot, and shut down quickly. Take The Guardian. They employ people like Jess
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by tnones 10y ago
Then you should consider that there are plenty of non-traditionalists who feel the same way. Associating white and male pride with traditionalism is exactly the party line that's been pushed, and that created this situation. Until the
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by tnones 10y ago
Where are you getting this hate for IP tie-ins from? I was talking about game mechanics and _soulless_ cash grabs. The opposite of The Walking Dead and the Lego games. First off, the KK:H financial success isn't laudable, it's sim
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by tnones 10y ago
The Kim Kardashian game is a hollow pay-to-win slugfest full of time locks, that made millions just by slapping on a celebrity face. If we are supposed to dislike video games that are boring and don't color outside the lines, as the au
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by tnones 10y ago
You're only making my point further by assuming "diversity" must imply a 50/50 gender distribution in the players. Diversity implies differences in class, age, origin, occupation, and so on, and this is definitely the ca
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by tnones 10y ago
There is nothing to support the author's typical feminist schtick of using diversity as a shorthand for blaming white men for the problems observed. Video games already have a diverse, demographically blind audience, that's why th
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by tnones 10y ago
"Diversity" and "inclusiveness" isn't about adding more randomness to a selection, it's about introducing an explicit and deliberate bias. Special outreach programs favor candidates with lower _distribution_ in
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by tnones 10y ago
But the old MBP had two thunderbolts and an HDMI connector, on top of the two USB. You could plug in 3 displays, charge it and still have room for a mouse and a keyboard. Now it's always a trade-off, so on top of DVI/HDMI/DP
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by tnones 10y ago
Only if you assume women cannot be successful in technology without needing a special interest group mooching off the entire enterprise. It's a vicious cycle based on a kafkatrap. If you don't agree that women are discriminated ag
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by tnones 10y ago
"Wikileaks is apparently on a mission to destroy whatever credibility they had left." It seems disingenuous to accuse them simultaneously of throwing credibility to the wind and of carefully phrasing sensitive on-going matters lik
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by tnones 10y ago
Actually, it's about ethics in wielding minorities as a club to smite heretics.
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by tnones 10y ago
Indeed it does. Flags are disabled here, and now we get a long and extensive back and forth of all the sorts of arguments normally shut down as bigoted tout court. Excuses from above about it being good for the community strikes me as eeril
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by tnones 10y ago
And yet "asshole", "dick", "creep" and so on are perfectly valid to throw at a man without anyone worrying it's casting aspersions on the entire gender. Double standards, must protect the m'ladies!
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by tnones 10y ago
A better model is that "left" opposes oppression and favors care, empathy and equity, while "right" opposes barbarism and favors loyalty, family and just rewards. Most right wingers would e.g. see the dominance of left-w
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by tnones 10y ago
Strange how I only ever see this happening to topics that paint the social justice brigade in a particularly bad light, a group that has a particularly censorious bent to boot. Either way, every time I've seen it happen, the thread is

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