Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
@Craktok By that logic, Rolling Stone should report on every politicians' review of every meal they ever eat.
The argument that this is newsworthy *to his constituents* has merit, but Rolling Stone is a national magazine, not a local Houston paper.
They should be prioritizing reporting on the politicians who actually do things rather than the politicians who intentionally bloviate stupid and offensive things to try to raise their profile.
It's not about "burying my head in the sand". It's about not giving performative jackasses the attention they crave.
I just got embarrassingly far into the 2011 prequel of The Thing before wondering where the hell Kurt Russell was.
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Carl sagan’s thought about books:
“When our genes could not store all the information necessary for survival, we slowly invented them. But then the time came, perhaps ten thousand years ago, when we needed to know more than could conveniently be contained in brains. So we learned to
stockpile enormous quantities of information outside our bodies. We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have
invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of that memory is called the library. A book is made from a tree. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.”
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
@Craktok So? Folks in congress say things all the time. News outlets choose which ones to report on and which ones to make headlines out of.
This guy says outrageous things he can't ever make happen just to get headlines, and apparently Rolling Stone is happy to play right into his hands.
@clsmith @RollingStone If you click the link, you'll see he was referring to armed guards at schools, not "every yahoo".
That said, his plan is still dumb for a dozen other reasons.
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Did you know that ISO 8601 is a very large standard that describes more than a single date and time format?
It describes periods, repetitions, many different syntax of describing years, week-of-year, day-of-year, seasons, quarters, semesters, trimesters.
It's mostly unknown because the standards are paywalled: you can't just read ISO 8601 without paying ISO money.
Most of the time, when people refer to ISO 8601, they mean the subset that is described in RFC 3339.
@RollingStone A sixth grader could refute that argument 🤦♂️
Why is this newsworthy?
I love motion-sensing lights, particularly in the hallway to the bathroom in my house at night.
But I really wish someone would invent a motion-sensing light that can't be set off by cats.
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This is absurd.
If Biden commits a crime, he should also be prosecuted.
And random local prosecutors will not be able to bring cases against former presidents.
The Manhattan DA is bringing a case against Trump because he lived and work in Manhattan for decades.
@sarahemclaugh @robpegoraro Sure. As I said before, I'd boycott on such grounds. If enough people did the same, then the math on the markets shifts and it becomes more profitable to not give in to the laws of the second market.
They have very much explored the option. For them, maybe the math just doesn't pan out, and the markets they'd lose exceed the markets they'd gain.
@sarahemclaugh @robpegoraro I think those very businesses have proved, time and time again, that we can expect nothing more.
@sarahemclaugh @robpegoraro Of course I would have a problem with it; I would probably boycott them for violating my values, as I would Midjourney.
But in either case, I wouldn't be surprised, nor could I blame the for-profit businesses for aligning with the values of the larger potential market, just because that market doesn't include me.
So, I guess my argument boils down to something along the lines of: blaming companies for doing what they're incentivized to do is just addressing the symptoms, not the cause.
@robpegoraro @sarahemclaugh Seems to me that local laws only matter to the international business community proportionally to the size of the market for which those laws apply.
So of course these laws get exported. The point of business isn't to uphold democracy; it's to pay your employees' mortgages.
Therefore, exporting censorship laws is just good business. I don't think we should be holding Midjourney responsible for doing exactly what a for-profit business should do.
If anything, we should be pissed at the US government for propping up cheap trade with the Chinese, despite their anti-democratic ways, that led to this oppressive economic powerhouse that gets to make global rules. Unlike for-profit businesses, it actually is the job of the federal government to uphold the democratic ideals it was founded upon.
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A state you’re not allowed to take your pregnant daughter out of to procure a legal medical procedure in another state is no longer a state and becomes a dystopian prison.
Idaho is about to become a prison for underage girls.
I hope this is a wake up call for people who aren’t taking this creeping christofascism seriously — they are coming for EVERYTHING that doesn’t fit into their worldview.
If you ever wondered what you would have done in WW2 or Jim Crow, you’re doing it now.
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@freemo @realcaseyrollins Fair. Then I understand your OP was about holding them responsible just for the familial relation? With no evidence of any crime or negligence committed by the parent?
That seems like a due process nightmare. But more importantly, I think it would act as the *opposite* of a deterrent. If rebellious kids knew they could commit a crime and get their parents jailed? Hoo boy.
@freemo @realcaseyrollins What if an element of negligence were required? I.e. if the kid got the gun from your unlocked safe, you're liable. If they got it from a friend, though, you couldn't know about it and wouldn't be liable.
That would seem to solve the adoption corollary.
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
