bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 @bonifartius@social.cleverlibre.org

what the fuck

A little late

@Pawlicker @theorytoe When something becomes your job it ruins the activity completely and you don't want to do it outside work anymore

CPUlator: A web-based CPU simulator where you can watch memory and registers change as you run the program through the debugger. In the spirit of SPIM, for those of you who used that.

https://cpulator.01xz.net/

#assemblylanguage #programming #cpu #machinelanguage

@bonifartius @r000t

>people cannot be trusted to breathe air, we have to impose that they use the mandated rebreathers developed by our team of breathing experts.

Fallacy.

> nobody had authority over the people at the capitol, they weren't commanded. that would have been an action.

Trump.

>"just give me this tiny tool of fascism to fight fascism!"

Everything I don't like is woke. Or in your case, fascism.

That's not really how things work. Censorship existed long before fascism, communism, capitalism, and the Internet. Censorship is not something that Mussolini designed.

Unchecked speech causes problems. I understand you don't see things this way, but it doesn't make things any less true. In a society where people are so agitated and polarised, the decisions we collectively make (or not make) can literally end up in Civil War. Think about it.

@bonifartius imagine being so fucking envious and materialistic that you've convinced yourself that having more stuff than you is somehow an evil act just on its face, but that somehow you having more than most of the rest of the world isn't.

@Sophistifunk

Exactly.
But as one who actually lived on a dollar a day (seriously) for about a year, it is not actually the "billionaire" that is the problem, he/she is a symptom.

The problem is the State, its monopoly on violence, the dispatch of Corporations that are effectively the Tax Collectors and favoritism of the State towards large corporations (such a Limited Liability of owners, Patents, trademarks & copyrights, licensing and regulation).
No state, no billionaires.

@bonifartius

@AlgorithmWolf @r000t

> Regardless, freedom of speech is not freedom of consequences.

it is, actually. consequences is how freedoms are curtailed

you had your freedom to speak, now you face the consequence of jail time. I stress that your freedom to speak is not being violated. you just chose to say the wrong things

when I see people say that what they *usually* seem to mean is something along the lines of protection from government consequences not implying protection from social consequences. or a reminder that freedom of association exists. or that a private entity doesn't have to do business with you even if the government isn't permitted to prosecute you. or similar

@terryenglish @AlgorithmWolf The other thing is like, people are extremely impressionable.

And young people are even more impressionable than normal. They also are in desperate need of an identity.

So you have massive online communities of impressionable current and future voters, running around reinforcing to each other the idea that "free speech is bad" and, especially in places like the fediverse, "free speech is so bad, that those two words, and those two words alone, are the only reason I need to dismiss an entire group of people"

And the government vs. private consequences bit is really only brought up to, again, dismiss the idea of free speech. It's a complete refusal to so much as consider that there are benefits to the concept of open debate, such that the government not being able to intrude on it was considered particularly important. The only thing being considered is "Well I'm not the government so free speech bad"

We are quickly approaching a point where someone running for public office could unironically float the idea of abolishing free speech, and it will be met with thunderous applause. A coordinated effort in such an environment could trivially get a constitutional amendment passed.

If one believes the "nazi bar" bit, then one should also be able to apply the same concept to people moving for the abolition of free speech. Sure, this one person doesn't *really* want people to be jailed for offending others, but then their friends show up who 100% do.

My biggest issue with catering to people who report (request censorship of) anything they even slightly disagree with, is that once that behavior is rewarded, they will come to expect it elsewhere.

Meaning they will come to expect it from the government, too.

If this doesn't bother you, it should.

Remember when lots of journalists tried Mastodon but then found it too complicated, so they left? I think about that every time I read their 'analysis' of something

Since @rms now has an official fedi account, my bot parroting his political notes @rms shall be retired.