🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@dallin@librem.one Yes it was, ergo, what I said, there is no evidence or anyone implying in any way (even without evidence) in the know, that they are opposing the wording on grounds that it reduces their access to slave labour. In fact the whole article, including those who came forward, said nothing other than "They have an opinion about the wording in places"

Now as per their history, I have no opinion on that either way. We would have to discuss specific examples, I am neither pro or anti-apple in general. Like most companies as well as individuals I am sure they are a mixed bag.

What is important to me is that we are fair, straight forward, and factual with what we claim to be and make sure our opinions are expressed in a way that people know they are opinions and not a summary of facts. Which I didn't feel was done well here on the OP is all.

@dallin@librem.one Thats an unfair representation.. Lets be clear about what they are actually doing.

They are not "arguing against", they are pushing for improved language (in their view) and have not stated opposition to the bill or the bills intent. All we know is that they have pushed for support in changing the language of certain parts of the bill as written, that is all. Even the people from apple who came forward in teh article did not specifically state which parts of the bill they oppose, what language they propose or why, but they did say they only were critical about the language of certain sections, nothing more.

It is really annoying how americans have this habit of taking what is actually facts and known and "paraphrasing" it in a way that is totally disingenuous to the facts and very clearly designed to promote their own personal biases and agenda. That doesn't help you argue your agenda (which i presume is big business is bad in this case), it only weakens it by showing you can and will be manipulative of the facts to pursue your personal agenda, and thus causes readers to be more dismissive of your stance than they otherwise would be, now and in the future.

Honestly we dont even need to go that far:

If 2020 were an ice cream flavor it would be a snow cone.

@namark

depending on your system a short may always be backed by an int simply due to hardware constraints. In fact that is rather common.

@stux You free january maybe, thats when I'll likely be back at my Dutch home for a while. Haven't seen ya since I left due to coronavirus, but we should definitely plan another catch up. I know you were asking to hang out not to long ago but I was out of time.

Hit me up with your schedule when you get a chance.

@likho that too yes, but people dont realize that hitler in hindsight looks a lot different than he did when things were developing

@Orakel

Without getting into the subtle but important difference that i stated the feelings are petty not the act, simple, by making effective choices rather than emotional ones.

The goal should be to reduce crime as the top priority. Revenge for the sake of revenge, teh desire to make a criminal suffer as a first priority is not effectual to the intended goal. Nevermind the moral issues with it.

"Trump is more like hitler than any other president!?"....

No, if trump were like Hitler no one would be saying he was like Hitler. thats what made Hitler Hitler, thats how and why he got arrested, because no one knew or even suspect he was evil until we were already at war.

Never forget Hitler was praised in american publications such as Time Life right up until the war. The Hitlers of the world "look fairer and smell fouler" as tolkien said. No Trump is just some old dude who has some shitty ideas (like a lot of old dudes) and doesnt really do much to hide them.

@admin who said anything about black people?

I must be looking for something
Something sacred I lost
But the river is wide
And it's too hard to cross

...

I've been searching for something
Taken out of my soul
Something I'd never lose
Something somebody stole

-- The River of Dreams

@stux What are you up to lately, we are going to have to hang out again sometime soon.

@ravenclaw

ideally yea

@General

@ravenclaw

I think it is fair to be protective, suspicious, and concerned with anyone who has commited a crime. But that should not translate over to mistraetment. You should take the steps needed to protect yourself, as well as to effect society so there are fewer people who are criminals. None of that requires mistreatment however, if anything mistreatment makes the situation worse.

@General

@L29Ah

The fact that it is for-profit, and thus there is pressure on those who run the prison to minimize the costand resources devoted to their prisons and to do what they can to keep their prisoners in prison, as well as to do what they can to encourage the politicians to keep making laws that keep people in prison... all of which needs to be considered and potentially corrected.

That isnt to say that a private sector for-profit prison system cant work. In theory it can, but only with the right sorts of checks on those interests.

@General

@General

I get that many people in prison did bad things. But we need to get past our petty feelings of revenge and hurting back people as "justice". We can do better.

@lucifargundam

Did you grow up in japan? I'd imagine if you were anywhere outside of Japan, like me, you never would have seen any of this. Only thing I knew about until recently was the gameboy camera and that was the only one I think with any real presence in the USA. It was used in a handful of games I think.

@penny @General

@L29Ah

Ahh I wasnt aware it only worked on local toots. Thats interesting and good to know. Glad you fixed it though.

@penny @General @lucifargundam

@L29Ah

Can you be more descriptive as to what your seeing so I can help. Is it **just** from me and him or do you see this with other people you follow? When you say receive I assume you mean in your home timeline, but not as a notification?

My guess would be your setup your home timeline to show replies (and probably boosts also). If that is the case just hit the settings button on your homeline and uncheck the replies slider. What that does is it shows you any replies any of your followers make to any post.

@penny @General @lucifargundam

@lucifargundam

It seems to me at the height of gameboy, all of them really, there was this idea that it was a general interface that was useful for almost anything, we just never really saw that much in america.

I've seen all sorts of stuff in this vein, for example there is a real fish radar finder that also uses the gameboy as a interface called gameboy sonar (picture attached)

Then there was the gameboy camera, which had the sole purpose of taking and sharing pictures... if you can call 4bit grayscale a "picture" :)

There was even a gameboy printer.

Also as another user pointed out ( @penny ) there is the gameboy loom.

All pictures attached.

I am sure there are many more devices in this vein that I havent thought of yet.. but yea, this is a thing.

#Gameboy #Nintendo #Japan

@General

@penny I heard of that but this is the first time I've seen a picture of it. Cool!