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@freemo
To be fair, a lot of the rise in COVID cases is due to Texas and Florida being run by culture warrior lunatics...
Even so, Biden still could have done something earlier rather than remain hands off until his recent vaccine mandate orders, so he's not blame free here.
I'm more annoyed with Biden about the fact that the FCC head hasn't been appointed yet after 8 months.

@freemo
I love this!!

I just saw the dumbest movie I have seen in a very long time. The Tomorrow War has so many issues I really don't know where to start.
Did anyone else here hate that movie?

I apologise for having been away from Mastodon for so long. It seems the real world got in the way for once

@sickburnbro
@Nike
1. People on the spectrum are disproportionately less likely to commit violence. This lawyer is demonizing people on the spectrum in a clearly disingenuous attempt to save his (almost certainly non autistic) client from blame.
2. People on the spectrum are by no means unintelligent. A huge proportion of cases, myself included, are high functioning, and would neither commit violence nor buy into QAnon bullshit like the Q Shaman did.

As a person on the spectrum, I can only say that this lawyer is a despicable human being for saying this tripe.

@why
Same with my cat. I have to sleep in a separate room most nights

Goddamn it, what the fuck is wrong with the EU's understanding of the Internet?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/eu-adopts-controversial-law-forcing-one-hour-takedowns-of-terrorist-content/ar-BB1gb8sN

Got my second COVID shot the other day.
I was tired for a day and a half. Now I feel fine. It was nowhere near as bad as I was expecting, and in any case infinitely better than getting COVID-19

@M0YNG @ianmacd
I would argue that while some ideas are "great works repeated", others are not. There are plenty of ideas that do not appear in multiple places at once: the idea of Diophantine equations, for instance, seems to have been particular to Diophantus of Alexandria; there would have been no major reason for people in his time to consider algebraic equations with solutions confined to integral or rational results. (As a citation for this remark, I must give credit to Underwood Dudley's *Mathematical Cranks*, specifically page 106, where Dudley discusses this very question at length)

In many cases, ideas can appear earlier than they would have otherwise: a good example would be the mathematical works of Galois, whose work was not even understood until the rest mathematics had advanced enough to understand it, decades after his death at the age of 20. Still other ideas are so bizarre and so weird that they in all likelihood would not have been discovered by anyone else: in my opinion most of the myriads of results Ramanujan found fall into this category.

Now the problem I have with the movement against Stallman is three-fold:

First, almost all of the allegations against him are at the level of hearsay, with few of them having much in the way of evidence to support or refute them. This may be suitable for rumors on Twitter, but it should not be suitable levels of evidence for corporations to sign on demanding a resignation.

Second, Stallman's work --- creating what would become the modern FOSS movement as we know it, writing software, espousing philosophy --- has very little to do with the allegations against him, which mostly if not exclusively center on things done totally outside of his role with the FSF or GNU Foundation. I would call for his removal if he had done things that made his role as a leader of one or both of those foundations suspect; but outside of those roles, I can't support such a response to these allegations unless it turns out he did something grossly wrong, and as out-of-touch and inappropriate as his Epstein comments were, they do not rise to that level for me.

Third, Stallman is clearly not a perfect or even a particularly pleasant person. But how flawless does one have to be to not be problematic? While we can all agree the Weinsteins, and Shkrelis of the world deserve condemnation, the same level of agreement clearly does not hold for Stallman. Isaac Newton was described as an "arrogant misanthrope", but the good in his life both exceeded and outlived the bad. Cauchy was a "bigoted Catholic", yet he is remembered for his revolutionary (and very novel) work in complex analysis, rather than those less pleasant ephemera I mentioned.

I close with an admission of sympathy: having weird, wrong or even in some cases patently offensive social views is more common for those who, like myself, are on the autism spectrum; I can attest to this based on my own experiences with myself and with other people on the spectrum I have known. Even if Stallman is not on the spectrum and is just a jerk --- admittedly the more likely possibility --- the issue of outrage being mobilized against people on the spectrum is one that deeply concerns me; for I myself am on the spectrum, and while I have been told I come across as pleasant and nice, and good faith, understanding, and moral uprightness has always been my goal and intent, there were long stretches in my earlier life where I did not come off so well. Getting to my current state took years of work with many mistakes along the way; mistakes that I have acknowledged and learn from. I can only imagine what the effect of such backlash would be like on a person going through the same process today, if said person was met with anger, ostracism, and even harassment over a social error.

@freemo I will be reading this post and the accompanying graphs later tonight

@freemo XD
It's the Pfizer one