Rivalarrival

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[–] Rivalarrival 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Nobody has a Xitter account.

[–] Rivalarrival 52 points 1 month ago (10 children)

They need to advertise a legitimate use for their service.

If they don't have a threat from public wifi or other security concerns to remedy, then the only purpose for their service is to bypass region limits and block infringement notices. They would be considered complicit in such infringement.

That their service also hinders efforts to stop pirates needs to be an "unintended" and "unavoidable" side effect.

[–] Rivalarrival 1 points 1 month ago

If you're not marching with guillotines at the ready, there is no point in marching at all.

[–] Rivalarrival 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

But it's not a debate. They have no interest in listening to you,

Adam doesn't debate Bob to convince Bob of Adam's viewpoint. Adam debates Bob to convince their shared audience: Charlie, David, Edward, Frank, George, Harry...

When Bob is ejected from this forum, Charlie, (et al), never hear that debate and are never convinced of Adam's views. They aren't inoculated against Bob's logic. When they come across Bob uncontested in another forum, they may be persuaded; they fall into his echo chamber. When they bring their half-formed ideas back to your forum, they are banned as apologists rather than debated.

Ejecting Bob makes your forum better. Adam debating Bob makes the world better.

[–] Rivalarrival 0 points 1 month ago

The line is where their words cross over from speech to violence. When they call for eliminating people from society, you can remove them by the same methods they advocate.

"Toxic and dangerous" are relative terms. When the moderation team closes the Overton window enough that Chocolate ice cream qualifies as "toxic", the only dissent you can still have is between natural and artificial vanilla flavoring.

[–] Rivalarrival -2 points 1 month ago

That's great if you can trust the moderation/censorship team to use a rational definition of bigotry. But what usually happens is they begin to enforce the standards of an ever-closing Overton window, to the point that mere disagreement with the hive mind is considered bigotry.

The limits of discourse never stay "this far out". Moderation distills this enforced consensus into a weird, unhinged fanaticism, one "deviant" at a time.

[–] Rivalarrival 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Meh, for less than the cost of any streaming service, a VPN subscription gets someone else to laugh at all those letters.

[–] Rivalarrival 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hmm. Seems like combat aircraft never get hit in the engines, nose, cockpit, or aft fuselage. We could save some weight by stripping the armor out of those areas...

[–] Rivalarrival 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The 1964 civil rights act was passed the next year after that photo went viral.

A year is an extraordinarily long time with an illegitimate occupant of the White House, pardoning himself for anything he chooses to do.

I don't think the measures that were effective during the civil rights era are at all suitable for addressing such a fundamental breach of the constitution.

[–] Rivalarrival 3 points 1 month ago

The constitution isn't to protect you from the government. It is to protect the government from you. If someone proclaims themselves the government, but are refusing the protections that comes with adherence to the Constitution, you are under no obligation to tolerate their will and whim.

[–] Rivalarrival 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We have incentivized night time consumption. Base load generation (nuclear, coal) can't ramp up and down fast enough to match the daily demand curve. They can't produce more than the minimum overnight demand, but they have keep producing that around the clock. To minimize the need for "peaker" plants during the day, they want the overnight demand to be as high as possible.

So they put steel mills, aluminum smelters, and other heavy industry on overnight shifts by offering them extraordinarily cheap power.

That incentivized overnight load needs to be shifted to daytime, so it can be met with solar and wind. Moving forward, we need to minimize overnight demand.

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