Yeah, the FBI has caught bombers by monitoring them before the bombers were able to break the law.
Secretely surveiled them right up until they dropped the duffel bag on the sidewalk.
My memory isn’t great right now, but I think I recall reading somewhere that they catch over a hundred would-be bombers a year.
Downvoted because this isn’t a question.
But there’s a lot of places where I would upvote this post. Both of the communities below would be great choices for it:
Frankl died of heart failure in Vienna on 2 September 1997. He is buried in the Jewish section of the Vienna Central Cemetery.
He was 92 when he died. He treated suicidal thoughts / tendencies, but there’s no info suggesting he actually tried to kill himself.
Pride is free marketing, building a ramp costs money
We’re done here. We can close the thread. I don’t know if it’s possible to top that.
It’s my pleasure. I enjoy these discussions, and you brought a lot to the table.
Edit: oh, and the belief in intelligence as an immutable genetic trait is only social darwinism if higher intelligence makes people more likely to reproduce, which it doesn’t. That’s the premise behind Idiocracy.
That’s what I thought at first too. But the definition, oddly enough, doesn’t actually mention reproduction.
From Merriam-Webster
social Darwinism noun : an extension of Darwinism to social phenomena specifically : a sociological theory that sociocultural advance is the product of intergroup conflict and competition and the socially elite classes (such as those possessing wealth and power) possess biological superiority in the struggle for existence
It’s most often used to describe Andrew Carnegie’s “Gospel of Wealth” which was all about the superiority of some members of society, and the benefits society would reap by allowing them power over everyone else and over all of society’s resources.
Yeah, it’s heartbreaking to see stuff like that.
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This right here! Specify!
Replace stuff like
“Marjorie Taylor Greene can’t read”
with stuff like
“Marjorie Taylor Greene’s remarks on “globalism” should be alarming to anyone who has encountered the phrase ‘the International Jewry’ as they studied history.”
“Stupid” or “smart” or “IQ”. Take your pick.
Intellectual capacity is a social darwinist fantasy.
That includes insults that go along the lines of, “Trump supporters can’t read.”
[Aside: I dislike Trump supporters, mind you. But if they couldn’t read (especially reading Breitbart, or the Epoch Times, or the text part to Russia-funded propaganda memes) that would actually be an improvement right now. Lower cognition would be an improvement if it were real.]
Anyways my reasons are as follows: I’ve tutored quite a few people, and never found one actually incapable of learning a particular concept.
I have, on the other hand, found a large number who were underconfident about their ability, citing their “low” intelligence specifically. And unlike their intellectual capacity, this belief in IQ was actually limiting. And harmful.
I have also encountered people (outside of my tutoring) who thought their “intelligence” was a source of superiority over the masses.
They were not superior people. Their vocabulary – which people often use as a misguided proxy for intelligence – was offputting because they often used words they had clearly never heard used in context. Indicating these words were added to their lexicon unorganically, pulled from a dictionary or thesaurus rather than an adventure novel, highlighting a strange set of priorities that always made these people suspicious to me.
Every time someone calls me smart, I tend to suspect they’re trying to scam me.
Every time someone calls me stupid, I shrug because they clearly haven’t met all of the people who call me smart.
But in all cases, they are invoking the idea that some people are just capable of more, and others are just capable of less. It’s social darwinism, like I said.
And I find it disgusting.
If you want my respect, never appeal to social darwinism in my presence.
Replacing Uber AND Amazon? And on top of that, this same country got sued a few years back for offering cheap, generic alternatives to expensive drugs to their populace. (Big pharma wasn’t happy)
India is making a lot of good moves.
But in all honesty, let’s do a bit of math:
Microsoft makes $70 billion per year from Azure, and 40% of Azure servers are on Linux. That seems to imply $30 billion come from Linux hosting. And these are the guys who make Windows. When your rival makes 30/200ths of their total yearly revenue just hosting YOUR servers for people, I’d say you’re not going anywhere any time soon.
Also, Amazon EC2 is currently at half a million active Red Hat servers. Which bring in about $10 billion in revenue for Amazon.
And that’s just two companies. When the revenue generated by services built on top of GNU’s projects dip below $1 billion worldwide, I’ll lend an ear to someone telling me they are dying.
But using money as a proxy for activity, $40 billion dollars (at the very least, and across only two companies) all say GNU is bustling.
I recently started a Kbin account and noticed that a few of the communities I searched:
Which tells me that the Kbin instance only stores local information about a community after the first of its members searches that community.
My only complaint is that this place isn’t federated with beehaw. I think Reddthat was federated with them?
My assumption that this was about SVB sounds totally off the mark now that you’ve put it this way. From your story, it sounds like this is about an entire culture shift that’s been alienating Etsy’s original community of artisans for quite some time.
This isn’t really an answer to the question, but I just saw a Mastodon post about an online store that’s opening this October called Artisans.coop
It seems to be a cooperatively owned Etsy alternative, (and I can only assume it’s a response to whatever shenanigans went on between Etsy and Silicon Valley Bank.)
I don’t know. Some time ago, my 20-year-old, Ron-Paul-adoring self was ranting and raving to everyone who would listen about how SOPA and PIPA were about to destroy the internet.
In other words, there are occasionally some people on the right who latch onto good ideas (like a free and open internet) that seemingly require tech knowledge.
Such an eloquent response
In order to understand where people are coming from when they criticize this system, you must understand the difference between a worker co-op and a privately owned company.
Most people think,
> Well, it’s just a different ownership structure. It’s not much different than when workers are rewarded with stock options. Co-ops and companies are both examples of capitalist organizations.
But to those of us criticizing the current system, that’s like saying dictatorships and republics are “just different examples of governments,” and that aside from a different managerial structure, both kinds of government fundamentally serve the same purpose.
They don’t. When it comes to dictatorships vs representative governments, the entire social contract is different. The entire relationship between government official and citizen, between worker and manager, is different.
The citizen in a dictatorship and worker in an… autocratic company (for want of a better word) must both self-police their speech, asking “will this get me prosecuted/fired?” Just taking a harsh tone with your boss can lose you your job. There’s a pretty good NPR article about what bosses are legally allowed to fire you for. And even having different political beliefs is on the list.
Meanwhile, the citizen in a democracy/republic and workers in a cooperative have no such limitations. Their speech is only limited by a general, “do not harm others” guideline that gets spelled out on a case by case basis in courts (for governments) or in discussions with your coworkers (at a co-op).
Again, in both an autocratic company and an autocratic government, the citizen has no control over where money is spent and doesn’t get to choose which contractors/suppliers the organization uses.
Contrast that with democratic workplaces/governments, where voters are constantly discussing the budget, audits, social security, how to trim waste, how much to pay local farmers for ingredients, etc…
It’s not only that you must agree to become subservient in order to continue working at an autocratic company. You also get no voice in the organization that sustains itself (at least in part) off of your labor.
You don’t say “well, whichever governments come out on top must be the fittest, strongest governments. Let the arena of war be an impartial judge deciding which governments are superior.”
To the contrary, you most likely recoil in shock when a dictatorship invades a democracy. You most likely cheer on every strategic victory the democracy achieves.
Because the state of existence of a citizen under a representative government is considered worthy of protection independently of whether it helps that government achieve military victories. The rights of a citizen are considered more important than the question of whether a government that protects and respects those rights can be efficient.
All we ask of you is to consider the same for a worker. To consider the possibility that a worker might have certain unalienable rights that must be protected even if it’s hypothetically inefficient (in reality co-ops are more efficient, btw. As are democracies. The only reason they are less common is because unlike viruses, cancer, and companies owned by individuals and/or shareholders, co-ops do not have the capacity to induce rapid grow by destroying their host.) We ask that you consider the possibility that the worker – simply in working for a company – deserves a say in the operation of that company.
Ah… So that’s what you’re saying.
Well I can believe it. The CIA once tried to murder Fidel Castro with, like, shaving cream or something one time. Our agencies can go back and forth from “we are a daunting, all-knowing panopticon” into “hi, we’re the Keystone Cops” a dozen times in a weekend.
If that’s the case, and they’re targeting someone who didn’t even get in that deep, then: ouch. My condolences. I hope you if you really aren’t a threat that they figure out they aren’t needed anymore.