admiralteal

For someone who ostensibly believes in small government, a marriage should be seen as a contract between consenting adults. There is absolutely no reason ANY greater organization, whether the government, the community, the church, or whatever it is, should be making decisions about who can and cannot qualify for engaging in that contract.

This guy's entire comment is a smokescreen hiding his actual opinion. He invokes the courts jamming it down our throats... that is their job: to limit the activities of government when government overreaches. Bans or restrictions on gay marriage ARE an overreach. A "true" advocate for small government should be happy the courts are telling the government no when it overreaches -- but he isn't happy about it. Because he's, like most conservatives, full of shit.

The entire thing betrays that he doesn't actually give a shit about small government. He wants government right up in peoples' business. He wants you to share your bedsheets with government. He's an insane, evil fuck because anyone who thinks the government should be involved in restricting marriage at ANY level is an insane, evil fuck.

It is, but not on its own. Only when compared to the larger canon of conservative thought in which these principles are only applied to things they have preference against.

If a conservative doesn't like it and the federal government is protecting it it's a states rights issue. If a conservative does like it and the federal government isn't protecting it it's a constitutional issue.

There is no well reasoned principal backing these beliefs. It's merely a facade of justification put on top of preferences.

This is a big part of why I dislike consolidating downloading and viewing.

I've been using PerfectViewer on a tablet for viewing for ages. I'm sure there's a better one and would be game for recommendations, but I am very used to this app and its quirks.

There exist any number of ways to download and sync the chapters to my device. I currently mostly use the mangadex-dl script and a syncthings folder and it's no trouble. And all my read chapters I can just move into an archive drive where I'll have them if anything ever happens.

This is standard practice with media. You use something like MPV for viewing and the downloading is handled elsewhere.

The word for people who care about individual liberties is "liberal".

The right tells us they are not liberal. Believe them.

"ISIS could come in and want to display one, the IRA…basically anybody. You’d have to be content neutral and let everybody." He then went off-topic to accuse schools of trying to indoctrinate students with 'transgender ideology.'

Yep, that sounds like a typical conservative. Mind is just a jumble of terrified nightmare-fantasies about the big bad de jour that wanders off into total nonsense without any notice.

In short: Joe Rogan is a crypto-fascist.

I'd also bet that a huge portion of those offices rely on at least some kind of proprietary software that doesn't play nice/officially support Linux. MS Office, for example, or Autodesk's stuff. When I saw what a headache it would be to get these working on Linux, I just shrugged and decided I'd keep my dual boot available for when I inevitably have need.

You're turning up the cost dial for every additional workaround or adjustment you ask of people. Just to save what is fundamentally seen as $50-200 up front cost on a system for a new Windows 11 Pro license.

IDGAF if it feeds into the narrative. It also shuts down a recruitment pipeline. It reduces their reach. It makes the next generation less likely to continue the ideology. De-platforming is a powerful tool that should be reserved for only the most crucial fights, but the fight against Nazi is one of those fights.

The Nazis were already full-blown conspiracy theorists. EVERYTHING is spun to feed into their narrative. That ship has sailed.

A platform operator needs to AT MINIMUM demonetize the content and censure it, and is likely only being responsible if they ban it outright. If you aren't prepared to wade into the fraught, complex world of content moderation, don't run a content platform.

I think you mean WASN'T threadiverse already a term.

Yes, it used to be. Soon, it won't be.

As I understand it, detecting an adblocker is a form of fingerprinting. Fingerprinting like this is a privacy violation unless there is first a consent process.

The outcome of this will be that consent for the detecting will be added to the TOS or as a modal and failing to consent will give up access to the service. It won't change Youtube's behavior, I don't think. But it could result in users being able to opt out of the anti-adblock... just that it also might be opting out of all of YouTube when they do it.