Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@qoto.org
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
@sarahemclaugh @robpegoraro Of course I would have a problem with it; I would probably boycott them for violating my values, as I would Midjourney.
But in either case, I wouldn't be surprised, nor could I blame the for-profit businesses for aligning with the values of the larger potential market, just because that market doesn't include me.
So, I guess my argument boils down to something along the lines of: blaming companies for doing what they're incentivized to do is just addressing the symptoms, not the cause.
@robpegoraro @sarahemclaugh Seems to me that local laws only matter to the international business community proportionally to the size of the market for which those laws apply.
So of course these laws get exported. The point of business isn't to uphold democracy; it's to pay your employees' mortgages.
Therefore, exporting censorship laws is just good business. I don't think we should be holding Midjourney responsible for doing exactly what a for-profit business should do.
If anything, we should be pissed at the US government for propping up cheap trade with the Chinese, despite their anti-democratic ways, that led to this oppressive economic powerhouse that gets to make global rules. Unlike for-profit businesses, it actually is the job of the federal government to uphold the democratic ideals it was founded upon.
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A state you’re not allowed to take your pregnant daughter out of to procure a legal medical procedure in another state is no longer a state and becomes a dystopian prison.
Idaho is about to become a prison for underage girls.
I hope this is a wake up call for people who aren’t taking this creeping christofascism seriously — they are coming for EVERYTHING that doesn’t fit into their worldview.
If you ever wondered what you would have done in WW2 or Jim Crow, you’re doing it now.
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@freemo @realcaseyrollins Fair. Then I understand your OP was about holding them responsible just for the familial relation? With no evidence of any crime or negligence committed by the parent?
That seems like a due process nightmare. But more importantly, I think it would act as the *opposite* of a deterrent. If rebellious kids knew they could commit a crime and get their parents jailed? Hoo boy.
@freemo @realcaseyrollins What if an element of negligence were required? I.e. if the kid got the gun from your unlocked safe, you're liable. If they got it from a friend, though, you couldn't know about it and wouldn't be liable.
That would seem to solve the adoption corollary.
@misanthropesq Check out Coil/Interledger. It was a pretty cool idea (although it appears Coil has been discontinued).
The idea was that you'd pay a flat $10 per month, and then install a browser extension. Each month, the extension would track your time on participating sites and your money would be split up and sent out based on how much time you spent on them.
@interfluidity For texts, you can typically report it to your carrier. For example, on AT&T, you can forward spam to 7726. Some phones (I've seen it for sure in Samsung ones) have spam protection built in and allow you to block & report a source directly from its contact record. Those that don't have it built-in can benefit from 3rd party apps.
Email, being a bit more decentralized, is a bit harder to punish the bad actors. But, you can report spam to your email provider. Gmail's user-report-based anti-spam, in particular, is fantastic, but even small organizational email servers have a vested interest in increasing the signal-to-noise ratio.
If you're feeling really salty, you can even report them to the FTC for violation of the CAN-SPAM Act, but that requires you to have requested removal at least once. If you click unsubscribe and they still mail you, though? Report 'em to the feds.
@interfluidity Fwiw, I don't ever click unsubscribe links. As often as not, they just confirm your email/phone number is real and add you to a dozen other lists. Instead, I simply block and report.
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who decided it was called “emotional baggage“ and not “griefcase” ???
@interfluidity I doubt it will help. Those lists aren't sourced ethically. I donated to one or two Florida candidates and I was inundated last cycle with state candidates across the country begging for money. It never ends and they don't ever seem to respect the anti-spam acts they themselves passed.
@Pat Reporting you for using deepfake 😛
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@Popehat Ken, Help! I sent my chancellor to fabricate a claim on the duchy of Disney World and this event triggered. What the hell do I do now?
Dear every #charity and #political #candidate on the planet: The quickest way to lose my #donation is to fill my inbox with #spam.
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5. The total fines imposed since 2017 are equivalent to 0.04% of @DollarGeneral@twitter.com's sales in 2022.
This is not OSHA's fault.
They are limited by the law. OSHA can only charge "a company up to $15,600 per day for up to 30 days."
@davidshq @froomkin Bingo. Responsible gun owners are all for reasonable gun control, and most of us are happy to explain to non-gun-owners exactly how legislators should do it to make everyone safer.
But, instead of listening to these suggestions, our ideological opponents tend to just push for bans of weapons, using grouping classifications they can barely define because they don't understand the subject.
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What a weird headline and story frame.
It makes it sound like stripping the right to vote is just a little bump in the road for a party that wants to take its ball home now that no one wants to play with them anymore.
Our national media (which is our only media these days. See: Gatehouse) continues to fail us.
@HopelessDemigod @ThinkingSapien The things you mention are legitimate, but no, it's mostly because some landlords are really just that bad, always taking and never giving anything back in return. And they give the entire industry a black eye.
I once rented a house from a company where I never met a single human being that worked for that company (pre-COVID). I only even spoke to one over the phone once. The bathroom tub at that house was regularly infested with roaches, and they refused to take action. But they charged me extra fees for everything, including a "convenience" fee for paying online, and a fee for their guy to trim the trees on the property. And then they kept my security deposit afterwards (because the property's pipes leaked after I disconnected my washer, which I reported immediately, yet they charged me for the resulting mess).
I am now a homeowner, so I'll probably (hopefully) never have to deal with a landlord again. And I'm still resentful and suspicious of the lot of them. Always will be.
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
