Erik Haugen @ech@qoto.org

@black6_ @thor “Strong people are harder to kill than weak people, and more useful in general.” —Rip

@freemo It's almost like nobody knows what Mizrahi Jews are. But we've tried (and failed) to discuss this already.😂

@freemo @whatzaname @NikaShilobod Soviet central planning was weirdly incompetent, at least at times. Like, I don't think central planning could ever be anywhere near as good as laissez-faire, but I wouldn't have guessed they'd make the kinds of mistakes they did.

@osma @sebsauvage @protonmail Did anyone get an answer? Did the OP just fabricate this whole cloth? (Don't be fooled by my bio I know nothing.)

@vyodaiken @robpike Hey I'm curious how modules could be a 3rd party thing.

@lxo "that's not the way dual- or multi-licensing works." Of course, but as you say: "I realize that's not exactly what's being suggested"... I was talking about something that was not dual-licensing, and is instead something totally different from that.

@lxo @freemo because all users still have to impose this requirement on all the people that copy their software.😂

@freemo IANAL but I think this leads to contradictions. 😂

@InorganicFella @flexghost I do love that Elim Garak meme tho.

@Wahooney @geotrill @johntherun The left eats its own?

@geotrill @Wahooney @johntherun You realize he was a bernie supporter in '16, right?😂

@wilw Lots of instances are off-the-rails ban-happy; find one that isn't.

@InorganicFella @flexghost This wouldn't be the first time we all thought he was about to go straight to jail.

@Teop_Versant @Mlobbes Yeah it does sort of feel like she was hung out to dry there.

@Teop_Versant @Mlobbes contrast those policies with the First Step Act.

I don't know about "using" Harris – I mean, in some sense every president is "using" their VP, like, to get votes in a different demographic or geographical area. I don't think you have any reason to think anything nefarious beyond that was happening with Harris.

@KimPerales There isn't much Biden can do here other than threaten to withold aid, right? (This may be a failure of imagination on my part.)

If so:

Would threatening Hamas with withholding aid get them to agree to stop murdering, raping, and kidnapping people? I don't think there's any evidence from their past behavior that this would work, but I'd love to read an argument that it would. (It might degrade their ability to do so, I suppose, since a lot of that aid goes to military purposes, IIUC. Civilians, as always, would suffer if we did this.)

Would threatening Israel work? If there was some way Israel could achieve their objective here (eliminating Hamas as a terrorist threat) while also doing something that kills fewer civilians, then I think it could! But that's a big if: I'm ignorant – are there more steps Israel could be taking to limit civilian deaths? If not, then, alas, no, it probably wouldn't. I think it's clear they need to achieve this objective, one way or another. I guess biden and the US could then wash our hands of any further casualties. (Well, not really, but it's a step.)

It might be more useful for Biden to use this carrot to pressure Israel into doing other things, like: due process, protect palestinians from settlers more fairly, etc, etc.

@flaws @danluu No, I think that's exactly why companies do this sort of thing; danluu is being a bit cynical here, it's part of his charm. I've worked at several of these companies. If you see something illegal, you talk to lawyers in a privileged context. You don't joke about "crushing the competition" or doing anything illegal, because of exactly what you say.

We've all seen legal proceedings go in an unfair direction due to some offhand comment being taken out of context or something. It's worth being careful to avoid it.

@ingo_wichmann @blogdiva Also, worth noting there are some illiberal movements in US politics: see, equal treatment under the law ends up being not so equal sometimes, so instead of trying to fix that, maybe instead we should enforce equal outcomes in some ways. Ibram Kendi's "anti-racism" and related political ideas is an example of this. If you've heard conservatives rail against "Critical Race Theory", this is what the "critical" means: analyzing ways that US Law and "liberal" institutions have failed us.

Conservatives/Republicans are generally opposed to these political movements, so in that sense especially they're positively predisposed to "liberal democracies".