But think how moderation is actually a tool to destroy creativity, originality and effort.
I see what you're trying to get at, but you picked the wrong target. Moderation is a tool to keep a community that is focused around a specific topic from devolving into flame wars, trolling, spam, and co-opting. I don't know if you have see what happens in large, unmoderated online forums, but it isn't pretty. Tin-pot despot mods are a big problem, sure, but getting rid of moderation is not the solution.
It's not that these things inherently are political. It's more that society is being driven more and more towards consumerism, and learning programming is inimical to consumerism. It's teaching you how to make the sausage, which you can't do without also learning how the sausage is made. Then there's learning about things like open-source licenses, which are about as leftist as you can get - and which is critically important to know about when you start writing code.
They're a niche product that has a very solid use case (court transcripts). They require far less training than a stenotype, but because they're so niche, the people who do make them can more-or-less charge what they want. If we're being less skeptical, the low demand means the manufacturers can't take advantage of the efficiencies of scale, so the price remains high.
What happened is that we lost several big fights against fascism, and governmental entities are barely bothering to even pretend that they care about the citizens any more. If they want it, they'll ram it through no matter what we say.
We're saving our energy for the next election, and if that fails, then we're cooked.
It's a part of gaming history and a conversation piece, as well as a neat piece of kit. It has sentimental value above and beyond its utility. People who are buying from scalpers are doing it for that reason.
I hate to break it to you, but most Americans never have the opportunity to personally interview their representatives.
Of course Americans vote for who they're told to vote for. Every candidate is being built up by someone else. You'd say the same thing if all the candidates that the establishment DNC propped up had won. The trick is finding someone who both shares your values, and has the knowledge to give you an informed opinion. Mamdani is a pretty solid voice to listen to.
From my perspective, it seems like Mamdani has a personal policy of finding things that will make a positive impact, no matter how small, and giving them the push they need to get done rather than letting them get bogged down by committees or fishing for funding.
A lot of politicians in similar positions spend their days wrangling and maneuvering, rather than finding a thing and just doing it.
Hanlon's razor only applies if it CAN be attributed to incompetence.
When a pattern emerges of it only happening when it benefits the company, that stops being attributable to incompetence. It takes effort to make that happen.
In the Roman days, the phrase meant superficial appeasement of the masses by the politicians. It was a tactic to prevent the uprising of the lower class. My point is that these days, the ruling class isn't bothering to give the populace any appeasement. No give, only take. The small artists and performers are fantastic, but they are organized at the small, local level by the very class of people that are being repressed, and so do not fit in the 'bread and circuses' quote.
Also it's cheap if you use their stupid app, depending on what you get. When I'm trying to pinch pennies but don't have time for anything else, it comes in handy.
Ticketmaster was teaching people at conferences how to set up buyer bots to suck up all the tickets for scalping, because Ticketmaster gets a cut every time a resale happens as well as the initial sale. That's why it got so bad.
It's not even that. It's about Steam apparently trying to enforce a clause that doesn't exist. The most-favored nation clause applies to Steam keys only, but Steam allegedly sent Ubisoft a nastygram about them selling a non-Steam version for less.
I see what you're trying to get at, but you picked the wrong target. Moderation is a tool to keep a community that is focused around a specific topic from devolving into flame wars, trolling, spam, and co-opting. I don't know if you have see what happens in large, unmoderated online forums, but it isn't pretty. Tin-pot despot mods are a big problem, sure, but getting rid of moderation is not the solution.
Even 4Chan has mods.
It's not that these things inherently are political. It's more that society is being driven more and more towards consumerism, and learning programming is inimical to consumerism. It's teaching you how to make the sausage, which you can't do without also learning how the sausage is made. Then there's learning about things like open-source licenses, which are about as leftist as you can get - and which is critically important to know about when you start writing code.
Don't forget habitually refusing to pay contractors who do work for him.
They're a niche product that has a very solid use case (court transcripts). They require far less training than a stenotype, but because they're so niche, the people who do make them can more-or-less charge what they want. If we're being less skeptical, the low demand means the manufacturers can't take advantage of the efficiencies of scale, so the price remains high.
What happened is that we lost several big fights against fascism, and governmental entities are barely bothering to even pretend that they care about the citizens any more. If they want it, they'll ram it through no matter what we say.
We're saving our energy for the next election, and if that fails, then we're cooked.
Wow, you really do sound like a bot.
It's a part of gaming history and a conversation piece, as well as a neat piece of kit. It has sentimental value above and beyond its utility. People who are buying from scalpers are doing it for that reason.
I hate to break it to you, but most Americans never have the opportunity to personally interview their representatives.
Of course Americans vote for who they're told to vote for. Every candidate is being built up by someone else. You'd say the same thing if all the candidates that the establishment DNC propped up had won. The trick is finding someone who both shares your values, and has the knowledge to give you an informed opinion. Mamdani is a pretty solid voice to listen to.
From my perspective, it seems like Mamdani has a personal policy of finding things that will make a positive impact, no matter how small, and giving them the push they need to get done rather than letting them get bogged down by committees or fishing for funding.
A lot of politicians in similar positions spend their days wrangling and maneuvering, rather than finding a thing and just doing it.
Hanlon's razor only applies if it CAN be attributed to incompetence.
When a pattern emerges of it only happening when it benefits the company, that stops being attributable to incompetence. It takes effort to make that happen.
If they did that, it would trash the cell reception. Metal blocks signal.
Although you are correct, you miss my point.
In the Roman days, the phrase meant superficial appeasement of the masses by the politicians. It was a tactic to prevent the uprising of the lower class. My point is that these days, the ruling class isn't bothering to give the populace any appeasement. No give, only take. The small artists and performers are fantastic, but they are organized at the small, local level by the very class of people that are being repressed, and so do not fit in the 'bread and circuses' quote.
soooooo the lower class is getting priced out of both the bread AND the circuses?
I have the heart of a child!
In a jar.
It's a skull-and-bones. In modern day it is far more associated with pirates than it is Nazis, and he was in the Marines.
Also making sure there is enough bloodflow to the skin to keep it from just dying off.
Also it's cheap if you use their stupid app, depending on what you get. When I'm trying to pinch pennies but don't have time for anything else, it comes in handy.
Their app really is stupid though
Ticketmaster was teaching people at conferences how to set up buyer bots to suck up all the tickets for scalping, because Ticketmaster gets a cut every time a resale happens as well as the initial sale. That's why it got so bad.
It's not even that. It's about Steam apparently trying to enforce a clause that doesn't exist. The most-favored nation clause applies to Steam keys only, but Steam allegedly sent Ubisoft a nastygram about them selling a non-Steam version for less.
And twice as many.