pro tip! just let the other person repeat themselves even though you already have your answer loaded. this gives you some advantages:

• avoid answering what you think they asked the first time and answer what they’re actually asking
• opportunity to re-evaluate your answer as they repeat the question and make sure you still like it
• after they repeat the question you already have an answer ready to go which makes you seem like you’ve got a high degree of expertise in the field even though it’s just that you heard them the first time but were still processing

every fascist ever has been a huge fuckin’ loser who gained access to power as an adult

we’re still building up numbers. we need more people awake and not sleep walking. part of protests like this is creating one half of the propaganda equation: presence. people need to be seeing messages everywhere in order to start identifying with them

i take less issue with him using gendered pronouns by default than i do with him being overly dismissive of someone trying to adjust the language to be more inclusive.

merger with who? i haven’t heard anything relating to this. i’m willing to buy in though given what happened to colbert

where i am, the united states, serious analysis of philosophy and ethics doesn’t enter your curriculum until you are in college and studying either at a liberal arts school where even the engineers have to study the humanities, or you are majoring in one of the liberal arts. so i’m a little jealous of your outlook right now 😂

that’s where our status comes from teaching history majors math: it’s their first time learning it many times even though many places algebra was covered in middle school. our primary educations don’t start until adulthood here and we’re constantly behind, and those critical thinking courses are elective with it being totally fine to drop out of highschool up to 6 years before you ever would have been expected to be exposed to it.

and as long as that’s possible in one county, it’s possible in any country. our oppressors want us stupid, so talk to a kid today about identifying how someone else is justifying what right and wrong is today!

you don’t have to teach a particular set of ethics. you teach a framework of analysis and then analyze some systems. you’re still mixing morality with ethics, which is fair, they’re related. basically i’m advocating to teach kids to question every authority with a critical lens. but this hasn’t anything to do with religion, norms, or adopting a pre-existing system, but about teaching how to analyze systems

alright. that’s a specific identity. but should we criticize everyone with blue eyes or everyone with long fingers? i don’t think any identity is inherently fair game for criticism, but i do think that any individual of any identity is open to criticism for abhorrent behavior such as sexual abuse

yeah which is why i advocate everyone should study it at least a little. just leaving it to go without discussion or serious analysis just leads to anti-intellectualism and eventually fascism, but centralizing it just gives fascists a focus point to concentrate on getting into power. it’s a tough balance to strike. but the basics to me is, as someone who studied ethics, we need to be having conversations about ethics all the time because if we don’t, then moral relativists will justify genocide, rape, and whatever horrible shit they as individuals find acceptable.

we both agree that more left and more everyone is better, but i think we need to get everyone actively involved rather that passively involved

i interpret that to mean ethics committees that provide oversight to other aspects of an organization should study ethics. i’d argue that’s a good place to start, but a better direction to go is to include conversations about ethics and their analysis in all curricula. there’s a huge difference between morality and ethics. morarlity is a moment to moment decision making process. ethics describes a critical systems analysis field directed at defining and building a more ideal society

the thing to understand is that for Disney it’s not always about the money. they control so much power over all media that they can inflict their world view on everyone through their propaganda streams. the performative wokeness that still sits within overall metanarratives about the value of the status quo? that’s for the dollar. cutting Jimmy Kimmel loose? that’s in alignment with their core values

people of any identity or any identity? there’s a difference

ah okay cool. i was trying to get at that in the back half of the comment. sorry to overexplain i just deal with a lot of arrogant dismissive conservatives.

nothing to do with abortion i don’t think. just that if you intentionally bring life into the world, you have responsibilities to that life and to the future world that life will exist within. dr frankenstein does not think in these terms but the unnamed creature does because the unnamed creature is fascinated by the humanities whereas the dr is not.

ultimately i think Mary Shelly introducing the world to science fiction sets an extremely, almost radical, humanist/feminist tone for the genre that still resonates in science fiction today. if we find pro-choice themes in the story, i think those are themes we find on account of the humanist/feminist nature of being pro-choice, not any intentional technique on the author’s part. but the fact that we find progressivism from 1818 so resonant still today i find deeply meaningful. these are conversations we’ve been having throughout human history. i even think it’s significant she co-titled the book “The Modern Prometheus.” it ties her modern contemporary story to an ancient one and asks the reader to ponder if that old tale was also one dreamt up by a liberation seeker

i think the real argument is that what makes Frankenstein the monster is that he brings a life into this world but doesn’t provide it any guidance. he refuses to be a good father. the sea captain even finds himself quite charmed by how thoughtful, gentle, and caring the unnamed creature is despite his upbringing and decides the northwest passage isn’t worth him dooming his crew based on his philosophical discussion with the creature

what’s AFOD?

sounds like someone is waking up to that gender is socially constructed except without waking up and instead going deeper to sleep

that’s the api token i mentioned

doesn’t really matter, but https. it’s the only endpoint github has available and all http requests get redirected. the reason i say it doesn’t matter is that git will prompt you for your password before even trying to communicate with the remote

not sure why you’re getting downvoted for actually knowing the default behavior for git when interacting with an http remote