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Comment Re:It's probably for a lot of reasons (Score 1) 171

It is also a LOT easier to both post content and reach a lot of people via social media as opposed to doing both using your own website.

Once upon a time, in the long long ago, I could create content on my site and then automatically or semi-automatically share it on social media, where my social media followers would see it.

Comment Re: They are correct to be (Score 1) 168

And free to manufacturer and own nuclear weapons. It's none of your business what I do a long as it doesn't affect you.

So long as you demonstrate that you can keep them safe and secure, I'm less worried about you having a nuke than the US government having one. The US, after all, has actually flash-fried children with the things before.

As for mandatory vaccination, the SCOTUS found in Buck v. Bell -- and has never overturned -- that the same principle that justified mandatory vax also justifies forced eugenic sterilization. It's not just a theoretic "slippery slope", we already slid down it.

Comment Re:I'm so torn (Score 1) 387

it's still completely inappropriate to offer them a "tender embrace".

In the same sense that it's inappropriate ti wear a "Free Hugs!" t-shirt making the same offer to a business meeting, yes. There is a lot of space between "this was inappropriate behavior for that situation" and "this person is an abusive predator and must be cancelled."

Comment Re:I'm so torn (Score 1) 387

Yes, let's deal with this problem by changing the rest of the world

The whole idea of the free software movement is to change the world. So, yeah, if you believe that the world is wrong, you set out to change it, you don't surrender. (This is a response only to this argument, not a defense nor a condemnation of RMS.)

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