You could say you and I, or the royal we to refer to society in general, and I think it would apply pretty well.

But even taking one of your examples, say, Freedom of Speech, there's a whole ton of complexity that muddies the waters. How about communicating porn to 10 year olds? Or slanderous speech?

Even within these blanket, simplistic, and lofty ideals our tolerances bob and weave.

Your assumption that the difference in price between the Tesla and the Chinese offering materializes in a quality difference. Is that true? I'm not sure that it is.

The implication is that core beliefs should be immutable, and we don't share that axiom.

I think he's ignoring the cost per kilogram to get it there. I suspect that heat management strictly by radiation won't be fast enough, so you'll still need to crank up surface area to cool the chips. So you can't even save mass there.

Of course my non-physicist brain might have that wrong..

So, to paraphrase, you think that a society shouldn't gravitate towards accommodation, except in your direction?

A society is a population that finds a way to balance out the will of the individuals with the need to reduce friction between them. Sometimes you get to be in the majority, and sometimes not. And having to watch society evolve away from you is inevitable. Old people have been doing that forever.

No. In the truly vast majority of cases, you were neither betrayed nor lied to. The exceptions to that are few. You just don't notice the avalanche of fulfilled promises that surround you because those things aren't noisy. It's like noticing the downtime in 99.99% uptime.

You trust your life every day in thousands of ways that things in front of you are as they seem. Mostly without thinking about it. Above all, you trust the sciences implicitly. You just don't notice it.

It's not just distrust of media, or just the blind willingness to delegate our opinions to the loudest voice in the room. We don't trust anything anymore and that's a real problem. Plenty of people would rather trust random idiits than people educated in a field.

We're not on the same page, and probably won't for the foreseeable future. And that makes it really hard for a society to function.

It sucks. But here we are.

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She was amused, and even wrote a preface for one of his compendiums. Class act.

Why would the numbers not justify the warnings? The warnings cost absolutely nothing. Putting a trigger warning on something takes really no time and costs nothing. Even if it only affect 1% of the people who engage with the material, is no cost worth that 1%? I would say yes. Now the flipside, are the people constantly complaining about trigger warnings worth it? If you see a trigger warning and it doesn't affect you, what exactly have you lost that you feel the need to tell everyone how you feel about the warnings?

You are insane.

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The statistics do not match your statements. Perhaps you should not drink that koolaid. It seems to be as related to reality as kooks are to facts; estranged.

Ah - yes, I asked this very question elsewhere in this thread. I couldn't find Oracle being on the hook for the actual ERP.

There's no way a company like Oracle enters into a firm fixed bid without a really robust change request process. You'll pay for the creep no matter what. You can argue the contract all you like but they have massive legal resources on hand that do nothing but this.

They write thousands of contracts. Most of the clients write a handful... maybe one. When the dust settles the contract structure will serve them better.

I went looking to see if there was a vendor running the implementation. Only went two articles down but I didn't find them. I found Oracle happily selling them the tech, but not necessarily the transformation work.

So are they rolling their own here? I mean, Oracle has been in the chair for lots of spectacular failures, but is this one of them?

They aren't in the business of blocking "bad". That's a deeply qualitative and divisive issue. If they were, I'm guessing a third of the Talking Heads catalog would vanish until a fuss was made. And half of Primus'. And I love all that stuff.

This is a brand new policy problem for the platforms. One with no real clear parallels. How do you maintain a functioning financial ecosystem when content production costs bottom out to near zero? Nobody knows yet.

I have no issue with Jewish people, their culture, their religion. Frankly, they gave been largely a massive benefit to my life via scientific contribution, entertainment in general, and to what I consider the 20th century's great contribution to the arts - stand up comedy.

But Israel... now there is a problem. It's just shitty thinking and blind stubbornness to unreservedly conflate criticism of Israel to antisemitism.