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Edit: Because apparently this isn't clear enough:

1. Real world phenomena and technical projects are two distinctive categories, each encompassing a wealth of unique information.

2. Namespaces serve as unique identifiers, used to prevent naming conflicts in various domains.

3. When these namespaces are used within both real-world phenomena and technical projects, they overlap.

4. Overlapping namespaces, by their nature, blur the boundaries between distinctive categories.

5. Search engines operate by categorizing and associating information based on identifiers, specifically namespaces.

6. When these identifiers are blurred, the precision of search engines is compromised.

7. As search engine precision diminishes, the efficacy of search results for users decreases.

8. The reduction in search results efficacy translates to increased search times and decreased productivity, or an inability to find anything about the topic whatsoever due to results pruning.

9. A decrease in productivity is an indirect impact of namespace pollution, disrupting both those living in the real-world and those looking for technical information.

10. We already have to deal with SEO. We shouldn't need to deal with this as well.

I think streaming worked for me for a while. I have a kid, I totally get the convenience and comfort of it, but I also miss being around and experiencing movies with human beings in person. Home theaters and viewing parties are no substitute for this. Watching with people in other settings is also not a replacement for this. I miss the collective excitement and one that's in person. I miss going somewhere that's out of my house for the purpose of enjoying a film that's thrilling or at the very least entertaining.

Not knocking the choice of fully digital streaming. It works for people and that's great, I still take advantage of that convenience, but there is something hugely lacking because I'm not going somewhere to share the experience with people. And I think some of that will entirely change how and where I watch movies next e.g do not want to solely rely on streaming, do not want to watch alone, preferably want to be in a group of less than 10 people.

Who else is with me?

I did this for a "dead" forum and after about a week of "squatting" there and posting for myself, other people started showing up and replying to it.

People should treat the digital silence of dead communities as an asset and free real estate to share their thoughts.

He declared, unsourced and uncited, that Winston Churchill thought that people with "brown skin" were "subhuman savages." He then declared that because Churchill had these supposed opinions, he was not worthy of any human decency, that he was in effect a subhuman.

Furthermore, he declared that anyone who had any issue with that assessment had a share by contagion of Churchill's unpersoning. That's not civilized or cultured. There is a word for that.

A core trait of civilization is that members are entitled to the rights of citizens, which almost categorically include equal protection under the law and in the West a recognition of a shared humanity even among those that aren't citizens.

More explicitly, this is a trait of Christian civilizations. Churchill, who did believe in a developmental hierarchy, also believed that Anglo-Saxons were superior to other peoples because they had this categorical understanding of human value.

If someone arbitrarily rejects this core aspect of civilization (i.e. lacking in it), attempts to dehumanize those who do have it in a combative and dismissive manner is by definition a savage.

If pointing out that words mean things results in warnings and threats of bans, then I don't want to be a part of your circus anyway. I hope your city and industry meet the fate it deserves.

"Considered the world's worst industrial disaster, over 500,000 people in the small towns around the plant were exposed to the highly toxic gas methyl isocyanate (MIC). Estimates vary on the death toll, with the official number of immediate deaths being 2,259.

In 2008, the Government of Madhya Pradesh paid compensation to the family members of 3,787 victims killed in the gas release, and to 574,366 injured victims. A government affidavit in 2006 stated that the leak caused 558,125 injuries, including 38,478 temporary partial injuries and approximately 3,900 severely and permanently disabling injuries. Others estimate that 8,000 died within two weeks, and another 8,000 or more have since died from gas-related diseases."

Yet, from a utilitarian perspective, I honestly don't know if intent matters when we're talking about third-party maiming and death. Our society disrupts and injures the bodies, minds, and livelihoods of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, if not billions, on a daily basis.

And in that sense, Kaczynski, Ellul, or really any dissident of the status quo could, can, and do point out victims of society that outnumber Kaczynski's by several orders of magnitude. The victims are not directly and immediately visible, don't have power-holding advocates, and have little to no incentive to disrupt their own lives to discover, let alone undo, the causes of their problems. And if they do, they encounter a system most unwilling to listen or change.

All of this contributes to these innocents being left unmourned and the causes of their tragedies, like minefields for future generations, left unresolved (Kaczynski mails mines and dies in prison; Kissinger sows fields of mines and lives to be a centenarian and the eldest diplomat).

For an example directly related to maiming, consider the allegations of SawStop. A technology was invented to prevent serious maiming when operating table saws in 2002. The inventor attempted to license the technology to manufacturers only to (allegedly, their lawsuit was dismissed due to supposed tardiness in filing) encounter a cartel among tool manufacturers that colluded to prevent adoption of the technology because it would become obligate to all models to prevent legal liability, which would largely eliminate budget saw models.

The number of finger or hand amputations in the US annually is in the thousands, for one type of tool.

Or consider meat packing (excluding power-butchering injuries that typically include hand and finger amputation):

"There are many serious safety and health hazards in the meat packing industry. These hazards include exposure to high noise levels, dangerous equipment, slippery floors, musculoskeletal disorders, and hazardous chemicals (including ammonia that is used as a refrigerant). Musculoskeletal disorders comprise a large part of these serious injuries and continue to be common among meat packing workers. In addition, meat packing workers can be exposed to biological hazards associated with handling live animals or exposures to feces and blood which can increase their risk for many diseases."

And this is an industry where undocumented workers are prioritized because they lack the language and advocacy to receive adequate compensation and legal protections.

Even something as benign-seeming as a Nalgene bottle follows a similar kind of delayed statistical violence. BPA, shown to be independently unsafe, gets replaced with Triton, unshown to be anything. Triton is effectively an analog with likely xenoestrogenic and endocrine disrupting capabilities, yet can slip through a loophole with decades of profitability before the externalities start directly emerging.

I lost my grandmother to ovarian cancer, likely caused by long-term use of asbestos-laced baby powder. A certain corporation gets a single $9 billion penalty for poisoning millions over decades; I and countless others lose their family members. This corporation's gross profit last year was something like $64 billion.

Now I also understand the argument that if industrial society has caused these things, they have also enabled untold material prosperity globally and billions of additional lives to live. Maiming, industrial accidents, and toxicity are the price to pay for this and they all "happen" to be the aberration rather than the norm, with constant incremental improvements as circumstances allow.

And yet, I think I'd rather have less sophisticated stuff and fewer unhappy people alive at any present moment if I could guarantee that those living on this planet now and those born in the future could live healthier, happier, and more meaningful lives as a result. Killing and maiming people in retaliation is a terrible way of getting there. As a final note, I'm currently in the process of my own exodus to leave the city (wish me luck!) to follow this path of voluntary simplicity and pacifism, lest anyone accuse me of trying to improve society somewhat.