monkeywork

You make it sound like this would pass into law and within 48 hours everyone would need to go get an ID.

You'd pass this into law and then have it take effect 2-4 years out, and if you can't go and secure yourself an ID after 2-4 years of notice you aren't a functional adult.

Do you pay taxes? Have you ever applied for a loan/bank account/rent/mortgage/etc? Have you ever enrolled a child in school? Have you ever applied for a job? Have you ever had to fill out paperwork after the loss of a loved one? etc etc etc etc

These are all tasks that a functional adult in the world needs to do regardless of background / race / creed / etc.

It's not bad faith to say hey as a functional adult you should go get a fucking ID.

What is the % of people that honestly do not have one? Pass a law and give people 4 years to go get one.

Like why must you insist on treating people like hopeless children?

Does the American left feel the same way about firearms? I've heard for years that there should be registration and licensing on them (which I actually agree with).

I'm asking something that specifically targets black Americans as a group - the VRA doesn't target them (at least as my understanding goes) but rather as you said is allowing gerrymandering which more divides down political lines than racial ones unless you are suggesting that every person of a racial group thinks and votes the same.

I guess to put it more directly if we took a hypothetical black male named Steven and a hypothetical white female named Sally who have the same job, live in the same neighborhood, etc - what rights has been rolled back on Steven that were not on Sally.

Honest question as I'm not American and may be missing context but what Civil Rights are black Americans having rolled back on them?

>other is actively being used for malicious crimes against humanity.

Yawn... every time people make claims like this the less and less I care to hear their concerns.

if you think farmers are "absolute brain dead" you haven't spent any time with them.

A few things I miss:

Smaller communities. You generally knew what kind of community you were participating in. Focused discussion. A forum was usually about a specific subject, rather than one account participating in dozens of completely unrelated communities.

Your identity was more compartmentalized. What you said on a linux forum didn't necessarily follow you into a motorcycle community.

Moderation had different incentives. If you ran a forum, you needed people to actually want to come back. Moderation that became too heavy-handed could kill the community you were trying to maintain.

Reddit essentially turned the forum model into one enormous site with thousands of sections, sounds great but broke more than it fixed.

Your Reddit account becomes a single identity spanning everything you do. Someone can look through your activity in completely unrelated subreddits, form an opinion about you based on that, and potentially use something you said somewhere else against you... no matter what the culture/norms/rules were of the other community.

A traditional forum depended on its community surviving. On Reddit, a subreddit can become extremely valuable simply because it occupies a desirable name and has accumulated a large user base. The underlying platform is doing most of the work of bringing people there. The moderator can be "all powerful" and heavy handed because they know rarely do competing subreddits actually work out.

>Unfortunately XMPP is an absolutely terrible protocol

Can you provide more details here? I've never seen an issue with the protocol at all, more issues with feature difference between servers depending on what they have decided to implement or not.

Are you not describing perfect as the enemy of good?

A product doesn't need to serve EVERY human on earths needs, just enough of them that it can become large enough that established legacy solutions need to adapt.

I get why you might think this wouldn't be a fit for YOU but rather than argue against it from a niche viewpoint instead maybe look at how if it did exist it could be good for many.

or the phrase lesser of two evils...

Candidate A - will do X, Y, Z all in ways I think are the best Candidate B - will do A, B, C which I prefer less than X, Y, Z but in the grand scheme likely impact my day to day life little. Candidate A - also supports (or is supported by) people / movements that actively make my life harder and piss me off.

That's not cutting off my nose that's deciding I can live with a less optimal solution to some problems to avoid something that pisses me off massively from growing more powerful

I don't know how you can say it's a straw-man argument when you qualify the the statement as "typically" increases the value of the land... that indicates you KNOW at least occasionally it doesn't increase and instead decreases, and if it's a real possibility (even if the % is low - 10-15%) then it's not a straw-man argument to be concerned about it, it becomes something that should be risk weighted and explained to mitigate the concern.

if you like the idea of dwarf fortress check out songs of syx. it really scratches that itch for me and is infinitely more accessible

can you expand on the gaming ecosystem around it?