@rysiek @trzyglow PoT (Power over Torrent)
(Aside: why is the "over" in "Power over Ethernet" not capitalized? The rules that I was taught say it should be...)
Unrelated, looking for more cool people to follow on here. No criteria other than interesting and post interesting stuff. Suggestions welcome.
How about just getting government out of marriage altogether, so it's entirely a community-based and/or explicit-contract thing rather than binding you into laws that change from state to state and year to year.
Government could leverage this change and save resources by discontinuing their tracking of gender, while they're at it. (Where are the "small government" people on this one??)
That was my first thought, yeah.
Awesome how the right wing can always find a way to turn something sweet or positive into something awful.
The top left is the one I have (except the frame is red -- must be a different edition).
Now I want the others... o.o
We weren't really thorough enough last time.
I'm kinda against capital punishment, though, so I'd tend to go for something like making them legal nonentities: they're not allowed to open bank accounts, own property, or have government IDs, and must depend entirely on the kindness of others.
@rnd I was trying to come up with a phrase like "cpropaganda recyclonentsist" in the OP, but couldn't quite make it work.
@bbuull It sounds like you're on to something, actually; this subject is very new to me.
@bbuull That seems related in that it has to do with diversity in academia (and right-wingers fighting against it by any means possible), but other than that I'm not seeing the connection.
@rnd ...yeah, something like that. Like "well, this paper by Prof. Aldous Whiteguy MD PhD is the one I really want to cite, but the woke university is making me find a replacement, so I guess I'll have to settle for this random inferior paper that happens to be by a nonwhite person."
I could ask him if that's how he imagines the process... :D
...but wait, I found an actual right-wing source explaining how terrible it is! (CW: RW BS) When Science Degenerates into a Spoils System by Denyse O’Leary (a name that feels vaguely famliar to me).
At lunch, my dad mentioned "citation justice" as being this terrible thing that is now debasing academia.
Not having heard of it before, I said I was pretty sure there had to be more to it than that, and then managed to move to another topic.
Searching the webs, what I get is that it's a practice researchers are engaging in voluntarily in order to help improve diversity in the research community, possibly with the encouragement of some instututions, while the Right is of course framing it as valuing diversity over relevance, thereby lowering overall quality (basically the anti-DEI playbook again -- and here I thought they were against recycling).
RationalWiki doesn't seem to have anything about it yet.
Have I discovered a new trope-ical species? 🪱
If anyone has more information, please feel free to send links for me to munch on. (omnomnom)