Septimaeus

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[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 1 points 51 minutes ago

To readers passing by: the opposing views articulated above illustrate two archetypal notions of justice that are both truly ancient and worthy of your consideration.

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 1 points 1 hour ago

gulitions

That's overkill. Hunter-killer squadrons of trained gulls alone would suffice.

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Back in 2020 his DoJ filed the antitrust lawsuit against Google that concluded successfully a year ago.

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 6 points 9 months ago

Real talk? New Yorkers kinda fuck with that.

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 2 points 9 months ago

Lol true. In fact, I guess always true for any historical use. At least, insofar as established power wants to keep playing the same game and under dog wants to play a different one. Shrug

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

While that truism might annoy lovers of !politicalcompassmemes@lemmy.world it isn’t invalid, historically-speaking.

Tell me more…From their first use in 1789 (long-short: seating positions) the definitions for left and right were fluid, but generally referred to “change” versus “status quo.”

In Stalin’s era, left referred mostly to pro-worker policies, the economic change of the communist revolution. That convention was solidified in the US during the red scare, where left-wing came to mean “commie heresy.”

After that period, the definition was gradually blurred again, perhaps by conservatives carrying forth the McCarthyist tradition of lumping any non-conformist view into “commie heresy.” Regardless, the resulting confusion in public political discourse is the reason Wayne Brittenden made the Political Compass website in 2001.

By canonizing the economic-policy definition used by the Bolsheviks/McCarthyists as an actual X-axis spectrum, and the social-policy definitions of most other contexts as a Y-axis spectrum, one could easily map both dimensions as a cartesian coordinate. Quite handy.

Still, as elegant and illuminating as that solution is, it remains a convention.

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 16 points 9 months ago

Even assuming some passenger limit (otherwise you could sell your own tickets and make a tidy profit) for groups large enough to require a charter bus, this sounds like a reasonable alternative. In fact that might be their target market.

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 7 points 9 months ago

Damn, big raspberry too lol

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 3 points 9 months ago

And if they don’t find you handsome, they should at least find you handy :) nice work

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