because it’s biphobia

oh he knows.

There are plenty of femboys and effeminate gays who are glad that toxic alpha guys like this exist. Yes, there are femboys who wish they could be tradwives and effeminate gays who wish they could be the concubine of a stupid slightly dumb hunter who can fix things, open difficult jars, and so forth.

This man does not deserve the benefit of the doubt. Crazy religious policies are destroying society and yes, he is part of it. My point is that this is only weird because he’s MAGA and bi or possibly bi.

Men like him are needed in society for valuable skills like hunting, fishing, fixing things, smashing things, and fucking and probably should not be allowed to make any policy decisions. The world would actually be better if men like this could not vote and were just relegated to those 5 tasks and only women, femboys, and others with a more sensible perspective could vote.

My point is that his post has gone viral, and it’s “weird,” because he’s bisexual. That is the only reason, it’s true and we all know it. This would not be viral or “weird” in a different context, it’s a socially acceptable backdoor for biphobia and it’s socially acceptable among liberals because he’s MAGA.

No, it would have been offensive and weird if made towards women.

Women barely have had the right to vote for 100 years, women have only recently been allowed things like no fault divorce, and women do not have full reproductive control. The threat of forced subjugation of women is still a real threat and goes on in some parts of the world.

These men are not at risk of losing the right to vote, losing reproductive control, and becoming subjugated due to the irrational doctrine of a religious cult. These men are very unlikely to be forced to marry an alpha male like him in a post-apocalyptic society.

If a group of attractive young women had taken a photo of themselves going “We’re Gen-Z and are glad we voted for Harris” and some older Republican male said “When the economy tanks, women like this are going to be begging to become my second and third wives because the economic situation will really be that terrible” literally no one would care and people would find it mildly distasteful at best.

This is blatant biphobia and evaluating this situation any other way is wrong.

Claiming Mr. O’Neill’s post is “weird” is actually wildly biphobic.

Mr. O’Neill is saying in a world of no social media they would be unable to fend for themselves, hunt, or exist, and would all have to be his harem of subjugated male wives. It also could be accurate: we don’t know the sexual orientation of these young men, they could possibly enjoy being subjugated to that man (I know I would), and since they are voting for Harris they are less likely to be hunters and so perhaps they would need the protection and hunting skills of a large alpha man like that in a post-apocalyptic post-social media society.

What if this guy isn’t weird and it’s the people reacting who are weird? Just because someone is a Republican because they are pro-gun and pro-small government doesn’t mean biphobia is suddenly acceptable.

This isn’t about them being kicked out, this is about the fact we don’t know the process that resulted in this. Was this a decision Linus made after a night coding and thinking about the world? Was the foundation ordered to do it?

It lacks transparency into the process even if the outcome is fine and the way it was done doesn’t feel transparent, even if it makes sense not to include Russian coders in the project.

These projects are so big and complex that even with open-code a malicious actor is sometimes able to insert damaging code. Who suddenly made this decision? Did the US government order them to do this? If the US government can order them to do this, can they order the elevated coding status of a “benevolent” contributor on the US government payroll who is then ordered to put in a very hard to detect exploit? Open code doesn’t mean exploit free, it means exploits are more likely to be patched.

You don’t get it. It’s the lack of transparency about kicking these people out, not the kicking these people out, that is the problem. Who made the decision?

It makes sense to sanction Russia for being an ass but the way this was done doesn’t feel open, and many people sense it.

It would be much better if the company were not in a place in which gag orders can be issued, leaving questions as to transparency.

As it stands now, it isn’t clear if Linus is just “grouchy” about this with a unique personality or if the foundation got a NSL and can’t say anything. And that leads to questions about whether there were other NSLs other than this one and if it’s had an impact on the code.

Exploits are so hard to detect sometimes if done well and often although they get patched… eventually… the damage is done prior to the patch. The US government, despite doing lots of good things, engages in torture. And even if the US government is the “good guy,” this leads to less trust in the open-source ecosystem, no matter what the justification.

But seriously, Linus’s comment regarding this was… just… I have no words… he basically put every Russian in the same basket, called them trolls

There are a huge number of online Russian trolls. That part of his response was not hyperbolic. They do have troll factories there to influence public opinion.

The problem is this still leads to questions about transparency about the project in general and how this decision was made and whether it was made by those involved in the project or was an order from the US government.

Yes, this is exactly my same thoughts.

This is terrifying.

I don’t like what the Russian government is doing and Putin is cruel and evil, albeit intelligent (which makes him even more terrible).

That being said, in the US, government agencies can order a company to do certain things, put in certain code, or whatever and then issue a gag order as part of that preventing disclosure. And although there’s a limit to how much that can screw over open-source software users, we do not know what exploits nation-states have, we don’t know what backdoors are in different chipsets or closed-source firmware.

If a developer writing open source code can be blacklisted so easily without transparency into the process, it suggests the company is being ordered to do certain things and not disclose them by the US government, which is a government that still engages in torture.

Notice how they are not coming out and saying “We were not ordered to do this by any government agency.”

Could the foundation be forced to elevate a developer with government ties who then is able to “accidentally” put in an extremely hard to detect exploit into linux that won’t be detected at first and only patched later?

I really wish companies associated with linux were not in a country that lacked transparency with government regulations and in which gag orders were not possible.

Finally! Someone who understands! If it’s not something we can understand, it’s not really math.

We need to decide democratically what science is, with everyone getting a fair vote, so wasteful science like this can finally be stopped.

I don’t understand this and therefore it’s stupid and pointless. Fuck you math elitist assholes with your so-called “large” prime numbers spending billions of dollars that could be used to make my life better. I don’t comprehend this at all and there it does not matter. The end.

As little as possible. This will probably be a low traffic site. I just want something cheap and not cloudflare.

They are such an adorable couple and he looks so cute back then. It sucks he’s such a horrible person.

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Oh my gosh I need this now.

Fedora? 🤢 jk

Also what the fuck is a tiling window manager? I want it!

I’m sorry, can you clarify what you wrote? I read it but then got distracted by my cursor moving on its own while I was reading an article about xzutils. Perhaps I should read it again since it made no sense the first time.