Notices by VulcanTourist (vulcantourist@mastodon.social)

@aral

It depends upon what sort of conversation they expect to have. IFF they're open-minded and ready to be challenged and reconsider their conclusions, then it's a conversation worth having. You might even learn something useful about how they reached their conclusion in the first place. If they're closed-minded and nursing a self-delusion, your chance of being heard is next to nil, and the effort would be wasted.

I can't tell you how to predict which ones are which.

@eff @pluralistic @IGN

This is not easy to do when the owner of a game's "intellectual property" is willing to defiantly sit on it as a game slips into obscurity and then abandonware. It's the intangible version of the real estate phenomenon of huge parcels of land that sit barren in (sub)urban areas, sometimes for decades, while its speculative owner waits for that Deal of Lifetime.

Copyright straddles and strangles that preservation goal like a Berlin Wall.

@arstechnica

Aaron Swartz tried to fix this. He didn't live to complete the task. Completion will require an army - public opinion - and loss of goodwill and profit.

@arstechnica

I've wanted a two-person quadricycle with good portage capability for years now, for my wife and I to use both together and separately, but we live in a place where we can't safely and securely house such a thing.

@aral @aram

I don't know how you managed that result on your mobile device, but with Firefox and several security extensions on a desktop system I get no such result. Allowing JavaScript from just the primary wgme.com domain and a couple other previously trusted domains, The text and header image of the article renders and is fully readable.

WGME appears to be a Maine OTA TV station, and the article originated from the Bangor Daily News:

https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/08/07/news/penobscot/known-neo-nazi-building-training-ground-in-springfield-joam40zk0w/

@nixCraft

PLEASE tell me this is alarmist sarcasm!

My wife found this one somewhere. This is why open-mindedness is the underpinning of the Scientific Method and people who lack it will never comprehend the Method. If the goal is the instant gratification of certainty and always being right, the Method will disappoint and the only recourse becomes self-delusion.