There’s a whole futures market for this and many other prime matter. Companies, including retailers, buy stocks ahead of time. That’s the original meaning of a stock. The company then fulfills orders as the stocks become due or they get renegotiated for a later date. This is a crucial source of financing for these industries. As they get the cash influx by selling promises of future productivity.

I skim them all. The options I wrote are soft parodies of what each said. There’s a ton of problems with this model of governance, but I’m no voting member, so my opinion has no impact.

That said, it makes it so a single posture has to be voted on in its entirety, which is dumb (as some legislative bodies of the world have proven). As a result, nuance is erased alongside with any sense of ideological vision or compromise, and instead it promotes vagueness in every action and glacial institutions that break slowly break apart.

The very person who wrote the proposal that won reacted to winning with:

I regret the loss of contributors (which would have happened with either option winnign [sic]). It is just too early to take a final decision on the mater [sic]. Let’s revisit this in two years or so, and let this mess of a GR be a warning for our future selves.

The proposal was designed to win time without having to take any real stance while taking the smallest loss of contributors in the process. And thus it was written as the most milketoast nothing burger. When an infinite set of possibilities exists that actually do address real concerns like climate impact, social impacts, copyright and legal problems related to generated code, etc. in relation to the principles and overall values of the project. Instead, they are deferring the practicalities to pull request’s bickering.

But again, I’m not a voting member or contributor. So my opinion is null. I still think the way the process is designed and conducted is stupid and prone to cause the eventual failure of debian via governance collapse.

Gee, I don’t know. Let’s see if that has been said anywhere, shall we?

Sponsorships tell a similar story: men typically get $50,000 annually, while women make about $15,000.

Where does the money come from?

Organisations like FIVB have standardised payouts at major tournaments, but league salaries and endorsement deals remain uneven. Differences will persist until sponsors and broadcasters invest equally.

Why would that this sponsor and broadcaster pay differently?

One of the most significant problems female athletes face has nothing to do with the sport itself. It’s how they’re shown in the media. Far too often, the focus is on their appearance rather than on what they can do. In volleyball, that means more talk about kit choices or body image than actual skill or game stats. It’s frustrating when talent gets pushed aside for appearance.

Would you look at that statement? Maybe there are things beyond the surface level that influence people’s decision making at a structural level?

Over the years, coverage has been overly sexualised, which hasn’t helped. That said, social media has started to shift things.

What Women’s Volleyball Tells Us About Equality in Sport

But what the hell do I know. I’m just a sociologist during his coffee break pondering about how invisible things like social constructs alter individual beliefs and decision making. I’ll go back to work, bye.

The Debian vote was so stupid:

Option A: Psychotic breakdown
Option B: Ethical impracticality
Option C: Political extremism
Option D: Two contradictory things at once
Option E: Something that doesn't prevent the other options but packaged with something nasty and unpalatable
Option F: Sensible but ultimately vague and action-less common place neutrality.
Option G: Nuclear option
Option H: Do nothing

It was such a brain dead exercise in futility. It was designed for the winner from the start.

Nussbaun’s comment on the result is hilariously dull:

On a very personal note, I regret that the winning option does not acknowledge all the legitimate concerns around AI: environmental impact, copyright and licensing uncertainty, the health of Free Software communities, and the strain of aggressive scraping on the open web.

The GR results give us raw numbers about our opinion, and a direction, but we have a lot of work ahead of us to act as a community and understand how we can continue to accommodate the very large minority that would have preferred to ban or discourage AI.

Lucas

¹ obligatory disclosure: the script used is AI-generated

Yeah, the option that doesn’t say anything won. Who knew?…wait yes, mathematicians, they knew. The most important part of a survey is choosing the options carefully.

Great, none of the articles mention the issue of sponsorship or the gender aspect of bias in sports regulations.

By the way, it’s not cool to link without reading the articles.

Last month, bikini-wearing athletes again made headlines when the European Handball Federation fined Noway’s beach handball team for wearing shorts rather than the required two-piece bathing suits.

There are still problems with the lack of choice, why?

Ultimately, the 2016 FIVB uniform guide actually offers more options for women than it does for men […] who are stuck with a tank top and shorts as their only style choice.

Wouldn’t it be interesting to try to understand why this is this way?

“There are also certain times of the month that wearing a bikini isn’t always such a comfortable option, especially when you’re on TV.”

Interesting testimony. Should we actually ask a follow up question to the person who said this to hear her opinion about why being on TV is a factor…Nope, too late, narrative is done, article is over.

Like, seriously, I’m not talking about infantilizing women or restraining options. Quite the opposite. I’m talking about turning your damn brain on and actually look at the world with curiosity beyond the common places of thought terminating memes, cliches and manufactured narratives. It’s not hard as long as you are focused on actually having healthy discussions instead of being obsessed with being right on the internet (the worst kind of right).

Yes, they are adults. Stop talking about them like they don’t exist, or like they are a single homogeneous lump of objects.

It is entirely possible to discuss sociological concepts and political issues without insulting or infantilizing the people who are involved. Screaming “infantilizing” like a parrot is not an argument.

Which begs the question. If the most efficient equipment to use is a full suit (remembering here the snark skin controversy), why are men not allowed to wear it, but women are.

It is absolutely arbitrary and based on historical gender biases. But that is too complex for some idiots to digest.

No, why would you do that? It is extremely rude to comment on a person’s body unprompted. They get to choose whatever they want to wear. That doesn’t erase the reality of social pressures or its relevance when discussing genre politics.

This absolutely ignores sponsorship pressures. Men get millions of dollars playing in full clothes. Women have to wear bikinis just to ensure a few thousand dollars “because it sells more tickets”. Choice or not, there are structural cultural norms that nullify the offer of alternatives. Misogyny doesn’t disappear just because you can choose different clothes.

Honest talk. There’s actually a mini crisis in birding and animal photography because of the use of AI. Images generated or altered with AI without disclosure are being published as facts in scientific journals and misleading research efforts on the health of animal populations which are vital to guide conservation efforts. Many biologists and scientists depend on the photographs of amateur or professional wildlife photographers. AI is inducing error and noise in the information they get to work with.

Almost there but not quite. I’m not a lawyer, but have friends who are. The two examples are actually equivalent. Because, by principle, laws evaluate actions. Not consequences or intentions, those can be qualifiers in criminal cases, or discussed in civil cases. But in general the law prefers to deal with things that happened, not risk or what could happen. As it is far less ambiguous to argue that someone did something, than arguing whether or not something could’ve happened.

That’s why pre-crime was such a big deal in the sci-fi movie Minority Report. Similar to thought crime, it is a tough ethical and legal discussion without a clear possible answer that doesn’t lead to violent authoritarianism.

“I was speeding but nothing bad happened” is equivalent “I was shooting in his general direction not at him, I missed every time”. That’s still attempted murder and the former is still speeding. The crime is the action, not the result.

Oxygen, I think is the major factor. As long as the salmon is frozen and sealed, the bacterial growth is slow/spores remain inactive. When thawed while sealed, they are all trapped in there without oxygen and become active with the increased temperatures. According to some quick wikipedia search, it is the germination of spores into bacteria that creates the neurotoxin. The absence of oxygen is a requirement for the germination, so it promotes neurotoxin production. Releasing the salmon from the package before thawing lets oxygen in, thus they won’t become active as the salmon thaws, since oxygen slows down the bacterial growth.

Always remember. No matter what the law says, in our current philosophical embodiment of what a “justice system” is, you might be guilty or not of a crime, but the only real reason you are being punished is because of poverty.

Follow the rules. It’s invite only.

I’m sorry, I forgot that on the internet nationality is a source of expertise. Sure, a German would hold that view. Because governments have never steered public opinion through education to hide facts.

EDIT: Sorry for the pedantic answer. Yes, segregation and concentration camps have been around since forever. But “my racism is older than your racism” is not a flex. It takes way more nuance to understand the underlying sociological sources of racism and extremist violence. But, there’s documented evidence that US segregation and racism (specially Jim Crow laws), as well as other international events were quoted directly by Nazis as the source of inspiration, specifically, for using certain social oppression tactics to facilitate the holocaust. This in no way diminishes the historical responsibility of the Nazi and the people involved in committing this violence. Nor does it erases other more internal sources of racism and extremism.

As you yourself have discovered in this thread, there are things about the general world that not everyone is taught. I commend the effort of the German education system to prevent the repeat of the holocaust. But that doesn’t mean they are not biased, have conflicts of interest or warp a bit the reality either by omission or convenience. Case in point, the support of the German government of the genocide of Palestinians by Israel.

The Nazis were inspired to create concentration camps by the US racial policies against black, jewish and asian communities. So, there’s that.

EDIT: You m’fers can’t have nuance, so you read everything as absolutist reductions. It’s a 19 words sentence. I have no time to make you a multipage essay to qualify the nuances, but that doesn’t mean the sentence is attacking you personally.

Don’t worry. When AI does all the TV shows for you, then there will not be a need for crediting human labor. You’ll get to all 78 seasons of Ow, my balls! One after the other. Don’t worry about 80% of the screen being covered in ads, it won’t cause seizures to most people.

Mel Gibson has a peculiar talent.

Racism? it is racism, isn’t it?

Actors being outrageously attractive via artificial means is, meh, I suppose. What I can’t stand is when they load up with so much botox and had so many surgeries that they lose all capacity for acting. Like, you see an actor in a movie giving it all and communicating emotion effectively, and a year later turn into a statue. Completely unable to emote anything at all, face frozen, facial muscles neurologically dead.

I could barely withstand the latest Wuthering Heights with Margot Robbie. Usually anachronistic music, sets or wardrobe doesn’t bother me. Most of the times it is tastefully done or are details that are immaterial to the experience. But lord, this version was so over the top that I sometimes felt like I was watching a fashion show and not a movie. I’m still somewhat warm towards Emerald Fennel, but this movie was a let down for me mainly for that one reason. She is also pretty gross and can’t help but to always include disturbing imagery, even if the script is supposed to be a romantic tragedy. Some of the scenes didn’t subtract anything, but definitely added nothing as well. I think this film failed at what Marie Antoinette (2006) succeeded.