i think my grandma put it quite simple: "never be the one to start punching people. but if you do get punched, make sure you hit them twice as hard".

she never cared about gender and never really even mentioned it. and that in a time, where gender roles where much stricter. she was the one that beat up a group of bullies, because she thought it was unfair how they treated others. played football with the boys, even though boys didnt want to kick balls with girls. but she just didn't take 'no' for an answer. to show them, she just got better than most of them.

even though ske knew there is a difference between boys and girls, she never mentioned it. IMO this, combined with her being an absolute badass, takes all the wind out of these petty arguments. "i cant hit a girl", "you better don't, last time she beat you up". or "i don't want to play with a girl", "understandable! she is simply better than you" etc.

generally agree, probably most devs nowadays do. otherwise there wouldn't be stuff like @data in lombok.

i think the word 'dogma' is pretty good: it takes a good idea (encapsulation) too far. i am not old enough to have been coding when OOP was the new and hot stuff. but i imagine it comes from the idea that it is a good idea to protect private members where needed.

public class Account {
  private Integer balance;
  public Integer getBalance() {
    return new Integer(balance);
  }
}

that is not such a bad idea to protect balance from stupid sideeffects.

  public String getName() {
    return name;
  }

is a nothing burger, as it returns the same reference and does not protect from accidental sideeffects.

he made sure we controlled who went flying and who not.

guess he could also have been called "Air Traffic Control"...

i meant to say airforce, as that is what we called it. i put it into quotation, as it was a specific name we used.

the concept may be more established for ice hockey. but it is present in all sports or possibly in life: we hope there is a referee to punish bad behaviour. but if there isn't, we have to take things into our own hands.

i am not necessarily talking about violence here. if at your job someone constantly tries to sabotage you, violence may not be the best approach. but some dirty play on your side, might just discourage the behaviour enough. obviously that should only be considered, if theere is no sort of referee to stop the behaviour traditionally.

we had an 'airforce' player in our team. he usually was only on the field, if the other team played dirty. the most dirty opponent would have a painful clash with our 'airforce'. the game usually was a bit more civilised after that.

was it the right thing to do? probably not. would we have sent the 'airforce' if the referee had stopped dirty plays earlier? definitely not! did it protect other players from going home with injuries? yes!

so no, violence is not the only correct thing to do. but it is a way to achieve certain goals. sometimes fire has to be fought with fire.

thanks for reading the article. i tend to avoid musk or trump news

Looks like the mod has a hair trigger for any individual sentence that isn't 100% "death to zionists."

pretty much why i am not using this account much anymore. too many people take a good idea way too far. so that normal discussions start to fall apart.

you do know, that there is a "Show NSFW content" setting in your account?

our anti-zionism rule follows the same fallacy, as anti-semitism laws in many european did: it is too narrow and too broad at the same time.

it is too broad in a sense that we talked about banning problematic users. now we talk about banning communities, which cover much of a language. dach is a big collection bucket for europeans speaking german. in their sidebar they mention, that they want to keep palestine / israel discussions out of the comm - which is fair play IMO.

it is too narrow in a sense, that it is hyper focussed on one issue. zionists are bad and commit atrocities, which need to be harshly reprehended. but there are many bad things, which do not get caught by this rule. as an example: what happens to the uyghur population in china is simply not ok. still .ml is an instance, which quite openly denies that anything even happens. yet we are not discussing banning accounts and or communities, which do these things.

i would much rather have an anti-discrimination rule, which covers zionism, racism, sexism, discrimination on hair colour, medical things, ... this rule should also define what actions we can and want to take again who and what.

this would cover more problems, while not excluding anyone. hopefully also reduce needed arguments.

thanks

can someone doing 3D printing take a look at the pictures? i have no idea about these things, but it looks like the ears would be some crazy overhangs.

from the reflection of the light i assume, the statue was printed bottom to top. so how did they manage to do the ears?