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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

he wouldn't have killed a woman colleague or his sister

But killing a woman with gender as an underlying factor does not mean you're going to go around killing every woman.

This is about what factors constitute the motivation for the crime, not necessarily an obsessed serial killer.

For instance, many murders are racislly motivated - but it doesn't mean the killer was killing every black person that crossed their path. A famous case in the US had a guy kill a black man, in front of his family, over a misunderstanding and confrontation - he killed the guy because of the confrontation but he only got to the point of killing because he was black, if this were a white person, we would have de-escalated the situation.

If a woman kills her husband

Do we have a historical, multi-generational heritage of women dominating the familiar structure and seeing husbands as property?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago

It was an obvious content bait piece, and it worked. Got shared everywhere, people kept saying "no the game is actually amazing now guys trust me buy three copies" and all it took was a Discord message, way cheaper than hiring a link building service or outreach campaign.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

With the entirety of South America to choose from, who the hell migrates to Argentina?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Feminicide is a killing motivated by gender. Sure, the man might not have killed any woman, just his wife... But would he have killed his brother?

The idea that a wife is a belonging and that abusing or even killing her over a domestic dispute is deeply rooted in traditional gender values, so killing your wife is got a gigantic gender-related motivation behind it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Back when I was a Reddit moderator, somebody posted literal child pornography on our casual conversation subreddit. It got caught by AutoModerator, but I gave him the final ban, and Reddit's admins purged the account soon after.

Guess who stalked me for three years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

and floating point isn't a precision

Floating point precision does not mean I'm saying "floating point is a precision", whatever that sentence means.

The PlayStation can't use anything but integers to place points in 3D space.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

You're absolutely correct - but what you're describing is a learning institution in general, not a university. That's the fundamental issue.

Universities have a very specific purpose and it's academic. Unfortunately, our society not only shoves a bunch of commercial values in the mix, but also eliminates most of the other learning opportunities, which turned universities in this weird mix of conflicting interests and unrealistic expectations.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

That feeling is exactly why ReLIFE is my favourite manga, and has resonated with me in very different moments of my life.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

What makes Ubuntu a GNU operating system isn't the fact that it's FSF approved, it's the fact that it uses GNU tools.

Exactly. You're precisely right. Which is why:

What makes software open source isn't the fact that it's OSI approved, it's the fact that the source is open for scrutiny.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

That's somehow still a better outcome than what happened to Konami

[–] [email protected] 9 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

The primary goal of a university is teaching the next generation of academics. That's it. The entire goal is teaching and research.

But like everything else in this society, it must become a profit-driven endeavour and if it doesn't contribute with the revenue of some company, it's not worth it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

No, that's the OpenSource Initiative's definition for what they endorse.

Open source quite literally means the source is open. That's it. Otherwise there would be absolutely no point in having terms like FOSS or libre or whatever else.

They're not OSI approved, but that's about it. Ubuntu is not FSF approved, and guess what, it's still a GNU operating system. We are not forced to follow definitions from specific orgs.

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