What the devil?

in Toronto, hospitals are not built or expanded (despite tremendous demand) because land is expensive

Oh boy it looks like the thing I said would happen happened

and the marginal cost of increasing the height of a helicopter-accessible hospital building is actually pretty huge

Hospital billing...is weird. It doesn't function like any other product. Somewhat for understandable reasons, others not as justifiable

heheh, thank goodness it's a revolt story, and not a capitulation one

Yeah that's the other thing, I'm not like, a commie in principle, if you make an argument based on numbers and facts on what's actually sustainable as far as welfare and social safety nets go, I'll listen in either direction, online tests don't do that.

FOSS was always going to be a revolt story

The whole philosophy goes against SJW doctrine

Yeet

That's the thing though, it is not sustainable

Linux:

There are some heavy ass design flaws in socialism/communism, not least of which is the fact that command economies are ass

Bless you Linux

--Just make sure you bark and not.. bite.

Linus did nothing wrong

Spitting image https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/LinuxCon_Europe_Linus_Torvalds_03_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-LinuxCon_Europe_Linus_Torvalds_03_%28cropped%29.jpg

what the hell does writing code have to do with politics...

current year

People may not have an interest in politics

But politics has an interest in people.

It's unfortunate when you have to address something JUST because it won't leave you alone.

Linux is doing something about it.

GamerGate was a wake up call that you can't escape politics

It'll come to you sooner or later

Hey guise

wanna start a new linux upstream?

looks like the current one won't be long for this world.

I volunteer to be your email whore and merge your patches if I don't think they're the wrong ones.

I googled "foss sjw" and got a bunch of articles from like 2015, they tried to warn us

And say the occasional mean or dismissive thing when I feel you've overstepped a boundary or wasted my time.

i am so not good enough a coder for that

I tried to warn you too

every time this issue came up on HN or Phoronix or a mailing list I laid out my strongest argument

usually ended with "LOL YOU JUST WANT TO EYE RAPE THE HYPOTHETICAL WOMEN WHO MIGHT HYPOTHETICALLY JOIN OUR COMMUNITY IF WE WERE MORE WELCOMING AND INCLUSIVE IN SOME VAGUE AND NEBULOUS WAY"

It's just dumb. They could be eating children's brains in their spare time, that doesn't effect whether their code is useful or not.

code has no gender

half the time I can barely tell what country an email comes from on a mailing list

I don't think I would recognize the faces of more than three contributors to projects I follow closely or contribute to.