Like any proposal you would have to word it in a way that minimizes loopholes initially, as well as muster the political will to close any new loopholes that come up.

Off the top of my head, you would probably want to use averages in some way. Perhaps use the median income of the bottom 20% of domestic wage earners in a given company, with some sort of multiplier or additional penalty for offshore employees. You would also want to ensure all forms of executive compensation like bonuses and stock options are included in the equation.

There’s probably more you would need to include but those 3 things would minimize the most obvious loopholes I can see.

Cap executive pay at 12x the lowest paid employee in the company. You can’t make more in one month than the drones make in a year. If you want a raise make sure everyone else gets one too.

This sort of transactional view of romantic relationships is exactly how incels are born

These dudes tell dick jokes for a living. If you want to throw that under the general umbrella of “the arts” in order to make appeals to lofty ideals then that is your right as a free thinking individual, but we both know the main reason you’re doing that is to try and make a square peg fit in a round hole.

You guys expect way too much from the court jesters. There’s plenty of serious enterprises investing heavily in SA, go after them if this is something you care deeply about. Comedians aren’t supposed to be the moral pulse of society and yet that’s how almost all conversations about them are framed these days.

The same thing it always does. In the best case, exactly what a program written by a human developer could do but with a high chance of hallucinations and an insane power draw nowhere near worth applying to the trivial problem at hand.

That’s true but as the saying goes “cut off the head of the snake and the body dies”. Eventually followers have no one left to follow whereas the other group has no real leaders. Once enough realize it’s a numbers game the outcome is easy enough to predict. The situation just needs to be viewed in a slightly different way than most people are conditioned to view it in.

That may be a big perspective shift but most of the constraints to our perceived available responses come from the desire to continue living within the confines of a social contract that is rapidly deteriorating. Most people haven’t begun to feel that directly yet but once they do the situation could change very quickly.

They’re creating a system in which millions have to die for them to win and dozens have to die for us to win. I know which odds I’m taking in that bet.

If the beliefs held up to scrutiny they wouldn’t be associated with the modern Republican party

Is furry a sexual orientation or a kink?

No, the political part is you forcing your sexuality to be discussed in a non-sexual context. I don’t care what you do in your bedroom but I don’t want to be forced to talk to you about it. It’s not relevant to our work therefore we don’t need to discuss it at work. Unless you’re trying to fuck me I don’t need to hear about it at all and that’s probably not something you should be doing at work either, certainly not in this context.

Nothing I have said is exclusive to queer people. They are universal rules that everyone should follow.

First of all, if you don’t think it’s weird to start off an introduction with “I’m queer and I’m a furry” then I’m not sure what to tell you. The vast majority of people in the world are going to be put off by you introducing yourself that way. That’s personal shit you talk about once you get to know somebody not an ice breaker. You can make the argument that people should be more accepting of that kind of thing but the fact is this sort of introduction breaks just about every social norm there is and when you do that willingly you should expect people to get uncomfortable.

Second of all, quit forcing your kinks on everyone else. I don’t care what weird kinky shit you do in your free time but I don’t want to talk to you about it, especially not at work. It doesn’t matter if your thing is women’s feet, dudes buttholes, or guys dressed as a cartoon wolf, the answer is the same, ew stop. It isn’t bigotry to not want to be forced to deal with your sexuality as a prerequisite for interacting with you. I probably don’t want to be interacting with you at all, much less talking about what you like to do with your genitals, so stop oversharing and keep that shit to yourself.

And some people can’t pull their head out of their own ass long enough to see that their problems aren’t the same as everyone else’s problems. You’re right though, it’s naive to expect others not to view themselves and their pet issues as the only thing worth discussing in the world. Your response being a great case study in how you can do exactly that while also implying that no one else even has problems to begin with.

When can we stop inserting politics into every little thing? I know it’s a big deal at the moment, what with the fascist takeover of our government, but are Linux devs and their moderators really the people we expect to represent all of us in that fight? They don’t have the power to help in that capacity.

We should be able to accept people’s help in whatever realm they are offering it without trying to force them to help with everything else at the same time. These guys signed up to support open source software. That’s an important and helpful thing but it isn’t gay rights activism. That is not their area of expertise. They’re not supposed to be representing LGBTQ interests in anything except the right to privacy. Quit making them the arbiter of morality in battles they didn’t sign up to fight to begin with. It doesn’t help anybody. It only redirects anger away from the people that we really should be mad at, namely our absolute disaster of a federal government.

I’m not a climate protestor and don’t give a shit about the climate

Then why are you complaining that climate activism is ineffective?

You could buy a gun and do it yourself. Why does it need to be someone else’s job to do it for you?

The furry phone? That’s not really my scene.

Seriously though, I’ve never heard of that. I’ll look into it

I’m calling fake news. I don’t recall seeing any German pastries in the Louvre when I was there.

I have a feeling this kind of thing is only going to accelerate their development and that’s a good thing. I’d switch today if there was a good option.

I don’t give a fuck what any of these people thought they were getting into. All the information they needed to make a rational decision was easily accessible to them and they refused to look at it. They took zero action to verify that their feelings lined up with reality and that is how shitty people conduct themselves. I hope every single person who voted for Trump gets a personal taste of the absolute chaos their ignorance has unleashed on the rest of the world.