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hananova · 2026-04-13T12:13:30 1776082410

The nature of that setup makes it incredibly difficult to research. You'd have to answer a negative.

Of course, that won't stop people that are anti-trigger warnings from using the irrelevant research (they don't work if you don't heed them... duh) to push their agenda.

hananova · 2026-04-13T12:08:47 1776082127

All those papers look at the difference between "consuming content without being given a trigger warning" and "consuming content after being given a trigger warning."

There has been no proper research on the effectiveness of "being given a trigger warning, and then not consuming the content because of it." Which seems to be the most important factor to consider when it's about avoid sudden panic responses.

hananova · 2026-04-11T00:22:41 1775866961

The average person can make one of those things happen, and not the others. Yes, the alternative is obviously better, but once violence becomes the only course of action with reasonable chance at good results, violence is what you will get. Just watch, this is going to escalate. A lot.

hananova · 2026-04-11T00:18:52 1775866732

What you think does not matter. You need to actually convince the downtrodden, otherwise these attacks will keep happening, and they will get worse.

hananova · 2026-04-10T20:53:26 1775854406

Rule of thumb:

- If it’s a company doing an NC license, probably best to be careful because they can make your life hell with lawyers.

- If it’s a random joe doing an NC license, feel free to ignore it because they don’t have the money to defend it anyway. Especially so if it’s CC-BY-NC-ND, people that pick that one are especially likely to be in the all-bark-no-bite category.

At least that’s how one of the companies I worked for treated CC licenses… I don’t work there anymore.

hananova · 2026-04-10T20:44:40 1775853880

A combination of key samplers and going with the first acceptable switch rather than trying all of them and going with the best.

hananova · 2026-04-09T22:05:05 1775772305

You may consider yourself that, but given that you won’t even offer someone the pleasure of addressing them the way they want to be, you aren’t.

hananova · 2026-04-09T22:02:52 1775772172

Perhaps, but it’s a good starting point, especially nowadays.

hananova · 2026-04-09T21:59:01 1775771941

It’s just a word. People is fine too. Folks just sounds better.

poszlem · 2026-04-09T22:05:33 1775772333

If that were true then they would have written:

"Young folks, folks of color, queer folks". This is not the case.

hananova · 2026-04-10T01:34:48 1775784888

How very astute of you. I was of course talking about folks sounding better combined with queer. This is subjective of course, but the writers agreed.

What does it matter to you anyway?

hananova · 2026-04-09T21:57:59 1775771879

Bryan did not hold him at gunpoint and forced him to click reject, he did that himself. Empathy is a core value of engineering.

WatchDog · 2026-04-10T09:13:33 1775812413

Fantasizing about having someone fired, making no effort to try and understand the viewpoint of the object of one's contempt, does not seem empathetic to me.

As a side note, I found it ironic, that Keith's email that Bryan linked to making the argument that "Empathy is a core engineering value", uses the word "retarded", which by 2013 was already something you could get "cancelled"(or at least chastised) for, because it's not empathetic to the mentally disabled.