Letting perfection be the enemy of the good is why we can’t have nice things.

I feel like we’re going in circles now, so no reason to continue. I agree that that is how it should work. I maintain that it’s important the petition states the actual issue and not a percieved one. Agree to disagree.

Again, the petition was short sighted in how it described the behavior it didn’t like. Legislators will write legislation to address the issue identified by the petition. If the petition is identifying the wrong issue, then we will end up with the wrong legislation. We need to have discussion as a community to agree on the exact behaviour we don’t like. I think that’s important, you can disagree.

I mean…not that curious. It’s his entire livelihood at the moment.

The petition has specific wording about how the legislation would work. He was critical not because he didn’t believe in the cause, but because he felt it wasn’t well thought out. The reality is, art takes many forms, and sometimes you can only go see a play on the one night it’s performed if you happen to buy a ticket to see it, and that’s how the creator intended it. Art is not a one-size-fits-all field, and a half-baked piece of legislation would make innovative experiences in game design illegal.

He also pointed out the very real potential attack vector for malicious actors to effectively DOS small games at launch, ruining the experience for other players, causing the game to fail and be forced to release a means for customers to self host, only for the malicious actor to then make a profit on rehosting.

Everyone involvrd wants to get rid of scummy business practices, but this initiative is short sighted in how it describes the behaviour it doesn’t like.

To believe that? Or to believe that PirateSoftware believes that. Because he doesn’t, and the people saying he does are being dishonest and haven’t actually seen his criticisms.

To discuss the video in a comments section associated with it.

I agree it is that way currently, unfortunately, but it’s definitely a recent phenomenon (last 10y).

He switched to linux a while back. Now he’s trying to switch as much of the rest of his digital life to FOSS/non-profit stuff. He advocates for duckduckgo, firefox, paid email, graphene os, selfhosted vaultwarden, nextcloud, anything but google maps, kodi, etc.

I see you didn’t make it 40s into the video.

Are you giving random strangers legal permission to pentest you? That’s bold.

Woah, gotta be honest, wasn’t expecting a Waiting for Guffman line. There’s so many good ones in that movie lol. Some I still quote 20y later:

• I didn’t know deers could…could do that
• Contrary to popular belief, I don’t see well without my glasses
• Look out!

If it’s not obfuscating your IP address, then you’re open to getting targeted by anyone you interact with on a reddit-like platform. That sounds like a circle of hell I’d rather not visit.

So,

1. OP is asking why month before day rather than day before month
2. In your example, it’s not clear whether you are doing Y-M-D or Y-D-M, but I assume you are putting month before day, so we agree on that part. But
3. I think we’re all in favor of: Most significant on the left -> Least significant on the right. I’m just arguing that, most if the time, for the most common uses, Month is most significant. It’s just more common that you’re looking at a list of dates that all span the next few months than a list of dates that are all within this month, or beyond a year.

regardless of the month, I think what matters first is to know what day of the month you are in

You’re telling me that if you have a list of scheduled dates in the near future to meet with clients/patients/whatever, you first want them sorted by day, and then month?

So this list is the order you want to see these in?

• 4/5/25
• 8/7/25
• 15/6/25
• 16/5/25
• 23/6/25

Doesn’t it make way more sense to see them sorted by month first, then day, so that they’re actually in chronological order.

• 5/4/25
• 5/16/25
• 6/15/25
• 6/23/25
• 7/8/25

The only way you could defend the former listing is if you’re also arguing that it makes sense to sort the list by the middle column, and hopefully we all agree that is just absurd. We don’t alphabetize people by their middle names. You don’t look up a word in the dictionary starting with the letter in the middle.

I jest, but I think this illustrates a real-life, commonplace example of when it makes sense. I agree that MM/DD/YYYY is not in order of magnitude, but I do believe it’s in order of most significance to least significance given the timescales we are typically dealing with.

I don’t know why people use dishwashers. It’s in the kitchen. A lawn mower is a no brainer, yet people still use dishwashers??

It’s math principle. But it assumes the massively oversimplified scenario that you’re pairing up groups A and B in basically one go. This is nowhere near reflective of reality.

As for your description…how do I put this delicately…I think you’re overthinking it. I wish you well, bud, I really do.

Hah I’ve never heard the Pigeon Hole Principle applied to infidelity. Pecker Hole Principle?

I’m convinced 90% of them have never run either and just like to complain about stuff.

Have you you tried stealing the person’s identity? Seems like that’s what the bank is asking for.