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#reasonable — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #reasonable, aggregated by home.social.

  1. #Trump's latest diarrhea "truth" about the Gordie Howe #bridge, and how he wants to block its opening until (paraphrasing) he owns half of it and (literal quote) “the United States is fully compensated for everything we have given them, and also, importantly, #Canada treats the United States with the #Fairness and #Respect that we deserve” can have only one response:

    "Fuck you, Donnie."

    If the #Canadian government negotiates with the #USA over this... if we even dignify it with a response, as if it was a reasonable concern ... if we, as a country, do *anything* that even hints at his #tantrum being any kind of #reasonable argument, then we have failed.

    "Fuck you, Donnie."

    #Bullies don't understand anything except pushback, and when they get that, they fold.

    "Fuck you, Donnie."

    That should be our position on every demand he makes and every overwrought complaint he vomits out into the #MAGAsphere.

    T: "Canada's treated us badly."

    "Fuck you, Donnie."

    T: "Canada better keep buying the #F35 or they'll regret it!"

    "Fuck you, Donnie."

    T: "Doing business with #China, we're not going to allow that."

    "Fuck you, Donnie."

    T: "Canada's going to have to cooperate with us on my fabulous Golden Dome."

    "Fuck you, Donnie."

    T: "I'm going to #tariff Canada!"

    "Fuck you, Donnie."

    He's going to do what he's going to do. He can't be reasoned with, he won't honour his own word so you can't trust any "deal" with him.

    "Fuck you, Donnie."

    cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/win

    #USPol #FuckYouDonnie

  2. Excited for #JCON EUROPE 2025? See Dmitry Chuyko at #JCON2025 in Cologne talking about 'Legal #JVM Doping in Your #Containers'

    One of the #reasonable desires is to #speedup existing #deployments

    Get your free #JUG Ticket: jcon.one

  3. Some members of the fediverse have some ... #unreasonable behaviours. If it only affects them, that's fine. But when they're aggressively bothering others, it's a problem. They're the #scolds that jump on posts, frequently those new to the #fediverse, giving forceful instructions about their #behaviour.

    #Demanding strangers add content warnings to posts mentioning subjects that bother you is not #reasonable. It's like walking up to someone you don't know in a coffee shop and demanding they turn their laptop screen away from you because you don't like the article they're reading or the email they're writing. Some people on the receiving end of this behaviour will accommodate such #demands, just to avoid the conflict -- but you should not be surprised, or offended, if you get a harsher response telling you to mind your own damn business.

    It's similar for people demanding others add alt-text to images. I do it. Lots of people do. But the people who don't add alt text don't owe anybody anything. You demanding they spend their time doing something because you want it, not because they want to, is simply not reasonable behaviour.

    This scares people away from the community - justifiably, because it's #aggressive, #unsolicited, unwanted criticism.

    This happens in other spheres, too. As a Free Software author, I sometimes get email from people demanding I implement a feature or change a behaviour to suit their preferences.

    Please don't be like this.

  4. #Clarke's three laws

    • When a distinguished but elderly #scientist 👨‍🔬 states that something is #possible, they are almost certainly right. When they state that something is #impossible, they are very probably #wrong.
    • The only way of discovering the #limits of the #possible is to venture a little way past them into the #impossible.
    • Any sufficiently #advanced #technology is indistinguishable from #magic.

    Isaac #Asimov 📆1959
    "It is only afterward that a #new #idea seems #reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems #unreasonable" en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_As

    Picture : Arthur C. #Clarke 📆 1965, on one of the sets of 2001: A #SpaceOdyssey commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil

    #ScienceFiction #SciFi #RocketScience