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New comment by mryijum in "This map is not upside down"

mryijum — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 20:49:41 +0000

yeah it's remarkable how many comments in this thread seem to be grasping onto random facts as if they represent a non-arbitrary justification.

is this a contrarian impulse or an anti-contrarian impulse?

New comment by mryijum in "ChatControl update: blocking minority held but Denmark is moving forward anyway"

mryijum — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 21:53:43 +0000

Not only is it not the entire point of the show, you'd have a easier time arguing that the point of the show is that the fundamental problems behind mandates like "deal with crime" are not as simple as "get a wiretap."

New comment by mryijum in "The Wisconsin cartographer who mapped Tolkien's fantasy world"

mryijum — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 21:29:14 +0000

The infamous lung map! David Day must've introduced so many people to the various interesting aspects of Tolkien's world but there's so much fanfiction mixed into his works. Though in the case of the map it's not really fanfiction, it's just wrong.

New comment by mryijum in "The rule says, “No vehicles in the park”"

mryijum — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 08:50:26 +0000

Yeah, I actually thought that the phrasing of the blurb weighted the answers in a particular direction, and was surprised to discover that most did not answer questions about emergency vehicles as violating the rule. To quote specifically, it says "...please answer the question of whether the rule is violated (not whether the violation should be allowed)."

In fact, it sort of seems like this sentence should wreck the effort to demonstrate the difficulty of content moderation. I would think that a significant amount of the difficulty comes from instances where moderators feel that interactions between different rules mean they should allow violations of particular rules in certain situations.