C'mon, this same rhetorical question / rationalization has been invoked "In The Name Of God" by countless priests & princes at least since the Bronze Age (ergo theodicy, teleological suspension of the ethical, Deus Volt/Inshallah, ends justify means, just following orders, etc). :mask: — 180 Proof

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction." — 180 Proof

But are you managing a limited liability company that affects other people's interests who entrust you with their philosophy-client needs? — boethius

faced with a decision affecting all members of our community (but at least with the support of most, so there's that), is basically of the attitude "Jeff Bazos is full of shit and anyone who proposes an irreversible decision, like the jurisdiction of incorporation and type of incorporation, 'must be made methodically, carefully, slowly, with great deliberation and consultation' is a business moron that we should all ignore — boethius

But why don't you go and have a look? — Jamal

A small minority of loudly opinionated frustrated people love to hate it but their reasoning rarely withstands scrutiny. — Jamal

infinite scroll — unimportant

People with too much time on their hands "looking out for the best interests of others" cause a great deal of problems in the world. — Leontiskos

Two pages of ill-informed posts on a tangential topic seems plenty sufficient here. — Leontiskos

And it would not be "authoritarian" to encourage people to think a bit before posting. Pointlessly and endlessly fatiguing moderators is not something that should be encouraged. — Leontiskos

Giving advice unasked is rude. — Leontiskos

Doing it over and over for two pages is highly objectionable. — Leontiskos

Someone who is really a well resourced predator would have the sophistication and accomplices to carry out such a crime without creating any evidence that is what is happening. They will come to court as simply country folk with good cause and better reputations.

Such an actor could make a company to make a company to make a company to, all in different countries, just to sue Jamal. — boethius

3. Harassment by the government. Maybe someone posts on the forum something about some minister that minister finds out about (as they obsessively police their online mentions) and then uses their government power to go after your business and you yourself: audits, hate speech, money laundering, whatever. — boethius

However, if the plaintiff can force you to spend money then they can just keep doing that until you're broke. — boethius

As for liability, having limited liability is not written in stone.

If you get sued for hundreds of thousands of pounds the winning party could then argue that it was not lawful to create that kind of liability as a small business to shield yourself from the legal consequences of your reckless speech actions and therefore you should be held personally liable. — boethius

Are you asking about Marco?

He's an annoying fucking twat, as elucidated with exceptional eloquence here. — Michael

Some of us had concerns about him, and the future of the forum, so Jamal made this place and we moved over. — Michael

If Marco comes back I may have to burn the place to the ground. — Michael

Calling someone naive is calling someone incorrect or ignorant of things you deem yourself as being correct or knowledgeable of or about. — Outlander


No doubt, but then you added:

You're calling them wrong, essentially, which is putting into question not just every single act or non-act they've ever engaged in or disengaged in in the entirety of their life, but their entire life worth altogether (ie. "the meaning of life" itself). — Outlander


Which is completely nonsensical. — Tzeentch

"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." ~Steven Weinberg — 180 Proof

The one big improvement I could make to the archive is to include the categories. — Jamal

<li class="(?:.+?) Active"><strong><a href="(.+?)">(.+?)</a></strong></li>

OK, I'll leave them. I've found a decent compromise, which is that they won't be indexed by search engines but anyone can visit those pages, given the URLs (or find them from the archive's search page or whatever). — Jamal

Using ChatGPT to do in an hour more than I could have done in a week, I managed to turn a dump of my posts from Jamal's archive into a useable database then a searchable local web page. Still pretty basic but at least I will have access to this stuff locally. Somewhat satisfying. — Banno

As I recall, PF was bought by somebody for more than it was worth, but then almost immediately abandoned by its new owner — noAxioms

Complete nonsense. I'm doing nothing of the sort. — Tzeentch

Calling people naive isn't demonizing them. — Tzeentch

Yeah, I was just thinking about that. The comment URLs on this site don't contain the dicussion IDs, so I can't just use a basic mapping. But I don't want to include an explicit individual redirect for every one of the million or whatever comments. — Jamal

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^discussion/comment/([0-9]{7})/?$ jamals-script.php?commentID=$1

$commentID = $_GET['commentID'];

if ( preg_match( '{^([0-9]{7})$}', $commentID, $matches ) )
{
    // comment ID is a 7-digit numeric string
    if ( $friendlyURL = searchDatabaseForPostID( $commentID ) )
    {
        // assuming the above function returns the relevant friendly URL segment or FALSE if not found (ie. "1234567-friendly-title-here")
        header( 'https://tpfarchive.com/discussions/' . $friendlyURL . '.html#comment-' . $commentID;
        die;

        // or, simply read and print out the intended target (perhaps add a javascript function to let the page "jump" to the given comment, similar to how Plush operates currently) up to you!
        // $page = file_get_contents( 'https://tpfarchive.com/discussions/' . $friendlyURL . '.html?jumpToComment=' . $commentID );
        // echo $page; // presuming you add a special JS bit when "jumpToComment" URL var is detected, if a user has javascript enabled, the end page shows to the browser as the original comment URL but is actually the contents of the above "file_get_contents" request. this may be desired or to be avoided based on user preference. you can even edit the html post-retrieval and throw in a one line javascript bit in the <header> tag yourself before displaying to the user
        // die;
    }
}

// if we are here either the comment ID was not valid (7 digits) or the comment ID was not found
header( $_SERVER['SERVER_PROTOCOL'] . ' 404 Not Found', true, 404);
include( '404.php' ); // or simple print a 5 line 404 html page
die;

// or, simply redirect to default 404 page
// header( 'https://tpfarchive.com/notfound' );

All discussion URLs, i.e., all links to specific discussions/threads/OPs from the old site (this one), will be redirected to the relevant pages of the archive. This means threads which are indexed on Google and linked to from other sites will not leave a trail of broken links behind them. I'm not sure if it's worth doing this for individual comments too. — Jamal

Your naive empathy is not a virtue. — Tzeentch

Again, I'm not interested in sob stories. — Tzeentch

It has not. The main character of Breaking Bad is obviously a "hardcore criminal", and this was the subject from the very beginning. — Tzeentch

Showing understanding and leniency towards hardcore criminals on account of them being "large, violent, dangerous children" is the sympathy route.

Why choose sympathy for them over sympathy for their many victims? — Tzeentch

Are you saying that criminals are essentially subhumans I ought not judge on the same basis as I would ordinary people? — Tzeentch

Anglo-American philosophy has been stranded for some time in an attempted pivot away from Cartesian dualism. The OP is pestering the issue anew.

You could probably find a forum focused on welding if the OP question seems like a waste of your time. :grin: — frank

There is a huge and mighty choice between solipsism and idealism and choosing to dip your feet into the real world. — Colo Millz

It's helpful for identifying trolls. — frank

No. I am not arguing that delusion is an issue. I said reason and destiny. Not madness and destiny. — Tom Storm

It's best not to presume what others here know or don't know about themselves on a forum. — Tom Storm

That said, I'm not sure what your point is. — Tom Storm

It works. I have a couple of subreddits which I've never had to moderate. Downvotes do all the work. — frank

Which reminds me that the most dangerous people in the world are probably those who think they have reason and destiny on their side. — Tom Storm

Maybe we could trial downvotes? They have a harsh side where immature people downvote to signal disagreement, but they can also be an effective means of community self moderation. — frank