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i think i've said this before on here but i always think about an old ceramics teacher who insisted on any vessel that could potentially hold food, to be food safe since ceramic items can last for such a long time no one in the future will know if its toxic to eat from. these things stick around, some for loooong after anyone we know is gone. i also think about the kind of care to think of someone that far into the future. i think a lot of us here are thinking of those far off folks alongside ourselves and wanting better for both, i hope we can get that, and ensure it for them

I wish my main and inspiring takeaway here would be that we can fight them and win. However, I was in no control here. The fact this resonated with a lot of people causing an internet wide uproar was nice, but Oracle's legal time could've decided to not care. Are they taking the wind out of our sails by reinstating my account? Is this their way of admitting and undoing an honest mistake? Would this have happened if I never complained publicly about it, or was my private GDPR request what did the magic here?I cannot tell you. All I can say is that your account and all your data still exists on Oracle's servers even over a week after your account has been “irreversibly” wiped. Keep that in mind the next time support tells you there's nothing they can do.

@marshray @cwebber "received wisdom" it sometimes is used to suggest something is true, though, it only gets at the untested nature of the "wisdom".I do have a better story example though. A cook who always cuts the end off the roast, says she does it because her mother taught her that way, because her grandmother taught her mother that way. They thinksit's needed for the recipe, maybe it makes it juicier? But when asked, her grandmother says, "it's because the roasts we buy from the shop didn't fit in my oven".

I highly recommend meeting and becoming familiar with as many cats as possible btw

@cwebber sounds like you're probably already aware of it, but the Rat Park experiment really gets to the heart of this. It turns out if you keep rats in an idyllic enclosure that meets all of their natural sensory and social needs, not just the typical depressing bare essentials terrarium that provides a minimum of food, water, and shelter - they *don't* choose the pleasure lever until they die. They end up mostly ignoring it to live a nice fulfilling life with their friends instead.

Okay, I will add one more thing. Multiple people (thx @stellarskylark, @aeva, @martinvermeer) have brought up "Rat Park", a counterstudy where rats, if given a sufficiently stimulating environment, won't lean on the lever until they die. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_ParkThis is actually great and in line with what I really wanted to point out, which is that the problem is that we shouldn't blame the individual, we should blame the environment. What environment do we give people?So yes, yay, rat park!

@djsundog Yes, and you can also take the next step and be intentional about amplifying the people, voices and ideas that you want to reach a bigger audience to build the world you want to live in.

Looks pretty much like the configuration screen on my VOIP gateway, except I actually know what many of the acronyms and settings on the SSL screen stand for.