Post

John Loeber

@johnloeber.com

I will never stop

17/11/24, 7:29 pm0 reposts29 likes

Charl P. Botha

@charlbotha.com

18 Nov 2024

In 2002 I used to be much angrier than I am now (I need to fix formatting on that post), but indeed I am still finding it really hard to give up this fight. cpbotha.net/2002/04/03/s...

cpbotha.netSlashdot IdiotsToday on Slashdot: “I’m guessing that everyone here has a valid criticism of Microsoft’s attacks on, and approach towards the Open Source model. To me, that begs the question of what we think would be...

Grant Slatton

@grantslatton.bsky.social

17 Nov 2024

I've given up on this one I am a defeated man

godoglyness

@godoglyness.bsky.social

17 Nov 2024

this really begs the question: why have you given up?

godoglyness

@godoglyness.bsky.social

17 Nov 2024

giving up is the right response though "begging the question" is a manifestly terrible name for the thing it names & no amount of pedantry about precedent can change that it should be called "assuming the premise"

Grace

@gracekind.net

18 Nov 2024

It makes sense as “begging a (followup) question”. But I agree, it’s a bad name