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by virgil_disgr4ce 18 days ago
> Actually, I don't think it's a good idea to bring your politics into a an enclosed pace like this

Ah yes, the classic "your politics," but of course the person having this opinion's politics are perfectly fine, because they're the "normal" person with the "normal" politics, not like that crazy person who thinks some randos shouldn't be the subject of genocide. How dare they!
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MobiusHorizons 18 days ago
I believe the idea is that no one should be declaring their political beliefs loudly in such an environment regardless of how “normal” they are. I’m not sure broadcasting a WiFi endpoint meets my threshold for “loudly”, but otherwise I tend to agree.
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moi2388 18 days ago
Believing you do not have the right to name your Bluetooth what you want is also a political belief.
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godelski 17 days ago 

  > I’m not sure broadcasting a WiFi endpoint meets my threshold for “loudly”
And that's why so many of us are treating this as insane. A SSID is not "loud". You can go your whole flight without ever knowing about any other passenger's device names. You have to take action to find out. That action might be the 5 seconds it takes to connect to the plane's WiFi, but serial, if you get triggered over a piece of text that's easy to ignore, you're absolutely mental.

"Loud" is in your face. "Loud" is hard to ignore. "Loud" is you'll know even if you take no action.

I agree, and I think most people do, that it's not a great idea to annoy other people, but it's magnitudes worse to start a fight over someone being incredibly low amounts of annoying. I'd long defend the lunatic who yells at the person who keeps bumping their seat than the person who yells at someone for the same of their SSID. Both are crazy, but come on, the latter isn't even defensible in the slightest. It's so easy to ignore and it's not like it's actively bothering you unless you let it

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idle_zealot 18 days ago
Maybe, but you know as well as I do that if the SSID were "God Bless America," "Support our Troops," "Fuck George Bush," "I'm glad Hitler is dead," "The South will rise again," or any number of things that there would be no incident.
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anigbrowl 16 days ago
You should try reading to the end next time.
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