Comment on Decentralized Social Networks Do Exist by Laurel L. Russwurm

Certainly, and you don’t even need to ask, as the license info is in the sidebar. This blog is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License . . . which means the only restriction is that you can’t license it with greater restriction, you couldn’t add “No Derivatives” or “Non Commercial” or even “Copyright All Rights Reserved.”

However, even if your blog/webpage is itself published under a more restrictive licence, you can still use my work as long as you use the same or similar license as the one I’m using on the page on which you use it.

Comment on Geek vs. Nerd isn’t even the real question by Laurel L. Russwurm

Difficult questions, Deanna. I rather think that what we need is equality. The culture is made up of people, and so we are the ones who have to make changes.

I was horrified to see the house league soccer league we were with for years decided to segregate the genders for the kids younger than mine. This was apparently decided to protect the little girls from having to interact with the boys. This seems the opposite direction we need to be going. Nothing motivates gender co-operation more than sharing goals