Pat @Pat@qoto.org

@fortifieduniverse @freemo Wait... let me find my thesaurus...

@freemo @fortifieduniverse That's what we need, another party! As long as there are no shenanigans.

@freemo
It's probably closely related to media literacy and political savvy, and critical reasoning skills generally. And it has a lot to do with character and loyalty to the fundamental principles of democracy. If someone doesn't have the skills to seek out reliable sources of information and to critically analyze those sources and information, then they might make the incorrect assessment that the election was "rigged". If those people also have a strong loyalty to those fundamental principles, then they would likely be very upset.

However, if someone was able to determine the actual facts and knew that Biden won the election but they didn't have any loyalty to the fundamental principles of our republic, then they might lie about it and say it was a fraud if they thought that they had something to gain from it. But that last part, that's a different kind of delusion -- to think that one has something to gain from overthrowing a democracy. That's never true. Dictators are never satisfied and will eventually take away everyone's power and freedom. The corrupt ones who think that they can ride the back of tiger eventually lose their own freedom and power -- the hard way.

@freemo
I'd like to see a psychological study where they take a random sample of people who say that the US election was fraudulent. Then put each of them in an fMRI and question them to determine exactly what percentage is delusional vs. corrupt.

#USPol #election #fraud

This article explains how Neil deGrasse Tyson taught his daughter critical thinking skills using the tooth fairy:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-in-the-machine/202012/fight-misinformation-we-must-think-scientists

#CriticalThinking #reason #science #experiment #myth #facts

@freemo @hansw@mastodon.social
Yes, the growth can't continue to accelerate indefinitely, obviously. I think the gating factor in this case may be the limits of the human capacity to adapt. But when we hit that wall it's going be very messy.
In the 1930's they dealt with the problems by shifting a huge amount of power to the federal government which helped (somewhat) in the short term but caused major political problems and loss of freedom in the long and we're still dealing those issues today. I'd rather not make the same kind of mistakes that they made back then.

@freemo @hansw@mastodon.social
The point is that since the rate of change is accelerating, it will require a much higher level of talent to relearn at the required rate of change, which will mean that many more people will be "left in the dust." So what happens to all those people? At some point the overwhelming majority of people will be "left in the dust."

@freemo @hansw@mastodon.social
Yes, what we are facing is somewhat analogous to the industrial revolution. But that WAS a revolution. It caused massive disruption and created a paradigm shift in the way people lived their lives. I think most people of that time couldn't image not working on their farm, not growing their own food. Then there were the political implications of having most people working in factories, which lead to the progressive era, labor laws and eventually to the New Deal. These were huge changes, the consequences which we are still dealing with today.

The changes that are coming due to our technological revolution will be just as consequential. Because the pace a of change continues to accelerate, it is difficult to have visibility about what is coming. Many of us have jobs that require us to continually relearn new skills, but as the pace of change accelerates, fewer and fewer people will have the natural skills to learn at that pace.

It's similar to the industrial revolution, but still much different and difficult to predict.

@lupyuen @chrysn
Yeah, it probably should be a "==", although I've often seen guys take advantage of the way "AND" conditionals are processed in order to assign variables (if the first condition is in not true, it won't bother to execute the second test and so the variable won't get assigned, but if the first condition is true the variable is assigned. It's bad form but seems to be accepted practice in some scripting languages.

@freemo @hansw@mastodon.social
I actually don't think either of these solutions will work.

Minimum wage is a 90-year-old, depression-era solution looking for a 21st-century problem. It won't help the truck drivers, bus drivers, Uber drivers, UPS drivers, etc. who will soon be out of a job due to self-driving tech. It won't help construction workers, cooks, soldiers, barbers etc. whose jobs will be lost to robotics. It hasn't helped the retail clerks, educators, factory workers, journalist etc. who have already lost their jobs due to current technological disruptions.

The "let's retrain everybody" idea won't work either because there simply won't be enough jobs for everyone. Even many creative and highly skilled tasks will be automated by AI, such as medial diagnostics, music composition, art, acting, etc.

Also, I think the idea of punishing people with substandard assistance is inappropriate and assumes that people are only motivated to work because of the pay they get. If you had enough money to meet your basic needs without working would you just sit at home eating bon-bons and watching TV all day? Of course not. People are generally miserable when they are out of work not because they're not getting paid, but because they miss working -- being productive, solving problems, collaborating, etc.

The technological disruptions that our future will soon bring us are going to require radically different thinking and solutions, even about our most fundamental notions about work, play, economics and just generally how we live our lives.

An ousted puppet leader attempts to seek exile in his sponsoring country...

#immigration #poetic #justice #45to46 #USA #Russia #insurrection #blowback

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(Note #2: This is a retry of a previous toot to test using qoto video hosting.)

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@freemo Done. Now...
"If you feel you meet the requirements of this instance then contact @freemo from your mastodon account and request to be removed from the auto-blacklist group..."

I think I do, so I am...please. Thanks.

@freemo @FailForward
I just tried to log in at video.qoto.org using the same credentials as this platform, but no-go. Is it on another server, do I need to set up a separate account?

@FailForward @freemo
I have the same issue. I just put my own thumbnails on when I attach a video and that takes care of the thumbnail issue, but I noticed when using the default video upload thinky, the video only shows locally (on qoto.org) and not on other instances.
If instead I upload to https://video.qoto.org/ to host the video and then point to that in my toots, will that fix it?

$ echo "I joined Mastodon $(date -uRd '1 month ago today')"
$ I joined Mastodon Wed, 23 Dec 2020 16:35:02 +0000

#bash #cli #linux #ThisDateInHistory #anniversary

(bash tip: Did you know that you can tell 'date' to output another time other than "now" using natural language?)

@DexoRecords
Hier in den USA (wo die Populistische Partei während der Progressive Ära um 1900 begann) wurde das Wort populist immer definiert als: "ein Gläubiger an die Rechte, Weisheit und Tugenden des einfachen Volkes".

The truth is...

Avril Lavigne is not in the presidential line of succession because she was born in Canada.

#TruthBeTold
#Complicated #Senate #hearing #Girlfriend #succession #theoretical #physics
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#TruthBeTold = A statement that is logically or literally true (or mostly true), but seems to imply something that isn't true or is just plain weird. (for rhetoric, logic or propaganda studies... or just for fun)

@freemo Compounded daily.

@freemo Thank you. (I was not aware this and I've probably made that mistake before without even realizing it.)

@freemo Yes, like relative humidity or percentage of reflected light.