@caseynewton sooo basically you’re saying “everybody is an island”????? Spoiler alert, nobody is.
@CathyTuttle can somebody make a “if you honk just a bit longer I will magically disappear” sticker/t-shirt. 😂😂
@mattsheffield Merchants of doubt by Naomi Oreskes is a great account of this story. Highly recommended.
What bothers me about crypto is that it blew up only because you could get rich real fast. Nobody cares about all the other stuff...
@mattsheffield Trump and other populists around the globe hacked the politics. Instead of rational arguments about how to run a country, they turned it into a us vs them irrational, emotional conflict about values. And there the logic doesn’t apply. It also became normal for religious people to support a candidate who cheated on his wife with a porn star....
#enshittification in Full effect
@randahl exactly. It was interesting to think about it - word fact comes from Latin verb for done, and in Croatian the word for fact “činjenica” also comes from the verb to do - “činiti”. Guess it shows lack of apstract thinking in the times when the word was made- something had to be done in order to be true.
@randahl I think that these kind of words with very specific meaning are limited to north European languages. In Croatian we would use several words in a phrase to describe the thing.
@twobiscuits @jon in 2001 i traveled often between Zagreb and Budapest. There were three trains a day and the fastest took 5 hour. Now there is just one and it takes 6.
@kissane just that last couple of days I saw a couple of people advocating for no restrictions on speech, that all points of view are valid and need to be taken into account... Not if your view is that you want to kill a whole group of people.
@kissane sorry, i didn’t mean to accuse, just don’t see the logic...
@kissane I dont understand this “fact”. What is there to discuss about holocaust and genocide? They are terrible, the Earth is round and anybody who thinks differently is wrong. Discussing it doesn’t help.
Also, fascism doesn’t become “forbidden” knowledge - everyone should know the truth about what nazis have done.
This is the way in which Germans deal with it- you learn about it in schools, but are not allowed to promote, celebrate or invoke its renewal.
@mmasnick @erosalie @c_9 yeah, that’s the problem- I’m not good enough to do it. I’m not strong enough to fight FB, IG, Snap, influencers, celebrities, corrupt politicians. God knows I try and fail each and every day.
There are very liberal democratic countries that have very clear limits on freedom of speech (Germany, Scandinavia...). Regulation is not perfect but is necessary. Because you can do as much harm with words as with guns.
@OhTheUrbanity for me it’s simpler to commute to work in -5 than in +30. I can always put on another layer or accelerate out of few traffic lights to warm up. Cooling down is harder. I console myself that above 30 everybody sweats, no matter how they commute (maybe people traveling by car with garages don’t).
@mmasnick @erosalie @c_9
Plus you should keep in mind that these are mostly US companies operating around the world, following US laws and customs (freedom of expression is quite different in EU and US for example). And if you live in a smaller country, then they can do whatever they want, they have more money than the country. And when they can do they do. Mindf*CK by Chris Wylie has a great look from the insider. If half of what he writes is true...
@mmasnick @erosalie @c_9 this argument reminds me of smokers- every one had one grandfather who smoked a pack a day and lived to be 90. Social media has profit as a no. 1 priority. While there is nothing wrong with that, if there isn’t strong regulation in play users get the short end of the stick. I’m a high school teacher - kids low self confidence is a huge problem, becaused they are surrounded by filtered images.
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6. Tolerance and empathy for me are very different things- I can have empathy for anyone. And I agree that you can’t have enough. Tolerance is not unlimited. I’m a high school teacher- I have empathy and understanding for my pupils in all situations, whatever they do. I can’t tolerate violence or bullying. I have empathy for the violent pupil, but not tolerance. If I tolerated violence soon everyone would fight
