+bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 @bonifartius@qoto.org

More people getting visits over comments made on social media.

Mommy calling you special versus the atf calling you special

Es scheint ... Leute, haltet euch fest! Es gibt Hinweise, dass Pestizide schieße sind!

#Parkinson #Pestizid
https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/niedersachsen/osnabrueck_emsland/Berufskrankheit-bei-Landwirten-Pestizide-verursachen-Parkinson,parkinson198.html

time to go absolutely blobdamn insane (writing an ASN.1 library)

暑いので、紫陽花の川で涼んでください。

It's hot, so please cool off in the hydrangea river.

#photography #nature #art #写真 #日本 #japan #beautiful #beauty #bloomscrolling #花 #flowers #flower #landscape #scenery #ファンタジー #fantasy #紫陽花 #hydrangea #summer #cool

I found this weird rock on the property I'm living on. Kind of a fan.

P.S. I moved on Friday. I now live waaaay out on the prairie. All my electricity is solar. Internet from Starlink.

#livingthelife

I'm not certain, but I think I've narrowed it down to either the motherboard or RAM, but I don't have a spare for either.

Anticipate that NAS may be down for 2-3 days until I get the new hardware (+build it).

BREAKING: What is "federation" and how can it harm you? Is Russia involved, given it's called "Russian Federation"? All these answered and more, click here.

they had malcolm x shot because he said shit that was too real and when he stopped being racist it was a real problem

eternal words
if you aren't careful they'll have you blaming the victim and praising the oppressor

I got accused of “sealioning” the other day. This wasn’t a term they taught back in my CX debate days, so I had to look it up. Fortunately, the usual leftist almanacs have helpful entries.

Merriam-Webster: “‘Sealioning’ is a form of trolling meant to exhaust the other debate participant with no intention of real discourse.“

Hold up. “intention” is part of the definition? So in order to identify if someone is sealioning, you have to infer intent? First red flag.

Wikipedia: Sealioning is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity, and feigning ignorance of the subject matter. It may take the form of “incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate”

So many subjective words in that definition. Another red flag. Also, note the strong focus on intent yet again.

Intent is unprovable in rational debate, which is why rational definitions may not depend on it. Once you remove the unprovable intent element, the definition of sealioning is indistinguishable from an attempt at reasoned debate.

Which, I conclude, is the point of the rhetorical device.

Accusing someone of sealioning is an ad hominem argument which has almost no connotative meaning, and would be ineffective as an argument in a rational debate setting. Fortunately for its users, very little debate happens in a formal setting, and the accusation is perfect for an internet forum like reddit or twitter. Like so many other appeals to emotion, the insinuation of bad faith is a sure way to derail an argument that you’re losing. It shifts the discussion away from the validity of the argument, and to tone where the accuser can claim the high ground.

So the next time somebody accuses me of sealioning, I can conclude that they have run out of real arguments, and are just falling back on personal attacks out of reflex, at which point, I can comfortably declare victory in the discussion.

burning fuel to rotate your wind turbines

RE: https://phpc.social/users/thomastospace/statuses/112701360366561370