bytor @bytor@qoto.org

Why don't we just wait here for a while ... see what happens. #twittermigation

Privacy hack: if you want to share a link to a Twitter thread elsewhere and you don’t want people to be tracked by Twitter, Inc., replace twitter.com with nitter.net

e.g., https://nitter.net/carolecadwalla/status/1509612965011804162

Hypothesis worth researching:

All the allegedly novel and unprecedented ideas that are usually mentioned as the root of American exceptionalism where already well defined and implemented, at least to some extent, somewhere else, before the 🇺🇸 #USA even existed.

I’m referring to things such as: individual liberty, liberalism, republicanism, the pursuit of happiness, capitalism, check and balances, all men created equal, meritocracy, the melting pot, federalism, separation of church and state, cult of innovation, respect for private initiative, etc.

Whatever one picks as the definite defining characteristic (or even: whatever combination of a few of those), it was already “invented” before #America. True?

Soft version: even if the combination of ideas was truly novel back then, as soon as a few other prosperous nations adopted them successfully, the USA stopped being unique or exceptional in its political system. Much in the same way nobody today talks of Greece as a beacon or as a model for prosperity or welfare just because democracy was first tried there.

True?

Honest question. I don’t know enough #History or #PoliticalPhilosophy to answer my own question.

Science can inform public policy but it doesn't determine it.

@verretor

Immune System As A Service

Yup

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

-- Richard Feynman

You know, in a way, we're all island boys

Bitcoiners should be careful not to let the failure of inflationary fiat result in #Bitcoin turning into nothing more than a new, non-inflationary* fiat.

This is a risk as people who don't necessarily care about decentralisation flock to Bitcoin for safety.

* for now (nothing prevents a non-inflationary fiat from adding inflation later)

Remember our toot about Nextcloud synchronisation? 🎉 Seems we have a winner!
🔄 With the merging of https://github.com/AntennaPod/AntennaPod/pull/5243#issuecomment-937046643 it will be possible to sync AntennaPod with a gPodder 'server' in your own Nextcloud instance.

Will be available in AntennaPod 2.5!

@Beowulf @KopfKrieg

“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.”

— Galileo Galilei