volkris @volkris@qoto.org
I think the most pressing and fundamental problem of the day is that people lack a practically effective means of sorting out questions of fact in the larger world. We can hardly begin to discuss ways of addressing reality if we can't agree what reality even is, after all.
The institutions that have served this role in the past have dropped the ball, so the next best solution is talking to each other, particularly to those who disagree, to sort out conflicting claims.
Unfortunately, far too many actively oppose this, leaving all opposing claims untested. It's very regressive.
So that's my hobby, striving to understanding the arguments of all sides at least because it's interesting to see how mythologies are formed but also because maybe through that process we can all have our beliefs tested.
But if nothing else, social media platforms like this are chances to vent frustrations that on so many issues both sides are obviously wrong ;)
Joined Dec 2022
@wiseguyeddie I love how you're making assumptions about me instead of addressing real problems of hunger, all while carrying water for the powerful president, for some reason.
So I guess... what does that make you?
@RebelGeek99 the revenues from loan payments were budgeted to go toward subsidizing healthcare.
@wiseguyeddie I'd say that discounting peoples' wants to feel themselves is pretty averse to pragmatism and reason.
@wiseguyeddie yeah, we like to nitpick little things like people going hungry because they can't afford food.
I really don't care about Biden. I do care about the hard times my friends are dealing with.
@RebelGeek99 as you can see from the screenshot, Tlaib wasn't censured for being too outspoken, but because she was spreading false narratives from her position of power.
And student loan repayments were needed to fund government. Folks need to be clear that those revenues were part of the funding plan for social services.
@paul_hutchinson yeah, and if you're not familiar with the history, the red/blue color codes were settled on surprisingly recently.
I believe it was in the 90s, if I recall correctly.
Growing up I believe I remember the colors changing back and forth a bit.
@wiseguyeddie I mean, some of us care about the costs of living?
It's tone deaf to so dismiss peoples' complaints about increases in the costs of food.
@wiseguyeddie the alternative to pure democracy isn't fascism, though, and the Democratic party sure isn't in favor of pure democracy either.
Heck, Republicans have been opposing Biden's efforts to skirt democratic processes through executive action, going on the record to support more democratic ways of running the country.
Realistically, it's not all or nothing, democracy or fascism. For a country the size of the US there is a ton of middle ground to set up institutions that include expertise and civil servants to manage day to day operations.
@drrjv A simpler explanation is that Musk is just a troll with lots of money, who's had a ton of success trolling, as he gets attention exactly like this.
We don't need to search for connections deeper than tha.
Occam's Razor.
From listening to mainstream #conservative commentators I get the impression that core #Republican voters are very insular, an enormous echo chamber that doesn't recognize the positions of even Republican leaning independents in the country.
This is interesting because it's one thing for a small group or faction of a movement to be an echo chamber, but this seems to be basically an entire major political party buying into confirmation bias.
The midterm elections and then yesterday's VA election highlighted this, as Republicans were excitedly predicting a sweep, that they told themselves was coming, that didn't come.
The implications for the presidential primary process are significant, as the primary process exists to overcome the wasted ballots of the voting system, but that doesn't work if a party is so disconnected from the larger voting population.
@Linux_Is_Best@mstdn.social
Polls tend to be bullshit, yes, but that isn't the proof of it.
And it's funny because she effectively conducted a bullshit poll to prove that polls are bullshit, but then she was engaging in the exact same bullshit.
I might as well counter that I haven't been part of this The View poll, nor was anyone I know in the audience that day, therefore this poll about polling was bullshit.
In reality pollsters do poll humans in small numbers and use statistical models to make inferences about the population. That's legit so far, and Raven-Symone doesn't seem smart enough to recognize that with her stunt.
The bullshit comes in the modeling, not in the polling.
So what I'd say is that no, ActivityPub is not P2P, and that's based on design decisions made long ago, that it would be pretty hard to change now.
AP was never meant to be decentralized. Instead, it embraces centralization, just centralization around instances. I always push back when people describe fediverse as decentralized. It's not.
I have serious criticisms against ActivityPub. But at this point it is what it is.
At this point, making the platform P2P would require such huge changes to the standard that one might as well just jump to a different platform that already works that way.
I know I'm interested in that.
@strypey I mean I just pulled up the grand old headliners.
Today we are having the same issues looking at different renderings between chromium and the various programs related to edge and whatever Mozilla is putting out.
Just today I was reading about the issues with Mozilla's current and future browsers.
@mempko but how would they square that with its impacts to their mandate of stable monetary value?
@marcelias I'm just amused that it sounds like you overruled the law that democracy settled upon.
@wiseguyeddie But no, McConnell didn't effectively thwart Obama's SCOTUS nominee.
You keep saying that, but it's not true.
@mcnado wow, you're really getting upset over things that I neither say nor believe, positions I wouldn't hold or support.
@mcnado you're misunderstanding.
I'm not saying it's not a war. In fact, AFAIK Israel has formally declared war on Hamas.
So it's not me saying anything about formal war, and you misunderstand in reading my comment that way. I'd say it almost definitely IS a formal war.
@wiseguyeddie but you're factually wrong :)
To be clear: the Senate was absolutely free, under Senate rules, to consider and confirm Obama's Supreme Court nominee regardless of what McConnell thought of it.
Under Senate rules, McConnell didn't have authority to unilaterally block it. He didn't cause the nomination to stall, though it was convenient for everyone to claim it was up to him, so long as the American people would buy that lie.
Senators were completely free to vote to move forward with the nomination if they wanted to. They just saw more political benefit from putting on this show.
@mcnado you're still describing the lack of provision of aid.
The details leading up to aid not being provided are separate from the result of the lack of provision of aid.
You can certainly complain that IDF did damage to crossings or aid convoys or whatever, but that doesn't change the outcome, which was neutral.
In other words, HOW neutrality was realized is a different matter from THAT neutrality was realized.
I think the most pressing and fundamental problem of the day is that people lack a practically effective means of sorting out questions of fact in the larger world. We can hardly begin to discuss ways of addressing reality if we can't agree what reality even is, after all.
The institutions that have served this role in the past have dropped the ball, so the next best solution is talking to each other, particularly to those who disagree, to sort out conflicting claims.
Unfortunately, far too many actively oppose this, leaving all opposing claims untested. It's very regressive.
So that's my hobby, striving to understanding the arguments of all sides at least because it's interesting to see how mythologies are formed but also because maybe through that process we can all have our beliefs tested.
But if nothing else, social media platforms like this are chances to vent frustrations that on so many issues both sides are obviously wrong ;)
Joined Dec 2022
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