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
@guacamayan It should be allowed, nay required, to use whatever modern technologies would most effectively operate the post.
Email is not post.
Mission creep would serve to draw resources away from the core mission of the organization that is already experiencing trouble accomplishing its responsibilities.
The USPS has enough difficulties in front of it without asking it to do a whole bunch more stuff that it isn't tasked to do as it is.
@i_understand@sfba.social yeah, that was an unfortunate response to see.
@davidaugust was unfortunately uninterested in sorting out this disagreement about the real world; it just didn't seem to matter.
@davidaugust the two aren't comparable, though.
It's one thing for government officials to talk about how much they should pay government employees like Supreme Court justices, but a completely different thing to talk about imposing additional limits on the terms by which we can seek employment.
One is the proper responsibility of representatives. The second is none of their business.
@old_hippie because of course they would *sigh*
Just another political stunt.
@404mediaco we should embrace this, though.
YES let's embrace the idea that Verizon was also victimized because that normalizes the idea that companies should protect this information; they're not just neutral holders of the information subject to officers' demands for it.
Far too often we allow corporations to get out of responsibility that way.
@profcarroll it just always needs to be emphasized that Fediverse is not built around privacy. Quite the opposite: it's basically a public broadcast system.
An ax I grind is that a lot of users here don't realize how little privacy they actually have.
If privacy matters maybe don't use Fediverse.
@guacamayan operate the post.
@guacamayan and also puppies! Puppies for everybody!
No, that kind of mission creep is disastrous for such an organization that is already struggling.
@dangillmor I mean, he's not serious, because the US system of government doesn't give a person that option.
@Radical_EgoCom If the only time you hear people in the right criticizing immigration laws is when they are complaining that they aren't strict enough, then you are in a bubble.
That is literally why I'm saying you might be in a bubble, because you aren't hearing all of the other voices.
@Radical_EgoCom I literally listen to people on the right saying every single day that the immigration laws are bad.
If you don't hear them saying that then I think that you might be living in a bit of a bubble.
@Radical_EgoCom Well it's what I said above: the image said that nobody is illegal but that focuses on people being illegal rather than laws being bad.
The issue isn't that nobody is illegal. The issue is that we have some bad laws that need to be changed.
I think a huge number of people in the country are all on the side of these laws being bad and needing reform. People on both the left and the right agree that the laws need to be reformed.
But all of the rhetoric focusing on weather or not people are illegal End up distracting from the positive thing that we can actually all agree on, that the laws need to be fixed.
@Radical_EgoCom Right, so let's call out the bad laws not focus on the rhetoric around the people.
@nogodsnomasters I mean, it's not that people are illegal but that people break laws
If we want to fix the laws the first thing is to appreciate that the laws are what they are, and they need to be fixed.
We get nowhere by denying them.
@ErikJonker I wish that was the case, but so many instances are taking that decision away from users and deciding for them.
@BeAware@social.beaware.live the difference is that a public profile is actively broadcasting itself and providing itself to others.
A car parked on the street is not.
@fishcharlie I suspect that threads has issues ranging from performance through legality to deal with.
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@kentborg really? You've never had the problem of needing to give money to somebody when they weren't nearby so you could physically hand them the currency?
It's just ridiculous to say that bitcoin solves a problem that mostly no one has.
I would think that for most people the problem that bitcoin solves is one that they face nearly every day.
You can have animus against Bitcoin, grind whatever ax you want, but it's silly to say the problem it solves is one that no one has when it is so common.
@FranckLeroy I mean, that's just not factually true.
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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