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@tofugolem

Indeed, let's review, and let's go ahead with that second sentence. Orange God? What in the world?

@breedlov I mean, it also provides a very effective way of getting important updates out to a large audience.

Not everything is about fever dreams of fascism. Some people do actually do work around here.

@mcepl a lot of people miss that neoconservative was actually describing liberals.

The term was coined to describe folks on the moderate left who took on some conservative priorities, but even if the word is a little bit confusing, it was a new type of liberal, not conservative.

@anneapplebaum.bsky.social

@ude just to be a little bit technical, I explain it like each of those is a different window on the same network.

I'm not trying to be pedantic, I just think this is a beautiful way of looking at it, that it's all one network, but we can each use different windows to see the same network in a little bit different ways.

@JohnBarentine It's a hilarious statement, we won't do business with people hellbent on destroying our economy they say as they intentionally harm their economy.

@rhys I'd say the problem is that Democrats proved themselves uninterested in substantially fighting for their positions, so electing them just indulges the exact failures that lost them the election.

The only way to have them improve is to refuse votes until they get better.

For example, Democrats could take over the House. Republicans are so splintered with a small margin that Democrats could take the majority and really start countering Trump. But they're not interested in that.

Until Democrats actually decide to put up an opposition, why should we reward them for political posturing?

@Tbsa My reaction is that, this isn't anything new for the US, though. All the things that you describe have been happening for generations.

It's like, you're just noticing?

@deadsuperhero I wasn't familiar with the project, but that sounds like a shame, and unfortunately I'm not surprised.

@patamystic ha, Well that is one way to use social media. Different people use it differently.

Personally, I'm just not that interested in audience, so I don't really think of it that way. But I can see how if that's your goal then you would pay a lot of attention to this.

@tofugolem please do tell me where you got the material for that straw man to set up.

Where in the world did you get the idea that that was my position? Certainly it's not.

@tofugolem

Indeed, I do go the other way. Because I'm not so willing to just accept the authorities telling us what they're doing is for our own good, I'm not so willing to believe the elite as they impose on you and me.

But you're into that kind of relationship, so have at it.

@tyil of course not all closed source programs are garbage.

Don't be so quick to deprive students and society in general from the benefits of accessing a valuable program just because you don't like its development model.

@wlaatje

@tiesselune

Well it really varies on a case-by-case basis. Often enough the institution isn't being forced to change but rather decides to change as it evolves to better serve the public.

The other big issue is that the most concerning side of book burning is in its prevention of you and me from being able to keep content deemed problematic, while those websites are more about what institutions are holding. It's the difference between me stopping you from having what you have versus using the public to give you politically acceptable messaging.

Institutional speech and private speech have some significant differences.

@tofugolem

So you haven't been keeping up with the news and current events enough to see what major figures have been saying, but somehow you have seen in what I said a position that runs exactly counter to what mine actually is?

What color is the sky in your world?

@tofugolem

Oh I would go the exact other way with each of those examples. Deregulated? Each of those are examples of highly regulated topics where the effects you're citing can be reasonably traced back to regulation!

Each of those is notorious for tremendous regulatory regimes even through those issues, so it's really something that you would describe them as deregulated.

And immediate little serf? I'm saying not to assume that more control over us is necessarily for the best, and I'm the obedient serf?

Weird, that.

@tofugolem Oh wow, you haven't heard the Dems speaking? I've been inundated with it in every media channel I have for days now.

From flooding social media through mainstream news outfits covering Democrats seeming to be constantly running to microphones this week, they have been amazingly noisy.

I really don't know how you missed it.

@tofugolem sounds like you're assuming regulation necessarily makes things safer, but that's not the case. Often enough compliance with regulations can actually make things more dangerous, particularly when regulations aren't quite tailored for the situations they're being applied to.

So no, it's not about making SpaceX less safe. That's just not how this stuff works out in practice.

@wrdwoose at that point you're probably better off just starting a new business than trying to buy out all of the existing shares and transfer them to employees.

@tofugolem The problem with that statement is that it's Democrats who are putting out such an overwhelming amount of information, not all of it correct, and plenty of it contradictory, which just increases the information load, increasing the overwhelm.

And I wish they would knock it off because it makes it that much harder to actually push back against Republicans when there's so much noise in the signal.