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
@thetnholler.bsky.social What? No. That's not how any of this works.
The government is large and sprawling, it is not in any danger of being incapacitated.
This is just dumb. This guy doesn't know what he's talking about.
@appassionato What in the world?
If you don't like the tax policy don't blame.Musk; blame the representatives that you elected to set that tax policy!
And fight fascism? You're talking about having a problem with leaving people alone. Taking money from them is more fascist than $0 tax! What are you talking about?
You see how stupid you sound? I know, this isn't going to convince anybody, I'm just reacting, you sound really really really stupid. And when you sound this stupid, this is why you're not going to get a whole lot of other people over to your side.
If you want to change government policy, stop sounding this goddamn stupid.
@Sojourner00 unfortunately I don't have any public records that I can share, although if you're able to check out records of international scientists booking their travel down to US national labs you will see an uptick as the labs come back online.
We've spent years telling our International partners that they might as well cancel their travel because we're not going to be running. Now that we're finally coming back online, they are starting to fly back in to manage experiments over here.
It's really been something of a breaking of the dam, so many people from around the world have had their work put on hold, but it's starting to move again, and it's pretty exciting to be honest.
@TomWellborn@universeodon.com Well you had it right with fanfiction.
Keep in mind that every single Congress proposes a whole lot of really really really dumb bills that are not serious, so this is just more of the same that we have always had.
It's fanfiction to think that any of this is serious.
@ProgressivePower It's not, though.
Whoever made this picture doesn't seem to understand what capitalism is.
Ever saved up any money to buy something? Hey that's capitalism! And it has absolutely nothing to do with a king
This is stupid and it should be called out as such.
Under #Biden US national labs found themselves hamstrung by micromanagement, demands from the administration that resources be diverted away from #science while regulators repeatedly shut down programs much to the chagrin of our International partners.
It's been a breath of fresh air that the new administration has allowed us to actually get back to work. I don't even care if they know what they are doing, at least they are no longer interfering. Science is getting back on track now.
Regardless of everything else that #Trump might be getting into, and maybe it's just because he's just that incompetent, at least the US is getting back on track with its scientific endeavors. Our experiments are getting back up to speed after years of crippling bureaucracy, and we can start making progress again.
There's a lot to complain about with Trump, but I am very glad to see that the expectations for science are living up to what I'd hoped.
@504DR The Roberts Court issued a ruling instructing underlying courts to continue with the cases against Trump.
No, the Roberts Court did not give Trump total immunity for any action he takes, it supported actions against him. You have that ruling exactly backwards. Again, I know there's a lot of misinformational social media, but we need to correct that misinformation.
Check the ruling. The Roberts Court ordered lower courts to continue proceedings against Trump.
@arrrg What? Schumer is currently facing a lot of criticism specifically because he did vote to end a recent filibuster.
No, the Constitution specifically says that each chamber can create its own rules, so the filibuster rules are allowed by the Constitution.
I don't know what your post is talking about. It sounds like you don't know how the Senate works.
@WJBL It's important to recognize that it's even worse it's not that the project 2025 agenda is being followed, is that there is no plan at all.
Trump absolutely is not following that plan. I like one person who pointed out that the guy is notorious for not liking to read, so why would we expect that he has read that thing? He says he doesn't know anything about it, and I take it at his word that he is that out of touch.
There's no project 2025 agenda being implemented. There's just chaotic lurching as the president is a moron who doesn't understand anything and doesn't really care.
@remixtures But I really rush to emphasize, the Biden administration put up a ton of practical speed bumps that shut down a lot of hard science research in the US. It didn't get nearly enough coverage, but it really frustrated a whole lot of US scientists.
And now a lot of that research is being unleashed. A lot of the roadblocks have been taken down in the last couple of months much to the celebration of many researchers, and a lot of researches now starting to get back on track.
I understand why some academics are feeling like they want to leave, but in practical terms, on the ground, regardless of the attitude of the president, a lot of research is finally being allowed to proceed when it was being bungled before.
I really wish this was getting more reporting.
Yeah I think it's important to draw attention to this drawback of this platform, that it's all arranged around giving power to instance admins instead of users.
So many people left other platforms because they thought administrators had too much power, but here we are, it didn't have to be that way, but it is, this platform repeats the errors of the others.
@cynblogger The critical thing that so many people are missing and so much reporting is getting wrong is that Congress does not have the constitutional power to mandate disbursement of funds.
Congress authorizes spending, as no money can be spent from the treasury without Congressional authorization, but it violates separation of powers to say that Congress can require spending.
This is very important for the checks and balances in the US system.
As for Social Security in particular, it's tragic, but generations have been misled about how it works. And that really stinks. They have been lied to, sold a version of the the program that is just false. They have been taxed as if it was a savings program when in reality it was just another tax and just another government program subject to continued funding like any other.
It's really important to start correcting these lies because it's a powder keg waiting to go off at this point.
@BlogWood Well?
Sounds like the definition of an echo chamber..
@bmacDonald94 Well that's silly.
Why would the most probable change be a more violent world? People generally have self-interest in peace as violence degrades quality of life.
And then we see over time the world has become less violent.
So it seems like a foolish statement both in theory and in practice.
@carnage4life I often hear about this stuff being conspiracy theory or related to project 2025, but people promoting that kind of idea seem to have been sheltered.
This stuff didn't seem like conspiracy theories as experts had been calling for it for generations. People have been pointing out how problematic so many of these problems were. Project 2025 didn't invent this stuff, it has been clearly a problem for so long, with these moves being championed administration after administration.
A lot of people just have been out of the loop and didn't realize that so many have been pushing for it for so long.
Trump is just executing on these proposals that have had pretty solid support for generations from experts who kept trying to sound the alarm on how messed up it was.
@Durff honestly if America was great before Trump then he wouldn't have been elected in the first place.
Impeaching him might be fun, but it's not going to make America great again. It'll just be more of the stuff that got him elected in the first place.
@tend2wobble we just need to clearly recognize the conflict of interest in this sort of thing.
@ajaykaul10 No. Not really.
Keep in mind that so much of what people are complaining about is this administration relinquishing power, relinquishing control, even as a lot of folks want the presidency to have more control over the country.
So no, we are moving away from oligarchy, and a whole lot of people are upset about that because they were used to using that power.
All this time this has been a gripe of mine, that around the world press and governmental organizations played fast and loose with this language which actually caused a lot of confusion in the public later on.
Separating the disease from the cause is slightly more complicated, yes, but it ended up being even more complicated in the end when people did not understand what was going on with both the pandemic and vaccines and other such topics. The confusion between the disease and the infectious agent really harmed the public around the world.
Anyway, we are years out now, the damage has been done, and unfortunately I don't think this lesson is going to be learned by public health authorities going forward. I really wish it was otherwise, though.
But thanks for pointing it out. I just wish this got more attention so the general public would be better informed about how health works.
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
