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 ;)
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@wobweger Well for what it's worth, and this isn't my perspective really, but for a lot of people context will add a lot to the experience.
Musically it's kind of like saying the melody doesn't really need the percussion that's in the back keeping time, but even a simple percussive beat can add context to the melody.
So for a lot of people these other qualities add more context to the literal scripted frequencies.
@copter_chief various international news sources have reported otherwise.
So I'm pretty skeptical of that claim.
@jk sounds like it will be a judgment on Arch and pacman, not Linux.
I've never been particularly impressed by those.
@servelan It's funny because as an executive branch agency the IRS by definition always takes all of it s direction from presidents.
If this appearance makes a difference in the legal process, then it's just a sign of how broken the legal process has become over the generations.
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@ronsparks.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy as soon as you make that grounds on which to expel someone I guess?
@JustTooOdd@lor.sh I'd say you have that a bit backwards.
Much of his job is communications, so he seems to be choosing idioms that communicate more better to the audience in front of him.
If you want to communicate, it's important to meet your audience where they are.
The huge changes in the new #Ukraine deal once again underscore that #Trump botches everything he gets personally involved in, so the strategy is to distract him or wait until he gets bored and wander off, and then the real adults can actually work on solutions.
Even if they give him credit for show.
It's important to hammer home on this because it tells even his own political side that regardless of what his beliefs are, he's going to fail to deliver what they want.
I doubt Trump would have been elected had we been emphasizing this the whole time, instead of the opposite.
The tables have turned, and Putin’s Russia is now in dire trouble https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/44bef2806b3a8d37
@aworkinglibrary No, not de-skilling. Decosting.
If the skills were free, if skilled workers were free, then employers would be more than happy to employ their skills. So it's not about skills.
It's about using fewer resources to produce for customers, including human resources.
@hoare_spitall: South Carolina, in 1860, it seems :)
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@cmyrland when you say the posts get published as they should, do you mean they show up on your mastodon feed, just not organized into that particular list?
Yeah, @heisinen, it's vital to remember that Trump has a long, long history of failing to get what he and others discussed for a long time. In fact, he already botched his attempt to get something like that.
And so, as @kalle indicates, reporting on the content of the deal has so far shown it to be significantly different from what has been discussed for so long.
This is a very different agreement. And that's the norm for Trump. He consistently fails to deliver what he promises.
In other words, yeah, arguably he promised colonialism, but he already botched that deal and this is different.
@daemon_nova if the software has been trash for 15 years, then maybe those weren't the people for those jobs in the first place, and the pivot to software written code is worth a shot.
Apparently the humans weren't doing such a great job.
Let's see what the results are!
This runs into my objection that, to put it glibly, #ActivityPub isn't actually decentralized but rather re-centralized around instances. And I don't think that's the better way to go.
I think it's better to have actual decentralization, down to the user, as so many engineering and social problems can be solved that way.
You say, "I’m part of a large number of different social networks," but that's not quite right. Since these networks are fragmented it's more like there's a different you that's part of each of the networks, fragmenting you as the networks fragment, which undermines value and your abilities to engage with them all.
In the end, what you're appreciating here is a matter of UI/UX, but you're seeing it as fundamental to the foundation.
Better that we have full decentralization and work on UI problems on the UI level.
The announcement of a #Ukraine #US deal on minerals continues a pattern that people need to emphasize, that they should have been emphasizing all along: #Trump botches everything he touches.
Yet again, his personal involvement in something blew up *his own program*, and it wasn't until he wandered off that it could be cleaned up.
Had we been emphasizing this long, long history of his bungling things there could have been consensus now that he's incompetent. Instead, so many promoted ideas that he would successfully implement right-wing governance models... which validated his candidacy.
We wouldn't have a president Trump today if his opponents had pointed out his record of inability to govern instead of promoting him as an effective dictator.
@charleskeener.bsky.social I don't think those two count as particularly reliable sources these days...
@charleskeener.bsky.social But the apparent reversal is also only apparent based on questionable reporting in the first place.
Seems pretty reasonable that Amazon never really had such a plan, so there was nothing to reverse.
The pace of reporting on this story supports that version of events where it took a while to catch on.
@huntingdon ... It sounds like you are not up to speed on this topic enough to be aware of that the same argument HAS LONG BEEN MADE with regard to Islamic schools.
Just because you're not familiar with the history here doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
It just means you're making assumptions to justify some confirmation bias.
Not only does that counter example not disprove the case at hand, but it's not even factually accurate.
Well, in general the problem there is one of calculation if you do the math different ways with different weightings, then different strategies will maximize outcomes.
But more to the moment, the question before the court is about discriminating against religious organizations, which doesn't actually have very much to do with outcomes of education.
It's just a different topic before the court.
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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