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
It's mainly the part that says a justice gets to stay on the court without penalty, no matter what, until he retires or Congress decides to remove them.
All manner of personal activity is constitutionally tolerated unless Congress chooses to impeach.
@jonradioV4@mastodon.world
That's a reach.
Operational control of all avenues to do something impossible doesn't mean much.
I have operational control of all avenues to sprout wings and fly around the room. The number? Zero.
I have operational control of all zero ways to do that.
You're reading an awful lot into some silly political rhetoric put out by a person who stood to personally gain by sounding more influential than he really was.
A more likely explanation is that with the state's own AG pushing for a delay so they could consider serious issues with the case, the SCOTUS saw an exceptional situation and figured they had better give room for it to play out.
I really suspect the Court considers it futile to stage some PR blitz to address what's in the press lately, so they're generally ignoring it.
Although, my concern now is that ActivityPub will collapse not under the weight of corporate splintering of the standard but under simple inability of the system to scale to push much more through.
ActivityPub seems to have design features that are cruddy under big-O analysis.
The Court already has rules, though.
There is discussion about whether justices abided by rules as they consulted experts for advice on the rules, and there's talk about how the rules have changed, and all of that is premised on the observation that the rules do exist.
If you believe those people to be the norm, then they aren't the extreme, by definition.
@newsopinionsandviews@masto.ai
These stories seem to forget how Supreme Court opinions work, acting as if they're mere politicians voting up and down on laws.
The Supreme Court presented reasoning to support its decision. It didn't simply vote like a politician, and it stands to be held to account based on the reasoning that it laid on the table for us all to see.
It's such a huge distraction to go looking for personal drama, ad hominem attacks, and personal transactions when we can see exactly what logic the court presents to us, that we can judge.
Well, without naming any names because I don't want to sound like I think anyone has solved this problem (though maybe someone has!), but there have been many efforts over the years to work on distributed storage efforts that could help out here.
I'm just thinking, people interested enough in an instance that they'd maintain an account on it and be active on it might also be interested in contributing their spare processing or storage space, even if they can't afford to chip in payments.
Distributed social media distributing its resource usage out to users is a reasonable concept!
To be fair, the two statements are talking about different things, the whole Senate vs the Judiciary Committee.
The Senate has a backlog of nominees awaiting consideration by the whole Senate, so they're working through that backlog even if the Judiciary Committee is moving a little slow adding more to the end of the line.
Not that this statement really *needs* to be taken seriously, but at least it's a moment to talk about Senate procedure... among people nerdy enough to be interested in that stuff :)
That has also been my experience.
@SwiftOnSecurity @mattblaze
Careful about equating Republicans with radicalized far right extremists.
Such people likely reject the Republican party as corrupt or otherwise not sufficiently far right.
There are MUCH more toxic places online than Facebook.
Well, it's the latest expression of the long-fashionable drive to target Thomas.
Like any fashion, it's hard to say exactly what brings it about, as different people sign on and follow the bandwagon for different reasons.
But yeah, they're targeting him because, for example, media outfits knew they'd have a built in audience, and built in clicks, for creating these stories.
Well what is the major cost? Storage? Bandwidth? Processing?
Maybe there are ways for users to make in-kind donations too.
I think you misidentify the problem, or at least miss one huge problem.
Sure, empty timeline may be one problem, but an even more fundamental problem is that of the complication of having to choose an instance in the first place. It seems to me that's the real problem this addresses in the onboarding process.
If users don't even sign up because of choice paralysis of having to pick an instance, then it doesn't even matter whether timelines are empty. The user won't get that far.
I'm not sure what better option there could be for addressing that than getting the user in and then encouraging them to switch to an instance they might enjoy better.
For example, sending them to a random instance doesn't seem like a good way forward either.
Per account sounds like a good idea since IMO one of the best use cases for having multiple accounts in the first place is to wear different hats, like work vs personal personas.
Well then why would any policy change at the Federal Reserve tell us that there's something wrong in macroeconomics, for one example?
You might also want to check out how #IPFS is trying to solve a similar issue of providing a static address for dynamic content in a decentralized way.
As I recall, a major solution is called IPNS.
In short, IPFS is decentralized, and all content in IPFS is immutable and addressed using a hash. But how do you update to a new hash when there's a new version of content, without doing it in a centralized way?
They're using DNS, controlled by the user, to provide the pointer to the latest version, similar to what you describe here.
volkris
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You're confusing a lot of concepts here, the study of macro against bureaucratic reports and management decisions, and the interface between employment and inflation.
All of those concepts are loosely coupled at best.
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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