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
I really don't think you understand their arguments if you think this issue would tie them into knots.
Here, I'll link to Bruen if you'd like you read more.
In particular, the operational part isn't the one you quoted, but rather the right itself. What is the right, exactly, that shall not be infringed? We get the don't infringe this, but... don't infringe what?
Thomas writes that a government wanting to regulate must show that what it's infringing upon isn't part of this right, by showing it not to have been part of the right alluded to.
And so, just as Thomas recognizes that the right did not extend to all locations, he'd probably recognize that the right didn't extend to people under the influence of drugs.
Nope. I have no idea what statistical methods Netflix might be applying internally, but I'm definitely pretty skeptical of the right-wing conspiracy.
Yes, I know many people feel that way.
I'd rather have a more functional protocol that better provides features so many are clamoring for, better serving those users, regardless of associations.
Those stories were based on [possibly intentional] misunderstandings of how #Bitcoin works.
It absolutely doesn't take a significant amount of energy to transmit a Bitcoin transaction. The one way hashes involved in signing the message are trivial, which is the whole point of a one way hash.
So those stories would be like computing the energy cost of writing a letter by including the energy used to transport the letter by air across the country for some reason.
But heck, those narratives got clicks, so ::shrug::
Don't overlook the very top, where it says the DAG can waive any of this.
But either way, was he really brandishing? The press release only said owning.
Owning a gun knowing that he wasn't allowed to as he was under the influence of a controlled substance...
Right wingers a probably pretty cool with penalizing drug users.
Personally, I think all too often folks focus on moderation without considering ways of empowering users to create the experiences they want without relying on the work of instance owners, especially considering the complexity of an owner trying to implement moderation that matches different actual wants of users.
Surely there are ways to hand this power to users, to craft their own experiences, especially when it's something like Barcelona.
Have you spent much time actually listening to Federalist Society content?
They're really not the conservative/libertarian monsters that so many articles like to portray them as.
They spend quite a lot of time amplifying voices of those taking exactly anti-conservative/anti-libertarian perspectives, as they seek to promote discourse across aisles and avoid echochambers.
Sounds like it's still useful for you, so not so much garbage?
An issue is that #ActivityPub was more or less designed centralized around instances, for better or worse, so ideas like SSO or other ways of using accounts across instances is a bit incompatible with the underlying technology.
There are ways to kludge it on, but it wasn't designed with that objective.
This is one area in which other systems like #Bluesky might be better, having made their different engineering choices in their cores.
Maybe one way to think about it is that any distributed system is necessarily less efficient, but now costs in terms of computing and storage and network capacity have gone down so far that we are making a transition to a new phase where we can afford that inefficiency.
It used to be that a website could only operate in a very capital intensive form, but it's no longer so capital intensive, so we no longer have to rely on that infrastructure to amass capital to make it work.
Well it's slightly more complicated.
In the Fediverse content doesn't live on just one instance but is instead distributed to different instances that are following the discussion.
However, that content is not distributed to ALL instances, nor are instances required to preserve all of the content that comes in through the fire hose.
So it's kind of in between.
If that instance goes down there will be some content preserved in some other locations.
Definitely Fediverse over ActivityPub.
The former is the platform that they are going to join, while the latter is just the language that makes the platform work.
It's like saying join me at that coffee shop for a chat versus join me to speak some English.
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The International Standards Organization has defined a new time measurement, the fedisecond, which is the shortest humanly-measurable unit of time.
A fedisecond is defined as the interval between the announcement of an exciting new #fediverse application and the discovery that the project's lead architect and principal developer is actually Satan.
Meh, it's one of those terms that I'd just go ahead and own.
"Why yes, I am engaging in both-sidism because I can about sorting out what's true, and I can think critically and hold two ideas in my head at one time. You don't, or you can't?"
They are two different transactions.
You spend money to me purchasing the idea that I'll pay back the loan with interest.
I spend money to you when I write you a check in exchange for retiring my debt.
The fact that I might not write those checks (I might die or drag us through court or have a president unilaterally declare that I don't have to) shows that those are independent transactions.
In this case, the US already spent the money on these loans. For better or worse. That's over and done with.
Now the issue is whether debtors pay back into the US Treasury as per the legal obligation, so it's no longer about the US spending but rather the US receiving.
Wooow, I see her ragequit reply, where she effectively said "nu uh!" and insisted that we all knew she was right.
I would assume she's one that has outstanding student loans so she has a vested interest in loan forgiveness.
And so I'd guess that the education she wants us all to pay for didn't exactly do her thinking skills a world of good.
I wonder if she ever ragequit a class... and how that worked out for her.
Ha, don't overcomplicate things :)
No need for geometry here!
If I need to know what a Supreme Court ruling says, I should simply go read the Supreme Court ruling from their website.
No sense triangulating with multiple people at the bar. Simply go read the primary source!
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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