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
Oh, but the productivity gains DO translate into more leisure time for everyone.
It's just that people go on to trade that leisure for wanting more stuff.
It's easy to work for the standard of living of a century ago. It's just that now we want air conditioning and YouTube in addition to food.
@marynelson8 well, who doesn't want politicians to stand on principle?
The problem is that people disagree on what those principles are.
This week the majority of the House, including the unanimous vote of one party, signaled that keeping their chamber in business wasn't a particularly important principle to stand behind.
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@lauren the job of House Speaker is far, far more than speaking...
The behind the scenes strategizing puts AI mastery of go to shame.
I'd say one can do what they want, applying their best judgment.
Fact is, there is untagged NSFW content on this platform.
Whether one decides to browse a platform that may have untagged NSFW content in public is up to them.
It's simply the nature of a distributed platform that without a central authority to enforce terms of service, it is a bit more dangerous.
What you do with that is up to you.
@selzero @PSiReN@syzito.xyz
@jimlil I'm sure it depends on what instance you're on and what hashtags you're following.
I think the complaints pop up under hashtags like mastodon, fediverse, and twitter for me. That's probably especially true as so many now believe remaining twitter users are awful and don't want to see those supposedly awful people coming over here.
There's a lot of tribalism out there when it comes to fediverse, and a lot of people wanting to exclude people from what they see as their tribe here.
@watson@freeatlantis.com I mean, they may have just reelected Biden by making the GOP look so incompetent.
Yeah, traitor sounds about right.
@lamp elixir is a type of programming language called a functional one, and while functional languages are a little different from more common ones, they have some big theoretical advantages.
If programmers can wrap their heads around them :)
In theory, VERY briefly, functional languages write safer code that's inherently tailored to scale across multiple CPUs and cores, which make them pretty interesting for the multi-core processing we have today.
But functional programming languages face a chicken and egg problem where they're not popular, so people don't learn them, so they're not popular.
@grrlscientist@mstdn.social
That description gets it a bit backwards.
It's not that companies could score billions but that should the lower court's ruling stand a whole lot of us would be hosed, as we would be taxed on "income" that we never received.
It's not about companies scoring but about a law trying to make me and you pay taxes on money we don't have, arguably in violation of the Constitution which is supposed to protect us from exactly that.
@NewsDesk far right and Democratic.
The small sliver of the Republican party would have no influence at all without the Democratic caucus voting with them.
I think you have that backwards since Threads would be part of Fediverse becoming more mainstream.
Threads would give a lot more people involvement in Fediverse.
@petersuber I think this gets the causation backwards.
Book bans occur BECAUSE people distrust the expertise of the folks proposing to use their expertise to choose books.
It's a symptom, not a cause.
Educators need to realize this and work with their public to rehabilitate trust. Otherwise they'll just see the sour relationship continue.
@watson@freeatlantis.com or maybe he simply figured hardliners in his party would give him the boot soon enough, so he might as well not bother getting too settled?
And he would have been right.
That seems like a much more reasonable explanation.
@manton McCarthy pushed to give Democrats more of a say in the legislative process, though.
It's not about saving McCarthy. It's about deciding whether they want to have a functioning legislative chamber, and the Democrats decided against it.
Whether that's good or bad is up to the voter, but they need to hold their representatives accountable for that decision.
@mnutty you say the House has been unable to put together budgetary legislation, but that's not true. Here's just one list of the legislation they've been moving on.
But in the end, if Congress doesn't fund an executive agency that's literally because they haven't found the agency to have presented a compelling case for funding.
@watson@freeatlantis.com yeah historic consequence as he helps get Democrats re-elected as Republicans are shown to be clowns.
Although I'm pretty sure that's not what he was aiming for.
@lovelylovely I mean those claims have largely been discredited by now.
I don't know why anybody would continue to promote them other than blind ignorance or outright political dishonesty trying to promote personal causes.
Either way, it's pretty antisocial, and not convincing to anyone who is informed.
It just plays into division in the country.
@charlotteclymer you say hardest way possible, but I'm really getting the impression that McCarthy really enjoys this ending.
He came out ahead. He made his escape from an impossible situation having been speaker and made a fool of the idiots who were such a thorn in his side.
Pelosi did have it easy. She was speaker when the majority was held by a party that was suspiciously okay with toeing lines and following the crowd, which stands in start contrast to Republicans, but that doesn't really say much about the two different speakers.
Anyway, good on McCarthy. It looks like he did what he set out to do and now the House has to deal with the result of this chaos bourne of collaboration between Democrats and Republican extremists.
We get the government we vote for.
Meh the party generally rejects these assholes but had to tolerate them because the majority was so slim.
But the assholes certainly don't represent the whole party that is largely sick of them and has been for a long time.
@fraying meh. I'd say either is sufficient: one doesn't have to assume a lot about technology to think little of humans.
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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