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 think it's crucial for people to realize that Fediverse has basically no privacy protections, so regardless of what SHOULD be, fact is you don't even have the choice.
When you post to Fediverse there is zero guarantee that your content won't be subject to search.
It's just part of the design of the system, for better or worse.
Fediverse was built around giving instances all the power, so if an instance wants to search, it can.
@tc_morekindness again, SCOTUS ruled on an issue of federal law, so it went through the federal court system.
This is a state law issue, so it's going through the state court system.
They are two almost entirely separate court systems operating under different rules and applying different laws to different questions.
I don't think you realize that they are apples and oranges.
They're both tools that have their places.
Think of functional as the software equivalent of MMX/SIMD on processors, where you have a large amount of data that you can process in parallel instead of one at a time.
MMX/SIMD had been really successful, right? A ton of problems lend themselves to such coprocessing?
I do mostly program in OOP, but when I see a problem requiring the churning through of a large dataset I'm excited to slam down a functional solution :)
@binaryhawk sounds like you're missing the causality here.
The same poisoned political environment that elected Trump also elected representatives who weren't so interested or able in moving forward.
The two are symptoms of the same political failures that lead to their elections.
@binaryhawk you seem to be making the mistake of thinking the House is ruled by an authoritarian inflicted upon them.
No, the hundreds of members of the House vote for their preferred leaders, so you can't blame the ones they elected for the stage.
Really, there's so much posing for the cameras and strategic spinning that go on.
We need to stop reelecting those jerks.
I see...
I suspect it was already dead, so the new business bought the body to salvage what they could.
Joke's on them, though: "Bandcamp" doesn't have the "e" that Songtradr seems to desperately need.
@losttourist specifically on this point I'd say a lot of it comes down to hysteresis, as an engineer would say.
I assume the UK right-wing government has backed away from some workers' rights policies? Well they started from a place that means even with the walking away they couldn't politically make it back to the US policies even if they wanted to.
More broadly, everything from the design of US governments through political perspectives in the population prevented US policies from going out that far in the first place.
By design there's a good bit of dampening in the US system, so it tends to approach new equilibrium slowly when at all.
@w7voa well that's one way to describe political officials pressuring content sources to quash inconvenient messages...
@samlitzinger a lot of people criticizing Musk seem to be making assumptions about his goals and plans.
He didn't purchase Twitter to keep it the same.
So really, it's we who don't have much of a clue, and maybe the enterprise will fail, but so far we don't even really know what it's supposed to be failing *at*
I probably mentioned above that I'm a fan of functional programming, though I know that's a rarity. One reason is because functional programming is inherently positive for programs running on multiple processors/cores.
And oh look, we're now in an era where computers are running lots of cores :)
Same with xquery. It's a different tool with different plusses and minuses, but it just so happens that one plus is amenability to parallel programming.
I've never looked deeply into nosql so I'm not sure whether it has the same benefits, but maybe it does.
They're all different tools in the toolbox, but interestingly these less popular tools might be better suited to the tasks of today.
@tc_morekindness keep in mind that federal courts (and different federal courts) and state courts have different jurisdictions.
The federal Supreme Court didn't say this state court could make the decision.
And arguably the Supreme Court doesn't even have jurisdiction *itself* to dictate what jurisdiction such a state court could have.
SCOTUS is the head of the federal court system. This is about the NC state court system.
Space is pretty huge! They wouldn't bother launching anything if it was just going to run into something else and blow up.
There's a lot of... space up there :)
And from launching NASA exploration vehicles through the underserved areas now being served by StarLink we can see for ourselves that these claims that Musk doesn't do things to help mankind are just bunk.
It's really a nutty claim, like telling someone through the internet that the internet doesn't exist.
It's gaslighting.
@mariskus sounds like you're reading more into this than there is.
They pointed out that the name sounded stupid. That doesn't mean they hate the platform or anything.
And I tend to agree with them, although it's just a matter of superficial branding.
Because it improves our lives by serving society with everything from scientific study through communications enhancements.
volkris
boosted
Next year, SpaceX aims to average one launch every 2.5 days
SpaceX's Falcon rockets are flying more often than any launch vehicle in history.
@binaryhawk The problem that people don't appreciate is that this isn't merely about the individual Speaker but about the entire structure of the operation of the chamber, with everything from rules of procedure through committee assignments at stake.
So they don't merely have to agree on a Speaker. They would have to also agree on a division of committee assignments that would get more votes to one party or another, one faction or another, and that is unlikely to all happen on a bipartisan basis.
I don't think it's likely at all that Democrats would allow the Republicans to maintain their committee control because that kind of compromise comes with some pretty serious effects.
@tc_morekindness If the court based its argument for its authority on the idea that the state has a proportional election system, when we both agree that it doesn't, then it was factually wrong.
It seems like you're agreeing about the facts of the case, but really don't want to accept the implication that the old court getting the facts wrong means that the ruling was in error and therefore cannot legally stand.
But again, we don't even have to go that far. If it's true that the state has a proportional election system, then the court cannot have ordered the resolution. It did to adjust districting without contradicting itself, so again, the ruling cannot stand legally.
Any path taken to try to get around the fact that the state does not have a proportional election system leads to a dead end. That fact simply can't be waived away, and again, I stress that it's a fact we both agree on.
@BlueintheSouth no, but Americans handed the matches to the jerks they elected and then re-elected, and whether you appreciate them setting the fire or not, I guess that's a personal perspective.
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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