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
@duke_cannon The latest info seems to go the other direction.
@m The problem is that a large swath of the US population has absolutely no idea how any of this stuff works, and they have bought into all of this fear-mongering about foreigners, so they are pushing for these policies.
It's an unfortunate thing that on one hand it's good for governments to be responsive to their people, on the other hand, that means having to deal with those people.
@zombywoof you say it's not even close to making money, but I think you're looking at how it makes money.
Selling equity was always the business model.
Never forget that the huge majority of bills put on the books in Congress are nothing other than political stunts, not serious efforts to move legislation.
If it made it out of committee, then it's time to start taking them seriously.
@factpostnews The problem is that for years some mainstream conservatives have been misinterpreting the terms in the Constitution to conform to their conclusions that it just doesn't make sense for it to be in there.
Yes, it is literally in the Constitution. Unfortunately, this administration is adopting a misinterpretation of the Constitution that has been gaining a lot of traction.
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The post in the screenshot:
https://heads.social/@theheatwarps/113874267026087169
Blogpost by Jeremy Erwin: https://theheatwarps.com/2022/04/21/1-22-23-1975-tokyo/
@hyperreal the nice thing about open projects is that different users can call for different experiences, so if you want unified you can while other people can avoid it.
I think we really need to emphasize that ability to customize the experience to the user around here instead of imposing one-size-fits-all choices.
No. Steven Miller has always been a terrible spokesperson, really bad at communicating outside of his echo chamber, but what it means is that they want to stop spending resources on programs that don't have broad appeal throughout society.
Whether that's good or bad or possible or impossible, that's what it means.
@BeAware@social.beaware.live
Be aware (ha) that if you post on here your data is just as available to those evil smelly VCs.
They've had something like four launches since Starship.
Musk's a troll, so he does things to get attention/reactions.
This got him attention and reactions :)
Success! And the more we talk about it, the more of a success it was.
@davidpnice I occasionally sleep.
But yep, this is a criminal president. He's a felon that was elected president.
@BeAware@social.beaware.live I mean I don't know what they're doing, nor do I really care honestly, they can make whatever picture they want and I can make whatever picture I want, but at the end of the day you can download the program and use it however you want.
@BeAware@social.beaware.live again, that's a cute picture, I'm sure someone enjoyed some retro time with Ms paint to make it, but you are welcome to download the code yourself and debunk it.
These kinds of posts are bizarre. Describing a government structure that was specifically set up to avoid giving anyone that sort of power as giving somebody that sort of power is just...
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary explanation at this point.
This is just nutty.
@AkaSci Link?
I tried to check his feed on X and I couldn't find this post, so I'm wondering if it's real or if it is disinformation about disinformation.
@Tooden it did not
@BeAware@social.beaware.live The code is publicly available on a git repository so you can run it yourself regardless of what some thread is saying.
Don't believe it? Well, try it!
@BeAware@social.beaware.live Well that's not true.
BlueSky is a whole platform, and you can host your own relay if you want, and your content doesn't even have to go through a relay at all. That's just not how the system is set up.
@BeAware@social.beaware.live Well that's not true.
BlueSky is a whole platform, and you can host your own relay if you want, and your content doesn't even have to go through a relay at all. That's just not how the system is set up.
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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