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
@billyjoebowers That's not what quiet quitting refers to
@davidaugust You're really begging the question here.
@sindarina some of us actually want new information
@800e0fe3d8638ce3f75a56ed865df9d96fc9d9cd2f75550df0d7f5c1d8468b0b
You don't understand. We insist on electing and reelecting very very stupid politicians.
Separation of powers means that the Legislative Branch doesn't have full control over the co-equal Executive Branch, or else it wouldn't be co-equal.
This is core to the design of the US system, that the different branches have their own spheres and can't willy-nilly order each other around.
Shall we talk about the President saying what the Congress has to do? Of course that wouldn't be allowed. But it is for excellent reason that it doesn't go the other way.
After all, you can't impeach the president for actions of his branch if he's not responsible because Congress is the one ordering his employees to act in their positions.
It is critical to hold the president responsible for the actions of his Branch, and part of that is ensuring that he is responsible and unable to pass the buck to the legislative branch.
@Snoro Well right.
That's why we have checks and balances among different branches so they police each other, so we don't trust any branch to police itself.
@b I pop into Twitter about once a day, and it has definitely not been converted into a de facto Nazi web forum.
There's a lot of anti-nazi stuff on there.
@davidaugust The problem is that the laws they are citing are themselves legally dubious.
These are executive branch employees, and it was always problematic to have the president's own employees in a position where they were supposed to police the president. That conflict of interest always existed, and laws supporting the conflict of interest don't really make sense.
So in the end, arguably they were not illegally fired.
@kottke If you so misunderstand that group then you won't have a good stance from which to fight back against them.
You'll just look foolish yelling at strawmen, and you won't recruit others to your side when they see you don't know what you're talking about.
@DrakkenZero I'd like to think the check on bad actors should be left to the users who might judge differently who is and is not "bad"
And I would say it is on the Fediverse to bring value to users even when that means twisting and turning to work with other protocols.
@BeAware@social.beaware.live
@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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PSA: You can use the suffix "in:library" in Mastodon search to find posts you interacted with - including your bookmarks. Example: this excellent review I knew I had bookmarked a while ago. Try it yourself. And listen to Miles Davis live in Tokyo, it's amazing.
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.
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
