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
Well it really varies on a case-by-case basis. Often enough the institution isn't being forced to change but rather decides to change as it evolves to better serve the public.
The other big issue is that the most concerning side of book burning is in its prevention of you and me from being able to keep content deemed problematic, while those websites are more about what institutions are holding. It's the difference between me stopping you from having what you have versus using the public to give you politically acceptable messaging.
Institutional speech and private speech have some significant differences.
So you haven't been keeping up with the news and current events enough to see what major figures have been saying, but somehow you have seen in what I said a position that runs exactly counter to what mine actually is?
What color is the sky in your world?
Oh I would go the exact other way with each of those examples. Deregulated? Each of those are examples of highly regulated topics where the effects you're citing can be reasonably traced back to regulation!
Each of those is notorious for tremendous regulatory regimes even through those issues, so it's really something that you would describe them as deregulated.
And immediate little serf? I'm saying not to assume that more control over us is necessarily for the best, and I'm the obedient serf?
Weird, that.
@tofugolem Oh wow, you haven't heard the Dems speaking? I've been inundated with it in every media channel I have for days now.
From flooding social media through mainstream news outfits covering Democrats seeming to be constantly running to microphones this week, they have been amazingly noisy.
I really don't know how you missed it.
@tofugolem sounds like you're assuming regulation necessarily makes things safer, but that's not the case. Often enough compliance with regulations can actually make things more dangerous, particularly when regulations aren't quite tailored for the situations they're being applied to.
So no, it's not about making SpaceX less safe. That's just not how this stuff works out in practice.
@wrdwoose at that point you're probably better off just starting a new business than trying to buy out all of the existing shares and transfer them to employees.
@tofugolem The problem with that statement is that it's Democrats who are putting out such an overwhelming amount of information, not all of it correct, and plenty of it contradictory, which just increases the information load, increasing the overwhelm.
And I wish they would knock it off because it makes it that much harder to actually push back against Republicans when there's so much noise in the signal.
@patamystic Well I think the two options are just fundamentally different with different meanings.
I reply when I want to engage the person I'm replying to, but I quote boost when I want to build on something to a broader audience, especially when I don't want to actively engage the original author.
@olives a lot of it has to do with the voting system used in the US and the federal structure that's presidential instead of parliamentary.
Thanks to the way it's organized voters will naturally tend to organize themselves into two parties to avoid wasting of votes.
@jmcrookston Oh yeah I would point out how stupid and incoherent he is. I just wouldn't waste time trying to find meaning that probably doesn't exist, in part because that detracts from the lack of meaning.
It actually kind of helps him out. If he can't barf out coherent sentences, why should we pretend that his brain is functioning enough to do so?
Really that's what we're working with. He just ran a campaign saying that the other guy doesn't have a functional brain, let's not pretend that Trump does any better than that.
@Ryan it could be that they are thinking about the laffer curve and just trying to protect revenues regardless of votes.
Honestly, there's no sense trying to parse what he's saying. That gives him too much respect, too much credit. Just say he vomited something new out today and move on.
No, #Trump didn't blame yesterday's crash on #DEI during his press conference today. What he did was much more obscene: since he didn't make the causal connection, that means he used the occasion to politicize a tragedy to go off on a different political tangent that rambled out into the utterly bizarre as he started reading off of his printed out papers.
When folks say things like Trump blamed DEI, that only increases his support among voters who are obsessed with taking down DEI. Don't give him that. Just be honest that he spewed a bunch of garbage and politicized a tragedy.
After all, misrepresenting Trump in ways favorable to his base is part of how we got him reelected in the first place. If we were honest about him, even his own supporters would reject him.
@heafnerj Well the US government is really set up the other way around the president can't do anything unless authorized by law.
Basically, everything is assumed to be illegal unless legalized, and yes there is an enumerated list, it's the the US code.
For better or worse, it is a long list.
@heafnerj Well the US government is really set up the other way around the president can't do anything unless authorized by law.
Basically, everything is assumed to be illegal unless legalized, and yes there is an enumerated list, it's the the US code.
For better or worse, it is a long list.
It's funny that everybody seems to be claiming #Trump is blaming the crash on different things, almost like it doesn't matter what Trump actually said, people are just writing whatever headline they think is going to get the most clicks.
This is probably the fourth different claim I've seen in the last couple of hours.
@Tharpa four years of Democratic power suggests that maybe Trump wasn't the cause.
We'll never push Democrats to improve if we don't hold them accountable for what they did in power, and for choosing candidates so awful that they lost the biggest election to a felon.
@billyjoebowers I mean, or start yelling at your representatives to fix the laws that they are enforcing.
And consider electing someone different. We keep reelecting the same representatives who fail us.
@XenoPhage Tillis is one of the dumbest politicians I've ever seen voted into office.
No sense trying to look for, well, sense, out of him.
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
