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
@zombywoof a lot of people aren't in it for the money. They just want to be part of something, part of a team.
@Nonilex it's not that SCOTUS sided with Trump, but that it takes more than a few hours to sort out what's going on.
Really, this isn't about Trump at all, but about whether the lower court acted properly. THAT's who the appeals court is going to be judging, not Trump.
Yes, and remember that Bad Things can happen when the #SCOTUS rushes a ruling.
I'm still thinking of the botched TikTok ruling, where factually incorrect elements likely come out of the rushed and incomplete record that the Court ruled on.
But once the ruling was issued, that was that.
Courts need to take their time. That's how they were designed. They aren't police; they are meant to patiently consider questions of #law.
@vaurora The money comes from somewhere, though. The ones giving 100 mil no longer have that 100 mil to chip in for the next 200 million ask.
Meanwhile, workers are paid, infrastructure invested in, and lunches purchased from shops in the course of the frittering.
Sure, it would be best if money is spent ideally, but at the least there's this bright side.
@lolscotus Well please share
@Nonilex Well exactly.
It went as one would expect.
Which is to say, this is how government works. Anybody upset by this or surprised by this doesn't understand how government works.
It's not that the court sided with Trump, it's that this is how the government works and has always worked. It has nothing to do with Trump.
Welcome to a government with democratic representation and a rule of law that supports it.
Anybody hoping to get resources outside of that process, well, the US is more democratic than that.
@salixsericea Well quickly, I suspect this is one of those cases where The Guardian won't really understand American culture enough to really report comprehensively on the issue.
In particular they might not be aware of the supposed rules that tips included should amount to minimum wage, or the common under reporting of cash tips to tax authorities. It's a mess.
But yes, not only does the world know how ridiculous the tipping thing is, a whole lot of the US knows as well. Unfortunately it's one of those things like daylight savings time where the institutional inertia and complex interests at play prevent us from really changing course.
Personally I think the no tax on tips proposal is a terrible, terrible idea, only serving to further ingrain tipping when we need to be moving away from it for the good of workers, and that's not even getting into corruption, the way it would encourage more and more pay to be moved over into tipping dishonestly.
But, the people pushing for that idea aren't the brightest. So, there we go.
@highduc honestly, I don't know what y'all are talking about, but I think there can be actual value in replying to something with that phrase.
I think there's a general understanding about what it means, so to lay that on the table can be an effective way of criticizing a stance.
Depending on the context it's not trolling at all.
@TheZeldaZone keep in mind if they are trolling then It's powerful in terms of encouraging them to continue.
@gatewaypundit_official The funniest part was, sounded like she took it as a threat when she was merely asked for evidence of her extraordinary claim.
@highduc a lot of people actively like and promote echo chambers
It's just the world we live in.
@wjmaggos saying they have a centralized relay is like saying your admin here has a centralized instance:
I guess technically it's true, but only by ignoring all of the decentralization.
Yes there is only one relay, except for any others.
@curiousgawker Well that's not true.
@manton I'm guessing they're doing it purely so they can inflate the amount of money a customer "saves" by paying for Prime.
So they can send out an email once a year inviting customers to renew Prime with an even more inflated figure of their "savings".
It might even be that behind the scenes they had a particular number in mind for this marketing message, so they set the $20 figure just to hit that mark.
@manton from the live blog it looks like the event is over and they didn't announce any new hardware?
I honestly don't know how many people actually want this AI stuff at all. But I would have loved improved hardware that better fits into my space then the orbs.
Seems like a misstep on the part of the company.
The head of #DOGE has been revealed!
It really says something that it took this long for people to figure out who was actually in charge of this high-profile group.
New from me at @cato.org: the Trump Administration has dodged questions about who's in charge at DOGE, which could help determine whether the agenc...
@MentalEdge I have one important clarification to what you said: content is not controlled by the instance it started on, but rather the original instance sends content out to others, and each instance controls the content on its own.
Among other reasons this is important because it has privacy implications. You don't control your content here. You cannot rely on the privacy you set it to, because once it's out every instance can do with it what they want.
@zombywoof What specifically are you referring to?
I'm seeing the MAGA fans embracing the show, not explaining it away.
@hsolerkalinovski oh! I was listening to a podcast about recent news that may have jogged my memory.
Now I might be wrong, but to answer your question, I think I was annoyed by a BBC report saying that Trump said that Ukraine started the war when that's not all what he said.
Trump is an awful communicator, but nowhere in the statements they were referring to did he say such a thing.
@Nonilex That's not a conflict, though.
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
