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
@fromjason sometimes the reason we don't do things is because they are actually harmful, and stand in the way of doing the things that will make things better.
That's the case there.
The things that they are proposing in NYC will actually make things worse for every day New Yorkers because they don't understand how the world works or how we got here in the first place.
We absolutely can make things better. Unfortunately, that administration doesn't understand the problem, and so instead of making things better, they will be made worse.
We've tried those solutions before, and they didn't work, and they're not going to work this time either.
We all want affordable housing and healthcare.
It's just that most of us realize that Mamdoni is selling snake oil and plans that, should they be implemented, will make these problems even worse.
If the voters of NYC are so naive that they would elect the guy, well I guess that works there, but other parts of the country see through him and would reject him.
@yogthos You're overthinking it.
It's not OpenAI's solution, rather this is government handing out money and OpenAI saying yes please.
If government is handing out money, might as well take it.
@Nerde I know you're being sarcastic with the post, but there is a serious part to it: Democrats don't have to actually cave, they can still stand for principle and vote against the funding legislation. The difference is that right now they are blocking the legislative process altogether.
In fact, if they actually participated in the legislative process, given the Republican slim majority, they would be much more successful seeing their priorities make it into law.
@vextaur If you read the court paperwork, this headline is completely wrong.
But that never stops HuffPo... That is not a reliable source of information.
@jalefkowit yes, I always try to emphasize to people, whatever Trump is saying today was being said on Fox News two days ago.
This stuff doesn't come out of scholarly study or public policy think tanks. It comes out of Sean Hannity's mouth, as that moron fills his time on air every day.
I think it's really important to realize that currently the US government is having public policy set by some of the dumbest people in the country, sportscasters and shock jocks. Whatever they say is what Trump ends up repeating later.
@jalefkowit when it comes to this kind of thing, keep in mind that Trump doesn't know anything, and the people surrounding him feed him false information that he then regurgitates.
Austin enough he misunderstands what people are telling him anyway.
It's not so much lying about prices as it is being so disconnected from reality that he wouldn't know what's true anyway.
That's not what's happening. It is literally illegal to spend money that Congress has not authorized, and the administration is trying to figure out how the courts expect it to spend money that it doesn't have to spend.
This is a legal issue, plain and simple. The president would love to have a lot of extra spending authority, he just doesn't have it.
A lot of people don't realize that it's the complete opposite: it would be a crime to spend money that hasn't been authorized by Congress.
That's the issue here, with the Senate blocking funding, it is literally a crime to spend the money.
The UN backed him.
If it was a lie, it's quite the conspiracy theory to get the whole world on board with it...
I mean I remember the news reports showing video of the WMD that the UN was so concerned about.
To be frank, that sort of talk goes into moon landing conspiracy areas.
The funding legislative process is being blocked in the Senate, by Democrats, not in the House, by its Republican speaker.
This headline doesn't seem to understand US government procedures
I'd say the SCOTUS is MORE than happy to get rid of Trump since he causes them so many headaches. Why would they keep this thorn around?
If the most glaring example the article can come up with is their 2024 decision about ballot access, then it's a very weak thesis. That decision was pretty straightforward, that the judge below had run afoul of state election law, not Trump.
Meanwhile Trump supporters themselves say his statements mean he's not interested in pushing for a third term.
The Hill is promoting a wacky conspiracy theory here...
The Democrats' election successes yesterday really reflect how out of touch and unsophisticated mainstream conservatives are these days.
They don't understand the complexities of society, being rather stuck in a nice, comfortable echo chamber, and so they're unable to mount effective political campaigns with candidates that will attract votes from outside of the chamber.
It sets it up so that they rely on their opponents failing rather than themselves winning.
After all, that's how we ended up with #Trump being reelected, and that emphasizes that he don't really have this mandate he claims.
@zombywoof could just as easily say the other US courts are biased against the Trump administration. It's not a very useful comparison, especially considering timescales of the US judicial process.
But in the end, with the structure of the judicial system this isn't a clearcut way of looking at things, with lower courts bound by the past.
@huntingdon problem is, all too many people actually believe that's how it works!
And that explains so much about why we keep electing officials who are really bad at their jobs.
It's simply not true that the shutdown is the only point of leverage Democrats have over the #GOP.
That's not how #Congress works.
In particular, we've seen how fractured the Republicans are in the House, where Democrats can absolutely peel off a few members to gain majority on votes.
So that line about this shutdown being the only point of leverage is simply misleading political point-scoring.
@lcamtuf is the debate that Google submitted a report of a bug found by AI?
And, I guess, that they shouldn't recognize such bugs?
@ChrisHolladay all we have to do is to stop electing and reelecting them.
There doesn't need to be a law. There just needs to be better understanding of civics and current events among voters making those decisions.
That's not how the Court works, though. This is a question of law that will be argued by lawyers, regardless of Trump.
It doesn't matter one bit what Trump thinks. These are professional jurists who will make their best cases. for the Court to hear.
Yes, because I'm not a fascist!
Yeah, people can vote for dumb things. People can vote for fascists. If you really want to vote for these fascist policies, go for it. That's how democracy works. You can vote for a fascist if you want to.
Totally cool with it? Well I mean it's annoying to me. I think it's extremely ignorant the positions that you are taking. I think it's bad for society that you would take power away from workers like that. But I'm not an anarchist, I'm into that whole democracy thing, so you can vote fascist policies like rent control if you want to.
Totally cool? Well, I wouldn't say totally, but I accept that dumb people will vote for dumb things and that's how democracy works, that's how government works.
You want to vote for fascist things like rent control? That's your right. It annoys me for privileged people to vote for fascist things, but that's democratic government for you.
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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