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
@ElwoodCity honestly at this point Star Trek is in such a bad shape that the answer is no.
It doesn't have anything to do with CBS or its management.
Star Trek is not going to recover so long as people keep watching the slop.
No, you're getting that backwards in very important ways.
There IS a Department of War. The thing is, it doesn't have any budget or authority, and anybody working in such a department immediately gives up budget and authority.
It's not that the department doesn't exist. It's that it doesn't have legal authority to do anything, so if the president really wants to give up his ability to do anything that the Department of Defense can do, well, have at it.
He cripples himself.
This is absolutely one of those cases where we need to be calling out #Trump for, through incompetence, giving up the authority to do the things that his supporters want him to do. He needs to be called out as undermining his own political goals, as that is the way to start showing his base that they are backing the wrong horse.
If you read through the arguments, it shouldn't be shocking at all, it's just an expression of pretty common understandings of the way the US system works, and in particular the role of the federal government, and the limits placed on the federal judicial system.
It's mainly a matter of understanding the exact question before the court, the question that they are answering, and not confusing it with a legislative answer.
If we want a different outcome, then we need to elect different representatives to change laws through the law making process. SCOTUS cannot be used as a shortcut that way.
I've seen PDFs used as an archivist format, professionally, so I actually don't think that's very surprising.
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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