“The US today is solidly in the #anocracy zone. […] We are no longer considered, by any group that studies #democracy, a full democracy. We are in this middle zone.”
“In the UK, there's going to be 30 gun deaths this year. There's 120 a day in the US. So, since #CharlieKirk's assassination two days ago, there's already been eight times the number of gun deaths in the #US that there will be all year in the UK.”
— Barbara F. Walter on the Prof G. podcast
@QOTO, @freemo, @khird, @barefootstache:
OK, I'm actually concerned now. Nobody's answering my queries, either here or in Matrix, and the data export feature does not work.
Who is maintaining this instance? Where can we direct our questions or bug reports?
Thank you.
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@QOTO, @freemo, @khird, @barefootstache:
Who is maintaining this instance? I have noticed issues lately, and I have a few questions, but don't know where to ask.
Thank you!
Dear interpreters and translators, historians, passenger attendants, sales representatives of services, writers and authors, customer service representatives, CNC tool programmers, telephone operators, ticket agents and travel clerks, broadcast announcers and radio DJs, brokerage clerks, farm and home management educators, telemarketers, concierges, political scientists, news analysts, reporters, journalists, mathematicians, technical writers, proofreaders and copy markers, hosts and hostesses, editors, business teachers, public relations specialists, demonstrators and product promoters, advertising sales agents, new accounts clerks, statistical assistants, counter and rental clerks, data scientists, personal financial advisors, archivists, economics teachers, web developers, management analysts, geographers, models, market research analysts, public safety telecommunicators, switchboard operators, and library science teachers:
you are cooked.
Markdown formatting is (still) broken here, right?
(Old issue, I know -- I've been away for many months, and don't know what's the status after all those hiccups after migration...)
> _“#Advertising [is] disruption of aesthetics, […] insults to your intelligence and […] interruption of your train of thought.”_
— [Jan Koum](https://blog.whatsapp.com/why-we-don-t-sell-ads)
Chapter VIII of Book III is the best in #MichelDeMontaigne's #Essays so far.
I'm highlighting so many insightful passages having to do with #rationality, #logic, [rules of discourse](https://vita.tripu.info/life#debates-and-discussing-with-people), merit vs chance, etc. And it is the more timely for me as I'm right now pondering the value of debating ideas with strangers, and of #SocialMedia more broadly.
I shall share many quotes and thoughts on a blog post when I'm done, as [I've done with the previous two books](https://blog.tripu.info/montaigne-2).
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Essays_of_Montaigne/Book_III/Chapter_VIII
> _“When you demonize those who #disagree with you, you invite treatment in kind. When you refuse to engage in political #argument and resort to performative #moralizing, you make it clear to any neutral observer that, for you, there’s only one side, one #opinion, one conformist crowd.”_
https://www.thefp.com/p/martin-gurri-donald-trump-political-divide
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*Boy, Spain and Italy are dong great, cheerfully said the American. guy who spent a lot of time in Italy and Spain
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Unity
Click for full comic: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/unity-3
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Even after the switch from Twitter to #Mastodon, and even after migrating from my previous instance to the haven that is @QOTO, I keep on having occasional discussions that I find very frustrating.
@fidel's [words yesterday](https://blog.fidelramos.net/personal/new-years-resolutions-2024) resonate with me:
> _“I wasn't anticipating […] the mental and emotional effort of opposing the hegemonic zeitgeist. This is something that has taken a toll on my happiness and mental health. It would be easy to bow to the majority and return to the fold, to avoid #arguments and #fights, but I think I would feel bad about myself for intellectual dishonesty. […] One thing is the ideas you have and another is that you do not want or can dedicate greater efforts to supporting them in opposition to almost the entire society. I will focus on educating my children in the values that I want to see in the world. […] I will dedicate #SocialNetworks only to the topics that interest me […] and I will reduce ideological topics.”_
I'm thinking of giving up #microblogging, at least for a while.
We'll see.
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