I have to assume I'd have to create a filter to block any links to canadian establishment news sites if this passes. I'm sure that'd be good for Canadian news sites, getting blocked everywhere.
For real. There's so many things that are hard enough to start with, starting with a server back-end that lots of people use and lots of people write documentation for makes the experience so much easier.
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Yes, you can follow the group itself. you just go groupname@narwhal.city
I follow @Permabear so every time I post there the software sends the posts to this account. I can also post there by tagging it and adding a CW for the title.
I follow @Permabear so every time I post there the software sends the posts to this account. I can also post there by tagging it and adding a CW for the title.
Unlike Trump, Musk is halfway competent at surrounding himself with smart people. He wouldn't make that stupid mistake.
@realcaseyrollins has been doing a really nice job posting on non politics related groups on narwhal.city. Lotide supports activityPub so you can connect to it directly from here.
I don't think we're opposing each other, just having a discussion on the nature of free speech. There's a lot of stuff to consider beyond good/bad, and I've found some of the stuff we've discussed thought provoking.
I ended up discussing it a bit in the following post: https://lotide.fbxl.net/posts/17835
One of the things is that restrictions on free speech have different parts to it. Law, platform rules, or social taboo all can each contribute to the ability to speak or not speak, and they have different effects and should be treated with different levels of scrutiny, since laws directly affect people everywhere, platform rules directly affect people on an entire platform, and social taboo is essentially a code of ethics people agree to follow generally. The shade of the enforcement is different between the three as well.
What you're talking about is with respect to free will is also important, and it's a completely different angle of free speech. I speak of "The Establishment" often, and the danger of communications monopolies or government taking over communications pathways. You end up only getting a certain point of view and nothing else, and that does end up affecting how wide your thoughts can be. That's one reason why it's so important that diversity of speech be encouraged, even if we find what's said offensive. Sometimes what is offensive is also true.
There was a woman from North Korea who did the interview circuit about a year or two back, and she talked about living in North Korea, and that people thought they were skeptical and that they had a good idea that the propaganda wasn't true, but when she left she was blown away by just how much beyond the obvious lies were lies. Imagine living on the verge of starvation your whole life and getting out and realizing the rest of the world had *an obesity epidemic*!
While we're not facing the same problems as North Korea, it's clear that there's so much propaganda from the establishment that those who step out of it may be shocked at what truths we have been blind to.
One of the things is that restrictions on free speech have different parts to it. Law, platform rules, or social taboo all can each contribute to the ability to speak or not speak, and they have different effects and should be treated with different levels of scrutiny, since laws directly affect people everywhere, platform rules directly affect people on an entire platform, and social taboo is essentially a code of ethics people agree to follow generally. The shade of the enforcement is different between the three as well.
What you're talking about is with respect to free will is also important, and it's a completely different angle of free speech. I speak of "The Establishment" often, and the danger of communications monopolies or government taking over communications pathways. You end up only getting a certain point of view and nothing else, and that does end up affecting how wide your thoughts can be. That's one reason why it's so important that diversity of speech be encouraged, even if we find what's said offensive. Sometimes what is offensive is also true.
There was a woman from North Korea who did the interview circuit about a year or two back, and she talked about living in North Korea, and that people thought they were skeptical and that they had a good idea that the propaganda wasn't true, but when she left she was blown away by just how much beyond the obvious lies were lies. Imagine living on the verge of starvation your whole life and getting out and realizing the rest of the world had *an obesity epidemic*!
While we're not facing the same problems as North Korea, it's clear that there's so much propaganda from the establishment that those who step out of it may be shocked at what truths we have been blind to.
Yelling fire in a crowded theatre isn't illegal, particularly if the theatre is on fire. That example is non-binding dicta from that decision.
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Growing up, my parents were divorced and there was always a bit of a cold war going on. Say the wrong thing to one parent and the other will have to hear about it.
Part of becoming an adult for me was taking off all those screens in front of the real me I had to put up. Until I did, I couldn't meet friends or really love my life.
These people want everyone walking on eggshells forever. That's hell on earth, their life's work is enacting hell on earth, and it's no wonder they're so miserable if they think that's a goal worth fighting for.
Part of becoming an adult for me was taking off all those screens in front of the real me I had to put up. Until I did, I couldn't meet friends or really love my life.
These people want everyone walking on eggshells forever. That's hell on earth, their life's work is enacting hell on earth, and it's no wonder they're so miserable if they think that's a goal worth fighting for.
No matter how much I'd like it to be so, free speech (and all other human rights) can't be absolute, because free speech (and all other human rights) runs up against other rights and even runs up against itself, since speech can be used to silence other speech. The only perfectly free speech is alone in an empty room.
You can see it where the same people crying for their own free speech in the same breath will complain about others. They recognize all their own rights, but don't recognize anyone else's.
But as a general principle, fighting for others right to say things you disagree with strongly is an important one. That's the only thing that makes rights worthwhile, the ability to use them when it's inconvenient.
You can see it where the same people crying for their own free speech in the same breath will complain about others. They recognize all their own rights, but don't recognize anyone else's.
But as a general principle, fighting for others right to say things you disagree with strongly is an important one. That's the only thing that makes rights worthwhile, the ability to use them when it's inconvenient.
Seriously. Hope you guys locked in, because that variable rate debt is much more expensive than it was when I posted this!
"You want to support the right of others to speak because you want your right to speak protected as well. You might think that your ideas and what you have to say is completely innocuous and therefore only the bad guys should be silenced. The problem is, somebody else thinks you're the bad guy. If you don't support others right to speak then that person won't be there to support your right to speak. The only way we can protect our freedoms is together. So what does harming someone else's right to speak look like? Well often, this means going out of your way to cause someone harm for their words. At this moment in time, the biggest websites in the world are all going out of their way to find people who are saying things that they don't like and they are shutting that speech down. They're kicking people right off the websites for saying the wrong thing. In addition to that, even when they keep the people on the websites they are editing the posts and adding little things to them. I've never been kicked off of any social media site. Honestly, most of the opinions that they're going after aren't opinions that I hold. However, those people are our canaries. If the people saying things that we detest our band and go away then we are always next. We are always next. After the people that you disagree with are silenced, you are always next." - The Graysonian Ethic (first draft)
The Journalist class whining about freedom of speech after shutting it down and vilifying it for years didn't get the memo.
The Journalist class whining about freedom of speech after shutting it down and vilifying it for years didn't get the memo.
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The moment you sign up, you're banned for TOS violations
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I wasn't pro Russia, it was more like the idea that let's say that Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan went to war, and everyone is saying "Take a side!" and it's like "what? Why?" -- has nothing to do with me.
Forcing people to take sides in a discussion along a specific two sides someone else gets to define is a common political tactic. It destroys nuance and allows bad debate to become the established debate. There's a lot of discussions right now that are polarized along lines like that, and the false dichotomy is damaging the causes they're applied to. For that reason, I'm careful about going all-in on "one side" or "another" since reality might look totally different.
I'm up in Canada, and one of the loudest voices against Russia was Trudeau, hours he'd seized people's bank accounts and suspended civil rights using the emergency act for having the gall to protest policies they disagree with and smeared them with mindless attacks about things that had nothing to do with what they were protesting about. That man recently said of that time "I'm worried about setting a precedent that [a peaceful protest in the nation's capital] can lead to a change of public policy", so the idea that he's gone from telling us our fellow countrymen are the devil to saying Russia is the devil is wholly unconvincing.
Given the suspension of civil rights over a peaceful protest, the whole "rules based global order" argument was completely unconvincing as well, coming from the guy who just did that.
The media said a lot of things about how horrible the Russians were, but the same media said we'd find WMDs in Iraq, so that's how much that is worth. Counter-narratives suggested there might be a lot more than the establishment narrative would like to let on, so staying neutral seemed prudent.
The "incentives not to go to war" argument I mentioned was the one argument that doesn't need you to throw in with either side specifically, but it works as a general principle. Make it hurt for war aggressors, and people won't engage in aggressive war (Unless it's the Americans of course)
Forcing people to take sides in a discussion along a specific two sides someone else gets to define is a common political tactic. It destroys nuance and allows bad debate to become the established debate. There's a lot of discussions right now that are polarized along lines like that, and the false dichotomy is damaging the causes they're applied to. For that reason, I'm careful about going all-in on "one side" or "another" since reality might look totally different.
I'm up in Canada, and one of the loudest voices against Russia was Trudeau, hours he'd seized people's bank accounts and suspended civil rights using the emergency act for having the gall to protest policies they disagree with and smeared them with mindless attacks about things that had nothing to do with what they were protesting about. That man recently said of that time "I'm worried about setting a precedent that [a peaceful protest in the nation's capital] can lead to a change of public policy", so the idea that he's gone from telling us our fellow countrymen are the devil to saying Russia is the devil is wholly unconvincing.
Given the suspension of civil rights over a peaceful protest, the whole "rules based global order" argument was completely unconvincing as well, coming from the guy who just did that.
The media said a lot of things about how horrible the Russians were, but the same media said we'd find WMDs in Iraq, so that's how much that is worth. Counter-narratives suggested there might be a lot more than the establishment narrative would like to let on, so staying neutral seemed prudent.
The "incentives not to go to war" argument I mentioned was the one argument that doesn't need you to throw in with either side specifically, but it works as a general principle. Make it hurt for war aggressors, and people won't engage in aggressive war (Unless it's the Americans of course)
A lot of the things I read from chat GPT remind me of those crappy SEO articles that started showing up on Google where you have to get several paragraphs in to realize that they're never giving you the information you want.
I've played a lot of games over the years, but haven't gotten to all of these ones. Early on I owned every game on GOG back when it was "good old games", but there's just too many to possibly buy now.
I'm revisiting a long-time favorite right now, Daggerfall. GOG has a copy for free that includes a bunch of mods that modernize the graphics and the like, it's really top notch. Besides that, Chronotrigger is still one of my favorites of all time, it's available on steam.
I'm revisiting a long-time favorite right now, Daggerfall. GOG has a copy for free that includes a bunch of mods that modernize the graphics and the like, it's really top notch. Besides that, Chronotrigger is still one of my favorites of all time, it's available on steam.
I'm on team "What is wrong with you stop you don't need more games SJ but wait there's a crappy FPS from 1997 on sale for a dollar"
