I know it's not the point of your post, but I wish recycling worked better.
IMO I should be able to easily purchase recycled materials, but when I tried it was like extracting teeth. Nobody does anything. They just move the material around to each other at taxpayer expense, I swear...
IMO I should be able to easily purchase recycled materials, but when I tried it was like extracting teeth. Nobody does anything. They just move the material around to each other at taxpayer expense, I swear...
Kids show: "Can you write a song?"
Me: "I can, but you don't want me to... Not because of anything political, but because I'm not very good at writing songs"
Me: "I can, but you don't want me to... Not because of anything political, but because I'm not very good at writing songs"
The media has chosen a specific video game for their current two minutes of hate. The fact that you alluded to it and we caught on doesn't mean anything other than we both have working news sources.
Rather than defend the game, I attacked your argument, because it was a really poor argument. You can't just take attacks from someone's political enemies at face value when deciding what to support or not.
That is pretty internally consistent for me. The first chapter in The Graysonian Ethic after the preface was titled "Question everything and everybody—especially me" -- before I even talk about the basics I talk about it, and that chapter warns about many ways things you agree with might turn out to be wrong through logical fallacies or cognitive biases or active malice by bad actors.
Rather than defend the game, I attacked your argument, because it was a really poor argument. You can't just take attacks from someone's political enemies at face value when deciding what to support or not.
That is pretty internally consistent for me. The first chapter in The Graysonian Ethic after the preface was titled "Question everything and everybody—especially me" -- before I even talk about the basics I talk about it, and that chapter warns about many ways things you agree with might turn out to be wrong through logical fallacies or cognitive biases or active malice by bad actors.
I was hoping to be misinterpreting it that way, but I read it a few times and it seemed to say what I hoped it didn't.
I would be happy to be wrong.
I would be happy to be wrong.
It's shocking that the parent post can say what it does without realizing the irony of it.
Blood libel is the accusation that Christian boys were murdered by the Jews and their blood gathered for use in religious rituals.
Apply the same fallacious logic to the Jews with respect to blood libel that the parent post applies to accusations against this video game. By the same logic, in order to support the Jews, one must support murdering Christian boys so their blood can be used in religious rituals.
"No, blood libel was just lies told by a group who wanted to make everyone hate something" -- funny that.
There's a story from around 600 BCE, written by a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece. It speaks of a shepherd who repeatedly fools villagers into thinking there's a wolf attacking the towns flock. In the story, the villagers get wise to it and eventually the boy and his flock is attacked by wolves, and nobody comes to help because they've learned to ignore the liar. Depending on the version, either the flock is eaten, or the boy is eaten with them.
For the past decade we've heard "Wolf! Wolf! Wolf!" At every juncture, and people are getting tired of it. There's no wolf, just an immature child who doesn't realize the danger in raising false alarms constantly because they don't get their way. Eventually there may be a wolf, and by then nobody will come.
Blood libel is the accusation that Christian boys were murdered by the Jews and their blood gathered for use in religious rituals.
Apply the same fallacious logic to the Jews with respect to blood libel that the parent post applies to accusations against this video game. By the same logic, in order to support the Jews, one must support murdering Christian boys so their blood can be used in religious rituals.
"No, blood libel was just lies told by a group who wanted to make everyone hate something" -- funny that.
There's a story from around 600 BCE, written by a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece. It speaks of a shepherd who repeatedly fools villagers into thinking there's a wolf attacking the towns flock. In the story, the villagers get wise to it and eventually the boy and his flock is attacked by wolves, and nobody comes to help because they've learned to ignore the liar. Depending on the version, either the flock is eaten, or the boy is eaten with them.
For the past decade we've heard "Wolf! Wolf! Wolf!" At every juncture, and people are getting tired of it. There's no wolf, just an immature child who doesn't realize the danger in raising false alarms constantly because they don't get their way. Eventually there may be a wolf, and by then nobody will come.
It's a shame it took this long for journalists to realize what many of us realized much sooner: handing all the power to big tech juggernauts is dangerous. Even if they're using their power today to do things you agree with, all it takes is for one autistic billionaire to toss a few bucks into the pot and suddenly all that machinery is being used to do something else, perhaps something you don't agree with.
Meanwhile, tens of thousands of independent server operators can decide what they want their communities to be like, and so there isn't one point of failure. It means there isn't machinery to totally silence and destroy your enemies, but it means there isn't machinery to be totally silenced and destroyed yourself. I've seen some new folks who don't understand this.
Meanwhile, tens of thousands of independent server operators can decide what they want their communities to be like, and so there isn't one point of failure. It means there isn't machinery to totally silence and destroy your enemies, but it means there isn't machinery to be totally silenced and destroyed yourself. I've seen some new folks who don't understand this.
To me, the fediverse is the best answer for how we can return to a distributed internet. Big Tech succeeded because people didn't want to have to go to 15 different places to have 15 different conversations. With the federated internet, you can have the instance you visit or host, and you can participate in discussions on many other servers from a central location.
Frankly, I don't think that the question here should be about twitter. It should be about the government. There should be a massive shake up, people should go to jail for what happened.
I dated a woman who worked at one of those places.
It's where people go to die. Some of the people have experienced massive neurological degradation and don't even act like humans anymore, they're just spent husks that used to be someone people cared deeply about. They wander the halls like ghosts, behaving like their corpses are haunted by the echoes of the people they used to be.
There is nothing any human being can do to make it less bleak. The destination is the same for everyone there.
It's where people go to die. Some of the people have experienced massive neurological degradation and don't even act like humans anymore, they're just spent husks that used to be someone people cared deeply about. They wander the halls like ghosts, behaving like their corpses are haunted by the echoes of the people they used to be.
There is nothing any human being can do to make it less bleak. The destination is the same for everyone there.
Thanks. :)
Whenever I start to feel like I'm really bright, I start to read some of the academic literature in my field, and by the time I make it through the title of an article I realize I need to keep my feet nailed to the ground because I don't know what all the words even mean and this is the thing I'm supposed to know.
Whenever I start to feel like I'm really bright, I start to read some of the academic literature in my field, and by the time I make it through the title of an article I realize I need to keep my feet nailed to the ground because I don't know what all the words even mean and this is the thing I'm supposed to know.
Cantaloupe Island
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B1oIXGX0Io
This is a jazz song I've had in my head for years and I didn't know the title! I remember it being used in movies and the like forever.
Now you guys remember too (for the few of you old enough to have it tickle a memory)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B1oIXGX0Io
This is a jazz song I've had in my head for years and I didn't know the title! I remember it being used in movies and the like forever.
Now you guys remember too (for the few of you old enough to have it tickle a memory)
These maps show something I've been saying for a while: Part of the toxicity of modern political discourse is that by agreeing with one question, it's assumed you agree with all the others and those views are forcibly imposed on you because of it. In this case it's about a left wing question, but I think you'd find the same with right wing questions where one popular view ends up being about the same where people agree with one thing but don't necessarily agree with the questions that follow.
It sort of drives division in a couple ways: First, obviously it makes it appear that more people believe radical views than the do. But secondly it means that people who would otherwise agree with a view might loudly denounce the view for fear of having other views they don't agree with imposed upon them.
It sort of drives division in a couple ways: First, obviously it makes it appear that more people believe radical views than the do. But secondly it means that people who would otherwise agree with a view might loudly denounce the view for fear of having other views they don't agree with imposed upon them.
A buddy of mine had an old datsun truck, and he used it as his primary vehicle because it was tiny but very useful.
#Nextcloud
I had a recurring issue where my nextcloud news would stop updating because of duplicate hashes. My solution was to run the following sql query:
connect nextcloud;
delete FROM `oc_news_items` WHERE guid_hash IN ( SELECT guid_hash FROM `oc_news_items` GROUP BY feed_id, guid_hash HAVING count(*) > 1 );
The first time I ran it, it deleted a surprising number of posts, but I didn't have the same problem after that and my nextcloud news seems to be working well.
I had a recurring issue where my nextcloud news would stop updating because of duplicate hashes. My solution was to run the following sql query:
connect nextcloud;
delete FROM `oc_news_items` WHERE guid_hash IN ( SELECT guid_hash FROM `oc_news_items` GROUP BY feed_id, guid_hash HAVING count(*) > 1 );
The first time I ran it, it deleted a surprising number of posts, but I didn't have the same problem after that and my nextcloud news seems to be working well.
Not disagreeing, adding historical context that I hope helps the broader discussion.
It's easy to forget that things we take for granted as permanent fixtures throughout history today are shockingly recent. The US civil war, for example, seems like ancient history, but it's conceivable that a gen Z kid could have parents who met the last slave or the last civil war soldier, even though I'll admit remembering them on the relevant time spans is a bit too much of a stretch.
Hell, in the grand scheme of European culture, the potato, tomato, corn, chocolate, peppers, avocados, vanilla, pineapples, and pumpkins didn't exist until the new world was discovered, so the majority of the historical record in Europe didn't have these things. Sugar existed in a form in asia, but refined sugar wasn't invented until the 17th century. Really goes to show just how insane development was during the renaissance and the enlightenment.
It's easy to forget that things we take for granted as permanent fixtures throughout history today are shockingly recent. The US civil war, for example, seems like ancient history, but it's conceivable that a gen Z kid could have parents who met the last slave or the last civil war soldier, even though I'll admit remembering them on the relevant time spans is a bit too much of a stretch.
Hell, in the grand scheme of European culture, the potato, tomato, corn, chocolate, peppers, avocados, vanilla, pineapples, and pumpkins didn't exist until the new world was discovered, so the majority of the historical record in Europe didn't have these things. Sugar existed in a form in asia, but refined sugar wasn't invented until the 17th century. Really goes to show just how insane development was during the renaissance and the enlightenment.