"'Humans breathe air and die if they don't breathe' is an antisemitic far-right conspiracy theory with no basis in fact." - Politifact or USA Today probably
I've been on a reading kick the last couple years, and there's two things I particularly like: First, the book can really slow down and focus on details that a realtime tv show of any kind can't. And second, when there's a part I really want to get past (often annoying scenes where people have misunderstandings or stupid humor sections that are making me cringe) I can just get past it instead of sitting there for minutes waiting for the show to finish playing out the part I don't like.
That's awesome. I know you can just sail the seven seas, but I've got pretty much all the megaman collections so far.
A lot of currencies are reserve currencies, from the euro to the yen to the Australian dollar. Even if the US dollar was used half as much, it'd still be close to the top currency, so even if there's a currency crisis and a sovereign debts crisis it won't be going away from being a reserve currency, though perhaps not the dominant one.
I can see for actual authoritarian central planning states where it's politician all the way down, mind you. (Oh look at who is saying it)
Don't even stop selling stuff to America, just stop using dollars to sell to other countries that aren't America.
Fair enough. Without a massive corporate sponsor to act as everyone's dad for them though, I think figuring out how to coexist with prats is part of the experience. Sort of a cathedral and bazaar social experience. For those who require a professional referee, that might be a problem and openness might not be a good choice.
On the other hand, I strongly believe that the same closed and proprietary algorithm that pretends to shut down hate (too much acceptable hate on mainstream platforms for me to think they actually do) will happily connect people who hate each other to drive engagement. "Hey Mr. Jew! Let me connect you directly with Mr. Actual 1945 non-meme Nazi! One of eight on the platform but you seem to loooove content like this so we'll give you lots!"
On the other hand, I strongly believe that the same closed and proprietary algorithm that pretends to shut down hate (too much acceptable hate on mainstream platforms for me to think they actually do) will happily connect people who hate each other to drive engagement. "Hey Mr. Jew! Let me connect you directly with Mr. Actual 1945 non-meme Nazi! One of eight on the platform but you seem to loooove content like this so we'll give you lots!"
My inner 12 year old is rooting for you to get the 4090 running on your raspberry pi.
England could have a relationship with northern Ireland like America has with other slightly different America.
Who wouldn't want that?
Who wouldn't want that?
The business suit is considered a symbol of high class today, but it was a working class dress before, and people wore fancy pants and ruffly shirts when they were high class. It was a certain politician who decided to wear the working man's suit that started the tradition.
It's an interesting thing that often the rich or powerful try to look like the common classes because while there's power in being set apart as special and high class, there's also power in being considered more down to earth and in it with the common man.
From this historical perspective, billionaires wearing common garb makes a lot of sense. They want you to think they're down there stuffing boxes themselves and not snorting coke in the penthouse corner office.
It's an interesting thing that often the rich or powerful try to look like the common classes because while there's power in being set apart as special and high class, there's also power in being considered more down to earth and in it with the common man.
From this historical perspective, billionaires wearing common garb makes a lot of sense. They want you to think they're down there stuffing boxes themselves and not snorting coke in the penthouse corner office.
Bro you don't understand bro it's cheaper than fossil fuels bro that's who nobody uses it because people hate saving money!
No problem, you don't need to justify yourself. The beauty of the freedom on the fediverse is we can choose to engage with it however we like.
I added indie because I saw one of the conversations you guys had and they seemed cool.
Someone I work with who travels within the country for work nearly quit his job (and took a 6 months unpaid leave of absence during the worst of the pandemic) because he had the cops checking in on him at home constantly during his quarantine period.
Constant visits from the police under threat of legal action may not be the same as being handcuffed and locked in a literal prison, but that doesn't make it acceptable in a free and democratic society.
Constant visits from the police under threat of legal action may not be the same as being handcuffed and locked in a literal prison, but that doesn't make it acceptable in a free and democratic society.
I get what you're saying, but I can also see that bad actors can take advantage of people's goodwill and desire to be good people as a form of social engineering.
I've seen calls for mass murder against political opponents just this week that were couched in "we're such nice people and they're such mean people, they should be nice like us or they should be made to disappear".
Remember that the most deadly ideologies of the past 100 years were all anti-individualistic. There's a reason fascism invoked the imagery of a bundle of sticks that together was stronger than every individual stick, and national socialism explicitly created a racial faction of "us" to oppose another faction of "them", and both portrayed idyllic images that were very nice to justify their atrocities.
So in that regard, I think the way to build the communities we actually want to see requires us to be open and somewhat tolerant to behavior we don't condone necessarily, but to be the sort of posters we'd like to see and to participate in positive ways to positive things. Even jerks sometimes have something important to bring to the table, so to reform those people you engage with them when they're doing something positive and ignore them when they're engaging in something negative.
I've seen calls for mass murder against political opponents just this week that were couched in "we're such nice people and they're such mean people, they should be nice like us or they should be made to disappear".
Remember that the most deadly ideologies of the past 100 years were all anti-individualistic. There's a reason fascism invoked the imagery of a bundle of sticks that together was stronger than every individual stick, and national socialism explicitly created a racial faction of "us" to oppose another faction of "them", and both portrayed idyllic images that were very nice to justify their atrocities.
So in that regard, I think the way to build the communities we actually want to see requires us to be open and somewhat tolerant to behavior we don't condone necessarily, but to be the sort of posters we'd like to see and to participate in positive ways to positive things. Even jerks sometimes have something important to bring to the table, so to reform those people you engage with them when they're doing something positive and ignore them when they're engaging in something negative.