volkris @volkris@social.cleverlibre.org
Since I guess everything is political these days, I'll identify as extremely liberal but without a home in US politics.
Mainly, there's so much misinformation out there that people in society have trouble even organizing into coherent political groupings. So I'd rather not talk about politics but instead focus on information and education. Nothing else matters until the bedrock of fact is buttressed.
But... people are always going to be wrong on the internet, as the saying goes.
So: Old man yells at clouds is a famous joke from The Simpsons, and it probably fairly describes what we do when venting on social media.
Just speaking into the void, since I figure it's an exercise in futility to conduct discussions on these platforms.
Joined Dec 2022
@jpetazzo I've been watching the company--and occasionally owning stock in it--forever. I was and am a big fan.
And what you're saying is exactly the picture I get.
They broke on to the scene with some really clever innovations, some approaches to machine control, some algorithms, really interesting solutions to problems that go beyond simple product engineering.
But now the rest of the world caught up, and their areas of innovation are no longer the ones that really matter. And that lightening didn't strike twice--they didn't find a new way to tackle a new problem.
That doesn't take away from what they did.
One way to think of it by analogy is as if someone invents an amazing algorithm to operate computers with limited memory but a few years later the market is churning out RAM so cheaply that it becomes effectively limitless.
Still a brilliant solution, just to a problem that no longer looms.
@hasani but not as it was sold or as instructed.
A person overlooking their particular instructions as they try to emulate their own interpretation of some advertisement is, if anything, still their own bad decision, and not the product going off to kill them.
You left off the rest of the sentence, " for the problem of equal protection in election processes generally presents many complexities."
So their consideration here is not to speak generally and tackle all possible circumstances, but only the situation as they describe it.
That doesn't mean it's not precedent setting. Other similar situations would be expected to follow the same disposition.
By cutting the sentence in half and only looking at the first half, much less the following paragraph that lends further clarification, people are able to twist the meaning.
@MugsysRapSheet @philip_cardella @TonyStark @axeshun
@CivilityFan the amount of time these justices spend citing precedent would suggest that precedent does, indeed, mean something.
They don't ignore precedent as meaningless. Quite the opposite. They spend a ton of time and ink addressing it because it has such meaning.
@MugsysRapSheet @philip_cardella @TonyStark @axeshun
@hasani Tesla FSD didn't kill customers.
Customers misused FSD to their own detriment, against warnings not to use it that way.
I know the description of FSD killing customers is sexier and gets more clicks, but the facts matter sometimes.
@jikodesu one problem is that so many stories that scare us and get us so excited end up debunked by the actual investigations when they come out months after the fact.
But by then the narratives and conclusions have been set in concrete, so nobody goes back to revisit them.
Boeing in particular has been dealing with that, and it's not clear what any company PR department can do to ask the public to slow down, ignore the rushes to judgement of reporters, and wait for the real investigations to conclude.
@StephenRamirez there's an awful lot that Eric Swalwell doesn't understand...
@MugsysRapSheet when I search the opinion, the phrase "specific to this one case" turns up no hits.
It's not in there.
@lauren part of my point in saying that Trump voters are not monolithic and often have exact opposite viewpoints is to emphasize that they're not all cultists, and the non-cultists can be pealed off for the greater good.
But that peeling off is much more difficult if nobody's engaging with them due to buying into the stereotype of them all being the same, all in the same cult.
@CivilityFan if you read the ruling, it puts that line in context that suggests not the lack of precedent but rather the lack of generality.
Either way, no, they didn't "specifically qualify the ruling as not setting precedent" even if some might have read between lines to propose that meaning.
In other words, even if that's the correct interpretation--despite it being missing from the clear text of the opinion--it certainly wasn't specifically qualified. At best it was innuendo.
@MugsysRapSheet @philip_cardella @TonyStark @axeshun
@mima some of that is pretty baked in, engineering choices made in the past that can't really be fixed with an update.
ActivityPub is fundamentally bound to instances, putting all of the power in the hands of instances instead of users.
So things like instance migration and moving posts and all require the cooperation of the instance that a person is leaving, which has little incentive to help out.
This instance focus is a criticism I have of ActivityPub, and there's just no real way to change it without building a whole different system.
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@Bwee I don't know. For me Mastodon seems to gather the worst people in the world and I get a lot of anxiety.
I've been here for two weeks and I've never seen so much bs on any social media before.
Mastodon is for people who need to really show other people how good they are by posting, what they think, is humanist and social justice crap. That is of course my opinion.
I've never seen a place where people are more afraid to say what they really think about stuff.
I hope we can change that
You give them more credit than I would.
Heck, I was hearing MAGA types yesterday talking about how Swift's people would abandon *her* if she gets political, which says something about their understanding of that relationship.
@lauren
My experience with #Musk is more interesting than just he's a liar or he's a capitalist or most of the other stuff being thrown at him, and in a really important way:
Over years I watched interview after interview where some reporter or fan would press him to answer questions outside of his level of expertise, and he would tell them they'd need to ask an engineer, but they'd demand an answer from him until he sheepishly gave in and told them what they wanted to hear.
I think over time Musk largely decided it wasn't worth trying to resist and started playing along a lot more.
But this is something we see with many public figures. They become caricatures over time, becoming the thing the public wants them to be.
This isn't at all to let Musk off the hook for anything. But since I personally really don't care about Musk, the larger picture is more interesting.
@lauren C-suite? No, I'm a line worker.
And heck, right now we're all pretty annoyed with a particular fellow worker who's not doing his work and holding back the rest of us.
There's no generalization here. Only the realities of what win-win
associations require: mutual benefit.
Where did they specifically qualify the ruling as not setting precedent?
I really don't see how a person can read the ruling and find it so political.
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/531/98/case.pdf
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@lauren if nothing else it goes to emphasize that Trump supporters aren't a monolithic group, that there are different camps with vastly different perspectives, and that's a critical thing to keep in mind when addressing them.
@StephenRamirez that's only if you have a REALLY problematic view of presidents as some sort of moral standard instead of what they are, the jerk of a politician who happened to get to the top.
That great leader philosophy needs to be rejected. We should not normalize this notion that presidents, or anyone holding any other political office, are people to be admired and emulated.
For those of us who reject such ways of looking at politicians, what you're saying here doesn't follow.
We're bound to get an asshole in the Oval Office. That's just reality. We should keep that firmly in mind as we hold them to responsible for doing their dumb jobs.
@lauren it has nothing to do with profits.
It has to do with whether the workers are working--productively, in the right roles, the right people for the task, all of that.
If a worker isn't right for the job, then it has nothing to do with profits, they need to find another place to be where they can fit in better and work better.
Since I guess everything is political these days, I'll identify as extremely liberal but without a home in US politics.
Mainly, there's so much misinformation out there that people in society have trouble even organizing into coherent political groupings. So I'd rather not talk about politics but instead focus on information and education. Nothing else matters until the bedrock of fact is buttressed.
But... people are always going to be wrong on the internet, as the saying goes.
So: Old man yells at clouds is a famous joke from The Simpsons, and it probably fairly describes what we do when venting on social media.
Just speaking into the void, since I figure it's an exercise in futility to conduct discussions on these platforms.
Joined Dec 2022
