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.
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.
Joined Dec 2022
@byteseu it's a weak ruling, admitting that it's bucking a whole lot of precedent.
It's no likely to stand.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.oknd.76981/gov.uscourts.oknd.76981.62.0.pdf
The world might have been a different place today if Trump's critics had focused on the promises he broke rather than bashing him as evil over ones he supposedly kept when he didn't.
He's been disappointing his own base. The problem is, they don't know it because we spent years telling them he kept his promises to implement bad ideas.
@david_chisnall thanks! I'll look forward to reading up on this.
Well, in general I'd say mainstream US conservatives don't recognize good faith negotiation if it hit them in the face. The movement is now headlined by children with no intellectual rigor, only question begging.
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This is not that. It's an honest disagreement over subjective values and morality and accounting for justice.
If a person really wants to live in a world based on an eye-for-an-eye approach then that's fair. It's not the type of world **I** want, but it's an honest difference in personal values.
If it was about something objective like deterrence or efficiency there would be room for debate. But this is about pure personal values. They say the pain is one thing they want from government, a goal of government.
*(just documenting this in case it helps anyone)*
If you check the public feed with the globe icon* it's supposed to be the full feed of all public posts cleverlibre is receiving from anywhere.
Well i notice that as I've been messing with this more, and unfollowing/refollowing other accounts, the ones I refollowed are now showing up in that global feed.
First, this confirms that it really is a matter of re-establishing those follows to get this instance back into the network. But second, it shows that so few accounts here have established those following links if mine can be such a notable proportion of the global feed.
The analogy breaks down when considering AI to be like the paintbrush or other implement used to make the piece, not the human only indirectly involved in the claim.
So it's like saying Picasso can't claim the piece because the paint was laid down by a brush. It should therefore only belong to the brush.
@trekkie1701c I don't think that's right.
People see meaning in random things all the time. Randomness conveys meaning because it's what we take away from it. And if randomness can convey meaning art is no more constrained by the context of the producer.
It's not witchcraft. It's not like supernatural effects bind with the material.
We should not so constrain art.
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Oh I hear them talking about it pretty much every single day on mainstream conservative media outlets!
And that's not to mention social media places like Nextdoor.
It really is pretty mainstream, sadly in my opinion.
The reason behind it goes into some psychoanalysis though.
They called Obamacare a failure for needing such subsidies. Now are they ready to call Medicare a failure for the same reason?
That sure won't play with the base.
Yeah, I think 2024 was the last time the server was fully connected to the rest of the fediverse through follow type interconnections. When they changed domain names it left all of the follows hanging, still looking for the old address.
So it rebuilt your feeds using the latest data it had... which was from 2024.
Until those interconnections are fixed it won't receive much from the rest of the world. Unfollow/follow helps fix the connections, hopefully getting it back online and getting new data into the feeds.
@genecowan commercial company is going to commerce.
It's the other way around.
Residents elected these ineffective Dems, and they should probably stop reelecting them.
Residents need to be pounding the Dems for failing... unless, well, they're getting what they voted for.
It's not about courage but about incentives. These Dems get reelected based on acting this way, so voters are rewarding them for it. That's their job, so they do it.
@jwcph well, what specific law is it violating?
We always need to be able to point at particular law so we can oppose illegal actions.
A HUGE problem in the US (and elsewhere) is that we don't come to consensus about goals before we act, so government action is often really messed up, untargeted, inefficient, corrupt, etc.
This shows up very clearly when it comes to judicial stuff at all levels.
We don't come to consensus on whether the goal is deterrence, restitution, reformation, or outright punishment, so for generations we've been putting so many people in all sorts of counterproductive situations, generally completely unintentionally.
In this particular topic a significant proportion of the population outright DOES believe cruelty is the goal with an eye for an eye mindset. If that's what we really want to do, well, yay democracy. But we never actually have that discussion, so the goal isn't decided upon, so we're stuck in limbo, unable to fix these systems.
We need to have that debate and settle it honestly. We need to halt all action on it until we do.
It's not a new question: with the pace of change in software development, what even is a senior developer?
Is the senior developer someone still supporting FORTRAN while the bulk of development has moved on to cloud focused platforms?
It may be that generations of developers are not so much junior vs senior but technology vs technology.
@ClaraListensprechen4 has it been stuck on "Your home feed is being prepared" for a long time? For me that only happens the first time I log in in a while, and it goes away after the backend has time to process.
Right now QOTO/cleverlibre seems to have been kind of disconnected from the network, maybe due to the namechange. Posts from the fediverse only show up after unsubscribe/resubscribe.
How does the UK handle private pensions if the company providing the pension goes under?
That's been a real issue in the US.
@sortova sure, and thus they'd leave room in the market for someone to profit by offering gas that doesn't so adjust in price.
Given with what we're working with these days, in a case like this I always assume the answer is that officials were actually following the law.
So often when Trump starts bashing what happens in other countries, as he's done with this bail, it's because he's acting without regard for the law and doesn't understand why anyone else follows their own laws.
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.
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.
Joined Dec 2022
