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by froasty 8y ago
"O Lord, this zealotry to punish the heretics could easily escape from the control of God's chosen and not only destabilize society but also cause us to perform un-Christlike deeds that the Church shall repent of for all eternity!
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by froasty 8y ago
For anyone wanting the full quote from Popper's The Open Society: "Less well known is the paradox of tolerance: unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who ar
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by froasty 8y ago
My only complaint about this presentation is the lack of forgetfulness and recovery of old strategies. In a word, it ignores context. A world with only tit-for-tats effectively becomes a world of always-cooperate once the knowledge that def
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by froasty 8y ago
Let's say you're running a board game night each week over the summer in ten different cities and it's a standing rule that the group buys pizza. If everyone has to anonymously chip in to pay for pizza, everyone will eventual
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by froasty 8y ago
When any bar is set for what is considered "acceptable" inquiry in areas dedicated to research, we set boundaries that will inevitably be twisted to constrain research and free inquiry when reactionaries or revolutionaries are in
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by froasty 8y ago
Sorry, I have no desire to hold your hand anymore as you struggle to produce a single coherent thought. As you stated elsewhere, I'll be quite happy to debate with the "alt-right" and other adults. Sadly, that seems to exclud
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by froasty 8y ago
It is absolutely amazing how thick you are. Of course , mass radio and propaganda helped the Nazi state operate. But they were only broadcasting on the radio after they had power in 1933. It only helped them amplify their hold after they
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by froasty 8y ago
This is definitely the case in my experience and reading of the situation. Here's a quote from The Coming of the Third Reich by the premier historian of the period, Richard Evans: "Communist rhetoric had become a good deal more
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by froasty 8y ago
And, of course, you resort to picking out Spotify as if in a vacuum. But it's not in a vacuum! Alex Jones was de-platformed on from a communication medium with 2 billion monthly users! A platform that, in 2013, 50% of Americans che
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by froasty 8y ago
Clearly literacy, as well as history, eludes you. By March of 1933, the Nazis had risen to power . The Nazis did not weaponize radio and then rise to power. They rose to power and then took over radio. And just how did they manage to d
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by froasty 8y ago
Amazing! Now the right to freedom of expression, as historically understood and instantiated by Article 19 of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, is now considered a fundamentalist understanding of "free speech" . A
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by froasty 8y ago
Then it's clear that you're entirely ignorant of the history of radio in Germany, in particular its contribution to the rise of the Nazis. Before 1933, German radio broadcasting was conducted by 10 regional broadcasting monopolies
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by froasty 8y ago
"The people have their own opinions! We must shut them up for the sake of democracy!" Next you'll tell me that fighting in the war room is prohibited. Speaking of prohibition and the past, let's talk about the Index Libr
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by froasty 8y ago
I ruefully wait for the day that Comcast and the other big telecoms actually put fast lanes and walled gardens into place. On that day, when Randall Munroe and people like him complain about the death of net neutrality and the free exhange
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by froasty 8y ago
This trend towards redefining freedom of expression to disinclude an audience is unfathomably Orwellian. "No, no, we don't want to silence you; we just want to remove the hearing ability of everyone around you until you stop talki
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by froasty 8y ago
Instead of asking why these problems are endemic to every platform, people just say "let's try silver bullet #24 so that we can keep doing the same pernicious stuff with a veneer of progress" and now you have several more
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by froasty 8y ago
If your narrative can be derailed by pseudo-anonymous actors, you don't control the narrative. The idea that I'm primarily disagreeing with is that Facebook, Twitter, et al. can be hegemonic in a user-populated space. I don't
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by froasty 8y ago
There's a pretty stark difference between organic internet communities as they were and what is emerging from federated platforms on an already connected planet. I was on an emulation forum for several years in the early 2000s that had
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by froasty 8y ago
Yes, and nominally so did homeownership in suburbia vs rental in overcrowded cities. What it actually meant is that instead of being beholden to "The Man's" cultural standards, they were now beholden to the Homeowner's A
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by froasty 8y ago
Mastodon and other federated platforms are to social media what suburbia historically has been to cities. People think it'll resolve or at least mitigate the issues of digital privacy, digital harassment, and digital overpopulation, bu
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by froasty 8y ago
Agreed. Just look at franchises that were around in the 1990s and compare them to their 2010s counterparts. Almost none of them look good in comparison to their antecedents. Deus Ex -- You play as a cybernetic anti-terrorist operative in a
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by froasty 8y ago
That's the crux of relying upon transgression for value--it ages rapidly and if it obtains mainstream success, dies on the spot. You can see it happen with authors, musicians, writers, essentially any creative output. In terms of popul
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by froasty 8y ago
I don't remember where I first heard it, but the best formulation that I've heard over the years is that the BSDs are for people that love Unix; Linux is for people that hate Windows. I honestly think there's a latent explosi
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by froasty 8y ago
If you think that's prescient, take a look at the Privacy Protection Study Commission's Report to Congress twenty years before that in 1977: https://www.epic.org/privacy/ppsc1977report/epilogue.pdf http
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by froasty 8y ago
Okay, so there aren't primary sources. That's totally fine, though at this point, it's moot to speak about the relative ability for a traditional culture to cope with elevated mortality since we've moved into dealing wit
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by froasty 8y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but you're stating that there weren't primary sources directly involving the Angolans that you encountered? Just inference? Are there known records of their folkways concerning death? Call me cynic
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How were the Angolans coping? Did you encounter them in the archives?
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by froasty 8y ago
1. Do you include adolscence within childhood? Because that might be where we're disagreeing. How would you define childhood? 2. I don't think a comparison between cultures where horse-riding is fundamental to one where it is prim
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by froasty 8y ago
I call shenanigans on all four points. 1. Delayed adulthood along with the carceral infantalization that accompanies it is purely a modern phenomenon. 2. Jousting was not nearly as common as popular culture presupposes. The notion that pitc
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by froasty 8y ago
This article is everything wrong with privileged moderns looking back on the past. The world and the humans within it hasn't changed at all, barring costumes and jewelry. The biggest fallacy in this article isn't that it's w

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