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by swed420 8mo ago
> Half of this country believes problems are systemic and can be fixed. So then why don't they vote for the party that offers systemic solutions? Oh, right, because neither corporate party offers such. We can't elect systemic s
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by swed420 8mo ago
Awesome. Hopefully storage is next.
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by swed420 8mo ago
That would not be the order of magnitude proposed above.
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by swed420 8mo ago
It does if they're looking for any excuse to ignore something unpleasant, such as the cognitive dissonance of an internal moral failure.
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by swed420 8mo ago
Maybe ten years ago, but that's a huge exaggeration today.
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by swed420 8mo ago
> A significant amount of modern academia would dissolve if this was applied You could go one level higher with this observation, since "modern academia" is just another business. Rephrased: A significant amount of businesses
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by swed420 8mo ago
> Somewhat relatedly, the ancients viewed Rhetoric as the purest expression of intelligence. It required you to have deep knowledge of a topic, including all arguments in favour and against (implying deep empathy with the audience), and
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by swed420 9mo ago
> You'll never see a representative who PERFECTLY represents your own views. Your strawman has no power here. It's obvious when we're in a race to the bottom versus when we're making actual long-term progress that ben
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by swed420 9mo ago
> this discontinuation follows a pattern we've seen with this administration knee-capping or outright dismantling many of the ways this country spreads soft power such as through humanitarian services via USAID, broadcasts from Voic
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by swed420 9mo ago
Just one guess, but a lot of memory formation happens during various sleep cycle(s). Persistent cannabis use is commonly associated with lack of dreaming, which suggests it interferes with normal sleep cycles. I was experiencing lack of dre
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by swed420 9mo ago
The parent's point seems to be that since most voters of both corporate parties have pretty much universally internalized and accepted they're voting for the "lesser of two evils," it's safe to conclude our politica
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by swed420 9mo ago
I don't expect you to take my word, but fwiw, I obviously know nothing about you personally and did not mean it that way. It's just that what you said reminded me vividly of past me. Could have just been a coincidence, but either
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by swed420 9mo ago
Most likely. Except: > it all simply keeps getting less secure, more complex and brittle until the heat death of modernity Is it modernity? Seems more likely to be archaic economic systems captured by elites and incentivizing the wrong b
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by swed420 9mo ago
> it's less likely to gateway to anything - like alcohol That's a bad example to make your point. Alcohol is absolutely a gateway drug. I know many a cigarette smoker who had their first cig puff while intoxicated around other
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by swed420 9mo ago
> I can tell you from years of first hand experience, it certainly makes you far dumber. The biggest factor is loss of memory. We all have anecdotes, and mine contradict yours. All of the non-users of cannabis I know have terrible memory
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by swed420 9mo ago
Spoken like a true alcoholic (former me would know)
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by swed420 9mo ago
Carl Sagan was one example: https://thereitis.org/mr-x-by-carl-sagan/ He originally wrote about it under a pseudonym for fear of professional consequences. Many such cases.
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by swed420 9mo ago
Moderation as found in /r/petioles is a middle ground that works for many people
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by swed420 9mo ago
> most people do not consider alcohol a drug at this point But that's presumably why the parent commenter spoke up in the first place. Industry-fueled self-delusion can be intercepted if we make the effort to do so.
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by swed420 9mo ago
> You can take the stance that nobody knows what any of these terms mean I guess It's not that they don't know. It's that they bend definitions to their advantage depending on what the context dictates. 538 is exactly the
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by swed420 9mo ago
> I’ve encountered the same rhetoric, tactics, and moral framing in offline activist spaces for years, long before Bluesky or current platform dynamics. Online platforms don’t invent this; they surface and concentrate it. Once again, we
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by swed420 9mo ago
> On Bluesky, the boundaries of acceptable discourse are unusually narrow and strongly enforced, which predictably produces ideological clustering. This isn't in conflict with my original comment. > As for bots or “controlled opp
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by swed420 9mo ago
I still primarily come for the tech/hacker vibe, but also understand and accept that continually hitting snooze on important political items will threaten my future ability to enjoy the former. I also respect the fact that this is run
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by swed420 9mo ago
No. Pre-Musk twitter was a liberal cesspool (and now it's a conservative one). Most of those liberals jumped ship to Bluesky. Again, that's not to say lefists don't exist, but they are a tiny fraction, and always were a tiny
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by swed420 9mo ago
No. Once again you're referring to liberals even if you don't know it. You might be confused because several forces want you to be exactly that: 1) The right lumps/conflates everything from centrist liberal to far left as &qu
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by swed420 9mo ago
Or would it show group A complains about some political posts, while that same group doesn't complain about other political posts? There's already a predictable trend in political posts that do and do not get flagged, clear even w
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by swed420 9mo ago
You've missed the original point. From the left's perspective, the liberals deserve muting and are spam, and same from the other way around. It's siloed echo chambers everywhere. Part of it is unrealistic expectations of user
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by swed420 9mo ago
Agreed. There is hope, but it requires enough people to care and act accordingly: https://www.noemamag.com/the-last-days-of-social-media/
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by swed420 9mo ago
> likely because the site was just one big echo chamber of far left American politics around that time. The US does not have a "far left" in any significant numbers, and never has. At least not in a self-aware sense. Maybe you
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by swed420 9mo ago
Jellyfin can order albums by year, though I assume many readers of this thread are looking for a self contained player rather than client/server setup like Jellyfin.

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