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by toofy 6y ago
> ...but I feel like as a society we’ve swung so far away from institutional trust that now nothing good can actually emerge. I understand and completely empathize with your concern. I do think this lack of trust is and is going to cause
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by toofy 6y ago
I would need to see some sources on “They come from particular schools, live in particular cities...” Even if this were true, (which I’m highly skeptical of) why would this even a bad thing? I mean, if we’re talking about elite papers such
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by toofy 6y ago
Not only are they not legally obligated to uphold free speech, very few (almost zero) companies allow anyone to say whatever they wish whenever they wish. Im still wondering why anyone expects this of youtube but would never ever expect it
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by toofy 7y ago
This really comes down to whether or not all ideas should be _promoted_ equally. Do we think all ideas–even if they are demonstrably untrue-deserve to be boosted to the same level of provable truths. Should they all be promoted equally and
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by toofy 7y ago
> Why are you afraid of non-scientific ideas? I’m not sure where you got the idea that people are afraid of non-scientific ideas–I see them discussed all over online everyday by thousands and thousands of people. No one is afraid of the
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by toofy 7y ago
> This assumes people value having a greater supply of housing... If this were true, wouldn't they just support building more housing generally? I’m not sure most people (or most cities) are saying they want a greater supply of hous
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by toofy 7y ago
That’s a pretty uncharitable assumption to make regarding one of the better authors of modern times.
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by toofy 7y ago
Oh I certainly did not mean to imply it’s natural or OK... To be more clear, this type of toxicity is seen all over the place and I think this behavior is likely caused by something that isn’t unique to any rehabilitation programs. We s
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by toofy 7y ago
> ... and went back to a meeting to find out that there were rumors that I had relapsed after I moved and continued using until I was homeless. It was a drama fest. I obviously don’t have your unique and nuanced understanding of the situ
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by toofy 7y ago
This could easily be an issue of colloquial interpretation barriers, but there is a significant difference between healthy skepticism and a mistrust driven by assuming the other party is always acting in bad faith. Like I said, this could
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by toofy 7y ago
If this is an attempt to say one is bad therefor the other is good, I’d advise against seeing the world in such a simpleton and dualistic manner–both amazon and someone who willfully interferes with a hearing device are both bad. If the goa
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by toofy 7y ago
> I'm setting family members up on Matrix right now specifically because they don't have phones and I can't switch them to Signal. > “It’s not designed for you” is a reasonable response to you’re building a niche produc
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by toofy 7y ago
I fear the same things you’ve listed, but it’s important to remember that the podcasters themselves will choose these proprietary systems and we can’t let them escape blame if they do. Podcasting is currently as open as anything can possibl
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by toofy 7y ago
do your thing! i think having a variety of humans with different priorities and interests is absolutely a good thing. i think it’s amazing that you enjoy putting in that time at work and it’s amazing that others prefer to spend a bit more
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by toofy 7y ago
They both attended Montessori schools. [0][1][2][3][4][5][6] The person who mentioned waldorf must have been confused. While they’re both small private schools, they are two very different approaches to education. [0] Wiki Brin: https:&#
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by toofy 7y ago
Perhaps I should have been more clear, apologies if I assumed it would be inferred. To use your term data , with complex topics it isn’t simply having data. One must know which data is relevant to consider for which topic at which point
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by toofy 7y ago
> ...the real point is that it's irrelevant how well or poorly we judge those people. What matters is the facts they or others present. This matters if your expertise are in the subject to which the facts belong, otherwise it means
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by toofy 7y ago
I’m not sure if your post was meant to challenge op’s idea or support them, but it isn’t clear to me that your statement contradicts them in anyway. There are so many absolutely terrible things we could do which help us immensely in the sho
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by toofy 7y ago
If they honestly don’t know the persons gender then it isn’t clear to me why they would choose a pronoun to begin with. If I don’t know someone’s name I don’t just start calling them Bill, I ask them their name and when they say “Hi I’m Wil
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by toofy 7y ago
I don’t mean to sound snarky, but this really discounts so many factors in how autism is dealt with and even worse it makes it sound as if autistic people are unable to learn how their actions impact people around them, which is of course c
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by toofy 7y ago
I don’t mean to quibble and I really want to strsss this next point: I’m absolutely as lost as we all seem to be regarding how some people in our communities should be dealt with. I don’t yet know how we’ll choose to handle them. But anyw
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by toofy 7y ago
There’s a good subreddit which focuses on the boring dystopian subject. Highly recommended if it’s your type of subject matter.
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by toofy 7y ago
> What if your partners mothers mom was put in charge of a maple tree conservation arboretum, and decided to cull all the oak trees, but she kept confusing maples for oak trees? > I'm not arguing that neo-nazis don't exist.
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by toofy 7y ago
> Who gets to decide who is a neo-nazi though? > I’ve heard jordan peterson and steven pinker called neo-nazis. It still isn’t clear to me what this brings to a discussion. It seems like such a strange question. Are any of us under th
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by toofy 7y ago
> Can you trust your own hosting though? Some people, organizations, or groups can, absolutely. While this is definitely a valuable question to ask, self-hosting is still valuable for many. Also, as we have seen repeatedly, assuming a ra
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by toofy 7y ago
The fact these classes dont allow one to preview the first few courses before registering has to influence these stats. I’ve done a number of them over the last couple of years and the fact that I can’t preview has caused me to abandon so m
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by toofy 7y ago
While I desperately want to trust you on a human to human interaction, and I genuinely do want to trust you, we’ve been misled with disingenuous language by companies at FB’s scale so many times for years, I’m finding it difficult to trust
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by toofy 7y ago
I totally agree with you that we almost certainly need some version of those things, but I’m curious specifically about the “best dealt with through government channels.” approach to how this person chooses to address concerns. There will a
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by toofy 7y ago
I definitely agree with you that things are better than they’ve ever been. However, much of that security, it hinges on a delusion that this security will go away if we address climate change, which is of course mostly untrue. If we addre
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by toofy 7y ago
There was a Home Depot anti-union video floating around yesterday. [1] What really struck me is how much they remind me of the cringey anti-drug videos we used to watch in like middle school, “If you see a suspicious person smoking somethin

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