Candelestine @ Candelestine @lemmy.world

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No fundamental flaw in your thoughts at all. Holding reasonable doubts is a core tenet of the scientific method, if we did not do so, that would prevent us from improving and refining our methods over time. We'd still be using things like Newtonian gravity.

This is, frankly, a very good question.

It's only when people try to hold unreasonable doubts about very high certainty things here on Earth that people start getting a little irritated. Like, is the thing flat? No, no it is not.

Your doubt is about things that we cannot easily verify though, so is more reasonable.

One other thing to keep in mind, is that scientists communicate with us in narrative form, and say things like "such-and-such galaxy is x far away", but amongst themselves, generally do not. They're just treating us like children, and smoothing over the details to make things easy for us. Amongst themselves they just refer to the specific data that has been collected, like, "such-and-such light has x redshift". No narrative translation. They do not think the way they talk to us.

Article dated four years ago...? That's pretty dishonest. I'm sure we do have plenty of big money inter-twined with the DNC, and this is a good publication, but a more recent article would be a little less ... blatantly propagandistic.

I am well aware that much of the work occurs behind the scenes. However, that does not excuse numerous failures. I am not willing to simply give them the benefit of the doubt and my trust, a position that I simply find prudent. They are an agency of my democratic government, and we should pay attention and be critical.

Fair point. Though I still do not think their "counter-intel is fine". Ukrainian counter-intel appears strong, but ours is lacking, unless you count the work of journalists. The work of civilians like Christo Grozev should not be necessary though.

Like I said, their intelligence gathering is fine, I was not complaining about that.

Counter-intelligence work does not require one to move to China or Russia when the targets that need detection are not operating in China or Russia.

I think capping your consumption to a certain modest level is a good compromise. Reading none of it is probably the best for your individual health, but also deprives you of the information you need to be an engaged citizen in a democratic society.

Reading too much of it will just harm you, by negatively impacting your emotional well-being and potentially overwhelming your ability to process daily information, both news-based, and in your day-to-day life.

So, responsible consumption in moderation is the best compromise imo. Personally I get a lot of mine right here on Lemmy, which has largely replaced my "morning paper" experience, and rely on a handful of global sources to make sure I'm not missing anything important that doesn't make it onto here. Ground News is particularly good for that.

Then I also personally like to stay abreast of how specific factions spin things, but that's more due to a personal interest in how propaganda affects society, and I honestly don't really recommend it if you value your sanity.

I'm saying that very few of our institutions have the resources and experience necessary to fight back against any form of espionage. Our intelligence agencies do, so I would appreciate a pivot from intelligence-gathering and destabilization operations, which are a part of their mission, to counter-intelligence against our rivals, which is also part of their mission. This seems to have been neglected, given how Russian spies have managed to perform assassinations in the west, become Italian admirals and German fintech CEOs, and do on-the-ground surveillance in Ukraine in support of their invasion.

I am deeply disappointed in our CIA these days. Their intelligence gathering is fine, but they should be protecting us as well.

... that's great and all, but pretty much anyone can be a social media influencer. How about some actual counter-intelligence work, that most of us couldn't actually do?

I wouldn't mind hearing about some more Russian spies getting caught, if they really want to earn their pay.

#AllFlagsAreFake

Problem is the IDF response. They've already demonstrated a callous disregard for innocent life. So, just stop sending soldiers in, and send tank shells instead.

War is just not a one player game.

I'd really rather not dig through looking for the trolling to copy/paste. I'm not a cities skylines 2 player, so I don't really have a horse in this race, except hating toxic internet bullshit in general.

Ah, I didn't realize you were mainly going off the subreddit, that makes more sense now. Reddit in general tends to have a milder tone compared to most internet spaces, in my experience. I imagine they're talking about the Paradox Interactive official forums, which can have a more hardcore tone overall, pretty often I'd say. I actually tend to avoid them for that reason, despite being a pdx fan in general.

They tend to try to seem centrist. They're savvy about it, so they're not necessarily interested in being caught out at being a straight-up, purist, propaganda rag.

That said, I'm not sure if they support Trump or not. Not all evangelicals do, since he's not very Jesus-like. I've been trying to remind people of that myself recently, despite not personally being a very religious person.

Alright, look rich banker people... I know you don't like how we dems want to regulate the shit out of you for the safety of the public and tax your earnings, but you can deal with us, and the predictable, slow-moving stability we offer, or you can have these guys running things.

Think about it, okay?

In 2013, IBT Media acquired Newsweek from IAC; the acquisition included the Newsweek brand and its online publication, but did not include The Daily Beast.[11] IBT Media, which also owns the International Business Times, rebranded itself as Newsweek Media Group, and in 2014, relaunched Newsweek in both print and digital form.

In 2018, IBT Media split into two companies, Newsweek Publishing and IBT Media. The split was accomplished one day before the District Attorney of Manhattan indicted Etienne Uzac, the co-owner of IBT Media, on fraud charges.[12][13][14]

IBT Media is an American global digital news organization with over 90 million monthly readers, owned by followers of religious leader David Jang.[1][2]

Long story short, one of the more savvy outlets of the Evangelical right.

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Fallout 76 was also an unbelievable shitshow, and had very, very few honest defenders. Does it have to go full gamergate for you think its a problematic situation or something? Try to remember there's a distinction between reasoned debate, like what you and I are doing right now, and trolling. Which I'm sure we could both switch to if we felt like it.

Criticism, for it to be useful, does have certain delivery requirements. The critic, in order to not be shit, has a certain responsibility to their criticism.

Now, gamers are a tough bunch. If a community is losing community, I think we can make some inferences about whats going on, and it's probably not a bunch of well-reasoned and nuanced debate.

"[It's] not only directed towards our devs but also our fellow community members - resulting in people hesitating to engage with the community," Hallikainen explained.

Mussolini was a moron too. They play to image and emotions though, which doesn't take smarts, just a decent understanding of people. Which can come from experience and operate more instinctively, you just do it, you don't have to understand how any of it actually works.

They actually often come after the smart people, who can be an obstruction in their path, due to smart people being better at seeing through emotional bullshit. So, if they get rid of us more rational sorts, we can no longer stand in their way. They end up with brain drains from this, but I don't think that would really bother Trump.

Fascism is very anti-intellectual overall.

I mean, if you're a teen it's probably fine.