Promethiel @ Promethiel @lemmy.world

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Thank you for taking the time and for your words once more. You've given much to think we the shakiness in hope can be chalked simply to less experiences; Armstrong was already 90 when I came into this world.

But I can conceptualize what you mean about his message; it resonated enough it's been covered by other musicians I've listened to.

I still fear the bounds of faith in our shared humanity and the meaning of the social contract may be tested, but while I have the conviction I certainly do not wish for that.

I'll take your words in and accept them as a truth for the world.

A world I'd rather live in even if I don't see how to square the sins of the figurative fathers of the past with any actions I could do for the children of today, starting with my literal one.

Mayhap the hope of the past and faith in common humanity will mingle with youthful vision somewhere down the line and I'll have done my part that way, even as I contemplate and rightly fear the alternatives.

I have read all of your comment reply. I don't agree with all of it, but I have read it and I appreciate your time in writing it.

The extra nuance you took to further clarify your point so that your strongly emotive comparisons were not misconstrued as ignorance was a particularly welcome touch.

As to a retort of any kind; Within the framework of the world you describe, you are correct and I would almost be swayed.

I just can't bring myself to believe it can still be true, that it isn't simply the idealism of an age gone by.

If bad faith in kind breeds more bad faith and our own good faith is weaponized against the public good, then what?

If it is erosion, then I personally can only hope that the good intentions on the road to hell will also erode the structures from underneath evil as well as the good.

It is short sighted, but just what else am I supposed to see beyond the cliff we're hurtling towards?

You seem very well spoken but clearly convicted in seeing the shining and just world you may have thought you were building towards go dark and twisted the way the History books noted should be history.

That's a presumption on my part of course and I'll never truly know, but it rings right.

But this is a topic where your enthusiasm for the recovery of a dream that never was is making you say some seriously ignorant takes, in the dehumanize others for my point sort of way.

There is a small cadre of lovely good old people who don't realize the realities being lived in those they have spent their lives seeing as allies--or at least being non-antagonistic towards.

A terrifying thing to see people who were there or learned first hand from those who were living through the bloody acquisition of the rights of marginalized group after marginalized group.

And how even those rights that were bled for are being eroded, within the same lifetime.

If they still can recognize such a simple reality, that recognition comes with a price that is often decided as not worth paying for those people, for whatever reasons they tell themselves.

I fear you may have with all the best intentions, gelled there as one of those people.

But my God. I have never in my life of being of color and all of the hardships and obstacles that's brought the thought:

"Hmmm, did my ancestors really get freedom? Was the Civil War worth it, for our country's Unity? Wouldn't it be better to still remain chattel while trying to think of how to solve this all amicably".

The ignorance is so staggering I can't manage to be offended.

There's a thin line between anguished despair and nihilistic optimism.

A thin, intentional line.

It can be alluded to, highlighted, charted, and otherwise discussed ad-infinitum, but it's damn near impossible to lead another to.

Only have one comment to read (and I'm sorry how much it cost) but it looks like you're at peace indeed.

Kudos to you, but remember you can backslide in acceptance and working back out is okay too!

Even crazy new Dragons get the "Respect the #1 rule of Dragon Club; do nothing to threaten the viability of the existence of Dragons" speech, I reckon.

Now keep in mind we have to be reasonable people and not driving our people beyond reasonableness.

Ditch your suite, and go into executive exclusive consultancy.

Just paraphrase the quoted section for each individual thick skull, and maybe teach them that softening the skin around your eyes and giving the beleaguered high performers bringing feedback a knowing look doesn't violate business needs.

Then you won't have to worry about posts starting with "as an executive" going wrong.

Well, no not really, but I know a board that needs to internalize that sentiment.

Shame on me for not adding to the discussion but the caffeine still ain't hit. I just want to say for some reason that seeing a willingly obtuse clown be challenged to be even more so genuinely made me giggle for some reason. Thank you.

Mafia "Dons" get old and senile too. Hitler shat. Mussolini farted. There are no gods and only the masters we allow. Does it need to be said that human evil also ages?

The metric for success shouldn't be a high number of end users reporting phishing emails, but that seems to be what upper management wants to see, which just incentives less resources invested in better scanners with less than a 20% false negative rate.

The eternal battle between the "oh we go by data backed metrics, much measured, I feel this is the best" executive suite and the poor saps beneath twirling the data backed signs going ignored until money or disaster strikes.

Pity businesses aren't formed from the bottom up; it's like an octopus deciding not to listen to its arm brains until the shark has a bite of its head.

Did you think the MS C-Suite does much other than bloviate on LinkedIn in-between (and during) meetings? It's for them and execs everywhere.

No no no. Nuance can only be used to pave a high road to hell. Get out of here with using it to fire back more intelligently yet equally dirty. We can only do one thing at a time, so it's high road all the way to the grave.

I mean, what's next in your suggestions? Using the free and available plethora of Republican politician child sex scandals as non-slanderous, factual, and real ammo fodder?

It's okay, many of them will learn when the fascists turn on empathetic people like them, people like their LGBTQIA+ friends, and an ever more purity-shifting test stupider than a swatch of paint held to their faces.

Because people (maybe some like you?) don't explain nuance and responsibility to them, just throw blame around and make noises about where all of the fault lays (it's never also on your--metaphorical you, I hope--laps is it?) and why this agenda is better and would not lead to this or that.

You don't need to address me if you prefer of course. I don't actually foresee any useful dialogue here so just yelling at two-faced clouds.

While I see your point and truth is we'll just never know, I am afraid you might be a bit naive.

I just don't see the circumstances for a random burglar to be snooping through folders close enough to find the presumably relatively hidden items they'd need to find, let alone that happening alongside the low odds an actual burglar would risk their own security to do the right thing.

This is exactly what burgling is. Having been the unfortunate victim once not even the spines of my books were safe. Burglars watch the same movies, so they will cut into your cushions, paintings, go through folders, behind outlets.

Then I got way too into a show about two ex burglars who would look for volunteer houses to break into, and yeah. No stone is left unturned and with far more diligence they would ever put in a real job.

I agree with you 100% but boy howdy, you're, bluntly, a terrible communicator this morning. Just dropping here arguing with your own demons. Neither you nor the other person are on the same topic. They're only seeing up to the election.

You're rightly looking further and calling for people to hold the fire under their Representatives so the shittery and evil can be burned out of them, specially as the fire is turned up as time goes on, not lowered.

That makes the world a better place, but no one hears your message when you call them spineless cynics for their ignorance (of your point, the only thing you have in evidence).

Seriously, read yours and their responses again. They're looking at the base of the hill and arguing. You're looking at the horizon and arguing something else. Maybe direct their gaze to the goal instead alongside the crushing of all their held opinions?

Absolutely. You're forced through a slower burn in the books that is hard to appreciate until you're many more books down.

The show packed in the political intrigue and other elements earlier because it better fit the format, whereas on the books you first go through Holden and Miller's PoV and throughout their different perceptions get introduced to the setting.

Then the 2nd and 3rd books bring in a deeper view of those other political points of view. It then pats you for now having all of the info you need.

Then it straps you into a jump seat and hits the juice with a few random stops and sudden decelerations before boosting off again for the remainder of the 8 books and novellas.

Absolutely. You're forced through a slower burn in the books that is hard to appreciate until you're many more books down.

The show packed in the political intrigue and other elements earlier because it better fit the format, whereas on the books you first go through Holden and Miller's PoV and throughout their different perceptions get introduced to the setting.

Then the 2nd and 3rd books bring in a deeper view of those other political points of view. It then pats you for now having all of the info you need.

Then it straps you into a jump seat and hits the juice with a few random stops and sudden decelerations before boosting off again for the remainder of the 8 books and novellas.

I'll be honest. I want to believe in the Fediverse and Lemmy, really really hard.

It's ideals (rather, the gestalt of the best of what everyone says is the best of Federation) appeals strongly.

But sometimes, it's instance after instance of complaining about this or that. Double points when it's all reddit complaining.

I dunno if being a heavy content creator necessitates an air of misguided superiority but there's no more nuance here than anywhere else, and the content can't seem to form precisely because everyone decides to take their toys away and do their own thing at the smallest provocation.

I don't use them on my phone because fuck their app, but I've found no choice but to join up with an alias and as much extensions to make their job harder as Firefox allows, just to have genuine discussions on hyper specific topics from a PC.

Man. Every time I see it again spelled out, how smooth these disingenuous decrepit assholes had it when they were my age, I start wishing for a claymore and a stump.

They could just bomb them from airplanes if they do so, but that option is historically only reserved for thriving black communities.

In a perfect world, NASA was always funded like Humanity depended on it since after WW2, and by 2010 a unified global space organization supplanted the need for any militaries because we're too busy building fission plants on the moon to bind with that sweet HE3 to power the Space Mobile Homes affordable for all because of course we researched fusion without profit motive until it worked.

Kinda my preferred alt-world, now someone please fire up all of the world's particle accelerators on high at once, that'll get us there right?