SreudianFlip @ SreudianFlip @sh.itjust.works

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Yes, it is, psychologically. You only need a few thousand to be highly accurate.

Individuals can drop attachments to organized religion. The example given, if true, can be seen as evidence. If you are making an anthropological argument that there's a fundamental and practically immutable psychological difference between societies, you should say so, and address the occasional rapid shifts in social structures evident in modern history.

So far, you merely assert, with no explanation about your terms of reference.

Is it a fact because you want it to be, or are you some kind of statistics savant? It doesn't represent the planet anthropologically, but it does psychologically, and whether it is possible for a population to drop organized religion is about brains not tradition.

Why not? What are your assumptions about diversity in the context of the range of emotions and political tendencies?

Millions of people is a pretty good dataset for statistical reliability. That country can be considered a useful example of what's possible.

Guess what they call the folks over at fuckitnothing.works

And yet here you are, in the fediverse.

That letter is a fantastic rebuttal and dressing-down, thank you for the link. Fani Willis is a true badass.

I think you are referring to rules in the USA. In Canada, we have 'fair dealing' laws that would allow you to rip your CD and sell it. In part, this is already funded by a levy on blank CDs here.

Folks like this are independent journalists, once it becomes a profession for them.

I think the assumption is that a news agency or company will have a chain of accountability, fact checkers, editors, etc. that can, in theory, give some assurance of factuality, credibility, and responsibility. Also, authenticity: did they hire a properly qualified journalist or some dude who is interested and has opinions?

In practice, of course, billionaires have seized the means of social reproduction in media and policy, so that is mostly bullshit. Agencies run by journalists themselves are still worth paying attention to. Even the billionaire media has to pay attention to credibility at least, so some of what they do is factual.

Omission and defining the boundaries of discussion are the quiet lies.

The main suppliers of inexpensive EV's are Chinese manufacturers. Most solar equipment is Chinese made. Watch the upcoming trade deals. It will be interesting to see if joint chinese-ethiopian manufacturing agreements pop up in Ethiopia, due to labour rate arbitrage.

Copy, cut, paste, undo. Use those keyboard shortcuts and if you work with documents for a notable part of the day you will save a half day a year or so.

13 years one account, 9 years the other.

After the API enshittification clarion, I sat down for hours and munged every. single. damn. comment with a complaint about this.

THEN I deleted the accounts.

For now, Lemmy is merely potential, but shaping up. Mastodon is microblogging and is built around individuals promoting themselves, so it feels egotistical, but it's more mature than Lemmy so I lurk there for now too.

Ultimately I am a forum user, as a participant in a conversation. Looking forward to that again.