TheSaneWriter @ TheSaneWriter @lemmy.thesanewriter.com

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I think that all people and many non-person animals have dynamic and complex inner worlds, but Conservatives definitely have a blind spot when it comes to political evaluation. Unfortunately, it's our nature as our species to seek out shortcuts. One of the ways we do this is by finding trusted sources to do some level of evaluation for us, that way we don't have to think about as much. With Conservatives, many of them learned to trust certain sources from their parents, religion, or their own misguided fear. These sources are conspiratorial and hate-mongering, and they usually don't apply any critical analysis to them. This leads to a self-perpetuating cycle where their sources tell them to trust no one and to be hateful and from that they don't pick up any new sources, causing them to enter an echo chamber they can't escape. It's honestly kinda sad and I somewhat pity them, but I still will do what it takes to defeat them politically.

You really would think.

It's funny how we have the most impressive and well-funded military in the world, and then stuff like this still happens. Honestly, I think it shows even with really smart or technically knowledgeable people you should still build systems to minimize user error. For example, if military communications were handled through an encrypted messaging application instead of by email there would have been very little possibility of us accidentally sending national secrets to Mali.

Indeed. That's one of my biggest problems with religion and why it makes me uncomfortable even though I ostensibly believe that people have their right to spirituality. Ultimately, with spiritual premises, people can come to faulty or unpredictable conclusions even with sound logic, and that somewhat unnerves me.

That definitely doesn't help. In an atomized society there are fewer incentives to work with other people which causes people to either not develop proper social skills or to develop malformed ones.

As an online moderator I'm biased, but I'd say usually allies with occasional hard adversaries. I'd be lying if I said I didn't like power, but ultimately even knowing that it's your responsibility as a moderator to enforce the community will, keep out the riff-raf, and ban toxic elements. I think most mods understand this, but there are a notable handful that turn toxic and turn the communities into a personal playground, and those types of people need to be kept as far away from any sort of power as possible.

Where are you living? This post I'm fairly sure is true in most Western countries and many non-Western ones.

I think some people have trouble conceptualizing those around them as human. From what I can tell it's not intentional cruelty, at least at first, they just struggle to conceptualize and understand the idea that all of the people around them have just as dynamic and complex inner worlds as they do. When it's a struggle to make that connection, it's easy to go through life ignoring the plight of those around you, disregarding them with the same ease most people dismiss a warning on a computer.

We've passed the point of no return for many things, but not everything. We could still improve this world's standards if we started taking climate change seriously, but unfortunately our system is designed to react as the last moment instead of being proactive about literally anything.

Oh, that's really cool. Voyager is one of my favorite apps so I'm glad to hear it has that functionality.

Those stick figures have great facial expressions. Their disgust and confusion is so greatly captured in such little detail.

Good for India, I wish them success on their mission.

Absolutely. If you find one for iOS that supports post it here, I'm sure people would appreciate it.

Don't judge, doctors need food too.

I don't think the majority of normal adults have seen a single porn, or even heard of sex.

Some apps have implemented it, I've heard Connect on Android is one of them.

I don't see much porn, but my instance is currently so small that my subscription and all feeds aren't really that different yet.

It really is. Once you get all the services running and configured correctly, they just chug along happily without being touched.

Docker's honestly really easy to use, is there anything specifically challenging you about it? I'd be happy to explain how any of it works or how to use its features.

I'm currently hosting a Lemmy instance, I started work on it Friday and finished getting it fully running today. It honestly depends on whether or not you want it to be public, as that will determine the amount of resources you put into it. For a personal instance, I think there are relatively few downsides, Lemmy is fairly light in terms of consumption and as long as you have dynamic DNS service you can fairly easily get it running on a home server. For a public instance, especially one hosted on the cloud like mine, it's considerably more labor and a bit more expensive, but still worth it my opinion. So either way go for it, just be aware of your goals going into it.