hakase @ hakase @lemm.ee

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I've never understood the love for these books. I tried my damnedest to read them, but quit halfway through the third book once I irretrievably lost what little ever existed of the plot and hadn't cracked a smile in over a hundred pages.

why are people treating defederation as this huge, dramatic freaking thing? “This newsletter is shite, I’ll stop subscribing”.

The problem is that it's not one single person deciding to unsubscribe to a newsletter - it's one single person deciding to unsubscribe hundreds to thousands of other people unilaterally.

I don't want other people deciding what I am or am not allowed to see, which is why I'm on lemm.ee in the first place. There are plenty of other instances out there that are more than happy to make all of your decisions for you if that's what you want, but this is one of the very few larger instances not like that, and I'd prefer to keep it that way.

I vote nay to defederation (as I almost always will). If a problem can be solved simply by blocking two bots, then there is no need whatsoever to resort to defederation.

I understand your "new user" problem argument, but I think it's really a non-issue. Lemmy already has a much higher learning curve than a site like reddit, and I think the number of people who aren't put off by Lemmy's learning curve but are put off having to figure out how to block two users is pretty close to the empty set.

Do you think “anti-white racism” is even remotely as bad as other forms of racism?

In the vast majority of cases, no, not even close.

Or even a problem at all?

It's 100% a problem, for multiple reasons. First and foremost, it's racist, so it's already inherently a problem for that reason alone. But it's also a problem because your [hexbear's] moralistic self-righteousness combined with your [hexbear's] obvious hypocrisy gives people opposed to your ideals that much more ammunition (and of course you don't care about that, but that itself is also part of the hexbear problem).

And the worst part is that, as with so many of hexbear's problems, there's no reason for it. It's such an easy problem to fix, and would give an instance like hexbear that supposedly prides itself on its inclusivity such a huge boost in credibility. If you want to set yourselves up as morally unimpeachable, then be morally unimpeachable! Set an actual example, and be leaders that bring people together, not because of compromising your beliefs, but by actually being consistent, steadfast, and intellectually honest about the beliefs you already have.

And sure, I get the importance of having a place where you can feel comfortable and meme hyperbolically about problems you feel are important, and about the people who don't agree with you. That seems to be the direction that most hexbears seem to want to go.

But, in the end, it is racist, and it is disingenuous to promote yourselves as this bastion of anti-racism while encouraging literal racism on your instance and then act all surprised pikachu face when you get called out on it.

Unless by racism you mean racism but I hope I don’t have to explain why racism isn't a problem lol

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The irony of this poll blocking access from users with a VPN.

It wasn't alone! There was a Saturn in the hole below it on the carpet even though you can't see it! The NES was alone though.

I upgraded to a 20" Ikegami PVM and couldn't be happier. I didn't throw out the trinitron though - I made sure it found a good home on Craigslist.

They probably mean lemmygrad, hexbear, and exploding heads.

Nice! I used to have a surprisingly similar setup!

https://imgur.com/1zbGMRm

It would be if they hadn't chickened out with the last episode. Unfortunately that kind of tarnishes the impact of the penultimate episode in hindsight.

Massacre tous!

Ooh, great suggestion - I just signed up there as well! Thanks!

Here is everything I can remember doing:

1. Downloaded the apk
2. Installed and opened the program
3. Allowed notifications
4. Input my four instances: lemm.ee, sh.itjust.works, lemmy.basedcount.com, and lemmy.ml
5. Hit "sync" and watched them sync. Three of these instances had almost the same number of communities (around 120), but one had none whatsoever. It took two or three minutes for that instance (basedcount) to sync all of the communities, and in the end, it wasn't able to subscribe to about 20 of them for some reason. (maybe because nobody had ever gone to/searched for those communities from that instance before - I've heard this can lead to access problems, but you'd probably know more about that than I would)
6. About five minutes later, I got couple of notifications saying that 6(-ish) communities had been synced and that 18(-ish) had been unsubscribed across my instances. This confused me, so I checked my instance list and saw that all three of my instances with around 120 communities now had around 95.
7. I disabled notifications because they were starting to feel spammy.
8. I looked at the notification again and realized what had actually happened. I immediately uninstalled the program and resubscribed to as many communities as I could on lemm.ee, my main account.

Sorry this is so long - I hope it helps!

Beware!

This unsubscribed me from twenty+ communities on all of my instances. It first tried to subscribe all of my accounts to all of the communities of my largest instance, which is what I wanted it to do. One instance failed to sub to 20+ communities, which was fine, as it was a smaller instance.

Ten minutes later, however, I got a notification that it had unsubscribed all of my other instances from those communities as well. It took me about an hour to figure out most of the ones that had been lost, and even now I think I'm missing a few.

Ah, I see that I've made the mistake of engaging in this conversation in good faith when that was never your intention. I won't make that mistake with you again.

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The economist’s fundamental assumptions are wrong. The free market rational actor model is wholly incompatible with the ability of a finance or marketing industry to exist because marketing could never inform or convince anyone of anything and contracts can provide anything financialisation does without giving 10% of your income to someone who did nkthing.

This is either an intentional strawman of economic theory or a naive understanding based off a single Intro to Economics class.

It's like arguing that physics' fundamental assumptions are wrong because basic physics problems assume that cows are spheres with no air resistance.

Psychology and physics are founded in empiricism

A significant amount of modern economic research is empiricist, but even if it weren't, empiricism and rationalism go hand-in-hand in scientific inquiry. Rationalism is what allowed Mendel to posit "units of inheritance" over a century before the existence of DNA was empirically verified, and Schwarzschild to posit the existence of black holes almost a century before black holes' gravitational waves were first measured. Decades of productive research were had in advance of these empirical discoveries thanks to models built on rationalist inquiry, so "it's not empiricist" isn't quite the insult you seem to think it is.

Trying to model the behaviour of a single human is an incredibly difficult task. Trying to model the behaviour of billions is harder. Then you need to blend in their relationships to eachother. Then you need to blend in their relationships with their means of sustainance. With their individual values. Etc etc etc.

Trying to model the behavior of a single eddy of wind is an incredibly difficult task. Trying to model the behavior of billions is harder. Then you need to blend in their relationships to eachother. Then you need to blend in their relationships with the causes of those individual eddies. With their individual values. Etc etc etc.

If it’s the case that it’s just a matter of reading your econ textbook and then you can accurately model the economy, or even a small part of it [...]

It's not the case. My entire comment was about why that's not the case at all. Extracting disproportionate wealth is hard for the same reasons weather forecasting is hard. Not because of the theory, but because of the complexity of the system the theory describes.

I’m not saying that the theory is bad, but it’s a masterbutory exercise. Applying the theory results is such disparate actual outcomes make it more like legend then law.

You still haven't shown how this is any different to applying the theory of weather forecasting, or applying the theory of plate tectonics and still failing to predict earthquakes, etc.

However, I personally think that the frequent rejection of that reality serves a different psychological purpose, which is the need to translate wealth distribution to an explainable system… Specifically one that explains favourably to people who already have the wealth.

You're conflating the science of economics with the meta-discussion surrounding the politics of economics.

This is just like someone arguing that weather science is bullshit because we can't successfully predict the weather, and it therefore only exists as an excuse to implement more damn liberal environmental policies.