Libra00 @ libra00 @lemmy.world

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Yeeep, that shit's crazy. Why we ever let corporations control our means of interacting with each other online I'll never know, but now it's all going to shit as it was always meant to so they can squeeze even more money out of us. Fuck 'em.

I'd go to the world of The Culture. Fully automated luxury gay space communism, immortality, the works. The only problem is figuring out how to put my 'real world' self into a permanent coma so I can stay there.

I've heard that too, but I saw the original commercials and remember it as 'you wouldn't steal a car'.

One nice thing about being willing to admit that you're wrong is when other people make a big deal about it you can say something like 'Look, I apologized and I said I would do better in the future, are you trying to accomplish something with all this endless harping on a resolved issue or are you just still stuck on how upset you were that I'm fallible just like everyone else?'

I don’t want to stay wrong any longer than necessary

Right, exactly. I care more about having the correct information than I do about being seen to be right. Honestly I don't find it painful to be wrong unless it's something I defended eagerly and resisted being corrected on, which does happen sometimes, but most of the time I can just shrug and go 'My bad, but at least I've learned something here today.'

What I don’t understand, however, is why, instead of simply leaving the discussion, some people start making excuses, redefining terms, rewriting history, or attacking me personally based on beliefs I often don’t even hold. That kind of behavior just seems absurd to me.

Because some people over-correct in resisting being wrong until they have to be right all the time.

This is one of my favorite songs of all time, and I quite liked the original even.

Great choice. That was done by Gary Jules, btw.

Heartily seconded, came here to say this.

I think it's two things.

1. Tribalism and identity play a large role here, we're wired to defend our identity and that of our group so we naturally get defensive when those things are questioned.
2. We have cultivated a culture in which being wrong or changing your mind about this stuff is weakness or makes you a bad person.

People are desperately afraid of being wrong, of admitting that they made a mistake, especially one that makes them question their tribe's values because that combines shame and judgement with the possibility of being ostracized.

Personally I've always tried to cultivate a willingness to be wrong because I value having the best possible information more than not being wrong or questioned. I actively seek our situations where my core beliefs and opinions are challenged and tested, where I am exposed to new ideas and perspectives, because to me that is the only way to make sure I have an accurate and well informed worldview. But it definitely took a lot of effort to quash that gut reaction of 'fuck you don't question me'.

If I could steal a car by downloading it over the internet without depriving the original owner of it and with similarly low risk of getting caught/prosecuted for it I would absolutely steal a car. I wouldn't steal a font tho, that's just beyond the pale. :P

Yep, that's also pretty fashy, but's by no means the only fascist issue in this country.

Clearly. :P

That definitely makes it not fascism right? :P

And that's also fascist. If we're assembling a list of the fashy shit Trump has done one by one we might be here a while.

Yeah, I got a 7-day ban for saying Luigi Mangione probably shouldn't go to prison for what he did because they said I was inciting violence. They lifted it on appeal, but not before hitting me with a perma-ban for some bullshit about circumventing the ban with other accounts (I've had exactly one account on reddit in the ~14 years I've been there), so I decided they were getting a bit too fashy for my taste and started looking for greener pastures.

Except it's not being able to be elected, because he's served two terms and that limitation isn't just a law, it's an amendment. I don't care how much of congress they control, changing it will require a new amendment and that's just exceedingly unlikely to happen, much less happen before the end of his current term. So if he can't change the rules, attempting to stay in power anyway is absolutely fascist dictatorship material.

That's kinda interesting. My first thought on seeing that image, though, was 'ramen + autism = good!'

Interesting, I didn't know that. I was gonna say it certainly hasn't been any of the recent ones.

That's not a can't, it's a get-paid-a-shitload-of-money-to-not.

Right? 'ZOMG users aren't viewing the contents of their friends!', yeah, because you hide that shit behind ads and promoted content, dumb-ass.

May I be the first to say..