sumofchemicals @ sumofchemicals @lemmy.world

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Lol

A lot of the stuff you talked about is covered in the article.

That world isn't a better place. The problem with violence is who decides when it's used, and why it's used.

I don't want politicians I support (who in my view are taking reasonable, legal actions) to be assaulted by opponents. It's why we have due process, so that it's not just a case of "we have a mob big enough to do this".

Quartering? That's awful. Violence or detainment should not be used as punishment or to inflict pain, only to prevent future harmful actions.

Yeah, I guess it is kind of an old phrase. Basically something a more conventional or conservative person might say about something that's impractical/naive/overly idealistic. You can imagine like a 60s American dad saying it about tie dye kids

Was looking for this comment, thanks

There are times violence is necessary, with Nazi Germany being the classic example.

That said, most of the time, even for many times where violence might be "right" it's still a strategic error. It's much harder to build than destroy and any "successful" deployment of violence requires physical and institutional/relational rebuilding.

Violence can make it harder to attract supporters to your cause. It gives your opponents the feeling of moral justification in also exercising violence. In a full on conflict, it reduces the ability of key supporters (the young, elderly, disabled, many women) from contributing to the struggle compared with non violent action

I've been meaning to buy this! Does he have a section on how to handle no one speaking your language?

I'm a fan of the concept. Two notes:

While the name has noble intentions, it's a horrible choice in terms of conveying "this is a respectable institution and you should hire this person." Obtaining the knowledge should be enough, but we all know part of why we choose the educational institutions we do is to help get a job, and some schools are viewed more favorably than others. "University of the People" sounds hippy dippy and fake.

Second, if you like this model you might consider looking at Western Governor's University. It's regionally accredited (ie. the kind you want), online, and the name seems like it would be more appealing at first glance to employers.

What would you say is missing from the mastodon user experience vs twitter?

Things I would like:

• better discovery/suggestions when people first join. I get a "selling point" is that the timeline isn't algorithmically driven, but just to help people get their feet wet start showing them some stuff
• when displaying a post there needs to be a better mechanism to fetch all the replies. Right now it's possible to respond and say something someone else already did because you you're not shown their reply. For federation reasons I guess.
• better list integration

But overall, for me the functionality I used from twitter I have on mastodon too. The real missing feature is the huge variety of people, and getting that takes time.

Plastic bottled is garbage. I like an aluminum can ok. Glass bottled is pretty good. But you're mistaken about fountain.

Lol I too have read those "what's a thing the public doesn't know about your job" reddit threads

Can't say I have much of an opinion at all, but seeing this post is reminding me of that documentary where the guy was commissioning videos of young dude wrestlers tickling each other, and he played it off like it wasn't, but of course it was for sex reasons

I have seen someone type "tell me how make a million dollar business" into chatgpt. Of course that's not going to work. But LLMs have immediate obvious value that crypto does not, and I think making the comparison reveals a lack of experience with those useful applications. I'm using chatgpt nearly every day as a tool to help with coding. It's not a replacement for a person, but it is like giving a person a forklift.

This hasn't been my experience. Yes, chatgpt gets stuff wrong, and fairly regularly. But I can ask it my question directly, and can include sample code, and I get an answer immediately. Anyone going on stack overflow has to either google around and sift through answers for relevance, or has to post the question and wait for someone to respond.

With either chatgpt or stack you have to check the answer to make sure it works - that's how coding goes. But one I know if it works or not pretty much immediately with fairly low investment of time and effort. And if it doesn't, I just rephrase the question, or literally say "that doesn't seem to work, now I'm getting this error: $error"

You're right that lemmy primarily needs content, and it doesn't have to be just credentialed experts. It will grow in appeal the more there are real communities discussing whatever their subject of interest is.

Realizing we're talking about an imaginary world here, but in some cases probably appropriate not to discuss sensitive matters when you don't know who is within earshot of the communicator

I do think it's different this time, but

Some of this stuff seems real, but in the one twitter thread embedded in this article, the person says, "Remember, this is fiction."

Lol yeah. Also just because I'd like a different platform to be dominant doesn't mean I don't need to use the current one sometimes

It's not public opinion I'm necessarily concerned about, it's attacks by those who benefit from the way things are.

Also, choosing language that strengthens your position is the logical approach for anyone advocating for change. I'm not trying to obscure my position, I'm trying to make it clear.