t3rmit3 @ t3rmit3 @beehaw.org

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I'm very glad that companies are pulling out of those markets instead of kowtowing to them. I'm sure PornHub realizes that there's no point playing ball with these conservatives who will just move the goalposts until they've banned porn altogether.

My conclusion is not that we need to replace all the buses with trains, it's that I'm not okay with replacing manned buses with unmanned ones. Unmanned trains, I'd be fine with, but just keep the manned buses.

Perhaps not in the NPR article, but in the first press conference held by the police, a reporter asked directly if they were trans. This angle is definitely out there, even if hopefully it will die out quickly.

In my situation it is their fight for luxury

Then your situation is not the same. They're not fighting for "luxury", they are also fighting for basic sustenance.

Frankly, I'm not going to take anyone but other North Koreans' opinion on condemning this. We can both (clearly) converse on Beehaw without being arrested or killed. And no matter how you keep avoiding the point, doing illegal remote tech work and handing the paycheck directly to the government, is not any different than doing legal remote tech work and handing taxes directly to the government.

Governments get money, governments build weapons.

Disney is the absolute poster child for Rainbow Capitalism. It'll only be Rainbow for as long as they think it'll make them money. They'll adopt Red-White-and-Black-with-4-Right-Angles Capitalism just as quickly.

inexplicable reference

Fucking conservative ghouls have literally been chomping at the bit to make this about trans people from the second they heard "shooting", and the media is desperate for their clicks, to monetize. Media has a literal vested interest in misinformation now, because there's a demo that wants it. Atrocious and infuriating.

first year over 1.5ºC

This is plain and simple racial oppression. This wouldn't have happened to anyone else accused of graffiti. It's entirely about making sure that Palestinians in the US understand that they are in danger, so they'll quiet down and stop driving awareness of a genocide that makes certain groups uncomfortable.

Are We Ready For Driverless Buses?

If they're on a set of parallel metal beams on the ground, absolutely!

He was, but it wasn't without Hillary controlling the DNC to weigh everything against him, including by using the funds that were meant to go to whoever was the elected candidate, during the primary. But don't take my word for that, that's straight from Donna Brazile, who became head of the DNC at the end of the 2016 election cycle: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-brazile-hacks-2016-215774/

“Wait,” I said. “That victory fund was supposed to be for whoever was the nominee, and the state party races. You’re telling me that Hillary has been controlling it since before she got the nomination?”

Gary said the campaign had to do it or the party would collapse.

“That was the deal that Robby struck with Debbie,” he explained, referring to campaign manager Robby Mook. “It was to sustain the DNC. We sent the party nearly $20 million from September until the convention, and more to prepare for the election.”

The agreement—signed by Amy Dacey, the former CEO of the DNC, and Robby Mook with a copy to Marc Elias—specified that in exchange for raising money and investing in the DNC, Hillary would control the party’s finances, strategy, and all the money raised. Her campaign had the right of refusal of who would be the party communications director, and it would make final decisions on all the other staff. The DNC also was required to consult with the campaign about all other staffing, budgeting, data, analytics, and mailings.

I had been wondering why it was that I couldn’t write a press release without passing it by Brooklyn. Well, here was the answer.

I don’t particularly feel sympathy for those who feel it is justified and righteous to join such an endeavour such as its military for the same of ‘feeding families’.

In the end every horrible deed done for gain by people who have people they care for can be said to be done for ‘feeding families’ in this sense.

This isn't equivalent to people getting rich by doing bad stuff, this is literally people who would be starving otherwise, like many others in NK are. And doing remote tech work isn't a "horrible deed". You have to actually apply nuance. You can't run to "anyone who works for the NK government for any reason is bad." This is the same logic that Israel uses to call the Gaza Health Ministry and other civil services "combatants".

This is OSA in the UK, not KOSA in the US. I don't disagree with you, but this was just British conservatives doing their thing, not based off of US legal precedents.

While I wish he had a longer sentence, he was coming up on the end of his, and he was already living at home due to being part of the white-collar convicts sent home for house arrest during COVID.

I also highly doubt Biden was briefed on every one of the 1500 people he commuted in those 2 days.

I've never heard of Nobara, thanks for the recommendation!

Haha, yeah I've done Gentoo a couple times before, back when I was younger and didn't mind spending hours tinkering with it. :P

Once a group has fully dehumanized another, no amount of suffering will ever budge them. If they also make the dehumanized group The Enemy, the suffering becomes a positive thing.

What distro(s) are you using that you recommend? I've been running plain Ubuntu for a couple years, but want to dual-boot something else for fun/ change of pace.

Thank you for sharing this, it definitely helps clarify the discussion.

I don't think this article is really about echo chambers (and it never uses the term), I think it's about (if I had to coin a name for it) performative conformity. The article points out how Democrats and Republicans tend to trend towards different lifestyles, not necessarily based on actual informed dislike of their counterparts' choices, but because those things are signifiers of their group affiliation. Buying a lifted pickup to appear conservative, for example. I don't think the author has an issue with this intrinsically, except when it becomes an entrenched position that prevents reflection on your own beliefs.

Now, the thing I heavily disagree with the author about is that "polarization" equates to "radicalism" or "extremism". Polarization is about the degree of separation between 2 things. If everyone in American was either Far-Right or Extreme-Far-Right, there would be minimal polarization, but no lack of harmful extremism. Hell, what constitutes extremism is even based on your baseline of "normalcy", so in order to equate polarization with extremism, you have to be erroneously conflating your own beliefs with "normalcy". Clearly the author thinks he's a 'Centrist'.

Reading more about the author, Robert B. Talisse, I'm fairly unimpressed. He's written several books on epistemic pluralism, basically arguing that there are many different, even opposing Truths, which are all valid because Truth is about pragmatic outcomes, and we should always be exposing ourselves to opposing views in order to continually refine our beliefs, a la the Scientific Method of testing hypothesis. That's great in theory, but if a given system of belief has been analyzed and found lacking, why should we still be engaging with it?

Consequently, epistemic pluralism countenances the possibility that further argumentation, enhanced reflection, or the acquisition of more information could yield rational resolutions to the kinds of value conflicts that metaphysical pluralists deem irresolvable as such. Talisse’s epistemic pluralism hence prescribes a politics in which deep value conflicts are to be addressed by ongoing argumentation and free engagement among citizens; the epistemic pluralist thus sees liberal democracy is the proper political response to ongoing moral disagreement. [Link]

I don't need to constantly debate Nazis to know that Nazism is still bad. I don't constantly need to re-measure the Earth to know it's still round, just because some fools believe it's flat. Both in science and in philosophy, there are settled Truths, and the presence of people who fail to understand them doesn't threaten them.

Sadly, it's already being forgotten despite it still being ongoing.

This "conflict" has been all about clearing Gaza for settlements. That includes removing Hamas, but they're just a subset of the real goal. They want all the Palestinians to either die or flee Gaza, so they can finally solve their Palestinian "situation".

They've been saying it themselves since the beginning, but all the apologists and propagandists just keep claiming otherwise.

Some of your post seems like it is a reaction to a specific anti-echo chamber critique, and if so that may be useful to share because some of the basic assumptions about what an echo chamber is or does seem erroneous to me. For example, when you say about echo chambers

I don’t believe such a community turns into a radicalization timebomb for being like-minded.

Who said that they do, in the first place? Radicalized and radicalizing spaces tend to be echo chambers, but most echo chambers are not those. A heavily-moderated forum about Disney characters can become an echo chamber of pro-Disney viewpoints, but that doesn't mean it's going to start churning out Unabombers.

Echo chamber doesn't just mean a place with generally homogenous views, it means a space in which all but one viewpoint on a given topic has been eliminated, such that it becomes self-reinforcing and self-insulating (i.e. people in that space become more and more convinced of the viewpoint's validity and prevalence, and people who do not share the viewpoint already become more likely to avoid the space).

Agreement is good wtf. Consensus should be a welcome occasional checkpoint.

Sure, but consensus in healthy communities is reached through everyone working together to make compromises and to convince each other, not by kicking or driving out anyone with an opposing viewpoint. And "opposing" in this context doesn't mean inimical or hostile, it just means non-agreeing.

Consensus does not mean unanimity, it just means the agreement of the group as a whole. In a healthy group, a consensus is reached when the plan/ idea has been revised until everyone is on board with it. Kicking people out until only people who agree with the initial plan remain is not healthy consensus-building or community-building.

Sealioning is not a vaccine against radicalization.

"It's either build an echo chamber or allowing sealioning" is a false dichotomy. You can moderate a space well to keep out bad-faith or enemy actors without creating an echo chamber.

I don’t believe such a community turns into a radicalization timebomb for being like-minded. We need shared values to build upon, lest loneliness swallows us all.

It seems like you're using "echo chamber" to mean "safe space", but they're not the same thing. Beehaw is a pretty good example of this: we've got quite a lot of disagreement on any given major issue, but we don't allow bad actors to remain in the space. There are myriad different Left-oriented philosophies and viewpoints and worldviews, and they're (generally) all welcome here, but we're not an echo chamber; you can go into any thread on Palestine and see that there is a lot of disagreement between members on the subject.

Nevertheless I feel that obsessing over the homogeneous aspect of an echo chamber is mistaking the symptoms for the essence. My intuition is that the danger is in the discourse itself and to a certain extent in the platform used.

Once again, I feel like your post is in response or reference to some specific argument or example. Who is obsessing over echo chambers? What discourse about them are you responding to? The discourse on echo chambers is going to differ quite a bit depending on who you're talking to, and where. If you go into a conservative space like Xitter, it's more likely to be being thrown around inaccurately to attack any non-conservative space. If you go on Reddit, it's more likely to be talking about actual echo chambers. Echo chambers are bad, but not everything that gets called an echo chamber is one.