Like a lot of things, it works best when you can’t really consciously tell that it’s there.
An animation that’s too quick to really register is fulfilling the brief and making the interface better, without cluttering up the user’s conscious awareness. An animation that wants to slow down enough so that you can really feel that the designer put some work into this interface, and appreciate what genius they are, is no good.
See Rainbow capitalism as a very related example. Nutomic is right that identity politics are used to create division among the working class, because anything that can create division will be used to do so.
I mean that part is accurate. But abandoning whatever issue it is that is being used to create division is not the answer. They use all kinds of legitimate issues to create division. The solution is clearly to get rid of that whole concept where disagreement = division. Not to say that it’s just “all good” if I think people deserve human rights, and you don’t. We can still work together on some things, sure. I’m still going to give you hell about your bad point of view. A lot of people on the left seem to have this concept like it has to be a monoculture, like everyone has to see all issues of right and wrong and good and evil in exactly the same way, and if you don’t see it my way, then you’re a total shit and an enemy on purpose and I need to try to destroy you first before even trying to attempt anything against the right. And that tendency is one that the right absolutely loves to exploit, and they have wild success at it.
(Nutomic also in an extra irony takes it a step further, because his server will not just “divide” from you ideologically, but outright ban you if you try to say that some particular people deserve human rights.)
I didn’t hear about this “mistake” but I agree it’s problematic and hope my instance eventually moves to piefed. Though I haven’t tried it so I don’t know how well I’ll like it.
https://lemmy.world/post/32838609
It was interesting.
On the other hand, I do feel like the ideology of the standard corporate media platforms is about as bad as the tankies and we don’t flip out about that. Makes me wonder about double standards here.
Yeah, pretty much. I realized that my Israel analogy wasn’t even completely on point. It would be more along the lines of someone writing the software who was all cool with Palantir and ICE, and constantly spoke highly of them. That’s about the level that I put the Russian government on (which of course isn’t to excuse any of the horror of what the US government is currently trying to do; if anything, it goes the other way and throws into relief the horror that Russia has already been for decades now that has been normalized at this point.) And, of course, all our existing corporate social media is okay with Palantir and ICE, they just have more sense than to talk out loud about it.
Hm… yeah. I mostly agree. Or sort of almost agree. This one issue of Nutomic having an offically incorrect stance on trans issues is one thing, and then their wider pro-authoritarian politics is another, and then the way they manage their instance is another. They are related but separate.
In terms of a response to the third thing, I do agree about a “boycott” meaning not posting new stuff to lemmy.ml communities in general and just preferring communities in more human-rights-respecting instances. I don’t think that blocking the instance, or not commenting on their stuff at all and having isolation, is a good way, though. The thing is that that isolation just helps their censorship to be effective. That’s part of the point of the fanatical way they attack outsiders and try to curate a narrative for their users, and it’s really very effective. If you ever look from inside lemmy.ml, it looks like they all make sense and there is consensus, and we’re the weird ones. One way to tear down that veil is to have open communication, and people from the outside coming in and saying normal things, and then they have to continuously have that fanatical response or else have the mods intervene (and then we can talk about how the mods are overreaching and it’s pretty clear who is talking sense about it, over time). Talking to each other is good. I feel like if all the not-pro-Russian people just self censor themselves from lemmy.ml, because they know the mods are going to go HAM on their comments, then it sort of does their job for them and makes it actually airtight, more so that it would be otherwise. That’s what they would want to see happen.
One related thing which bugs me more than it seems to bug a lot of people: I think it’s a problem that they are so overtly aligned with these malicious actors, and then also they are producing and packaging software that all of us use that is designated for this important purpose. Like if if was an Israeli software development team putting together a new federated web site that all of us were going to trust our communication to, and their home instance was all pro-Israel stuff and you could get banned for criticizing Israel, that would be insane for us to trust the software and the core instance. I mean yeah it’s open source but also, the people controlling all of it are super-green with these people that like to do corruptions to software and sneaky things in the Western media sphere. That would bug me. That’s kind of how I look at the Lemmy devs, and why for example I reacted so strongly when the docs had that “mistake” that would send new Lemmy installs’ admin passwords to lemmy.ml by default. I feel like that aspect of it is also something that should get thought about more often, it is why I am in favor of Piefed even if reimplementing the whole thing from the ground up is this massive amount of duplicative work.
Personally, I think all of this “Person X holds an officially wrong viewpoint on this one singular issue, so let’s attack them and create as much division as possible and take energy away from defending ourselves against people who hold objectively wrong and dangerous viewpoints on 100% of the issues and are actively trying to destroy us” thing is silly. But that is me.
The Lemmy devs are a little bit unusual in that I have problems with their overall politics (even if we actually agree on more than we disagree, probably), not just a one issue. But even in that case, where it’s a sizeable difference of opinion (instead of WE CAUGHT THEM BEING BAD ON THIS ONE ISSUE FUCK EM FUCK EM FUCK EM), I don’t think should be a reason to “divide” from them. People are allowed to hold viewpoints, even allowed to contribute while holding those viewpoints, even if I think they are wrong.
why the need to accuse me of re-editing a comment? (which never happened)
You edited this comment after I posted my reply to it which talked about archaeology. I thought you’d edited the comment to remove mention of archaeology, but I was wrong, that mention came from this comment of yours.
But then, I realized I’d been wrong, and retracted the wrong thing I’d said, and apologized about it. Not sure how you even managed to see my wrong accusation within the ~2 minutes or whatever that it was on Lemmy, but in any case, my bad.
What you are seemingly trying to tell me here, “PhilipTheBucket,” is that you’re not really able to countenance the actual arguments I’m making above.
Now would you say that’s a fair or unfair statement? If unfair, could you give me some facts & reality-based reasons as to why not?
I don’t know how to upload an image within a comment in Piefed. Presumably it’s not that hard and I’m just thick. Anyway, please in the meantime enjoy this ASCII art of a sea lion:
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Have a good day. Like I said, I have no interest in continuing a dispute with you about this.
Yeah, I realized after that you were talking about archaeology up in your original reply to me, not in the pre-editing version of some other comment. Sorry about that, I had already edited my comment to take out the accusation (within 5 minutes of originally posting it.)
I pretty much agree with this comment of yours. I have absolutely no reason why that would mean we have to continue to bicker. I do think that comment is pretty firmly in contradiction to your earlier statements (“King Arthur / Robin Hood”), but whatever, I see no profit at all in us having a dispute about that part of it.
Oooohhhh
I mean, yes, obviously. It all of a sudden makes the other commenter’s steadfast insistence against me make sense, if they thought that I meant this person actually existed who could do real life magic tricks and came back from the dead and he still watches to see if you’re masturbating.
Yes, I was talking about the historical figure, not the superhero. I thought that went without saying but maybe not.
(Edit: What the heck, their original argument is clearly saying that they think there’s no evidence that the historical figure existed. But whatever, we got there in the end, I guess.)
I feel like the designer responsible smuggled this video topic to him somehow, after not hearing from anyone who had noticed their exhaustive attention to detail
There is 0% chance that this didn’t take a shitload of “unnecessary” effort, including updating the power lines every time something in the level got modified or rearranged
Yeah. The judge in that situation was pretty chill with me as well. I feel like it’s like a lot of human interactions, if you show that you respect the other person’s side of the interaction, they’ll be inclined to do extra for you where they can.
And FFS, dress appropriately.
Random story, I once showed up groomed and in a suit that was sharp enough that the judge thought I was defense counsel (with the defendant not showing up) instead of the defendant, and I had to politely correct him. 😃
Which is fine as far as it goes, yet does very little if anything to address the body of the above concerns.
What? Of course it does. A near-unanimous consensus by experts in the field is worth more than whatever you are bringing up in your Lemmy comment.
I mean, it would be possible to lay out logic so compelling that even if experts in the field felt one particular way about it you could make a case otherwise, but weird strawmen like wanting archaeological evidence of Jesus’s specific skeleton or something is not that.
In a 2011 review of the state of modern scholarship, Bart D. Ehrman wrote, “He certainly existed, as virtually every competent scholar of antiquity, Christian or non-Christian, agrees.”[13] Richard A. Burridge states: “There are those who argue that Jesus is a figment of the Church’s imagination, that there never was a Jesus at all. I have to say that I do not know any respectable critical scholar who says that any more.”[14] Robert M. Price does not believe that Jesus existed but agrees that this perspective runs against the views of the majority of scholars.[15] James D. G. Dunn calls the theories of Jesus’s non-existence “a thoroughly dead thesis”.[16] Michael Grant (a classicist), “In recent years, ‘no serious scholar has ventured to postulate the non historicity of Jesus’ or at any rate very few, and they have not succeeded in disposing of the much stronger, indeed very abundant, evidence to the contrary.”[17] Robert E. Van Voorst states that biblical scholars and classical historians regard theories of non-existence of Jesus as effectively refuted.[18] Writing on The Daily Beast, Candida Moss and Joel Baden state that, “there is nigh universal consensus among biblical scholars – the authentic ones, at least – that Jesus was, in fact, a real guy.”[19]
Most modern scholars think that none of the gospels were written by eyewitnesses.
It’s a little bit academic (har har) anyway, since they all went through so many layers of translation often by people with specific agendas that the modern English versions can’t really claim to be “authentic” to the originals anyway, but regardless of that they almost certainly weren’t written by those specific disciples of Jesus (even if you accept the events described in them as semi-authentic.)
This man is a board certified turbo nerd. I very much like for example his succinct explanation of NixOS, with concrete examples of what it makes easy that can be remarkably difficult on other distros sometimes, and how he likes to time his arrival in meetings so that he comes in exactly on the second that the meeting starts (I actually used to do the same with meetings that I was running, setting the clocks if I needed to so that their second hands were accurate.)
Also: “People will use screen sometimes, if they’re very old.” 😃
Well this is sure going to go well lol
OP: On the off chance that you are sincere about this: The modern Trump administration is snatching random people including citizens off the streets and stuffing them in extra-judicial hellholes where they sometimes die and sometimes get ejected from the country to God knows where, without the semblance of due process that “deported” would imply. For no other reason than that Trump and Stephen Miller wanted them to be punished. He’s also claiming that making fun of him on TV is illegal and that attacking American cities with the US military is fine. He was close friends with Epstein and, apparently, raped several children. Any person with even a shred of deceny or law abiding nature is going to hate him and everything he stands for.
If you’re not on board for that stuff, then I think you should say so. I have some isolated views that someone could call “conservative” (certainly in Lemmy’s overton window), it is fine, in the abstract. But in the modern US political environment, calling yourself “conservative” is a death sentence for your credibility. Certainly if you’re not going out of your way to say that you’re not on board for all that (probably even then).
If you’re just trolling, then fine, good luck with it. If you don’t think that Trump is actually doing any of those things, come to !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world and let’s talk. But if you want to make a conservative community on Lemmy, and your idea is to be pro-Trump in any way, I think people are just going to laugh at you.
I have studied this topic academically, a little bit. My answer:
Yes. The random chemicals that go into these drinks do all kinds of weird bullshit. I have had some that more or less put me to sleep, and when I was consistently drinking canned energy stuff my energetic level was pretty much all over the place.
If you need short-term energy to force your body to burn up some resources that ordinarily it would be saving up (and delay some maintenance depending), then drink caffeine. Some of the crash that you’re describing could be aftereffects of that, or it could be some other chemical reaction. Green tea seems like it works pretty clean, coffee is fine in my opinion.
If you need long-term energy, then get consistent exercise, eat enough and a balanced diet, and sleep enough. I know it’s easier said than done, but those are the options that will work and not fuck up your health / energy levels over time.