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lvxferre, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

I’ll translate it here for the benefit of other posters, as there’s lots of good info there. Left image:

• [top left] fortress
• [top centre] defence tower
• [top right] AN IBERIAN SETTLEMENT
• [immediately below the above] central street: the life of the settlement was organised around it. Most habitations were on its both sides.
• [bottom left] plaza: it was the meeting place of the inhabitants of the settlement
• [bottom] walls: they surrounded the settlement and were made of stone.

Right image:

• [top left] A CELTIC SETTLEMENT
• [top centre-right] public buildings: at the centre of the settlement, usually there were buildings intended for political and religious purposes.
• [top right] hut: round shaped. The walls were made of adobe and stones; the roof was made of branches and straw
• [almost bottom left] lifestock enclosure: some livestocks was stored inside the settlement.
• [bottom] walls: the settlements were surrounded by a circular wall made of stone.

Corrections welcome given that I don’t speak Catalan at all.

lvxferre, 5 months ago

The post is clear. That is what matters. If some assumer starts making shit up based on the title alone, the assumer is at fault, not the poster.

lvxferre, 5 months ago

I usually complain about the usage of the word “toxic” but at least here it’s well-defined by the article. Still unnecessary though.

Their finding is interesting though - that “online political discourse tends to be uncivil because the people who opt into such discourse are generally uncivil”.

And that begs the question why. My hypothesis is that it has to do with stupidity: political discussion offers a safe space for the stupid, and uncivil interactions usually have at least one side being stupid.* Doubly true in Reddit because stupidity there is seen like a badge of honour.

*NOTE: when I say “the stupid” I am not talking about a well-defined group of people. I’m talking about a set of behaviours (assumptiveness, context illiteracy, a tendency to oversimplify things, wishful thinking, lack of logical “parsing” etc.). Everyone is “the stupid” once in a while, but some way more often than others.

lvxferre, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

My hypothesis: Lemmy has an older userbase, and in general older people feel less of a need to express their emotions. They’re busier discussing the topic than highlighting their attitude towards it.

Perhaps cultural reinforcement plays a role, too. As emoticons and emojis are less used, they feel more out of place, so people who’d use them elsewhere avoid them here.

lvxferre, 5 months ago

I’m not sure but I do think that evolution played a big role here. Probably not for the reasons in the OP, but because it’s a way to convert grass into portable food with decent long-term storage (cheese). This is huge for migratory populations, but still helpful for sedentary ones due to winter.

lvxferre, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

The article conflates three things:

1. the Jewish people, regardless of government that one pays taxes to.
2. the population paying taxes to the State of Israel and living in the territory controlled by it.
3. the State of Israel itself.

And someone might argue “ackshyually, the answerers are the ones conflating them”, but in no moment the article bothers to tell those three things apart. On the contrary, it capitalises on the answerers’ conflation (or decontextualisation of their answers) to [mis]lead the reader towards a conclusion.

we see a huge trend towards a large number of (not all) younger people seeing Jews as oppressors (18-24 year-olds column in left panel below).

When you ask “oppressors where?” you notice the conflation between #1 and #2+#3: “Jews” here is not being used to refer to Jewish people, it’s specifically about Israelis and the State of Israel.

Do you think [that] Israel has a right to exist as the homeland of the Jewish people or that Israel has no right to exist?

There are multiple possible answers for that, and the very lack of an “other” category in the pie chart shows that the poll was already rigged from inception, through the usage of a false dichotomy that sounds as stupid as the following [made up] dialogue:

• [Alice] Bob, did you ever stop beating your wife?
• [Bob] But I nev…
• [Alice] Yes? Or no?
• [Bob] I never b…
• [Alice] YES OR NO???

This one. from Economist, shows the same age trend:

And that one is the only one that backs up the article’s claim. Or at least would, if properly explored instead of lost in a sea of red herrings.

A December 14 article in the Washington Post by Will Oremus reports that “Bigots use AI to make Nazi memes on 4chan. Verified users post them on X.” and that“AI-generated Nazi memes thrive on Musk’s X despite claims of crackdown.”

The same article in the Washinton Post says “Water wetting things” and “when you kill people, they die”. /s

Seriously, antisemitism in 4chan is a common occurrence. And it was always like this even before the recent events.

Relationship between platform usage and Anti-Semitic/Anti-Israel views

Are you noticing the implication from that bar? That antisemitism and Anti-Israel views are the same.

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I wish that the author was being simply disingenuous, but Hanlon’s Razor keeps me pessimistic.

Bloody nationalists conflating a state, a population and a people, as if it was the most natural thing ever.

lvxferre, 4 months ago

Most “rules of thumb” become awful advice when used indiscriminately.

People assign slightly different meanings to the same words. You need to acknowledge this to understand what they say.

Words also change meaning depending on the context.

When you still don’t get what someone else said, it’s often more useful to think that you’re lacking a key piece of info than to assume that the other person does.

Hell is paved with good intentions. This piece of advice is popular, but still not heard enough.

Related to the above: if someone in your life is consistently rushing towards conclusions, based on little to no information, minimise the impact of that person in your life.

Have at least one recipe using leftovers of other recipes. It’ll reduce waste.

Alcohol vinegar is bland, boring, and awful for cooking. But it’s a great cleaning agent.

Identify what you need to keep vs. throw away. Don’t “default” this indiscriminately, analyse it on a per case basis.

The world does not revolve around your belly button and nature won’t “magically” change because of your feelings.

You can cultivate herbs in a backyard. No backyard? Flower pots. No flower pots? Old margarine pot. (Check which herbs grow well where you live.)

lvxferre, 4 months ago

Create your account through old.reddit.com; when it asks you for an email, simply press “next”. And, if you need an e-mail provider for some other reason, protonmail.com doesn’t ask you for your phone number.

That said do you really need a reddit account?

lvxferre, 4 months ago

says the web megacommunity is on a roll.

“Outside, pretty viola; inside, rotten wood.”

I don’t interact with Reddit any more so it’s plain as day for me to see, when I do visit it, that the place changed considerably from the APIcalypse to now. It’s the decadence from the last ~5 years, except on steroids; brain drained, bots going rogue, users screeching at each other based on assumptions and mods doing nothing to handle it. Those trashy and large subreddits are fairly active, but it seems to me that activity for smaller subs went considerably down.

As cofounder and CEO Steve Huffman explained to The New York Times’ Mike Isaac, the company was concerned by how AI giants such as OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft were mining the wealth of knowledge in its discussion threads to train chatbots, thereby creating new competition for Reddit while it footed the bill.

And based on how he handled the third party apps, he’s likely omitting critical concerns.

And also, you know…

• [User] I made something!
• [Reddit Inc.] You made something? [snatches it] It’s mine. My precioooous!

“Reddit is an open platform, and we love that,” he told me. “

Holy shit, Greedy Pigboy’s ability to lie with a straight face never ceases to amaze me. It’s almost like he’s telling the interviewer “you’re gullible trash, aren’t you? Yes, you’re stupid, so are the things reading your article. I’m going to smear some bullshit on your snouts and you’re going to swallow it, like the filthy animals lacking human-like reasoning that you are.”

Sorry folks here for the tone. I can’t be bothered to read it further.

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Potentially hot take: perhaps it’s time to punish Reddit Inc. and Greedy Pigboy, isn’t it?

lvxferre, 5 months ago

The chimps were not dancing, or playing. They are clearly pissed. The “dance” and noises are ways to say “this is our territory, not yours, back off”. Throwing the ball is an act of aggression, but since nobody took a clue he made it even clearer with poop.

For more sociable interactions between humans and other apes check this video (“Human, you have you baby! I’m going to show you mine!”).