❝Today, thanks to Android and ChromeOS, Linux is an important end-user operating system. But, before Linux, there were important Unix desktops, although most of them never made it. …❞
European Parliament backs resolution calling for suspending Hungary’s EU voting right
Earlier this month a petition was launched to remove some of #Budapest’s membership rights due to the country’s “erosion of the rule of law” and obstructive behavior in the face of EU #consensus building.
What’s desirable drives us, what’s possible should guides us. Our societies are build upon a consensus among dissenting people to define our common goals, and to achieve them. We won’t be able to impose our goals, all the time, to all the people, coming close to partially achieve some of our goals is as good as it gets, and it takes a long time to do it peacefully. Of course, there are exceptions: the tyrannies.
I've been doing basic ADHD bouncing around learning a little bit of Welsh and a little bit of trigonometry and a little bit of political science and a little bit of history and I need to focus on something, so that I want to learn more about #communism, from organizations that aren't the John Birch Society or something, I'm not going to start until I finish the book I'm reading (Maddow's excellent "Prequel") and do Christmas/New Year.
But I'm going to request web links, and names of books and podcasts.
I know the basics but would like to learn about details I don't understand, like what happens when the population grows too big for #consensus to work? Who makes the decisions? How does it intersect with #democracy when the people might choose to swing back to something more dangerous like #capitalism or #fascism? I don't want to conflate #economic and #political structures too much up there, but I also want to stay within character counts.
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On Conflict and Consensus: A handbook on Formal Consensus decision-making
CT Lawrence Butler and Amy Rothstein
This little booklet (63pp) is the one definitive guide to Consensus decision-making. It has chapters on conflict, decision-making, roles, evaluation, techniques, and a good intro chapter on the advantages of consensus.
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É exatamente esse o motivo que vem me fazendo aumentar a proporção dos vegetais na minha alimentação (incluindo aí o almoço de hoje, 100% vegetal e mineral).
Não sei até onde irei com isso, nem quanto isso contribui pra resultados concretos, mas me parecia a coisa certa a fazer.
@technotramp could I share a little of your Unexpected Tracks as the music for my show this week? (I talk about lisps and smolnet community news, while sharing awesome underground music of people I meet). Is there a big ipfs music scene? You are the first one I encountered.
I'm enjoying Honeycomb -> Funky Cat right now. I once had some bubble gum from Japan that had the words "highly technical flavor" printed on the packaging which this puts me in mind of somehow
I have to admit that I can't even agree with most #people on the definition of #Web2, let alone #Web3. 🙂
I use Web3 as a #tag, pointing towards an #interest in which there is #now#consensus in terms of majority #opinion. And according to that consensus, #IPFS currently falls into it.
You heard that right, science fucks up sometimes, pardon my language
Actually, science fucks up ALL the time, constantly, without fail
For every 1 huge success, there are a string of failures.
Does that mean we shouldn't believe in it?
Nope.
Here's the thing
Most of what you believe is probably false.
Most of it.
Humans tend to cling to what they're told as children
People believe the earth is flat
People believe the clouds that form behind airplanes are "chemtrails"
people will defend, in some cases to their death (or someone else's), the existence of a deity there's no evidence for, aside from a nonsensical book written thousands of years ago by people who thought the earth was the center of the universe, didn't understand gravity, and thought the stars were gods watching us.
Because we cling to beliefs, and only change those when someone shows us we're wrong, and only if they show us in a way that makes US feel smart... and sometimes nothing can change our minds, humans are stubborn.
People probably mocked the first car, it was so inferior to a horse, it may go a little faster, but you keep a horse fed and watered, and treat it right, it'll keep you going for a decade, that thing's going to be a pile of rust, and I'll still be trottin along on my faithful steed. y'all are DUMB.
Point being.
Science, like humans, is wrong about a lot.
Difference is, science questions everything.
Science believes nothing.
So when a scientist is wrong, the scientist learns very quickly they're wrong.
And the act of being proven wrong, and wrong, and wrong again?
That's how you find what's right.
Once you've eliminated all the wrong answers, and you can repeat and test, and fail to prove the right answer wrong, you know. This is right.
I've believed a lot of stupid things in my life, I'm sure I still do
But I also know that science always learns the right answers, because it refuses to accept ANY answer, and fights to prove them ALL wrong.
When science fails, you have your answer.
Science isn't in the business of being right, it's in the business of proving things wrong.
Knowledge, from science, is the result of failure.
So if a group of scientists, who don’t like to agree, at all, says "this is true, and here’s the proof it's true, and here’s our peer reviewed studies showing this is true"
You know what peer review is?
A scientist says "I figured this thing out. Here's my evidence, here's my results, here are the variables I used", and another scientist says "HA! I'm going to prove you're an idiot"
and tries to prove the other scientist wrong.
If they fail, they admit they failed, they admit they couldn't prove it wrong. And so on. Many scientists try, and try to prove them wrong.
once all of the scientists have the same results, and all the anomalies are explained, you have a bunch of people pissed off ONE of them was right. Because their job is to prove them wrong. But they failed to, so they all accept the results. A consensus.