I was in a similar spot and gave up before starting. This is due to several reasons: 1) My circle of relatives and friends, like yours, neglect their privacy and would not engage with me in a serious conversation regarding it; 2) educational institutions, businesses, organisations and even governmental bodies may rely on WhatsApp for communications; and 3) the two big telecom monopolies offer enticing mobile data deals for using WhatsApp.
While I am not saying you should give up, you should go for modest goals (e.g. converting your close family to signal when chatting together) and eliminate optimistic expectations so you don’t get crushed.
Here the problem lies. You’re misjudging something without even looking into it. The video isn’t an accusation per se, but it proposes several recommendations to Kurzgesagt who failed to acknowledge any of them in his “response”.
The video in question is well sourced and documented, it would be a shame to make a final conclusion without looking into what prompted the discussion in the first place.
Quo Vadis, Aida? (2021): Bosnia, July 1995. Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp....
Hey fellow book lovers! I want to read books/classics from all over the world. Please recommend me favorites from your home-country, something you would want others to know/to read. Already looking forward to your suggestions!
Its events take place in the fifth century AD between Upper Egypt, Alexandria and northern Syria, following the adoption of Christianity by the Roman Empire, and the ensuing internal sectarian conflict between the church fathers on the one hand, and the new believers on the other hand, declining paganism.
Parasite 기생충 (2019): Ki-taek’s family of four is close, but fully unemployed, with a bleak future ahead of them. The son Ki-woo is recommended by his friend, a student at a prestigious university, for a well-paid tutoring job, spawning hopes of a regular income. Carrying the expectations of all his family, Ki-woo heads...
Parasite 기생충 (2019): Ki-taek’s family of four is close, but fully unemployed, with a bleak future ahead of them. The son Ki-woo is recommended by his friend, a student at a prestigious university, for a well-paid tutoring job, spawning hopes of a regular income. Carrying the expectations of all his family, Ki-woo heads...
I’m looking for a way to create a custom feed of multiple Lemmy communities. Reddit does something similar, calling it “custom feeds” or some clients refer to it as “channels.” I’ve attached an image of my custom reddit feeds from the Satelite desktop app....
I don’t know about the clients, but you can recreate this feature with RSS by combining all of your communities in an RSS feed app. For android, you may check out Read You, available on F-droid.
Hope the day has been treating everyone well! Wanted to add this post here as well, as I think part of fleshing out a world is creating believable and relatable stories within that framework....
It’s been some time since I’ve read any fiction, but one that I still have in mind as containing good dialogue is The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery.
Also, take as a reference the way your relatives, friends and acquaintances speak. Study their vocabulary, the intonation, the pronunciation and so forth.
Personally it made me nostalgic since I left spotify a few years ago and I long for those summer nights listening to my playlists while writing and reading.
I’d go further and declare that the “social contract” is a mythical story that serves to dominate the masses. The constitution is a body of rules set by a constituent assembly (aka a bunch of elites) which the people have no control over.
According to the court, the ban is justified if the employer needs “to present a neutral image towards customers or to prevent social disputes” (emphasis added). Is that a fair justification in your opinion?
It is clear that what the court and private companies intend is to appease and target bigoted demigraphics for purely economic benefits, which the decrease thereof constitutes a “social issue.” We know quite well that in the heart of the European continent, this policy is targeting hijab more so than any other so-called religious symbol. If the authorities genuinely want to prevent “social disputes” they could’ve tackled social inequalities and the discrimination against asylum seekers and refugees, as well as addressing Islamophobia instead of chucking the root problem in the dustbin.
Perhaps liberal Nation-States may not entertain my second argument, but the veil is primarily a cultural element and not a religious symbol. Comparing it to the cross is a bad-faith analogy. The veil in fact predates Islam and was (and is still) present in many civilizations in different forms, including China and India. Its usage was also common in Europe before the 20th century, though now it is pretty much reduced to ceremonials and rituals. Would such a ban on religious symbols include the traditional indian outfits as well?
I am also quite intrigued to know how does a piece of clothing affect the workplace environment. Does removing it automatically imply neutrality? Is this all it takes to deem one “neutral”? And this brings me to ask how exactly does neutrality affect the workplace, should a religious ornament imply otherwise?
And say that veiled women refused to remove their veils, this means that a significant fraction of citizens are subsequently barred from professional and civic activity. How would this marginalization aid the resolution of those “social disputes”?
Pinker isn’t a philosopher, so he won’t provide any useful definition to go with here.Still, in one of his books he attributes bias and motivated reasoning for irrationality. One then may inversely deduce that Pinker’s rationality is a state of disinterest and objectiveness. I believe Pinker’s implicit conception of rationality falls in line with the classical thinkers of the Enlightenment.
The author simply contends that the modern concept of rationality is built on false premises; that is, some erroneously hold rationality as a standard for absolute truth.
Yes, you can make a rational decision with limited or imperfect information, the author doesn’t deny so. But a rational decision isn’t necessarily a good decision.
According to one of his articles, Pinker defines rationality as “the use of knowledge to attain goals. It has a normative dimension, namely how an agent ought to reason in order to attain some goal…” (Britannica).
It’s safe to say through his employment of the term “normative” Pinker perceives the resolution of major problems in absolutes. There is one right answer and its opposite is wrong, and there is only one way to arrive at the right answer and this is through so-called “reason”, which if you read Pinker’s works you’d quickly understand that only his way of thinking constitutes “reason” (I posted a shortened version of my review on of his books on this site btw). To refer back to the author, “It’s a perfectly safe assumption in GCSE maths or physics when the opposite of a right idea is wrong. But in major questions, the opposite of a good idea may be another good idea.”
This is in principal a hit on Pinker’s scientific reductionism which more often than not fails to accomodate real life problems that aren’t in a vaccum.
Jerboa over Tor? (lemmy.world)
Apologies if this is the wrong forum, but I figured this group would have the most experience with this problem....
Is it (still) worth trying to switch my family and friends from WhatsApp to Signal? (Read all of it, please.)
This may sound a bit dumb, but eh....
I only get 82% :( How much do you get? (d3ward.github.io)
I get 82% (27 not blocked. I use Firefox ESR with uBlock and Privacy Badger.
How Kurzgesagt Cooks Propaganda For Billionaires | The Hated One (www.youtube.com)
Depictions of and by the Other
Quo Vadis, Aida? (2021): Bosnia, July 1995. Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp....
Books from around the world
Hey fellow book lovers! I want to read books/classics from all over the world. Please recommend me favorites from your home-country, something you would want others to know/to read. Already looking forward to your suggestions!
Socially Conscious Movies
Parasite 기생충 (2019): Ki-taek’s family of four is close, but fully unemployed, with a bleak future ahead of them. The son Ki-woo is recommended by his friend, a student at a prestigious university, for a well-paid tutoring job, spawning hopes of a regular income. Carrying the expectations of all his family, Ki-woo heads...
Socially conscious films for the comrades
Parasite 기생충 (2019): Ki-taek’s family of four is close, but fully unemployed, with a bleak future ahead of them. The son Ki-woo is recommended by his friend, a student at a prestigious university, for a well-paid tutoring job, spawning hopes of a regular income. Carrying the expectations of all his family, Ki-woo heads...
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Can I create custom feeds / channels? (lemmy.world)
I’m looking for a way to create a custom feed of multiple Lemmy communities. Reddit does something similar, calling it “custom feeds” or some clients refer to it as “channels.” I’ve attached an image of my custom reddit feeds from the Satelite desktop app....
[SOL001] - A Kitchen Story (slrpnk.net)
Hope the day has been treating everyone well! Wanted to add this post here as well, as I think part of fleshing out a world is creating believable and relatable stories within that framework....
Muer: An open-source front-end for Youtube Music (github.com)
From the long long ago in the before times (lemmy.world)
“United in diversity” :3 (lemmy.ml)
Why Steven Pinker Is Wrong About Rationality (iai.tv)