if I were biden, I’d whip every single willing rep and senator into a full action plan to bring integrity to the supreme court, starting with the demand that judges whose households have documented partisan or ethics issues involving politicians must be recused from all decisions involving those leaders
ps I gotta say this Bob trailer and mega waterproof Bluetooth speaker have brought so much joy to me and my community for so many years, I cannot recommend the setup highly enough
people who pop on social media to act super cavalier about nuclear waste always give me pause. the track record speaks for itself — we don’t live in a hypothetical society, we live in a world that can’t even produce frying pans without killing bystanders, natural disasters are not predictable, and advanced civ is itself in jeopardy.
fine to debate the finer points and possibilities of nuclear but the weird guy condescending attitude that its dumb or wrong to be cautious has got to go
@seachanger I feel like there must be a safe way to eject the material from the planet altogether... but it’d need to be packed in a container that would withstand any possible variation of “the rocket exploded before the capsule left the atmosphere” that could possibly imaginably happen. :blobcatthink:
reply guying is when you don’t take the time to sit with a stranger’s ideas long enough to understand them and offer respectful counterpoints or ideas. Instead you assume they must be dangerously incorrect and you must correct them. Ironically in regard to this thread, reply guys are often older white men who haven’t examined their own cult indoctrinations. they aren’t used to being confronted about it since our entire society is built around not hurting their feelings https://zirk.us/@McPatrick/112451962450329227
I used to think ignorance drove injustice but now I think it’s denial — the human capacity to create and believe in stories collectively is our greatest blessing and deepest curse
I read something recently, a popular cognitive science book, that addressed exactly this.
Our need to belong to a group often overrides our capacity for rational evaluation of new information. When confronted with evidence that undermines the core beliefs of our group, a common and natural response is to dismiss the evidence as a way of maintaining the group, and demonstrating our loyalty.
Which helps explain why it's so hard to argue across divides, and even to acknowledge when we're wrong about something
@plantarum@seachanger Someone talked to me about this too. From an evolutionary perspective, we had to belong to a group to survive. So our brains tend to prioritize human connection over everything else, even truth/facts.
kinda fascinated by who all the influencers would be in the world if the algos had never happened to them. what would the world look like with all that energy applied to things in real life that aren’t them
finally read this book, it’s kinda testament to the power of relationship, relentless reporting, and telling the fierce fucking truth, recommended reading #bookstodon https://share.libbyapp.com/title/4754363
just glanced at this #openai tag and imagining if we applied this level of innovation and resources to neighborhood scale organic food systems or healing generational trauma
we could be figuring out how to cooperatively source half the food we eat within a 5 min walk or working to eliminate the root causes of violence and oppression buried deep in our psyches but instead we’ve decided to prioritize the burning of ancient carboniferous life forms in order to make inert parts poorly mimic basic human functions I do not get it
the word technology means more than money and computers! it is not advancing technology to apply human ingenuity to harmful or meaningless inventions while denying catastrophic and unprecedented climate collapse
I see ryan grim’s deconstructed pod is covering Covid vaccine injuries which is great and should be covered but like I don’t think he’s ever covered long covid etc or the public health paradigm shift it’s taken to bury it? far more widespread right
since i've been posting about credit card transaction fees, someone commented about debit cards as an alternative. i looked, and for most e-commerce, debit cards are processed with the same fees as credit cards (right now averaging 2.9% plus .30). most of our retail commerce is being taxed by corporations at unnecessarily high rates with no practical choice given to the purchaser, and often with no warning or means for consent
This is really the crux of why Apple Pay and PayWave surcharges are where the growth is and why the US has no incentive to implement GIRO or FAST or any of the many Government-mandated payment clearing methods that every other country has figured out.
Where there is a strong Treasury/Central Bank/Government there are great options for us customers to transfer money. Unfortunately for you, the US is one of the weakest.