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netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
1hr ago
No? In that case you could point to specific actions which would not have happened without fed involvement. What’s the equivalent here?
Most people do not want to debate. They want assurance, tacit or vocal, that their community will back them up when it comes to anything remotely threatening. They will usually sort themselves into groups which offer that comfort. This is the only thing I’d come close to calling “immutable.” You will not find a diverse, truth-seeking community on any sufficiently large site.
Reddit used to offer sortition via subreddits. The pivot left came after a broader erosion of subreddit independence. At the time, it was justified as “cleaning up for the IPO”. I suspect that downplays the consequences of everyone on Twitter knowing what /r/TheDonald was up to at all times.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
20hr ago
The Wikipedia article you want is probably “Teledildonics,” but I’m not looking it up at work.
netstack
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1d ago
Yes, it is.
Apply that standard to literally any other group. Marx was dead for decades before the Russians got to him. Might as well say the U.S. is a white supremacist state.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
1d ago
Debate clubs are just harder to cultivate than the average Internet echo chamber. They offer a weird, specific sort of entertainment.
I think evaporative cooling happens faster for left-leaning users because so many of those other spaces are more friendly to them. This doesn’t mean they’re unwilling or unable to debate; it’s simply become less fun.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
1d ago
What? Maybe you
- disagree with Marx
- think that real communism has, in fact, been tried
- got disillusioned after Glushkov et al. failed to optimize
- value the right to property more than fixing the unfairness of capital allocation
- are convinced that a coming era of post-scarcity will make it all moot
- actually like having material goods
Take your pick. I’m sure there are plenty of other reasons why a reasonable leftist would think socialism isn’t actually a good thing.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
1d ago
Correlation, causation. The Schism has a different political slant, new user funnel, expected level of effort, etc. Which of those really deserves credit for the volume difference?
I would say that the cost of flouncing back to mainstream social media is generally lower for a left-winger than a right-winger. This makes niche forums lean right even if the underlying appeal is the same for everybody. The Schism counterbalanced this by kicking out more right-wingers, so it just has a tiny userbase.
As an aside: do you remember what the no-no topics were? I remember it being race war stuff, but I could be completely off base.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
2d ago
A couple times a week, amount varying from one drink to five. The latter is only if I’m at home with the wife and we’re hanging out for the evening, playing Minecraft or listening to music together, low-effort social interaction.
I do think that’s too much for me. Today I I went back to sleep after my alarm this morning and was late for work. I feel like an idiot, so I am going to make an effort to cut back.
The complication is that I’ve been getting into mixing cocktails, mostly for my extended family. It feels like a legitimate reason to buy more and better liquor. I…think that might be a bad thing. I’m very capable of overthinking this, so the best thing is probably just to cut back.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
2d ago
Rolling up with the siege mortar, I guess.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
2d ago
/r/theschism gets a little closer, I guess. It started as a split from the Reddit Motte over how to moderate accelerationists and edgelords. Since that involved a lot of right-wingers calling for violence against protestors/progressives/the DNC, it ended up collecting some of the harried leftists and more compassionate conservatives. I think it has much less material, but what’s there is of high quality.
You’re probably going to get several responses about how (insert outgroup here) is unwilling or unable to have polite dialogues, which I think is patently untrue. I’d say that all such spaces are subject to evaporative cooling, and that by the time you or I hear about one, it’s probably already drifted one way or another.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
2d ago
Incredible work. I’m still reading through the list, but I wanted to comment on one thing.
to isolate this specific substance that is shared between garlic and vanilla and infuse a slab of tofu with it (or at least I hope they haven't).
The phrase you need is molecular gastronomy. This stuff pushes the bleeding edge of what might, possibly, be considered “food.” It’s wild.
See also adventures in fine dining.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
2d ago
I was thinking the same thing. A thousand midlevel diplomats can try to hammer out an agreement, but it only takes one guy to torpedo it.
I’m just not sure how to bet against peace.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
5d ago
Ah. I haven’t read any of his stuff outside of the Inhibitor books. That would do it.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
5d ago
Well, I think the question is still open. No idea how many of the immigrants post-2014 are fleeing Ukrainians vs. economic migrants, Russian dissidents, Chinese, who knows what else. So if you find country of origin + time data, let me know!
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
6d ago
Some of them even have both!
This is what I was trying to get at with @ArjinFerman. The modal Internet community is profoundly disinterested in things like “freedom of speech” or “reasoned debate.” It can be expected to make everything as comfortable as possible for its users. Or it loses out to a more filtered, more flattering space.
If that userbase is remotely young, affluent, and left-leaning, the filter will reinforce those traits.
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