speculativehuncher.bsky.social
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"Affluenza" coming back for another round of ridicule?
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Didn't sound like Hoffman was excusing, just explaining his observation and opinion based on his observation.
There are different flavors of narcissism, and understanding what you're dealing with is the first step to solving the problem.
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Social media and anonymity have let sociopath be who they really are when there are no consequences. Not sure how you fix it; people won't willingly give up either....
Very few redeeming qualities. I'm mostly just here for the cool science stuff, but get random posts like yours in my feed.
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We're dealing with people who don't empathize well, so things aren't real or serious until it impacts *THEM* specifically.
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I have 300 charrs to explain a complicated concept.
The point I'm making is that *WE* cannot convince them.
They're going to have to eat the shit sandwich they made for everyone to discover it on their own. And even then it won't be "no one else should eat this," it's "i shouldn't eat this."
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Point of clarification for everyone's benefit: 85% of the state did not vote for Trump, he only got 51%.
There are counties that voted mostly red, upwards of 70-80%, especially in the mountain
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Those people are the problem precisely because you cannot sway them.
Their stance doesn't come from a rational place, so you can't rationalize it away.
Their stance comes from a lack of empathy and fear, so appeals to their humanity falls of deaf ears, it's like a foreign language to them.
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Those mountain areas vote Republican every time.
The only thing I have left to say to them is "I hope you get exactly what you voted for."
You then always get the angry, defensive "I didn't vote for this!"
"Yes, you did. They haven't been hiding who they are & what they want for a long time now."
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Add in gerrymandering and voting rights issues, and you've got a recipe for more and more candidates with extreme viewpoints winning elections. As soon as your politicians don't need to appeal to the middle and stay moderate to get enough votes to win, things spiral very quickly.
Here we are.
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The number 1 task of any extremist political movement is to normalize itself. A really effective way to do that is to get the majority of people disinterested in politics. Beat the "both sides" drums until they're deaf. Once you push out the moderate voices, it becomes easier to slide into power.
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Tale as old as time.
I've heard that the US isn't a country, it's 50 countries in a trench coat.
But you could more accurately describe it as 300 cities where everyone lives, surrounded by vast stretches of land that, for some reason, has a vote.
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At some point the banks that loaned Musk the money to purchase Twitter will force him to pony up more and more stock as collateral because the value keeps dropping.
Twitter wasn't worth what he paid for it, and he's made the brand so toxic no one will buy it at the price he needs.
He's in a hole.
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I really don't understand why this as a platform is so hard to campaign on. Seems like a no-brainer.
Couple universal healthcare, no private prisons, and no cost higher education for that "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" thing govt is supposed to be founded on.
That and voting rights.
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Capitalism is great, but only if it is regulated to treat humans like people, animals with respect, and the environment better than a litter box for a cat with IBS.
Government performs that function, and on top of that they're the relief valve to keep money flowing top-to-bottom so it moves back up
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The whole point of a republican (little R) form of government is the acceptance that the masses cannot be experts in everything all the time, and it makes sense to send individuals to do the work of the People who can take the time to deliberate and become informed by experts.
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If you were to take someone who gets their news from Ground News (not a sponsor) versus someone who gets their news exclusively from Fox News or from MSNBC, you'll have people who draw different conclusions because their understanding of reality and truth are going to be very different.
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In a representative government, elected officials are tools for what in smaller social circles would be called "peer pressure."
It's also important to remember that everyone is making decisions with an incomplete understanding of things. So expecting people to make the right choices is difficult.
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That doesn't even address when someone makes threats, when people and countries engage in stochastic terrorism, and the ridiculousness that is the Brandenburg Test.
Changes need to be made, it makes sense to start having discussions now about what those changes should be for 2-4 years from now.
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There are those of us who think it needs to be modified, not eliminated. It needs to address bots. And I think it needs to be modified in combination of tightening slander and libel laws.
Giving everyone unrestricted speech with toothless penalties when someone causes harm is a recipe for disaster.
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You'd think it would be a no-brainer.
Content moderation makes spaces safer and healthier for everyone. That means more people join and enjoy the experience, and if you don't have a problem with bots it means more human eyes on your ads and you can charge more for ad space.
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Relatedly, I'd like to see a strengthening of slander and libel laws and a tightening of laws related to hate speech, stochastic terrorism, and their BFF the Brandenburg Test.
Fixing the loosey-goosey nature of those laws could go a long way to providing remedies for statements on social media.
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Platforms should be required to make "good faith" efforts to moderate content according to policies they setup at the start, and lay out in plain language.
With the increasing capabilities of AI we're reaching a point that software can perform most moderation tasks, or identify what to send to mods
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The law was never written with the consideration of bot software abusing the platform and the algorithms that run things. Bots are amazingly effective propaganda tools and insanely cheap to deploy. Foreign intelligence has been running around happily destroying western liberal democracy for 20 years
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I agree with Mick here, there has to be some compromise between "let everyone do whatever they want" and total censorship and the closing of internet spaces.
Section 230 is too broad in some ways, not broad enough in others.
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To this day I still thing the Materia system is the superior way to handle magic. You get to play with the characters you want and explore the story with them, but still have the magical abilities that you want. Then you can go back and play with an all new cast and explore the story from their view
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Only when taken out of context of 1997. If you're comparing it to what came after, of course it's overrated. If you're considering it when it came out and what it offered, it was one of the best mainstream JRPG ever to that point, on the pantheon with Chrono Trigger and FF6.
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That's only because FF7 came out 5 months prior.
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Just going to leave this here....
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I have a coworker who says ketchup is for children.
He has chosen to live a life with less joy. Like the people who decide to get angry when someone farts instead of laugh.
I cannot save him.
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From the grill: bun, hotdog, ketchup, yellow mustard, sweet relish.
From the microwave: bun, hotdog, American cheese. (Nuke the cheese on the bread for 15 seconds.)
From a street vendor: bun, hotdog, and as much mustard and relish as they will give me.
From a griddle: bun, hotdog, chili, cheddar.