Steve
@Steve@communick.news
- Comment on Do you think conservative feel the same need to burn it all down as everyone else felt when trump won again? 12 hours ago:
Increased tariffs, aren’t going to compensate for the loss of the other taxes they cut. On balance it’s still lower taxes, just not for the poor.
Pedophilia and corruption are unrelated to family values.
I never mentioned them. Not sure what your getting at with that. - Comment on Do you think conservative feel the same need to burn it all down as everyone else felt when trump won again? 12 hours ago:
They have nothing in common with the traditional platform of the Republican Party - smaller government, lower taxes, economic/fiscal responsibility, family values, religious values, etc.
Well they are still all in on lower taxes, and traditional religious family values.
- Comment on Do you think conservative feel the same need to burn it all down as everyone else felt when trump won again? 21 hours ago:
I find it strange that anyone can look at the current US government and think it’s “Conservative”. The Republican Party has clearly become a radical, right wing, extremist, authoritarian, revolutionary sort of ideology. It’s obvious they want to completely remake the government and all of society. They’re not looking to conserve anything anymore.
- Comment on ActivityPub vs RSS Atom etc. Why Federate instead of aggrigate? 2 days ago:
Why do we advocate for, and pour hours of development into, ActivityPub rather than building clients which add a social layer to existing content distribution and communication protocols?
If clients built their own social layer, those would be limited to users of that client. If they opened up the social layer with an interoperable protocol, now you just made ActivityPub again.
- Comment on Has Charlie Kirk ever changed his views on a subject during a debate? 3 days ago:
“My favorite book said so”, isn’t an argument. It’s a delusion.
- Comment on Has Charlie Kirk ever changed his views on a subject during a debate? 4 days ago:
No. He operates as an Evangelical Apologist. He makes arguments that sound logical and convincing enough, as long as you don’t think about or look into them that much.
I think at Stamford recently his whole argument against gay marriage was completely torn down, and he finally just said, he simply didn’t like it. I’ll look for the video.
- Comment on What is a federated alternative to Wikipedia? 1 week ago:
“Best” isn’t a question of truth.
Truly there is no “best”.
Truth only describes what is, without any judgement. - Comment on What is a federated alternative to Wikipedia? 1 week ago:
More opinions means more people searching for truth together and finding new things.
Finding more opinions, not truth.
If someone finds something new and share it, that could be reviewed and researched by people faster.
More information also means quicker double-checking for what is true
Slower. They must search through the deluge of opinion that grows exponentially faster than any truth could ever hope to.
Centralizing truth has a much more destructive aspect when dealing with truth. This can be seen practically on the difference of reach between the Fediverse and Facebook, for example.
Neither are made for truth.
Truth is a constructed entity.
Truth is discovered, not constructed. You may be thinking of consensus this whole time. Consensus is absolutely constructed. But consensus isn’t truth. Sometimes they align. More often by accident then by intent.
- Comment on What is a federated alternative to Wikipedia? 1 week ago:
Opinions only obfuscate truth.
More opinions means less truth. - Comment on The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why? 1 week ago:
Blaming immigrants is classic political trope.
Right along with blaming the poor.Even when the nation was welcoming immigrants, handing them a weapon, and shoving them to the front line. They were being denigrated and demonized by other Americans.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
A few reasons that I can see. None of them anti-intellectual.
- Collage and University is increasingly expensive. Well beyond inflation.
- And increasingly not a guaranteed path to financial freedom.
- AI is clearly going after knowledge work first, epically entry level knowledge work that one would do out of collage.
- Decades of those like you denigrating less educated (yet arguably more important) work, combined with the first reasons may have made some disdainful of being pushed into higher education.
- Comment on [fluff post] If lemmy users are Lemmites, what would we like to call piefed users? 2 weeks ago:
Yyeess! 🤘
- Comment on I'm on the spectrum. How do I live the rest of my life? 2 weeks ago:
Other people are not important to me because I care about them (at least coworkers). They are “important” because I care how they can make my life difficult
It’s not much of an assumption. They basically said as much themselves. Autistic people can be dicks too…
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 3 weeks ago:
Smarter than you look 🤪
- Comment on Is it realistic to hope that lemmy grows to the size of the bigger social media platforms? 3 weeks ago:
I think that depends on your time horizon.
In the next 5 years? No, not realistic. In the next 50? Nearly certain I expect. 15-20 years? Maybe? - Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 3 weeks ago:
Not when they’re profiting off the copyrighted work.
Regardless of being owned by a person or corp. A specific copyright will reach a point where it’s not bringing in enough money to justify the expense of renewal. Corps aren’t in the habit of holding onto things that aren’t profitable. People tend to do so longer than corps. - Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 3 weeks ago:
Registering doesn’t need to cost much. It could be largely automated.
And the government will get plenty of money later on from the big ticket copyrights.
And the government isn’t supposed to be profitable in itself any way. So that doesn’t matter much. - Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 3 weeks ago:
How’s it do that?
- Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 3 weeks ago:
Anything to shorten it sounds like a good to me.
My idea has been that copyright isn’t automatic. It needs to be registered, and renewed every 2 to 5 years. And each renewal costs twice what the last one did. Start off super cheep maybe even free. Then $5 for the first renewal, doubling each time. Eventually it becomes too expensive to bother; Even for billion dollar franchises.
- Comment on Is "AI" the end of truth? 3 weeks ago:
Some people ‘believe’ aliens to be true. believe in a truth.
They believe in an idea. They believe that idea is true.
In my experience, when people talk about some subjective Truth, they say things like “my truth” or “feels true”. They aren’t making a claim beyond their subjective perceptions. And while their perceptions are true, (meaning those perceptions happened to them), those perceptions aren’t necessarily an account of real external events. That’s how stage magic works. It looks like one thing, but what it looks like isn’t reality.
And saying you shouldn’t be able to believe in something because it’s real, sounds very strange. Maybe you mean, you shouldn’t need to believe in something because it’s real?
- Comment on Is "AI" the end of truth? 3 weeks ago:
Nobody defines reality. We discover reality. Reality defines us.
Reality doesn’t care about any idea, hypothesis, or theory.
Reality is ignorant of courts, votes, or opinion.
Reality is what is, and we just make up stories that may or may not agree with reality. Makes no difference to reality. - Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 3 weeks ago:
You might look into getting a slow watch.
It doesn’t really matter exactly what minute it is mostly. - Comment on Is "AI" the end of truth? 3 weeks ago:
The common definition of Truth is along the lines of “That which matches reality”.
It doesn’t matter what’s popular, or common knowledge. Sure humanity learns more about reality as time goes on. What people believe to be true changes. But that doesn’t mean what we believe is true. Something doesn’t become true because enough people believe it. Peoples beliefs simply get closer to the truth as more is learned about reality.
- Comment on Is "AI" the end of truth? 3 weeks ago:
That’s not a widely used definition of Truth.
At the very least, it’s one I’ve never heard before. - Comment on Do we need a crawler to load content from other lemmy instances? How are we supposed to federate without one? 3 weeks ago:
Right now, it looks like the only way users on my instance will get to see content from other instances is if I manually search for just about everything they’ll get to see.
They can do that themselves.
- Comment on If your happiness is derived from your enjoyment of a false (i.e. fictional) stories, is that truely happiness, or is that technically a delusion? 4 weeks ago:
Are you suggesting delusions can’t make one happy?
- Comment on Why is "mythology" in the public domain in the first place? 4 weeks ago:
Age. Copyright only lasts for a certain amount of time. In the US it’s around 70 years after creators death, if I remember correctly. Everything goes public domain after that. And most mythological stories are a few centuries old at least, some thousands. So copyright doesn’t apply and they are by default, considered public domain.
- Comment on [Inverse Thinking] How do I make sure my place gets messy again after I thoroughly cleaned and organized it? 5 weeks ago:
Don’t pay attention to, or care about, where things go when you’re done with them.
- Comment on How abnormal is it for a mother to be her son a fleshlight for his 18th birthday? 1 month ago:
It’s certainly abnormal.
But abnormal doesn’t mean bad. At all.I actually think it’s a thoughtful honest appropriate gift. That kind of thing should be more common.
- Comment on Lemmy User Feedback and Improvement Thread: Share Your Complaints, Suggestions, and Ideas 1 month ago:
Agreed.
Until people started following hashtags. Then they were trying to be about more than just people, and doing it poorly. Kind of like wanting to subscribe to people on Lemmy. That’s not what it’s for, and just shouldn’t be an option, so people know that.