Urist
@Urist@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Matrix 2.0 Is Here! 3 weeks ago:
We need to ban spoons because they are nazi pedophiles’ preferred tool for eating soup.
- Comment on Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media 3 weeks ago:
I thought that was Morgoth a valar and not an elf, who made them. In any case it twists the causal relationship because the goblins subsequently make their own pitiful conditions. Either way, I do not condone the terminology. Since a government is, in its pure form, only a body of people, you can translate trust between people and trust between a government if it is sufficiently representative.
- Comment on Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media 3 weeks ago:
Okay, so I never wanted to say that this was unique to Scandinavia. The important part was how we have a a lot of trust based systems (which of course probably exists elsewhere too, but not everywhere) that are really formative for how we make policy and implement it.
This trust should translate to trust to other people, but this has been eroded away for some time because the social contract is being violated.
Most importantly with respect to elf/goblin part: I found that distasteful and resent the implication that I said anything to that degree. I do not think people are fundamentally different, only that the conditions (material basis and social superstructures) that they find themselves in allow for and promotes certain kinds of actions and ways of being.
- Comment on Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media 3 weeks ago:
Could be I am being dense, but I do not understand what you are saying at all.
- Comment on Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media 3 weeks ago:
As a case study, we did this in 1988 with a smoking law that was incrementally improved with great success. It was controversial at the time, but is now generally regarded as such an obvious policy: no smoking in or around public transport, in bars and restaurants etc…
- Comment on Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media 3 weeks ago:
For all those that think this is the government overstepping with an unenforceable law, you are not grasping the intent correctly. Declaring that we have democratically decided to have an age limit for social media means that we have laid the groundwork for collective action. This means that suddenly schools, parents, teenagers themselves, etc. all have a reason and a mandate for keeping young people off platforms that we believe to be detrimental to their development and well-being. True democratic culture lies not in bourgeoisie domination (as many Americans like to believe), but rather in mutual trust and cooperation in order to solve common and big problems.
- Comment on Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media 3 weeks ago:
Probably networks where users post personal data in conjunction with chat features. Obviously Wikipedia is not social media in this regard and neither is a mailing list.
- Comment on New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer 4 weeks ago:
Now I want to try too: The ultimate form of democracy is when people are voting with their wallets. Then they can have the freedom to express both what they want and how much they want it. That is why profitable = good and freedom, actually.
- Comment on New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer 4 weeks ago:
Much of the basis for the RSA cryptosystem, and by extension much of modern computing, was done by some mathematician who prided himself that his work was not applied mathematics and could not ever be applied in any way (bonus point for being pertinent to the topic of large primes). Science is exploratory work, not a straight path to some predefined goal. The person above is evidently clueless as to how science is conducted.
- Comment on New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, fuck those assholes that pursue science for the benefit of humanity! I do not see why anyone should be allowed to be creative if I do not ser the benefit for me in particular.
- Comment on Is this a triangle? 2 months ago:
It is a triangle. The abstraction of great lines in hyperbolic geometry are geodesics and just like three lines form a triangle, so do the geodesics. If you walked along the earth’s surface from the equator to the north pole and back, taking 90 degrees angles every time, you will have felt that you made a triangle by walking straight in three directions.
The reason why the angle sum can be more than 180 degrees is that the sphere has a positve curvature. If you want one with negative curvature and less than 180 degrees angle sum, try to make one on the side of the hole on a torus (look up its curvature if my explanation was lacking).
- Comment on Is this a triangle? 2 months ago:
The answer is obvious. Depending on the curvature of the object the triangles have higher or lower than 180 degrees angle sums. Flat space just happens to have 0 curvature.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
Did not know about this site. It was a nice read and their mission statement is cool. Thanks for sharing! :)
- Comment on Why 🤷♂️ do users 👨💻 dislike 👎 the use ✅ of emojis 😀 on Lemmy 🐭? 2 months ago:
Loved out of life 👻
- Comment on Chat is this real 2 months ago:
The original comment says that these clauses should be made illegal, to which the comment I responded to objects. Objecting to change based on arguments that are only valid within the paradigm that exists before said change is nothing but a logical fallacy.
It is demonstrably false that the change has to entail the problems conjectured by the comment I responded to. Thus the counter argument is shown to be both reductionist and wrong.
- Comment on Chat is this real 2 months ago:
It is not besides the point because there exists an alternative to the whole ordeal of arbitration clauses and suing. That is what I pointed out.
We all joke about how americans sue for the most stupid shit, but (besides different mindsets following from the same reason) you do it because your system allows for it and provides no alternative course of action.
- Comment on Chat is this real 2 months ago:
Uhm what are you talking about? Why would I want to sue my surgeon?
- Comment on Chat is this real 2 months ago:
Otherwise, no doctor would ever touch any patient ever again.
Demonstrably false. In a public healthcare system it is also possible to have publicly funded patient injury compensation systems. Source: Live in Norway and we have both.
- Comment on Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not? 3 months ago:
Yeah, living in a parliamentary democracy means I have to make an effort to wrap my head around how the US “democratic” institution works. The internal structure of the Democratic Party has more in common with our democratic structure than the structure of their “competing” parties. As a result there is more room for difference within the Democratic Party than within a political party in our system, but the political difference between parties in our system is greater than those within the democratic party.
Whilst it economically is to the right, many of its social policies it endorses are leftist.
My analysis has long been that there is no political will to implement leftist economical policies in the US, i.e. those that really matter in the grand scheme of things, even though there exists a semi-conscious wish for them within the populace. Please do not misunderstand, increasing equity between people of different backgrounds is important, but important single issues such as gay marriage are insufficient if they do not come along with, or better yet, as a product of equity of material conditions. It was all the same with the feminist movement where social advancements were conceded in lieu of increasing their economical statuses, with the division in measurable quantities, such as income or capital ownership still going strong (note I do not advocate changing the ruling elite from one subset of people to another subset of different characteristics, but instead saying that capital ownership should be transferred from the subset to the whole).
Strengthening the political power of the marginalized by increasing the material conditions of their strata is the best way to make social progress, which the ruling elite of the US is painfully aware and which is why they sometimes are willing to skip the first step and reach the inevitable second immediately. The discrepancy between the people’s wants and needs for leftist policies, again conscious or not, and the actual politics of the US, is deeply connected to the Democratic Party’s willingness to concede these social changes without losing the backing of the capital interests that fund them.
- Comment on Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not? 3 months ago:
Because MSNBC is an American organization and their coverage is American-focused, their bias relative to American politics is what’s relevant here.
I understand what you are trying to say, but I disagree. They are making claims about a lot of news outlets in other countries, which means they cannot present an American skewed perspective as the truth (unless what they really want is to export political views and exert influence domestically and abroad, now we might be talking here).
It doesn’t matter what their beliefs or policy positions are relative to any particular standard, what matters is whether or not their work presents the news accurately or in a way intended to mislead or influence their viewers in favor of one side or the other, which they clearly do.
All reporting should be held to the highest standard. Anyone seriously attempting to critique and comment on others reporting at a meta level, should hold themselves to the same, or even a higher standard, for the same reason. What I am essentially arguing is that the MediaBiasFactCheck falls in line with pretty much all of US news as mass propaganda machines in the interest of capital. If you disagree, why do you think they operate at all?
- Comment on Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not? 3 months ago:
I am not from the US so why should I base my definition of left-wing on the Democratic party (and subsequently arrive upon the wrong conclusion that the Democratic party is leftist). More importantly, why would you?
If you want to talk relatively, use relative terms. That being said, left of the farthest right is not very useful, which is precisely why I care about the distinction.
- Comment on Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not? 3 months ago:
We seem to have a different opinion of what is left-wing and what is not. I do not think the Democratic party is left-wing at all. It is centre-right to right (with the Republican party being far-right).
I know of none American left-wing news outlets and the only left-wing bias I know of is truth.
- Comment on If everyone is fired by AI, who's going to buy the products and services made by the companies if no one has money anymore? 4 months ago:
Neoliberalism is killing the good parts of Norway (and there were bad ones to begin with).
- Comment on If everyone is fired by AI, who's going to buy the products and services made by the companies if no one has money anymore? 4 months ago:
Nah, everyone loves their meaningful anf fulfilling work.
- Comment on Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist? 4 months ago:
I am using socialist interchangeably with communist here.
- Comment on Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist? 4 months ago:
That is understandable if you think only within the paradigm of some select countries dominating the rest, but that is perhaps the biggest obstacle to our gay space communist Star Trek future.
- Comment on Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist? 4 months ago:
Caveat that I have not played the games, but taking the series at face value they are highly US-centric like most Hollywood productions. It makes no sense arguing on the basis of the series alone what they are going with in this regard, since all the action takes place in the US it is pretty much the scope of the universe, just like in many Americans minds. I tried to make a disjoint point, that was based on how I would interpret it with complete disregard to whatever is canon to the story as a whole, taking what is presented in the first season of the series at face value.
To put this into context with Star Trek, I also find it really boring and non-immersive whenever they hold 21st century America in special consideration. It is just such an obvious way to make a comparison to current state of affairs in one particular country, placating preferences of current pop culture, which is redundant anyway since all science fiction is a universal critique of the current state of affairs anywhere simply by showing a future alternative. A hypothetical sudden end to US hegemony is actually a valid way to make the current US affairs leading up to it special with respect to the future development of mankind.
- Comment on Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist? 4 months ago:
Saw this episode for the first time two days ago and loved everything about it. Especially the inqusition of anti-union Ferengi, that is the FCA, captured the violence of capitalist oppression , both direct and threat thereof, beautifully.
I also liked the subtle points being made, like Odo being against the strike on basis of upholding law and order, even though this should contradict his moral compass in my opinion.
- Comment on Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist? 4 months ago:
More like the dissolvement of US hegemony.
- Comment on Is Lemmy growing or shrinking? 6 months ago:
18 days for this comeback was worse.