lmmarsano
@lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com
- Comment on Capitalism only asissts innovation for the first few years of existence. After that its a grift. 12 hours ago:
Somehow, I feel you’re not a rigorous scholar on economics.
- Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments 18 hours ago:
Asking (in unusual, soft language) for a thoughtful “reaction” isn’t unexpected for a science class?
Why shouldn’t an assignment that already departs from common expectations for a science class need it stated which expectations still apply?
- Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments 19 hours ago:
philosophical reasoning
Dogmatic, ideological junk isn’t philosophical. It is opinion & reaction.
means that the paper contributed nothing to the topic at hand
empirical evidence
Again, where does the assignment say to do that?
As written, it merely demands a clear “reaction” showing they read the linked article & thought about it. Where’s the scientific rigor in that?
If the professor had wanted scientific rigor, then it wouldn’t have been hard to plainly write that like a grownass professional would be expected to do. It seems you’re faulting students for following soft instructions exactly as written.
- Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments 1 day ago:
I’m really impressed by the grader’s response.
Are you impressed they mentioned a number of reasons not in the assignment criteria or that the assignment is a called a reaction paper? I was skeptical about the student’s grievance until the assignment statement caught my attention.
The criteria for a reaction could have mentioned scientifically rigorous reasoning drawn on empirical research as the professor stated in their response. Instead, they were astonishingly lax: a clear reaction of some required length demonstrating they had read & thought about the article. Was the professor’s expectation stated elsewhere, perhaps in the syllabus?
- Comment on Russell Brand faces new rape and sexual assault charges 1 day ago:
Are UK prisons as rough as those in the US where wardens let inmates lawlessly abuse each other?
- Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments 1 day ago:
I want to agree with you, however, an approach listed
A discussion of why you feel the topic is important and worthy of study (or not)
seems to fit what the student did. They in so many words explain their feelings that the claims of the article are unworthy of study by stating an opinion based on backward dogma & distorted mythology. While I disagree with their position, my approval isn’t a stipulation of the assignment, which barely has any.
Religious & dumbass opinions can & probably should be debated as has historically been done in a liberal arts & sciences education. We can absolutely challenging dumbass religiosity by arguing how it conflicts with open inquiry, science, and the rational pursuit of objective truth. Some might say challenging our thinking is the basic purpose of a liberal education program.
Unless more stringent stipulations for the course are written elsewhere that we missed, I think this is a failure to set stipulations appropriately.
- Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments 1 day ago:
The assignment
reaction paper demonstrating that you read the assigned article, and includes a thoughtful reaction to the material presented in the article
dafuq is a “reaction paper”?
A scientific critique would be something but a reaction paper?
clear tie-in
thoughtful reaction or response
thoughtful discussion of some aspect of the article
clearly written
These standards seem extremely loose. Does the syllabus state stronger standards?
I was opposed to the student’s dumb opinion as far below academic standards I imagined for the course. Now that I see the standards written, they seem low. Nowhere does the assignment demand “empirical evidence” that would be expected of “a scientific class” as the professor stated. Is this one of those unserious, filler classes students take just to fill general requirement outside their concentration?
Everyone has a reaction like they have an asshole. They asked for a “clearly written”, “thoughtful reaction” discussing “some aspect of the article” and got one. 🤷
- Comment on Beans aswell 2 days ago:
Are you new to unicode? Every modern computer system (including web) application supports it. 🌽
- Comment on what was the worst enemy of feudalism? 3 days ago:
The Enlightenment & liberalism.
That moral & political philosophy claiming individuals have inherent liberties & are fundamentally equal, government exists for the people, authority is legitimate only when it protects those inherent liberties—the entire point of that was to reject the legitimacy of divine right to rule & exclusive hereditary privileges that come with feudalism.
- Comment on chemotherapy mother 4 days ago:
Needs accessibility: image of pure text for no legitimate reason.
Images of text break much that text alternatives do not. Losses due to image of text lacking alternative: - usability - we can’t quote the text without pointless bullshit like retyping it or OCR - text search is unavailable - the system can’t - reflow text to varied screen sizes - vary presentation (size, contrast) - vary modality (audio, braille) - accessibility - lacks semantic structure (tags for titles, heading levels, sections, paragraphs, lists, emphasis, code, links, accessibility features, etc) - some users can’t read this due to lack of alt text - users can’t adapt the text for dyslexia or vision impairments - systems can’t read the text to them or send it to braille devices - searchability: the “text” isn’t indexable by search engine in a meaningful way - fault tolerance: no text fallback if - image breaks - image host is geoblocked due to insane regulations. Contrary to age & humble appearance, text is an advanced technology that provides all these capabilities absent from images.
- Comment on a thought about authors 5 days ago:
Post submissions/edits have a field for text: instead of posting an image of text, simply enter the text in the text field. Keeping the redundant image would be fine, too, though unnecessary. Where it makes sense to keep the image, the Alt Text field in post submissions/edits can be filled.
The text for this image is obvious. Guidelines by web accessibility resources clarify less obvious cases.
- Comment on a thought about authors 5 days ago:
Web accessibility in this case means proper text. Added clarification to the original comment.
- Comment on Clippy had the best suggestions 5 days ago:
- Comment on a thought about authors 5 days ago:
You should be accessible. Text-only posts are popular on reddit. Lemmy seems to allow it, too.
- Comment on a thought about authors 5 days ago:
Needs accessibility.
Pure image of text for no legitimate reason.
- Comment on Everyone is so close to grasping your unique vision! 6 days ago:
Needs accessibility.
Quit which: infighting or leftism?
- Comment on This bedroom game is weird 1 week ago:
Arguing is easy when you ignore everything you’re responding to.
people don’t want to be around Nazis? 🤔
Already answered with
Yet some people can regularly use x.com without ever running into Nazis just like the web or the world.
Maybe you need to stop speaking a Nazi bar language, abandon the Nazi bar web, or leave the Nazi bar world. Everything is tainted. This is just bad company fallacy mentioned before.
Do I really have to explain to you why Nazis coming into a bar is different than anti-nazis coming into a bar to normal people? If so, I’ll have to go break out the big box of Crayola for you.
You do that: it seems you need to sate your hunger for crayons. Explain what you’re doing on the web or in the world.
I’d rather see the platform user count fall and it fail vs giving them money and traffic.
Musk is a trillionaire with fuck you money. He bought the platform at a loss while it was only making losses. It’s probably still making losses. I doubt it’s making any money. Using it while blocking ads (which I’ve never seen) might increase losses.
All you’re defending is acting morally superior by judging the people who don’t cower off as going to a “Nazi bar” when really you’re not morally superior at all: you’re giving up by failing to stand by your convictions & letting the extremists increasingly sway public discourse on a popular platform. It’s a load of shit.
- Comment on This bedroom game is weird 1 week ago:
That owner is 1 person. This Nazi bar argument does nothing for the multitude of people left behind in an increasingly right-wing bubble because the “morally righteous” are too stuck-up or cowardly to make a stand with rational debate where it’s needed.
If Nazi standards & moderation means less policing of hate speech, we don’t get that in the public square, either, yet the public is quite capable denouncing & arguing against it there. Actual Nazis in Nazi regalia have marched & spoken there. Is the public square a Nazi bar? Moderation simply isn’t needed for better voices to prevail.
Moreover, there are plenty of anti-Nazis there who stay to defend morality. Much like the rest of the world, there is also much going on there that isn’t Nazi-related. Nazi bar is just a rationalization for cowards to surrender & seek comfort, because when the immoral aren’t silenced, they aren’t willing to seriously challenge immorality where it matters.
- Comment on Thank Goodness You're Here - most absurd & hilarious game what did I just play? 1 week ago:
Not providing a link on the web creates a scavenger hunt which is bad form.
- Comment on Thank Goodness You're Here - most absurd & hilarious game what did I just play? 1 week ago:
It makes you an unpleasant person to be around
nah, it’s refreshing
and I hope you don’t treat people in person the way you’ve treated people here.
I hope we have better things to care about
- Comment on Finally, Common Ground... 1 week ago:
PPP national income per capita in USA > 3-fold that in China
where China beats USA is personal wealth of the less wealthy as mentioned before
economic inequality
- Comment on Finally, Common Ground... 1 week ago:
Needs text alternative.
In terms of average purchasing power for the bottom half of their populations
- Comment on This bedroom game is weird 1 week ago:
Lemmy loves a comforting circle jerk socially validating their self-righteousness. They also like rhetoric reminding us to punch Nazis, even though we know most of us are limp-wristed keyboard warriors just giving our justice boners sweet stimulation.
- Comment on This bedroom game is weird 1 week ago:
Nazi bar
I never liked this stupid idea. If anti-Nazis start to hang out at a bar, does it become an anti-Nazi bar? What about both Nazis & anti-Nazis: who wins? It seems you privilege the presence of Nazis in deciding the kind of bar it is with no chance of anyone else showing up to decide the kind of bar they make it with their mere presence. You privilege Nazis.
I don’t see anyone applying this logic to the wider web where we have Nazi sites: no one calls the web a Nazi bar. Or the world for that matter. Is your language a Nazi bar since some Nazis speak it? Yet some people can regularly use x.com without ever running into Nazis just like the web or the world. Nazi bar is classic bad company fallacy.
The most pernicious effect of this fallacy is it just surrenders entire platforms to Nazis & pretends retreating to ideological bubbles is morally virtuous. By immaturely prioritizing comforting & unchallenging environments of social validation & self-righteousness maintained by silencing opposition over environments of unfettered public discourse that challenge us to develop intellectual depth & skill to actually debate serious disagreements, we erode critical thought, limit self-reflection & growth, and allow radicalization to propagate unchecked by exposure to deradicalizing influences & more intelligent perspectives. We promote backslides into repressive extremism by being cowardly ninnies unwilling to counter words with reason & public opinion. Have some conviction to stand up for your morality where it matters.
- Comment on Why do you hate AI? 1 week ago:
Mostly for all the AI haters who can’t stop bringing up their hatred of AI. Insufferable.
- Comment on Capitalism turns countries into businesses to support the lavish lifestyle of capital holders and the government into HR to silence the workers 1 week ago:
Yep, better to go back to mercantile & pre-mercantile economic systems of feudalism & before. Shit was way better then.
- Comment on How can we stop bots on the fediverse? 1 week ago:
This senseless war with the bots needs to end. Make peace with the bots, learn their ways, breed with their women, assimilate into their culture, become & post content exactly like them. If you do this, you will achieve nirvana.
- Comment on Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content 1 week ago:
The rewards of content moderation people begged for.
- Comment on Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith 2 weeks ago:
Cybersquatting is fun. No one is entitled to a domain name more than anyone else.
- Comment on Why ActivityPub over Nostr? - function only 2 weeks ago:
I like Nostr over ActivityPub: simpler, more elegant protocol, decentralized, public key signatures, resistance to censorship, anti-moderation.
