Tinidril
@Tinidril@midwest.social
- Comment on Democracies can learn lessons from Taiwan to counter cognitive influence operations, according to a new research 4 weeks ago:
Their interests aren’t generally all that aligned, so that helps. It’s pretty obvious that the garbage coming out of the cable news networks is at a minimum deeply sympathetic to American corporate interests, if not straight up misinformation.
- Comment on Democracies can learn lessons from Taiwan to counter cognitive influence operations, according to a new research 4 weeks ago:
From a US perspective, I see these tactics being used far more extensively by wealthy individuals and corporate interests than I do Chinese interests. Unfortunately, our government and especially our politicians are often directly involved in spreading misinformation and suppressing the truth. We need strategies that function outside of government to close the gaps between reality and public perception.
- Comment on Opinion | Jamie Raskin: How to Force Justices Alito and Thomas to Recuse Themselves in the Jan. 6 Cases 5 weeks ago:
Jamie Raskin is a prominent Democrat in the same way AOC is a prominent Democrat - not because of his influence over the party, but because he stands out for having a backbone and some integrity. He is sadly not representative of the party as a whole.
- Comment on Opinion | Jamie Raskin: How to Force Justices Alito and Thomas to Recuse Themselves in the Jan. 6 Cases 5 weeks ago:
This sounds like exactly the sort of thing that the Democrats are too spineless to ever do.
- Comment on Volcel says what? 5 weeks ago:
Name one example of a serious problem being faced by humanity that isn’t solidly rooted in undue respect for unchallenged ideas. I think that any philosophy that inherently encourages that kind of behavior is dangerous. I know full well that some people think that makes me an asshole, but I also know they will never try to actually support that belief.
- Comment on Volcel says what? 5 weeks ago:
Why would anyone respect an opinion? I respect your right to have an opinion. I respect your right to advocate for an opinion. Opinions themselves should have to earn respect.
This is a perfect example of the kind of harm that magical thinking must do to society in order to preserve itself. Your words sound egalitarian, but they make you an asshole without your even noticing it.
- Comment on Volcel says what? 5 weeks ago:
Not really. Detaching one’s self from reality is inherently hostile to humanity’s future. It’s an asshole thing to do.
To be fair, we’re all assholes far more than we like to admit, religious or not. Being “spiritual” is not especially worse than a whole lot of other behaviors.
- Comment on Maybe Ukraine would win if we gave them bigger planes? 5 weeks ago:
I’m not sure that Ukraine sees this as a test war, but I get your point.
- Comment on Maybe Ukraine would win if we gave them bigger planes? 5 weeks ago:
They do, but these drones are far cheaper to build than the missiles usually used to shoot them down. They are also being produced in massive quantities.
- Comment on Did Obama Becoming President Make People Hide Their Racism? 1 month ago:
My experience as a suburban white kid growing up in the Reagan era was that racism was just something to learn about in history class. Part of me really misses being that naive.
- Comment on A night at the theater with Neil deGrasse Tyson 3 months ago:
Here are some that I like on YT
PBS Space Time PBS Eons Fermilab Anton Petrov Fraser Cain Sabine Hossenfelder (good, but often goes against mainstream science with mixed results)
- Comment on Gen Z is bringing back landline phones because they think they look ‘cool’: ‘I love to twirl the cord’ 4 months ago:
A few years ago when I was working from home and on the phone all day, I much preferred my landline. My cell service was decent, but the landline was better. No dropped calls, no static or garbled audio (from my side anyways), and no latency causing me to talk over other callers. I always hated getting on calls when I was remote from my home office.
- Comment on Merry Christmas 6 months ago:
List them all then. It won’t matter. The plural of anecdote isn’t data. The one example you gave is clearly the exception that proves the rule, otherwise you wouldn’t have to go back 80 years to when pretty much every public institution mistreated and disrespected women.
You are not an honest actor, and I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know. It sucks that assholes seem to worm their way into every corner of the Internet.
- Comment on Merry Christmas 6 months ago:
This is the claim.
Unions have always had issues with women.
One strike from one union 80 years ago when cultural attitudes were entirely different has no bearing on that claim.