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https://issues.org/rumors-research-misinformation-spiro-starbird/
Rumors Have Rules
Decades-old research about how and why people share rumors is even more relevant in a world with social media.Jay Lloyd (Issues in Science and Technology)
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"I just don't have the energy I used to. Why can't I do as much as I did in the past?"
My dude, friend, old buddy, pal...
We are -literally- living in some of the most difficult times we have seen in "recent" history.
We face regular existential crisis among countless other issues with meeting the most basic of needs.
Honestly that you are still here is a tribute to how resilient you are. Don't gaslight yourself, it's a mess out there. But there is room still for hope too.
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I don't think #twitter really cares if they lose advertisers or if they have to pull out of EU. They don't care about being a global platform, and money is just a possible side benefit.
What they do want is to control the political discourse in their home country.
The same is likely happening with #Reddit ; expect similar changes to other platforms. Same about stopping non-US platforms ( #tiktok ).
The long-term goal is to deplatform anyone not on the political far right. And it's working.
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Fingers crossed that EU exit actually goes through.
Would set such a nice precedent in the public consciousness which still seems to believe to some extent that these ridiculous companies are somehow a necessary evil.
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wtf is that private co. you're rappn' aboutt?
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Bad News Level 5 (the twitter sell-outs)
Something about his ex/ hates 'woke anything etc. .Twittr v. mvsk txt message transcripts w. the profiteer gang? 🤔⚖️📜YouTube
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Homeless people are people. Just give them homes. It's been proven to save public money. Just give them homes. It's been proven to reduce drug dependency and mental crises. Just give them homes. It literally ends homelessness. Just give them homes. NOT KILL THEM.
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"Give homes to the people.
Just like we gave trillions to the rich.
The people are too big to fail."
SearingTruth
@ArmyGirl
GIVE them homes? What about my two kids who worked their asses off to earn college degrees and still have no hope of affording homes except through inheritance when I die?
I had to defer retirement to help them and they’re still saddled with student loan debt.
Meanwhile, most of the homeless camps I rode through today in Portland are what we call homeless-by-choice: self-professed “Travelers” who swarm Portland in the summer.
Answer all the following questions in the replies, and I will tell you exactly about what to do about your kids.
1) Why do you think addressing the homeless problem means NOT helping the housing market for your kids? If I said "we should make sure bridges are fixed," will you also complain about your kids' school debt? Don't you know you can address more than one problem at a time?
2) Did you know there are 28 vacant homes for every unhoused person in the US? Did you know Tennessee has 48 empty houses for each homeless person?
3) Do you know why that is? Landlords and speculators are buying up houses and sitting on them to keep the supply low, and prices high.
4) Did you know that Finland is addressing the problem by regulating the housing market so the government owns enough units that it can control rent AND give houses to homeless people?
Vacant Homes vs. Homelessness In the U.S. - United Way NCA
Many overpriced homes sit vacant while populations experiencing homelessness continue to grow in the U.S. See which cities have the highest disparity here.United Way NCA
5) Did you know that YOUR tax money is being spent RIGHT NOW on homeless people in emergency medical care, imprisoning them, policing them, etc? Did you know that it is CHEAPER TO YOU to give homeless people homes than it is to police them?
6) Did you know that it is easier and more productive to treat drug addiction among homeless people when they have homes? Did you know that it is easier to get people into the workforce when they have homes?
So, to recap:
1) Giving homeless people homes doesn't have a goddamn thing to do with school debt, which is a totally different problem
2) We can afford to do it, both in terms of houses available AND in terms of taxpayer money - YOUR money
3) It will help the housing market prices, which will DIRECTLY HELP YOUR KIDS
4) It's more humane and will help address drugs and crime MUCH MORE than leaving them on the street.
So, what do you have to say now?
I see this happen a lot, and I never understand it. How people like you see someone suffering, and instead of saying "we should help ALL people who are having trouble or in crisis," you say, "we should help NO ONE having trouble, because my family is having trouble right now." I just don't understand it.
@scenario
You pay for homelessness one way or another. Housing them reduces what you now pay for their healthcare, criminal enforcement and social intervention.
Also, housing advocates don't want to prioritize homeless people over affordable housing for folks like your kids. It's an all-inclusive effort seeking affordable and fair rent/home pricing -- shelter for all.
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For #Pride Month, I'd like to mention #Babylon5. The show ran from 1993 to 1998, and made a point of *not* making a point of gay relationships. Susan Ivanova (serving military officer) had a lesbian affair with Talia Winters, and no other character even blinked.
Later on two straight men on a secret mission found themselves using "newlyweds" as a cover story, because two men on their honeymoon would fit right in.
The message was clear: in the future being gay is 100% unremarkable. In the 90s!
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For #Pride Month, I'd like to mention #Babylon5. The show ran from 1993 to 1998, and made a point of *not* making a point of gay relationships. Susan Ivanova (serving military officer) had a lesbian affair with Talia Winters, and no other character even blinked.Later on two straight men on a secret mission found themselves using "newlyweds" as a cover story, because two men on their honeymoon would fit right in.
The message was clear: in the future being gay is 100% unremarkable. In the 90s!
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great points, and I'd also like to add all of the little queer allegories inherent in B5's depiction of telepaths - a small minority who are born differently than others, typically find out they're different in adolescence, aren't allowed to touch each other, and who need to either register with the government, go to jail, or take Alan Turing-style blockers that slowly kill them.
it's no coincidence that ivanova and talia are both teeps, that mundanes seem to mistrust and avoid them so much, that there's such strong "queer polycule" vibes in Byron's group in S5 (including a pair of women who are shown visibly physically close to one another and described as "closer than sisters"), or that the Shadows, a thinly veiled Nazi allegory, are depicted as previously having tried to commit genocide against teeps (including having wiped them all out from the Narn homeworld).
like, especially for a show run by a cishet guy in the '90s, there's so much nuanced understanding of queer issues and history present there. B5 seriously does a better job at that than most modern TV shows.
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It should be a case of the bleeding obvious not everyone is comfortable with showing pre-transition pics.
Same as how not everyone talks about their traumas in public. Or shows their scars.
It's sensitive and personal.
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That's the most generous I can be to someone who asks -- they are comparing to something they know, but don't realize they are making a "category error" (formal way to say "comparing apples and baby names").
@pepbrowse There is no need for better refusals. It's private info, period.
Do people go around asking complete strangers their credit card info? Or what genitalia have in their pants? Or if they had sex last night? No, they don't, because it's private info and it is disrespectful to ask.
As @sheepchase said, we do share that kind of info sometimes, but it is and always will be our prerogative.
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@kscearce, disclaimer: it doesn't make that much of a difference because I rarely open the card compartment.
In fact, I probably open it most often to take the library card out… so I suppose it will make a small difference 😉.
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@dalias If I wasn't so worried about running an unsupervised indexer, I'd do it.
Unfortunately while it can probably be explained that one is setting up a search-engine... having to talk with the feds about one's search-engine indexer that automatically crawled/indexed some honeypot (or other site containing very illegal stuff) still isn't my idea of fun or relaxing.
Ah, multiple things I see.
Any idea what Canada would be outsourcing those to?
Also, is the crawling step itself possible to cover in such a way? My government has had the "brilliant" idea to make it illegal to access certain types of information, not just provide it.
So as far as I understand the laws as written, even just crawling & discarding (after index processing) is still legally dubious.
Possibly, though if I were to drop anything JS-dependent as likely garbage, that'd probably remove most SEO/ad spam in short order.
The sheer scale of the enshittification that has occurred is depressing.
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Did you ever use that lovely tool Stumbleupon? Aghhh I miss that.
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The long, bloody lineage of private equity's looting -- Cory Doctorow
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As a single, non-LGBTQ, white male who hates team sports, I have no social niche in the US at all, especially since I am an atheist. At least PoC have each other.
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The original 13th Amendment would've prevented lawyers from serving in Congress or as POTUS. Still a great idea.
In the meantime, I'll vote a straight Dem ticket - and I always vote.
Which came first, Defense work in Southern California, or the Religious Right there?
Does it matter?
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-orange-wave/id1574612635
I am younger but have similar issues with regards to finding a social niche. I have recently joined a local organization to try and address that as I think @StillIRise1963's comment about finding "we" is very important. I think the fact that "rugged individualism" has been implicitly and explicitly re-enforced makes this more challenging than it needs to be.
One problem with the organization I've joined is that its scope of what the organization seeks to address is not as wide as I would like. My pie-in-the-sky dream is to create a meta-organization that serves to foster social connections between existing disparate groups that are already doing good work. I'm probably being naive but something a la Fred Hampton's Rainbow Coalition and Rising up Angry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Coalition_(Fred_Hampton)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rising_Up_Angry
I don’t see it as a parallel, it’s just a continuation. As the country became more multiracial, they couldn’t win on white supremacy alone in enough places, so they had to embrace fascism more directly, to return to pushing white supremacy
Fascism, racism, homophobia and transphobia are all the same miasma from the same American-apartheid era sources
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women folk are (and yes I am being old fashioned in term usage). Anyone with a uterus.
It is telling that women in deeply conservative states voted down referendums for abortion bans. They don’t discuss it, but many a teen has had an abrupt need for a vacation.
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell
Having a uterus is not required to be a woman. Neither is having ovaries. Gender is a cultural and mental construct. It’s not dependent on what a doctor thinks your parts will look like after you go through puberty, or what body parts you are born with and/or have removed.
Having a radical hysterectomy doesn’t make me less of a woman if I chose to be one. Just like being born with a penis is not a thing that prevents my family members from being women or non-binary people.
I bet you can imagine something of how that statement feels to receive if you try. Choose your words with more care.
@dawnfry My mother has had a hysterectomy. Some of us are too old to become pregnant. Do you get how presumptuous you are?
In the interest of not going bending myself into pretzels, christofascists are targeting those who can become pregnant, with brutal denial of health care, criminal persecution, imprisonment, illness and death.
The. people. effected. are. those. who. can. become. pregnant. girls. women. trans.
Seriously, wake up and stop blinding yourself with performative lecturing.
@GhostOnTheHalfShell
Look to your framing.
I know exactly what’s going on. I’m doing my best to protest against it and to vote those bastards out. Fuck them and their BS.
But your language choice was insensitively worded, and that is something that needs to be addressed.
“People who can become pregnant” is the inclusive language you were looking for - which also includes non-binary people and trans men.
“anyone with a uterus” is gender neutral. it includes non cis. gop laws effect even those past reproductive age with organs intact and would effect me as well. you are ageist.
I would point out that you insulted me as an individual by implying that I was somehow unfamiliar that breeding age (this effects me) or loss of reproductive organs (this effects my mother) doesn’t effect gender.
so go ahead, model contrition.
@GhostOnTheHalfShell
You literally said:
“women folk are (and yes I am being old fashioned in term usage). Anyone with a uterus.
It is telling that deeply women in deeply conservative states voted down referendums for abortion bans. They don’t discuss it, but many a teen has had an abrupt need for a vacation.”
It’s the first paragraph that I was referring to, and there’s literally nothing else at that point that puts that in a better context.
You’ve added all of the information that clarifies your opinion AFTER my comment.
I’m absolutely in agreement with you have since clarified is what you actually meant. But I’m not going to eat crow for being unhappy with what you put into text at the beginning of this exchange and pointing it out at the time.
@dawnfry I think I would have been less salty if you hadn't lectured, because it had a set of assumptions about myself in terms of knowledge, and asked if I was looking for the phrase you suggested. "People who can become pregnant". That's what I had intended with people with a uterus.
chock it up to the limitations of text.
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I should have asked for clarification first. It struck a nerve since I have endo and just had my radical hysterectomy within the last two years. It’s been rather shocking to realize how many people think I don’t deserve any rights just on that count alone, (not to mention the queer, invisibly disabled, and neurodivergent strikes against me.)
I live in deep red hell, and am trying to figure out how to get my immediate and extended family out without a lot of money to make the move. Lots of stress here. I also spent a lot of years as a college Instructor, so teacher is my normal tone when annoyed.
So it was not the best exchange on either side. I’ll take responsibility for my part in that too.
Fascism does discriminate using hate to divide.
@hosford42
The possibility you may be correct about the small number of bigots?
The media, GOP, and evangelicals seem to promote bigotry constantly , maybe with the German Nazi goal of mind controls.
@Piousunyn I'm not saying the number of bigots is small. I'm saying that nearly everyone can be a target of bigotry in one way or another. If people were rational then bigotry would be rare. But that's not the case.
Fascism is a progressive erosion of what is considered an acceptable type of person. It starts with those who are most vulnerable to bigotry, excluding them from public discourse and removing their human rights. Once their removal/extermination is well under way, the line separating human from subhuman is moved to exclude more people. And so it proceeds until most of society has been destroyed. Many of the people who helped get the ball rolling are later crushed by it.
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"Fetishing war and death is good actually"... and that's about it.
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@isaacfreeman @TomMarcinko @hosford42 @Piousunyn fascism is conflated with authoritarianism a lot. It's like confusing a van with a car. They are similar but not the same.
Another more broad definition that includes more anti-capitalist variants of fascism I heard is 2 words: palingenetic ultranationalism. It's a good definition and is actually compatible with my earlier explanation of what fascism is.
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Defining political ignorance is made to be confusing on purpose to divide the people further.
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"History should be taught twice, so it will be more difficult to forget."
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Banning History and truth is obviously being instituted in Florida and other states.
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This. I doubt this is an original thought by me but I've long thought that the dictator, the playground bully, the toxic boss, the abusive significant other — they're all the same person, playing out of the same playbook.
It's infuriating watching political commentators try to figure out the strategy or the philosophy or whatever of various fascists, most notably Trump in this country, while sitting there thinking "Weren't you ever on a playground? This shit ain't complicated."
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Political commentators are paid to fill air time, not provide answers.
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When you spend time in a nursing home, you realize it’s a lot like high school or kindergarten. You have to stand up to the bullies even when they are 80 and in a wheel-chair. They can and do make your life miserable.
Once you have crossed the line and called them a cunt at the top of your lungs, you are ready to recognize how nasty human society really is. Using the ‘F’ word-Fascist-becomes easier when you are finally on the ‘outside’!
https://www.orwell.ru/library/articles/As_I_Please/english/efasc
George Orwell: What is Fascism?
What is Fascism?, the column #8216;As I Please’ of George Orwell. First published: 1944 by/in Tribune, GB, Londonwww.orwell.ru
@failedLyndonLaRouchite That may be where I first heard it!
I’d agree that it’s not helpful for all purposes, but I also think we sometimes try too hard to provide an intellectual definition for a profoundly anti-intellectual tendency. When we parse too closely whether a given politician is technically a fascist we lose sight of what they’re doing and how to resist them effectively.
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Yes, and: it invites us to *become* bullies.
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