Haha thank you. I like to hear myself talk so it works out.
Yeah. That's one thing I really liked about the Slashdot voting explanations (and their whole system), it indoctrinated a sense of responsibility. There's a whole separate issue where the "free account" model sort of creates a sense of entitlement where no one really has to take any good care of the space.
Also yeah, the whole issue of votes as dopamine-delivery systems, versus votes as ways to surface good content, as two very different things. I feel like they're both good aspects to the system, but they are separate things that are a little bit tangled together right now.
'ad to make your own way 'ere, on yer own plane, didn't ya?
Seriously.
I can hear directly from the horse's mouth from someone who went through World War 2, fought in a trench and saw all the tanks, saw their friends die, had all these crazy experiences.
I watched Dunkirk and I didn't like it because it was all a bunch of crap. Roald Dahl already told me how it was (not in France, in Greece, but sort of the same situation) and it just wasn't like that. He watched German fighters buzzing around and picking off ships in the bay, from up on the hill, he went up in the air and flew around with bullets whizzing all around him, and then he showed them to me. Even if someone's not an expert writer, if they were there, then they can tell you. Someone who just works in an office in Hollywood probably can't tell you shit.
I can hear from someone who worked in a hospital ER, someone who survived a concentration camp, someone who lived in the boonies in Africa and got out and yelled at the giraffes and had scares with lions and poisonous snakes. Redmond O'Hanlon took me up the river in Borneo and we ate cooked worms together and the guides had a little celebration because they thought we'd never make it through the jungle because we're old and fat and white. I saw Gene Kranz walk outside the building and cry, because in one of the simulations he fucked up and killed the whole crew, and he couldn't handle thinking of it if it had been real. I was there the night that Elie Wiesel's father died in the camps.
JRR Tolkien learned the secrets of life and death in the worst places in the world and he told them to me, the best he could put them together. Richard Adams too, and Harlan Ellison.
Is it the same as being there? Not even close. Is it better than just going to the store and talking with my coworkers? Fuck yeah it is.
It also got people thinking in a different direction than "I agree with this" and "I disagree with this" as the main meaning of the vote.
At this point, I think most mainstream social media is corrupted enough by the dopamine loop that it's fairly predictable that most of the comments would be taken over by it as well. Reddit comments used to be more informative than the article a lot of the time.
Think of all the stuff they are breathing...
I would have thought that that applied to the Uber wrongful death suit also, but at least one court decided that type of click-through terms were binding even though it was clearly a bunch of shit.
Although, it was overturned later because it's a bunch of shit. But it was at least a debate.
It's always a part of this mentality. Wild aggression is always fine when it comes from the blessed sources, but then very mild injuries or aggressions from others cause them to flop like a soccer player and begin to shake and cry.
He's not defending Trump. He's just clarifying an important point of truth.
If you have the habit of wanting simplistic ways of looking, simply because in this case it'll make your enemies look bad (even if they are, as in this case, very very bad people), you should break that habit. Sooner or later it will turn on you.
I have no idea why so many people are snatching onto this thing as a reason to say bad things about him. I sort of suspect it is because of addiction to "gotcha!" and being able to be superior to people. He made an important point unclearly, and than clarified. That's okay. It's Twitter. He's way ahead of the curve even for a normal social network, and he's been using his Twitter account to publicly shit on Trump for quite a long time. You should give him credit for also being committed to precise truth at a time when it's not very popular at all.
He forgot to be white. A classic blunder.
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Germany denies knowledge of Patriot missiles en route Ukraine, contradicting Trump's claim
(kyivindependent.com)
Lindybeige told me this was fake, though