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@fatsam I won't stay at the Jupiter Hotel any more if I come for a class. It was to noisy, even on the "calm side". I'm better off finding a chain hotel downtown since I won't do AirB&B, thanks to their assnozzle #MAGAIdiot CEO.
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@fatsam I won't stay at the Jupiter Hotel any more if I come for a class. It was to noisy, even on the "calm side". I'm better off finding a chain hotel downtown since I won't do AirB&B, thanks to their assnozzle #MAGAIdiot CEO.
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@fatsam I won't stay at the Jupiter Hotel any more if I come for a class. It was to noisy, even on the "calm side". I'm better off finding a chain hotel downtown since I won't do AirB&B, thanks to their assnozzle #MAGAIdiot CEO.
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@fatsam I won't stay at the Jupiter Hotel any more if I come for a class. It was to noisy, even on the "calm side". I'm better off finding a chain hotel downtown since I won't do AirB&B, thanks to their assnozzle #MAGAIdiot CEO.
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@fatsam I won't stay at the Jupiter Hotel any more if I come for a class. It was to noisy, even on the "calm side". I'm better off finding a chain hotel downtown since I won't do AirB&B, thanks to their assnozzle #MAGAIdiot CEO.
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@fatsam Thanks for the boost!
I’ve received a lot of comments on this post, in various locations, to the effect of “don’t bother, you’re never going to convince these people anyway.” So this is a copy-and-paste reply. My apologies for the impersonality, and please don’t take this as a lack of interest in discussing the finer points of the issue.
Absolutely, there are many people who will never be convinced. I think there are, more or less, three types of people who hold #antivax / #creationist / etc. positions, and two of them are hopeless cases. But the third is a different story.
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Hardcore believers. For #creationism, this usually boils down to “God said it, I believe it, that settles it.” The others are more complicated, although there’s often a religious element there too: e.g. “we’re made in the image of God so #vaccines are blasphemy” (they never seem to object to wearing glasses, though) or “the Earth is a divine creation and we mere humans could never change the #climate.” Once they make their beliefs clear, the best thing to do is walk away. No one in that debate is going to change anyone else’s mind.
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Propagandists. They may or may not believe what they’re claiming, but they think they can gain some political advantage by doing so. “If you don’t want #woke #liberals telling your kids they come from #monkeys, elect me to the school board!” That kind of thing. You’re not going to change their minds either—especially since the #propaganda is often horrible effective—but it may be worth countering it to try to persuade the people they’re trying to recruit.
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People who just don’t know any better. Members of the first two groups, particularly #2, are much more sophisticated than they used to be, and a lot of their propaganda is very slick and superficially convincing. So a lot of people with little #scientific #education (or bad science education: that’s a separate post or ten) fall for it. The longer they believe it, the more resistant they get to alternatives—they can slide into #1 very easily. But if you can catch them at a critical moment, you can sometimes bring them around.
I know this is possible, because I’ve done it. Not often, and less often lately, with the hardening of political identities and the ever-stronger association of profoundly anti-scientific views with one political identity in particular. But it still happens now and then.
Of course if you assume everyone is in group #3, you’ll waste a lot of time and energy on 1s and 2s. It’s really dispiriting to put effort into a clear, simple explanation presented with tolerance and good humor, only to be met with dismissal or mockery or baffled rage. Telling the difference is a survival skill, and a tough one to learn.
No one should feel obligated to tackle every case they encounter, or even most cases. That’s a game for the very young, and if you play too much of it you’ll get old before your time. (Trust me on this.) But when you can … well, sometimes you win. Those small victories feel pretty good. I have to believe they still matter.
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@fatsam I got to that point after just over a season of #NextGen (though I had great fun being a vocal detractor on rec.arts.startrek for several years). But #Babylon5 was the last nail in the coffin for sure.
It took #MichaelChabon for me to take #StarTrek seriously again - but only for one season as it turned out.
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@fatsam When this tool tells me that the best version of #Bertha performed live was on a date that the #GraterfulDead never played the song - it has a long way to go. And the best #DarkStar was played on a date that there was NO concert - really??
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@fatsam/116216674976957047
#Heinlein #GloryRoad #HerWisdom #Star #Empress of the universes.
A story with good entertainment value, and as always a stimulus to thought. -
RE: https://mstdn.social/@MarvinTheMartian/116578172117190506
"ukraine is just helping russian exports go carbon free"
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Can't edit posts on Bluesky, several years after startup.
When a company restricts you to functionality that would embarrass a late 80s BBS, you're a damn fool to trust anything else about them as a business.
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“Listen to me,” Legal Siegel said. “There is no more noble a cause on this planet than to stand for the wrongly accused. You can’t fuck this up, kid.”
I nodded and kept my head bowed.
“Guilt,” he said. “You have to get by it. Let the ghosts go or they’ll take you under and you’ll never be the lawyer you are supposed to be. You will never see the big picture.”
- Michael Connelly, Gods of Guilt
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This is what happens when you let Nazis and Confederates crawl out from under their rocks. We have never ever hanged enough of them.
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Rapepublicans, Repedocons, I've heard both.
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@DragonBard it really is 20%, though. The AI evangelists as a group are fash, and those who aren't are nuts and incautious. #notall.
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RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116212085337049854
This isn't new conduct: I was a data programmer/architect/"big data" guy forty years. Business people in general are bad at defining good metrics, #notall as needed.
But AI does give them a whole new toolkit to screw up with.
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@steveperry #NotAll is the truth of the world. But how you handle the exceptions matters. Few years back the fash started using this argument about immigrants -- rush of outrage followed. Most immigrants are innocent!
Same exact people went to this exact argument regarding men afterward.
It's worth noting that the original version of this argument came from Nazi Germany.
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@DragonBard yeah, no disagreement there. The great majority of the output of AI, or what's being called AI, is really awful. #notall
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I was at a Lakers game when Jerry West was about fifty.
Dummies claim he couldn't shoot the three, because they didn't have it when he played. I watched that man, years after he'd retired, shoot twenty threes in a row before a game. He had a ball boy, and the ball boy had to chase down a couple balls ... but most of them not only dropped through the net, they rolled right back to him.
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Conservatives badmouthing Trump? I've seen it a bit lately.
It's not *universally* them trying to prepare for the post-Trump era, #notall one-in-a-thousand blah blah blah, but it's almost that. The stink of Trump is on them the way Hitler is, and I doubt they can get it off, but some of them are preparing to try.
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SCOTUS has now ruled for Trump sixteen straight times. How the liberals who used to think that judges were apolitical -- I've run into hundreds, over the decades -- could be so spectacularly wrong about what Republican judges are, I will always wonder. (#NotAll as needed -- there are occasional decent Republican judges. Not on SCOTUS, though.)
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Yes, things are worse than they've been. You should be armed. You should practice. You should make sure you've got ammo on hand. (#notall as needed for households with children, mental health issues, etc.)
But this is also not new. Pre-2008, all of this:
1. Rush Limbaugh: "I tell people don't kill all the liberals. Leave enough so we can have two on every campus – living fossils – so we will never forget what these people stood for."
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@DragonBard I have nothing against Gen-X. I'm almost a member of it. I'm mostly objecting to the painting of any generation as if it reflects upon all of the members of that generation. #Notall is the truth of the world.
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@RoyBrander the left is weak and corrupt, and frequently complicit with the Nazis.
#notall. I know leftists I respect. They're armed.
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The world would be a better place if more people attempted reconciliation, or reason, de-escalation, before employing violence. (There are specific cases where immediate violence strikes me as the only reasonable step, however they are rare.)
But most violence in our society today is a failure at multiple levels. #notall -- a woman shooting her abusive husband is utterly within her rights.
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@dashdsrdash oh, Jewish people in the US run broadly decent. Well educated, hard working, liberal.
A little soft on Israel, as a group, but #notall even there, I've read plenty of Jewish writers blunt on the subject of Netenyahu.
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Of course I'm angry.
I've been angry for a long time. Over things done and things not done, over lies and omissions, over laziness and greed. Over predators and the cowards who excuse them.
Anger, Steven Barnes told me when I was still in my twenties, is merely a response to fear. I hadn't heard that before, and it made perfect sense to me. #notall, sure, some monsters indulge in anger because they enjoy the adrenaline rush, but for the overwhelming majority of people, anger is fear, masked.