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History is thought of largely in nationalist terms, and such things as the Inquisition, the tortures of the Star Chamber, the exploits of the English buccaneers (Sir Francis Drake, for instance, who was given to sinking Spanish prisoners alive), the Reign of Terror, the heroes of the Mutiny blowing hundreds of Indians from the guns, or Cromwell’s soldiers slashing Irishwomen’s faces with razors, become morally neutral or even meritorious when it is felt that they were done in the “right” cause. If one looks back over the past quarter of a century, one finds that there was hardly a single year when atrocity stories were not being reported from some part of the world; and yet in not one single case were these atrocities — in Spain, Russia, China, Hungary, Mexico, Amritsar, Smyrna — believed in and disapproved of by the English intelligentsia as a whole. Whether such deeds were reprehensible, or even whether they happened, was always decided according to political predilection.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/46140/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #atrocity #cause #condemnation #endsandmeans #history #justification #nationalism #ourside #partisanship #politics #takingsides #tribalism #truthiness #usvsthem #warcrime
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History is thought of largely in nationalist terms, and such things as the Inquisition, the tortures of the Star Chamber, the exploits of the English buccaneers (Sir Francis Drake, for instance, who was given to sinking Spanish prisoners alive), the Reign of Terror, the heroes of the Mutiny blowing hundreds of Indians from the guns, or Cromwell’s soldiers slashing Irishwomen’s faces with razors, become morally neutral or even meritorious when it is felt that they were done in the “right” cause. If one looks back over the past quarter of a century, one finds that there was hardly a single year when atrocity stories were not being reported from some part of the world; and yet in not one single case were these atrocities — in Spain, Russia, China, Hungary, Mexico, Amritsar, Smyrna — believed in and disapproved of by the English intelligentsia as a whole. Whether such deeds were reprehensible, or even whether they happened, was always decided according to political predilection.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/46140/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #atrocity #cause #condemnation #endsandmeans #history #justification #nationalism #ourside #partisanship #politics #takingsides #tribalism #truthiness #usvsthem #warcrime
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History is thought of largely in nationalist terms, and such things as the Inquisition, the tortures of the Star Chamber, the exploits of the English buccaneers (Sir Francis Drake, for instance, who was given to sinking Spanish prisoners alive), the Reign of Terror, the heroes of the Mutiny blowing hundreds of Indians from the guns, or Cromwell’s soldiers slashing Irishwomen’s faces with razors, become morally neutral or even meritorious when it is felt that they were done in the “right” cause. If one looks back over the past quarter of a century, one finds that there was hardly a single year when atrocity stories were not being reported from some part of the world; and yet in not one single case were these atrocities — in Spain, Russia, China, Hungary, Mexico, Amritsar, Smyrna — believed in and disapproved of by the English intelligentsia as a whole. Whether such deeds were reprehensible, or even whether they happened, was always decided according to political predilection.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/46140/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #atrocity #cause #condemnation #endsandmeans #history #justification #nationalism #ourside #partisanship #politics #takingsides #tribalism #truthiness #usvsthem #warcrime
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History is thought of largely in nationalist terms, and such things as the Inquisition, the tortures of the Star Chamber, the exploits of the English buccaneers (Sir Francis Drake, for instance, who was given to sinking Spanish prisoners alive), the Reign of Terror, the heroes of the Mutiny blowing hundreds of Indians from the guns, or Cromwell’s soldiers slashing Irishwomen’s faces with razors, become morally neutral or even meritorious when it is felt that they were done in the “right” cause. If one looks back over the past quarter of a century, one finds that there was hardly a single year when atrocity stories were not being reported from some part of the world; and yet in not one single case were these atrocities — in Spain, Russia, China, Hungary, Mexico, Amritsar, Smyrna — believed in and disapproved of by the English intelligentsia as a whole. Whether such deeds were reprehensible, or even whether they happened, was always decided according to political predilection.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/46140/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #atrocity #cause #condemnation #endsandmeans #history #justification #nationalism #ourside #partisanship #politics #takingsides #tribalism #truthiness #usvsthem #warcrime
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History is thought of largely in nationalist terms, and such things as the Inquisition, the tortures of the Star Chamber, the exploits of the English buccaneers (Sir Francis Drake, for instance, who was given to sinking Spanish prisoners alive), the Reign of Terror, the heroes of the Mutiny blowing hundreds of Indians from the guns, or Cromwell’s soldiers slashing Irishwomen’s faces with razors, become morally neutral or even meritorious when it is felt that they were done in the “right” cause. If one looks back over the past quarter of a century, one finds that there was hardly a single year when atrocity stories were not being reported from some part of the world; and yet in not one single case were these atrocities — in Spain, Russia, China, Hungary, Mexico, Amritsar, Smyrna — believed in and disapproved of by the English intelligentsia as a whole. Whether such deeds were reprehensible, or even whether they happened, was always decided according to political predilection.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/46140/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #atrocity #cause #condemnation #endsandmeans #history #justification #nationalism #ourside #partisanship #politics #takingsides #tribalism #truthiness #usvsthem #warcrime
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RE: https://med-mastodon.com/@cbarbermd/115867529168660469
REMINDER: Stephen Colbert coined the term #truthiness to describe the lies manufactured by Bush & Cheney and their neocon #GOP #Republicans about who bombed USA on Sept 11, 2001.
TRUTHINESS became a shorthand for the crimes committed by them on their way to invading Iraq and Afghanistan.
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RE: https://med-mastodon.com/@cbarbermd/115867529168660469
REMINDER: Stephen Colbert coined the term #truthiness to describe the lies manufactured by Bush & Cheney and their neocon #GOP #Republicans about who bombed USA on Sept 11, 2001.
TRUTHINESS became a shorthand for the crimes committed by them on their way to invading Iraq and Afghanistan.
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RE: https://med-mastodon.com/@cbarbermd/115867529168660469
REMINDER: Stephen Colbert coined the term #truthiness to describe the lies manufactured by Bush & Cheney and their neocon #GOP #Republicans about who bombed USA on Sept 11, 2001.
TRUTHINESS became a shorthand for the crimes committed by them on their way to invading Iraq and Afghanistan.
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RE: https://med-mastodon.com/@cbarbermd/115867529168660469
REMINDER: Stephen Colbert coined the term #truthiness to describe the lies manufactured by Bush & Cheney and their neocon #GOP #Republicans about who bombed USA on Sept 11, 2001.
TRUTHINESS became a shorthand for the crimes committed by them on their way to invading Iraq and Afghanistan.
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RE: https://med-mastodon.com/@cbarbermd/115867529168660469
REMINDER: Stephen Colbert coined the term #truthiness to describe the lies manufactured by Bush & Cheney and their neocon #GOP #Republicans about who bombed USA on Sept 11, 2001.
TRUTHINESS became a shorthand for the crimes committed by them on their way to invading Iraq and Afghanistan.
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A quotation from George Orwell
I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1942-08), “Looking Back on the Spanish War, ch. 4, Such, Such Were the Joys, essay 8 (1953)More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/80603/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #georgeorwell #orwell #bias #historiography #history #inaccuracy #lies #lying #truth #truthfulness #truthiness
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A quotation from George Orwell
I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1942-08), “Looking Back on the Spanish War, ch. 4, Such, Such Were the Joys, essay 8 (1953)More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/80603/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #georgeorwell #orwell #bias #historiography #history #inaccuracy #lies #lying #truth #truthfulness #truthiness
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A quotation from George Orwell
I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1942-08), “Looking Back on the Spanish War, ch. 4, Such, Such Were the Joys, essay 8 (1953)More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/80603/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #georgeorwell #orwell #bias #historiography #history #inaccuracy #lies #lying #truth #truthfulness #truthiness
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A quotation from George Orwell
I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1942-08), “Looking Back on the Spanish War, ch. 4, Such, Such Were the Joys, essay 8 (1953)More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/80603/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #georgeorwell #orwell #bias #historiography #history #inaccuracy #lies #lying #truth #truthfulness #truthiness
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A quotation from George Orwell
I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1942-08), “Looking Back on the Spanish War, ch. 4, Such, Such Were the Joys, essay 8 (1953)More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/80603/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #georgeorwell #orwell #bias #historiography #history #inaccuracy #lies #lying #truth #truthfulness #truthiness
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Happy 20th Anniversary, “Truthiness”
It’s probably even more relevant to this decade’s technology than last decade’s politics
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Happy 20th Anniversary, “Truthiness”
It’s probably even more relevant to this decade’s technology than last decade’s politics
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Happy 20th Anniversary, “Truthiness”
It’s probably even more relevant to this decade’s technology than last decade’s politics
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Happy 20th Anniversary, “Truthiness”
It’s probably even more relevant to this decade’s technology than last decade’s politics
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I'm just going to reach out here and say #patel is just lying.
Journalists asked for the actual #data, and the #FBI said, "yeah, we got nothing. He said what he said, what are we supposed to do about that, hey? It's like a sharp thing, I guess. But whatever. #Epistemology is dead. We're soooo far past even '#truthiness.''"
#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver #burnabybc #canlab #journalism
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I'm just going to reach out here and say #patel is just lying.
Journalists asked for the actual #data, and the #FBI said, "yeah, we got nothing. He said what he said, what are we supposed to do about that, hey? It's like a sharp thing, I guess. But whatever. #Epistemology is dead. We're soooo far past even '#truthiness.''"
#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver #burnabybc #canlab #journalism
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I'm just going to reach out here and say #patel is just lying.
Journalists asked for the actual #data, and the #FBI said, "yeah, we got nothing. He said what he said, what are we supposed to do about that, hey? It's like a sharp thing, I guess. But whatever. #Epistemology is dead. We're soooo far past even '#truthiness.''"
#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver #burnabybc #canlab #journalism
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I'm just going to reach out here and say #patel is just lying.
Journalists asked for the actual #data, and the #FBI said, "yeah, we got nothing. He said what he said, what are we supposed to do about that, hey? It's like a sharp thing, I guess. But whatever. #Epistemology is dead. We're soooo far past even '#truthiness.''"
#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver #burnabybc #canlab #journalism
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I'm just going to reach out here and say #patel is just lying.
Journalists asked for the actual #data, and the #FBI said, "yeah, we got nothing. He said what he said, what are we supposed to do about that, hey? It's like a sharp thing, I guess. But whatever. #Epistemology is dead. We're soooo far past even '#truthiness.''"
#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver #burnabybc #canlab #journalism
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John Birmingham eloquently describes our current post-capitalist reality...
"[Rupert] Murdoch’s innovation was to fuse several currents into a coherent model: the dopamine hacking reward-loop strategies honed by the gaming industry with the mobilising forces of identity politics and political myth. When people perceive a gulf between what they believe they deserve and what they actually experience, when they’ve been promised the moon but handed a shit sandwich and a parking ticket, mythology often salves the wound, replacing anxiety with certainty, and supplying a vivid account of who belongs and who must be opposed or even destroyed to protect your own.
Once reality becomes a fungible product, the erosion of shared reality is not a malfunction; it’s the smart play and a total money shot. And when audiences cluster into reality bubbles rather than mere information silos, the system tightens. Across competing bubbles, the same event doesn’t just get spun differently. It may not even exist."
https://aliensideboob.substack.com/p/if-we-cant-trust-the-trampoline-bunnies
#capitalism #authoritarianism #truthiness #fascism #community #identity #truth #facts #perception #politics #bubble
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John Birmingham eloquently describes our current post-capitalist reality...
"[Rupert] Murdoch’s innovation was to fuse several currents into a coherent model: the dopamine hacking reward-loop strategies honed by the gaming industry with the mobilising forces of identity politics and political myth. When people perceive a gulf between what they believe they deserve and what they actually experience, when they’ve been promised the moon but handed a shit sandwich and a parking ticket, mythology often salves the wound, replacing anxiety with certainty, and supplying a vivid account of who belongs and who must be opposed or even destroyed to protect your own.
Once reality becomes a fungible product, the erosion of shared reality is not a malfunction; it’s the smart play and a total money shot. And when audiences cluster into reality bubbles rather than mere information silos, the system tightens. Across competing bubbles, the same event doesn’t just get spun differently. It may not even exist."
https://aliensideboob.substack.com/p/if-we-cant-trust-the-trampoline-bunnies
#capitalism #authoritarianism #truthiness #fascism #community #identity #truth #facts #perception #politics #bubble
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John Birmingham eloquently describes our current post-capitalist reality...
"[Rupert] Murdoch’s innovation was to fuse several currents into a coherent model: the dopamine hacking reward-loop strategies honed by the gaming industry with the mobilising forces of identity politics and political myth. When people perceive a gulf between what they believe they deserve and what they actually experience, when they’ve been promised the moon but handed a shit sandwich and a parking ticket, mythology often salves the wound, replacing anxiety with certainty, and supplying a vivid account of who belongs and who must be opposed or even destroyed to protect your own.
Once reality becomes a fungible product, the erosion of shared reality is not a malfunction; it’s the smart play and a total money shot. And when audiences cluster into reality bubbles rather than mere information silos, the system tightens. Across competing bubbles, the same event doesn’t just get spun differently. It may not even exist."
https://aliensideboob.substack.com/p/if-we-cant-trust-the-trampoline-bunnies
#capitalism #authoritarianism #truthiness #fascism #community #identity #truth #facts #perception #politics #bubble
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CW: uspol, truthiness, violence, SA
_loci_ *identity* mnemonic markup [3]
"And *you* all know *people* and *friends of yours* that...that happened and so *you* can be any...anything *you* want but *you* want to have safety in the _streets_. *You'll* want to be able to leave _your apartment_ or _your house_ _where *you* live_... and feel safe and go into a _store_ to buy a newspaper or buy something... and *you* don't have that _now_." -- DT
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CW: uspol, truthiness, violence, SA
_loci_ *identity* mnemonic markup [3]
"And *you* all know *people* and *friends of yours* that...that happened and so *you* can be any...anything *you* want but *you* want to have safety in the _streets_. *You'll* want to be able to leave _your apartment_ or _your house_ _where *you* live_... and feel safe and go into a _store_ to buy a newspaper or buy something... and *you* don't have that _now_." -- DT
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CW: uspol, truthiness, mnemonics, ableism
more _loci_ *identity* mnemonic markup
"The _capital city_ has been overtaken by violent *gangs* and bloodthirsty *criminals*, roving *mobs* of wild *youth*, drugged out *maniacs* and *homeless people*, and *we're* not gonna let it happen anymore -- *we're* not gonna take it. Under the authorities invested in *me* as the *President* of the _United States_ [...]"
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CW: uspol, truthiness, mnemonics, ableism
more _loci_ *identity* mnemonic markup
"The _capital city_ has been overtaken by violent *gangs* and bloodthirsty *criminals*, roving *mobs* of wild *youth*, drugged out *maniacs* and *homeless people*, and *we're* not gonna let it happen anymore -- *we're* not gonna take it. Under the authorities invested in *me* as the *President* of the _United States_ [...]"
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Please help me find examples of truthiness lacking _loci_ or *identity* mnemonics.
As an example of truthiness, consider this response a question about a certain election:
"I think that *Donald Trump and I* have both raised a number of issues with the _2020 election_, but *we're* focused on the _future_. *I* think there's an obsession _here_ with focusing on 2020 — *I'm* much more worried about what happened after 2020, which is a wide open _border_" - JD V -
Please help me find examples of truthiness lacking _loci_ or *identity* mnemonics.
As an example of truthiness, consider this response a question about a certain election:
"I think that *Donald Trump and I* have both raised a number of issues with the _2020 election_, but *we're* focused on the _future_. *I* think there's an obsession _here_ with focusing on 2020 — *I'm* much more worried about what happened after 2020, which is a wide open _border_" - JD V -
Statistics don’t lie. Birds are bad. Totally not proof that some people manipulate statistics to prove a point.
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Statistics don’t lie. Birds are bad. Totally not proof that some people manipulate statistics to prove a point.
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Statistics don’t lie. Birds are bad. Totally not proof that some people manipulate statistics to prove a point.
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Statistics don’t lie. Birds are bad. Totally not proof that some people manipulate statistics to prove a point.
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Statistics don’t lie. Birds are bad. Totally not proof that some people manipulate statistics to prove a point.
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To clarify -- the people who would potentially be confused in this way are the people who never question the original statement. They might say, for example, "Yeah, totally, we DON'T want to have Cambodians making our Nikes," and then move on. They may or may not even know their own assumptions about why we don't want that, because they're thinking about other shit.
I think you might call that #truthiness
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To clarify -- the people who would potentially be confused in this way are the people who never question the original statement. They might say, for example, "Yeah, totally, we DON'T want to have Cambodians making our Nikes," and then move on. They may or may not even know their own assumptions about why we don't want that, because they're thinking about other shit.
I think you might call that #truthiness
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To clarify -- the people who would potentially be confused in this way are the people who never question the original statement. They might say, for example, "Yeah, totally, we DON'T want to have Cambodians making our Nikes," and then move on. They may or may not even know their own assumptions about why we don't want that, because they're thinking about other shit.
I think you might call that #truthiness
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To clarify -- the people who would potentially be confused in this way are the people who never question the original statement. They might say, for example, "Yeah, totally, we DON'T want to have Cambodians making our Nikes," and then move on. They may or may not even know their own assumptions about why we don't want that, because they're thinking about other shit.
I think you might call that #truthiness
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To clarify -- the people who would potentially be confused in this way are the people who never question the original statement. They might say, for example, "Yeah, totally, we DON'T want to have Cambodians making our Nikes," and then move on. They may or may not even know their own assumptions about why we don't want that, because they're thinking about other shit.
I think you might call that #truthiness
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Checking for an empty list in Python - Python Morsels (@treyhunner)
Various methods to check if a list is empty in Python:
➡️ checking the list's length,
➡️ evaluating the list's truthiness
➡️ comparing the list to another empty list#Python #Truthiness #PEP8 #DuckTyping #Programming #PythonProgramming
https://www.pythonmorsels.com/checking-for-an-empty-list-in-python/
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Vox, that's not how any of this works. #truthiness
I'll keep saying it. We act based on our understanding of reality. But good people can cause great harm acting on bad info. Nobody should want that. Therefore it really matters that we try our best to have people well informed.
I'm struck by how we now seem to have people being more angry when their side gets lied about, but much less concerned re whether they themselves are spreading bs re people they dislike.
