whotookkarl

whotookkarl, 16 hours ago

If you’re actually asking how to reach people about a delusional belief they hold it seems often if you try to show them evidence that directly contradicts their belief, argue reasonably, etc they will often become more entrenched in a defiant ‘you can’t teach me anything’ stance to protect their perceived self identity from unwarranted attacks. You have to demonstrate the warrant first.

A possibly more effective method seems to be temporarily accepting their proposed perspective, and asking skeptical questions to reduce their confidence in the delusion. Providing the questions to work it out themselves instead of forcing the conclusion. I haven’t read it yet but I’ve seen en.wikipedia.org/…/Combating_Cult_Mind_Control recommended as a study on cults and breaking their indoctrination & control tactics but I’m open to more contemporary recommendations if anyone has them.

whotookkarl, 16 hours ago

The Princess Bride, silent movie comedies like Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplain, or nature docs are my go to sick watches

whotookkarl, 21 hours ago

The sex obsessed wet blankets in the clergy morality police probably shut down a concert or dance hall they weren’t invited to where people were actually having fun.

whotookkarl, 1 day ago

People infected with conservatism tend to turn into Mr. Magoo when looking at the majority of evidence, it’s easier to accept and spread FUD that way.

whotookkarl, 22 hours ago

The person holding the camera

whotookkarl, 22 hours ago

Best we can do is cold and half spilled into a paper bag

whotookkarl, 1 day ago

Huckleberry but apparently they are really difficult to farm.

whotookkarl, 1 day ago

It is a “door bell” literally, I think we just associate doorbells with electricity because the mechanical ones created in the late 1800s weren’t around long historically before electricity was widely available. They had pull strings, buttons with springs to strike the bell, etc

whotookkarl, 2 days ago

Published by Elsevier their parent company 2023 financials: www.relx.com/~/…/relx-2023-financial-review.pdf nothing noted as funding research or science that I can see, it would probably eat into their 33% profit margins or 800m stock buybacks.

whotookkarl, 2 days ago

Yes, if you consider more than one issue (X, Y, Z) when deciding who or who not to vote for you are a multi issue voter, if you only consider a single issue (X) when deciding who or who not to vote for, you are a single issue voter. It’s not per candidate, it’s per vote.

whotookkarl, 3 days ago

Easy, it’s 1715894564 after Jan 1 1970 00:00:00.

whotookkarl, 7 days ago

Didn’t read the article, did Nintendo pay to develop this to be able to preserve the games history and release them for free so they can get some new fans for these retro games and IPs to maybe encourage them to buy some newer released games in the same series?

whotookkarl, 7 days ago

Maybe it was written that way to make you read faster as you get toward the end to convey a sense of facetiousness because I didn’t need to read the article to know none of that’s true, who knows. I’m probably just spending too much time online lately.

whotookkarl, 7 days ago

BOM U+FEFF is another fun one, most editors won’t show it but it can cause errors like when I found one in a SQL script that was combined from existing utf-8 files together with cat. You’ll see it in a hex editor or in notepad I think it just made the rest of the line italic.

whotookkarl, 8 days ago

Dang it Bobby, all morality is subjective

whotookkarl, 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

He extended it on another late night talk show a couple days ago, still has the contract ready

whotookkarl, 9 days ago

I think there’s also a general age demographic shift down as the mods and people who care about moderation, third party apps, bots, etc left. Something similar happened during the digg exodus where social norms and consensus around some topics changed, just not at much with the bots at the time. People who remain may not care, or they just may be unaware. There was always some propaganda blindness too in the ‘i don’t use social media just reddit’ crowd.

whotookkarl, 9 days ago

Which anarchist said that?

whotookkarl, 9 days ago

My understanding is that anarchy isn’t about the lack of any authority, it’s the lack of unearned authority or unearned authoritative hierarchy. If the members of a community choose to use a democratic process to elect individuals to hold some specific authority for an amount of time that doesn’t stop being anarchy. It stops being anarchy when individuals capture or hold authority not granted by a dictate from the community. There are some issues with how a species like humanity could be governed under anarchy, but enforcing rights isn’t a necessary problem.

whotookkarl, 9 days ago

Yeah no sweat I’m not an authority on anarchy if you’ll excuse the pun and plato.stanford.edu/entries/anarchism/ is probably going to be a better source

I think the biggest difference between what I was describing and a state is the individuals elected are not part of any governing body or political party and are granted authority by a community for a specific purpose/job.

In general and broadly somewhere between ‘that’s Diane we elected her during the last community meeting to take care of the roads for the next 5 years based on community funds because she’s got some good ideas on how to do that we mostly agree on’ and ‘the person you elected is a member of a governing body representing a political party following a bureaucracy of processes and they’re in charge of police, education, roads, etc so if you want anything done get your wallet ready for lobbying and if you try to fix that pothole yourself it’s illegal’ a line is crossed.

whotookkarl, 9 days ago

Which anarchist said everyone had to get along? You’re building a straw man nobody is actually advocating for.

If you need an example of how a system of agreement across large groups that sometimes violently disagree can work without any governing body see bitcoin and the block chain ledger it maintains. You don’t need 100% agreement to maintain the integrity of the ledger, just 51%.

whotookkarl, 8 days ago

Hey thanks for completely missing the point

whotookkarl, 9 days ago

If you find yourself in a hole, first step is to stop digging.

whotookkarl, 8 days ago

I’m a 30 foot tall lumberjack from Antarctica

whotookkarl, 8 days ago

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