Cube6392

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

the new, potentially illiterate, president is on the record saying his approach to dealing with numbers that seem bad is to stop gathering or reporting the numbers. his plan for getting the trains to run on time is to simply say that they are, whether or not that's true

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

they all have bad dads

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

or better yet. get active. we're out here pushing counter propaganda in the streets and we don't see you out here, people for whom Harris wasn't good enough. we're doing the work outlined in all that theory you tell us to read, but we don't see you out here. it makes me think that crowd never understood what we were trying to do. for thousands of years our ancestors have passed down to us stories about charismatic authoritarians tricking people into believing a prior story of liberation grants them the mandate of heaven to take control and kill the non-believers and now in your religious furor to stick to karl marx's story you are missing the bigger picture. the people gaining power interpret the book of revelations literally. they think they have to all gather for a big final battle to the death. they ignore that core to the story of revelations is an antichrist who doesn't believe any of the things christ taught but uses charisma to wipe out the minority of good christians who kept to the teachings of christ who achieve eternal presence in the kingdom of heaven.

i read this story differently. to me, i think about what christians were experiencing at the time. they were having a genocide enacted against them. the romans were killing and torturing this radically egalitarian religion as it existed at the time. they justified this killing through religious means to the people. revelations is an instruction manual about how to recognize and resist authoritarianism. one that people consistently use to justify authoritarianism. it's the absolute cruelest joke in the world.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

clown distro makes clown decision

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

20,000 bce. tell the first person to come up with social hierarchy to fuck off

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

"the" like it's not a bi-partisan coalition…

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

i took a month long hiatus and am probably gonna continue that pattern. the threadiverse has gone completely insane the last couple months and i worry about the people for whom this is their sole gateway into the fediverse, and what they think the consensus on what reality is. i'm mostly on mastodon at this point and have been just… talking to my neighbors more

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

he knows the nfl is stealing the value he creates. he doesn't need to pay them

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

i think some big project, something really important, needs to migrate for the masses of devs to move too

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

or with letting single billionaire control this much infrastructure

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

yeah but for that the corporate dogs that enforce those rules have to feel like enforcing the rules

 

I dunno. I just feel less like I'm experiencing a fun new tool for communication the last few weeks. The communities here on Beehaw are still great and fantastic and aren't what I'm bothered by. It's just when I venture out in the world (which I often do) that I notice conversations are much more argumentative than I remember them being.

How's everyone else doing? Is this a minor vibez check?

 

Jon Bois' and Alex Rubenstein's documentary about the Minnesota Vikings continues. Will Bud Grant win a Super Bowl this episode? Will someone freeze to death? Who will perform a feat of humanity so impressive that we will become lifelong fans, not for their exploits on the football field, but for their acts of humanity outside the world of sport? Tune in to find out!

 

This is a very interesting article about the long-term sustainability of the Fediverse for moderators, administrators, and developers. We've already had two of our lovely Beehaw admins take breaks to take care of themselves as they experience the burnout associated with maintaining a community, and I think for a lot of use we already know how exhausting it can be to take a center stage position in an online community.

Unfortunately, I don't have any great starting points for what to do, but at least talking about it is a start.

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