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2 days agoOh noes, people had unbounded time to contemplate before acting & did stupid shit anyway. People found something online to feed their delusions. Why isn’t the internet safe? 🤷 🎻
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It’s okay to leave public social media posts unredacted: they’re not state secrets. It’s also okay to post link to (archived) source for accessibility & general usability.
1·2 days agoColbert was ironic comedy, satire, & parody.
The earliest months look sincere in their support Trump & MAGA while opposing Biden & Democrats. That’s a considerable commitment. I doubt the commenter I responded to actually looked at the timeline.
1·2 days agoNah, the rule
Treat people as they want to be treated.
doesn’t logically imply anything you wrote. It lacks constraints for justification.
In contrast, treating others as you would want to be treated (if you were them) implies or suggests considering & supporting their justifiable needs vicariously (which draws on compassion). You wouldn’t want to give yourself unjust obligations. If someone wanted a treatment from you that is unjust, and you were them, then you would create an unjust obligation on yourself, so you wouldn’t do it. If they wanted a just treatment, and you were them, then you would want it, so you’d treat them accordingly.
The element where you liken others to yourself operating by common moral rules is crucial.
No one believes that.
Q believes that. 😄
We can see their profile from the link.
- verified account
- Joined April 2023
- 19,284 tweets
- earliest months support Trump & MAGA while opposing Biden & Democrats
For a fake, that’s a long con.
The mistake is believing the capacity to disappoint isn’t unbounded.
The rest was rich, though.
Children are starving due to no fault of their own. Senior citizens are going without their medications just so they can afford to eat.
Politely shut the fuck up.
We see you.
Starting when?
Do they ever own up to their poor judgement flying in the face of all the blatant, nonstop bullshit since before he began?
There was a link to archival, though, to copy & paste from. 🤔
4·3 days agoDo politicians of liberal democracies not understand that constructive expression (eg, an education campaign), not law, is the way a liberal democracy combats misguided expression?
These authoritarians need to cut to the chase with their excuses & ban breeding. You know how dangerous childbirth is? Compound that with the consequences of birth: everyone born dies. Altogether, a terribly dangerous idea.
Let this be the last human generation.
Sure, but it’s also amusing when old folks tactically adopt & mutilate slang to accelerate its decline.
Washed as slang seems uncool. Can we make it instantly uncool? Or do we have to go through the whole tedious process of overusing it?
Any shame is your own making. Reality doesn’t care about your disillusionment or ill-conceived ways to self-sabotage. Failure to reflect on consequences of your actions is your own doing.
No amount of shaming them
Is the comment attempting to shame or is something in you compelling you to feel it? Pointing out reality shouldn’t cause shame unless you feel it should.
Shame induced by facing reality (that ignorant actions backfire) is self-inflicted. It’s a consequence of having enough pride to expect better of themselves. No one should like to feel stupid & the messenger did not create the reality they stupidly failed to appreciate. The power is entirely theirs to end their shame by correcting their folly to deal with reality.
or whining
Ridicule isn’t whining. Failing to comprehend the consequences of their actions is their folly.
about what you think
Not thoughts: reality. Electoral rules have consequences.
those people owe you
You mean owe themselves? Only those who think they owe themselves would feel shame.
Fools sabotaging themselves with their own stupidity is its own joy. Following the teachings of Jesus to love & support their enemies might earn them accidental sainthood!
Clutch your pearls
Who’s shocked or appalled by pointing out failure to recognize spoiler effect? Seems like someone’s butthurt over the reality of the spoiler effect & reality doesn’t care.
try voting for a leftist next time
Try not supporting your enemies unless you’re aiming for sainthood.
Post needs a link with NSFW tag (for accessibility).
Weak civics education or willful ignorance has failed a generation into self-inflicted gunshot wounds.
a spoiler effect happens when a losing candidate affects the results of an election simply by participating
Vote splitting is the most common cause of spoiler effects in FPP. In these systems, the presence of many ideologically-similar candidates causes their vote total to be split between them, placing these candidates at a disadvantage. This is most visible in elections where a minor candidate draws votes away from a major candidate with similar politics, thereby causing a strong opponent of both to win.
Right, they’re not wasted: they help win the major candidate you oppose most. Giving your opponents unreciprocated support as Jesus preached is selflessly generous!
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you
Sometimes less is more.
I’ve learned of the passing of former Vice President Dick Cheney.
Vice President Cheney was a public servant, from the halls of Congress to many positions of leadership in multiple presidential administrations.
Doug and I are keeping Lynne, their daughters Liz and Mary, and the entire Cheney family in our thoughts during this time.
Lack of link to (archived) source (per rule 4) creates a usability issue: we can’t quote the text without pointless bullshit like retyping it or OCR.
Other issues when image lacks text alternative such as link
- authenticability: we can’t verify the authenticity of the reproduction unless we go on a fishing expedition for the source
- usability: can’t reflow text to varied screen sizes or vary presentation (size, contrast) or modality (audio, braille), we can’t find by text content
- accessibility: some users can’t read this due to misleading alt text, users can’t adapt the text for dyslexia or vision impairments, systems can’t read the text to them or send it to braille devices
- searchability: the “text” isn’t indexable by search engine in a meaningful way
- fault tolerance: no text fallback if image breaks.
Contrary to age & humble appearance, text is an advanced technology that provides all these capabilities absent from images.
A link to a text-based source is useful.
Edit: thanks! 👍
is a good idea
Nope, they’re saying political reality is we don’t get a mythical multi-party system until electoral policies change.
Imagine applying that reasoning to the public mistakes businesses or governments have made?
If we’re going to be serious about morality, then breaking accessibility[1] when simpler alternatives do not is more immoral than showing public information[2].
Moreover, with freedom & no reasonable expectation of privacy in public, disclosing non-secret information is just. If people are equal, then
Gatekeeping is fraught with its own problems like the gatekeeper putting their judgement on public matters ahead of the public’s. It’s non-egalitarian & defies people’s right to know public affairs, so it’s morally dubious.
Images of text break much that text or a link to (archived) source do not.
Issues when image lacks text alternative such as link
Contrary to age & humble appearance, text is an advanced technology that provides all these capabilities absent from images.
which isn’t immoral ↩︎