You’re still on about factuality and finding truth as if that is going to solve the issue of antivaxxers. In the end you’re right but what are you really achieving? Did that make people take vaccines? Seems like that’s still declining so I’m talking about keeping societies functional by addressing underlying reasons for why we deal with antivaxxers at all.

I don’t think The Expanse was really cancelled rather than it was ended at a story point that makes sense to continue from sometime in the future. There’s something like a decade long time skip and a huge thematic shift between books 6 and 7.

Was he serious when he said that Symphony of the Night was „a fun 5-hour experience”? Can’t read if that’s a troll or did he genuinely go blind and miss the hints? :)

Yes, but in Turkey? Musk is usually motivated by personal gain and approval seeking so I’m not sure how Erdogan fits into this. Yes, he’s a right wing autocrat, like almost everyone else in the area. I guess it was just a matter of remaining compliant with local laws / authorities because they have shown they can disconnect Twitter when they want.

That can’t be true, they must be leaking stuff this absurd to find real leakers lol.

What I was talking about is that while you disconnect from antivax people you might not notice they are growing in numbers. I don’t mean to say you have to engage or debate them because it’s not about facts anyway. That’s because antivax people are a symptom and not the cause and that leads me to another point. Given that rationality is not guaranteed in liberal democracies then we should consider politics to be merely means of negotiating terms of a shared reality with people that have potentially very different opinions.

You can say „I’m right so things should be done my way” but there’s no central authority that decides who’s right so in the end we can only rely on common laws that we agreed on.

To your point specifically, I’m not saying you should hang out with antivaxxers. You should hang out with diverse groups that might happen to include antivaxxers so you can talk to them and socialise them at least. Learn what their real issues are because vaccines certainly ain’t and it’s just a proxy for their mistrust of the system in general. Maybe once we get to the bottom of that then we don’t have to deal with antivaxxers at all which would be cool, eh?

Forgot about mealtime video, will try to keep it in mind. It would be perfect for this but then again Technoan guy seems seriously ill and I don’t want to disturb people seeking more casual watching.

Musk doesn’t even have a stake in this, he does this because he can and he’s unaccountable.

But can we post about Turkey here?

We are at war last time I checked. Attacks are below a threshold for response (sabotage, inciting domestic terrorism). This is a similar, non-conventional and adequate response.

In most places with declining democracy all of the major parties are neoliberals pretending to be either conservatives or liberal left.

When conservatives vote for right wing politicians promising them to bring back the jobs they are deceived the same way as liberals voting for centrist politicians promising wealth for everyone who tries. Neither delivers on their promise so which side is really achieving anything? Maybe both are beating a drum to a war that benefits only the wealthy?

I select community to post in based on topic or a theme, rather than medium because those are too unfocused for me.

^ I wholeheartedly endorse Anders Puck Nielsen and his takes. He offers a more optimistic perspective but it is very well grounded in reason thanks to his academic/military background.

Americans won’t be saved by the Democrats.

Both can be true. You need a safe space or an echo chamber for your mental health but you can’t go too extreme and otherwise disconnect from society as a whole. All of us were surprised when first Trumps and Orbans started to gain popularity. Maybe that surprise is a proof that we disconnected too much in general.

It is bifurcation because both sides are completely blind to the issues that drive them. What you’re saying suggests that you are quick to brush those issues and ignore your own. Not every MAGA / Orban / PiS or whatever voter is an evil sociopath. They might have issues that are entirely unaddressed by the other side and choose a lesser evil for them because they were taught you can rely only on yourself by all brands of neoliberalism.

When it comes to businesses and money I’m sure everyone wants to make as much as possible and therefore are applying all possible pressure at all times. It’s that pressure from Visa and Mastercard is much stronger because you’re not going to be able to run a business effectively without taking payments that way.

Card processing should be a service that’s provided by a central government and even capitalists would be happy about it but we live in a neoliberal hegemony.

The CPC Network, coordinated by the European Commission, is publishing a set of guidelines today to promote transparency and fairness in the online gaming industry’s use of virtual currencies.

That doesn’t seem binding.

Most of the western media were describing them like that. Maybe it was too depressing for them to see that this big win for democracy was simply moving from populist right to a better dressed populist right. It’s a taste of things to come for other countries that fell to autocracy.

Sometimes I think Tusk fooled not only Poles but EU elites too, but sometimes I think all of them want to be deceived because they don’t care.

„Pro-EU centre-left”

Reorg resulted in something between a limbo and Guantanamo so you could say things are going the same as usual.