Candelestine

Candelestine , 4 months ago to Memes in The difference explained

...not wrong. Except remember that an idea cannot be genuinely destroyed, since it's not an actual physical thing. Even if you did somehow manage to destroy it in the present day, nothing prevents people from creatively coming up with it again.

Netanyahu wants to learn this the hard way.

Find another way that doesn't involve death, destruction and ill-fated attempts at control.

Candelestine , 4 months ago to Technology in Vice is basically dead — Thousands of stories written over the past two decades could soon be deleted without any warning

Less about self benefit, more about preservation of data accessibility. Potential self-benefit is a bonus, an extra. Two birds, one stone, nice and efficient. How smart people do things.

Candelestine , 4 months ago to Interesting Global News in Putin says nearly all of Russia's nuclear forces have been modernised

I would say "prove it", but that sounds unwise.

Candelestine , 4 months ago to Technology in Vice is basically dead — Thousands of stories written over the past two decades could soon be deleted without any warning

Very likely. Those are not secure in the long-run either though, hence the need for an overabundance. No single online service should be genuinely fully trusted. You need a lot of duplication for any kind of real future-proofing.

Candelestine , 4 months ago to Technology in Vice is basically dead — Thousands of stories written over the past two decades could soon be deleted without any warning

Vice did a lot of very good, and generally in-moderate-depth reporting over the years. Hope an overabundance of people scrape that shit while we still have an opportunity. Once its hosted somewhere safe, you could probably even dump access to it somewhere like ... the fediverse.

Candelestine , 4 months ago to Technology in Cancer therapy approved by FDA uses body’s own cells as a ‘living drug’

Something, something, technology indistinguishable from magic, something, education funding, something, something.

Candelestine , 4 months ago to Technology in X suspends account of Navalny's wife

Funny the kind of folks that get suspended on Elon's twitter.

Candelestine , 4 months ago to Memes in Zendaya's original dress

... they can't even design the boob-plate properly anymore. smh...

Candelestine , 5 months ago to Memes in 2024 is going to be the beginning of the end of us all

Don't underestimate the backlash. The big, mellower, center segment of the population that is generally more chill isn't in favor of fascist idiots.

Just, do what you can to help maintain motivation in the face of the fascist fear-train. Fear is their #1 tool, it's the emotion that underpins their whole worldview. Control is simply a response to that fear. Without that underlying current of fear, though, how do they get people to grant them control?

Candelestine , 5 months ago to Comic Strips in Goodhart

Yeah, human systems all work on the honor system, via cultural pressures mostly. Either they work smoothly or they don't, and which is kinda up to us. No system is immune to people making choices though. And we probably wouldn't like it if we had one anyway.

Candelestine , 5 months ago to In Person Activism in How to volunteer with the Biden campaign (phone bank, precinct chair, etc)

When it comes to door-knocking, it's less about your opinions and more about listening to and addressing their concerns. So you don't really want to just hammer with what comes across as a propaganda sledgehammer, as much as listen and converse. With extra emphasis on listen. Have to be flexible.

With a phone bank, probably have to stick to a script.

There's other things too though, registration drives and giving people rides to polling places on election day, teaching people how mail-in works, stuff like that. Just generic get-out-the-vote stuff.

Candelestine , 5 months ago to Memes in Tigers rule

It's less ridiculous when you realize the human brain is also a prediction engine. It can just operate in a wide variety of ways instead of just being limited to only talking, or only folding proteins, or only playing chess or whatever.

Candelestine , 5 months ago to Technology in All My Thoughts After 40 Hours in the Vision Pro — Wait But Why

See, that's good. He could write like that.

Candelestine , 5 months ago to Technology in All My Thoughts After 40 Hours in the Vision Pro — Wait But Why

This author writes like an insufferable teenage cryptobro that got a little older and got a degree, but never actually grew up. I guess he's after a very specific audience though.

Still though, slogging through that prose is slightly more annoying than a feisty chihuahua. Which itself is irritating, because I kinda want to know his actual opinions without having to dig them out of something full of endless paragraphs of his pointless bullshit fluff.

Ugh. Kids, if you write like that, you're literally what Shakespeare was making fun of like, a bunch of centuries ago, with that whole "brevity is the soul of wit" char. He was viciously mocking you, a dozen-plus generations ago. Just get your point out.

Candelestine , 5 months ago to Technology in Media study on Gen Alpha kids show 'purposeful participation' over 'mindless consumption' of media and increased privacy consciousness over previous gen

It doesn't take aggression to give someone the critical thinking tools that adulthood will require, and then strengthen them with support and faith in their ability to use them.