Gallium Spoon Enthusiast

Gabe, 26, He/Him, fROMOHIO This Station Is Non-Operational

[gpuzzle]

[kushblazer666]

[tpwrtrmnky]

A lot of the time when I point out that some right-wing policy is proven to not achieve the thing it purports to have as a goal, people rightly point out that the real goal is the negative outcomes that do happen.

Which is correct!

But this is often framed as me approaching the right wing naively by the respondent.

That's not the case at all. I know they're evil. The goal is to demonstrate that they're lying by exposing the way the rhetoric fails to line up with reality.

This has to be ongoing work because someone new has their political awakening every day. Every day, someone needs to learn that the right wing position is wrong on all levels, not just the obvious ones.

[realflaminglily]

there will be people out there who still think the war on drugs (as the absolute first thing that comes to mind) is a legitimate social cause against an antisocial blight on society. if you come out the gate with (the very true statement) that it's actually been a deliberate campaign to target minorities and other undesirable groups to the ruling class, you're going to sound like a clueless conspiracy nut

whereas if you come with a very defensible, statistically supported point of "it doesn't work and has never worked" you can open the door to the follow up question of "why did the government do it in the first place, and (in many cases) why are they still doing it?"

[tpwrtrmnky]

This, exactly.

The play is to:

Demonstrate that the policy doesn't work

Demonstrate that the people enforcing the policy have everything they need to know it doesn't work

Provide the context of what the policy achieves in the absence of its "intended" outcome.

Remind people that the purpose of a system is what it does.

Then, instead of being a non-sequitur claim you're just pulling out of thin air, the conclusion is the most reasonable way to assemble the provided puzzle pieces.

[sunderwight]

Yup.

Also a lot of people having a rough time also tend to want to simplify, and sometimes aren't interested in empathizing.

Someone going well what if I just take a fucking sledgehammer to this situation and fuck anyone who gets hit by the debris if it solves this problem, do not need to hear that the sledgehammer will have lasting negative consequences for others, they need to hear that it won't solve the problem.

[aokozaki]

There's a manga that just started on MangaPlus called World Wide Web MIKO!, which features an alternate 1890s Japan where the internet is... a spiritual network accessed by shrine maidens?

[Narration] In modern times, people can browse the web with a click of their mouse...

It's fucking hilarious.

[tsarina-anadyomene]

I don't know anything about AI or how it works really and I think by the time I familiarized myself enough with it, the field will have moved on and I won't understand it again. So basically, people in the know: should I be advocating destroying the thinking machines?

[tsarina-anadyomene]

if the machines do destroy us all then the humanitieslords are going to be owning the shit out of the stemlords in the survivor caves

[onrtrp]

the set of ships is nonempty and finite

(any reasonable notion of) size induces a total order on the set of equivalence classes of ships of the same size

every nonempty finite total order has a maximum

there exists a ship that is no smaller than any other ship

QED

[internet-sentences]

A /r/RedScarePod poster asks why there are so many non-binary people now and another responds “not sure, but +1 to the phenomenon, I see them all the time now working in the New Mexican oil fields”

[internet-sentences]

Happy pride to the oil rig non-binaries

[tsarina-anadyomene]

it really is quite bad for your military to have an image of itself as a warrior class. what you really want is for your soldiers to think of themselves as boring professionals who will fill out a report form if someone gets a little too warrior ethos out there

[selfmaderibcageman]

[symdog]

as much shit as i give phones for being a real computer forced to run evil facebook mcdonald's kiosk they used to take 4000 years to charge and explode into sand when dropped so it's nice their fast and strong now

[gpuzzle]

feeling half embarrassed that I recently just grasped the physical intuition of what is current, resistance, voltage and frequency actually are

[thydungeongal]

Life could be a dream...

[targetedknowledge]

[ilynpilled]

it is truly the ppl who fight tooth and nail that the thing they love isnt for children that actually seem to operate with the belief that fiction made for kids is bad and worthless art that u r stupid for liking. that is not the case and once u finally stop being insecure about it and confront that u dont have to ignore or deny the reality of what the thing u like is is when u will stop saying stupid shit that annoys and embarrasses everybody

[ilynpilled]

we cannot keep doing this

[cheaphalloweencostume]

all movies are for children because the moving image is inherently juvenile. to be entertained by it even moreso

[cadet-abysmal]

Random tumblr blog roleplays as a philosopher. Shocks the masses by using big words just to say they think theyre better than you because you watch movies. WHHAAAAT?

[cheaphalloweencostume]

thats right

[cheaphalloweencostume]

the biggest word in this post is “entertained”

[minmos]

i hope tumblr users never stop talking about punk music i think we deserve this

[nuclearspaceheater]

My job on the solarpunk commune will be making artisanal polyethylene.