i suspect that spanish has japanese beat in this regard because of its relatively larger geographical dissemination makes formality based grammar rules incompatible with each other – effectively making all incompatible versions technically correct despite literally contradicting each other.

it’s one of the reasons why a majority of non-spanish speakers are taught european spanish rather than any of the SIGNIFICANTLY larger versions of spanish that exist.

in the interest of reciprocity from someone who was once “terminally online”: educate yourself on the tribalism of the lemmyverse:

lemmy was created by leftists who had a strong interest on gnu/foss technologies; but the recent reddit user purges has swelled the number of lemmy users. the new users are almost entirely liberal and the trolls among them have turned this instance into a hotbed of political tribalism enough that many leftists have chosen to re-home their memberships to hexbear.net or lemmygrad.ml instances. likewise, the most ardent liberals have created piefed to avoid exposure to leftist political theory.

the people of this and most of the gnu/foss communities on this instance seem to do their best to stay politically neutral, as the lemmy developers try to do as well.

DON’T DO IT!!!

i took the bait and moved away from san francisco back in 2019 because austin was literally offering double my highest salary and it was one of the biggest mistakes of my life i’ve ever made.

there’s really good reasons why they have to bribe people to move there w money.

if you find that you must move, chose houston or dallas; houston is better, but not by much.

part of me wants to move outside the united states just so i can have one of these. lol

i’m somehow disappointed that i didn’t make the list. lol

Dwayne Johnson is good at playing Dwayne Johnson™.

his comedic chops seems really good in the movie named “the rundown”

i’m convinced that it’s because people considered it in theory only; disconnected from the real human preventable tragedy that it is.

now social media is making it difficult to ignore the impact of this human tragedy and it’s forcing people to add their humanity to that theoretical consideration.

i’m also convinced that the age/id verification systems that all western gov’ts are currently implementing are geared towards returning us to a state of giving greater emphasis on theory rather than humanity.

it really gives me hope for the future every time i see people make this kind of effort!

The opinion makes sense to deontologists, but to the teleologists of the world it rightfully seems insane.

from a deontologist’s view, refusing to play along with a system that enables genocide is the only moral move. you don’t need it to be effective. you need to not be complicit. that’s the intention and goal that you seem to be miss understanding.

teleologists call that insane because they only care about outcomes. but that’s exactly the problem – their framework treats genocide as just another variable to optimize around instead of the human & ethical tragedy it is in irl and it’s not a bug; it’s the system working as designed.

so when people choose not to operate inside the american system’s confines – where genocide is a natural outcome – they aren’t being naive. they’re rejecting that system entirely. they’re acting like deontologists in a world that only rewards teleologists. that’s not a misunderstanding. that’s a refusal.

it’s a refusal and the only sane response to a system that has genocide and ethnic-cleansing baked into its logic.

We’ve been in a class war for decades and the Epstein class has been winning.

and most don’t seem to understand that they’re helping the epsteins.

to the fork or the original?

i suspect that many of us will be

i use cigarettes and mate to give me a buzz based energy boost when desired, but for you they do the opposite; the human body can be so strange sometimes. lol

biases manifest in really strange and unexpected ways and you’ll fail even when you try to intentionally account for them; that’s why things like facial recognition success rate correlates to the darkness of your skin or why successful ai recognition of text/speech is related how different your language is to english or mandarin.

the only way to successfully gaurd against bias in software development is to have developer teams comprised of people can naturally keep each other’s biases in check.

i agree, but it still goes deeper than that. i used the liberal/maga divide because liberals seem to place a higher premium on critical thinking than maga supporters do and also as a basis to show that critical thinking alone often isn’t enough – based on the rabbit holes I’ve followed:

i’ll keep using north korea as an example, since it’s the clearest case I can think of right now. The us gov’t has already admitted to manufacturing propaganda and this fact has been public domain knowledge for decades at this point, yet much of that propaganda is still widely believed to be true nonetheless. wikipedia and american history books probably repeat this narrative more often than others, portraying north korea as a hermit kingdom with despotic rulers. If you approach this with critical thinking, you’d naturally conclude those portrayals are accurate based on the information that’s readily available to you on wikipedia and history books. But if you dig deeper into the references that these sources used in wikipedia and those history books, you’ll find that nearly all – if not all – are either directly or indirectly funded by the U.S. government. ie usaid, national endowment for democracy, radio free asia, etc.

so even if you follow this one tenet of critical thinking – keeping your identity separate from your beliefs – you’ll still end up believing the propaganda, because the seemingly objective evidence already aligns with what you likely believed in the first place and is repeated from all sources that are fostered by the american gov’t. it’s only sources not elevated by the american gov’t that either have a neutral or favorable characterization of north korea, but they’re so few in number and presence that it takes additional effort to find them – just like the freedom of information act revelations.

you WILL accept my ways of peace or die fighting it!!! lol

i’ve started getting into mate by accident recently because they were out of cold brewed coffee; something about it is dramatically more effective at making me productive and the thought of coupling it with a cigarette nicotine buzz feels like overkill to me.

but now that i know that’s a thing, i’ll probably end up doing it. lol

it’s okay, the user named cowbee answered my question.

They must be defeated or else they will fuck topsoil forever and choke us to death with the flatulence of their cows.

this one’s working on me. lol

REVOLUTION!!!