he literally did, definitionally he launched a failed coup. At the very least an attempted insurrection.
He did the same thing Hillary did in the election before that.
complete disinformation, hillary contested the results, which is a thing you are legally entitled to doing (she later retracted that statement publicly) trump has NEVER once retracted his statement, he STILL says it was stolen.
dont let the defenestration allegations hit you on the way out
well then you better hope DJT goes first i guess, because that statement does not meet the logical extent of that circumstance.
wild way to spell russia.
yeah pretty much this, linux just cooks. You gotta let it in the kitchen first.
Also, you might want to consider openscad if you have some adventurous students, it’s quite intuitive if you understand programming syntaxing, and relatively clean and minimal. I’ve long been put off from learning something like freecad because the UI is just an utter mess and has no clear utility to it, but something like openscad is MUCH more accessible to me, even though it may be more restrictive in the long run, having the ability to use it is probably beneficial.
Like i’ve said before, and like i’ll continue to say until people like you and me make a significant dent in this problem, you need to teach kids how to use the things you want them to use, if you don’t teach them linux, they won’t know linux, if you do teach them linux, they will know linux, it’s literally as simple as that, and why anybody is surprised by this baffles me, it should’ve been obvious frankly.
The feeling of being “a real hacker” seems to be very motivational for the youngsters.
kids love to learn, they are literally built for it, they have a high level of neuroplasticity, you just need to give them the tools, the resources, and the ability to do so, and they will do it.
yeah, that sounds about right, ok i think we’ve figured this one out now. lol
I won’t lie, I don’t think we’ll ever totally agree. I’m getting the gist that we fundamentally have a different understanding of the human race.
that’s unlikely, and that’s fine, i’m mostly just here to share my position.
You’re holding people to your own standards, which is admirable because you clearly have your head on straight. I just view people as generally more base and malleable. Animals that react to the stimulus they’re given and environment they’re put in.
100%, i have a higher standard for the average general populous, than most people do, but i simply believe that we cannot function as a society if we are below that threshold, and given recent global events, and the trend towards politics becoming worse and worse, i feel highly justified, and think you would be on a long uphill argument against that point.
You’re correct about your conception of humans as animal, this is 100% why we act the way that we do, and why we’re susceptible to these problems, we’ve engineered our way out of these problems however, now only to fall into the hole we’ve just dug with no way out? I don’t believe that. I think any single person owes themselves at least some level of autonomy, and critical thinking alongside intelligence, to at the very least break through that problem barrier, otherwise you’re at a “eating shit contaminated drinking water and dying from any number of given ailments” level of behaviorism. Other people, and i assume you would argue that we should protect people from doing this to themselves, but i think especially given the recent timeline, that this is simply impossible, you cannot do that, it will never work. Fixing it of course, is a bigger problem. But that’s not why im here, i’m here to providing commentary in the hopes that it changes peoples outlook on life, and how they view their position in the world.
you make an interesting point about the generational divide in upbringing, though it’s worth noting that, this is not particularly new, since the industrial revolution at least, and it affects more than the young, the primary age group being targetted by the kind of stuff i like to work against, is people in their 50-70 age range, people who have been around for along time, remember “when it was better” and are mentally, not as engaged as they once were, starting to coast into retirement, if not in retirement already.
In fact, if you look at the younger age ranges, it’s quite heavily split between the sides, it doesn’t seem to be a hugely generational issue until you get older, where it skews conservative, which is an established trend, and a rather obtuse one i would argue.
So at the end of the day I think it is reasonable to scold a person who you know should have better media literacy. I just don’t think it makes any sense to extend that to an entire voting block. Its more productive to direct that effort toward the root of the problem, the people pushing the content.
you’re 100% right about the media narrative, and the media environment, however i would like to counter it with two points, for one thing, it only works because people are WILLING to consume it. If people aren’t, it will never be successful, this is obviously not the case, as these companies rake in millions of dollars on the regular. And two, i don’t think you can simply “regulate” this issue out, humans have an innate tendency toward the unknown, the taboo, and the bizarre, there are probably studies on the effects of restricting access to certain materials and the effects on the consumption of these materials in the general populous. It leads to a sort of self fulfilling prophecy of “the ELITES dont want YOU to see THIS” because they quite literally, do not want you to see it, because it’s not productive, but again, people are stupid, and will consume whatever slop they get presented. Evidently, it should follow that if this fact suddenly becomes true, things will only get worse.
You either have to convince the public that this shit is fake and not real, move them to another source of media naturally (literally how?) or simply forcibly remove it, and then i guess crack down on consumption and distribution of that media ad infinitum? There isn’t exactly a good solution here, unless you take the most optimal approach of “culling the problematic individuals” which is of course, deeply unpopular, but you may be able to justify it, ethically and morally. That’s ultimately what im getting at here. You very quickly begin to approach a sort of event horizon of non truths, and i think we’ve passed that point, or at least passed the point of no return, and im not sure we’re capable of returning. Maybe it is, but i truly do not think we can recover, at least before something drastic happens.
Perhaps we should refer to this as the KTI razor, lmao.
i’ve said it time and time again, the second you simplify an interface, it lessens the bar for entry, we’ve only done this over the last 20 years in tech, it should be no surprise that people who never have to use C drives, don’t know what the fuck a C drive is.
QUICK INDOCTRINATE THEM INTO THE LINUX MASTERRACE!!
styrofoam insulates like a motherfucker, it also has the same problem as plastic, probably because it is plastic.
What an odd material.
worth in the sense of “i am a human being who is alive and conscious” yeah, but outside of that, no, go get em tiger, climb the leaderboards.
i mean, your monetary worth will quite literally fluctuate, your social worth will also do that as well, same for most other worths.
yeah and i just didnt do that, idk what you want from me lmao
… That’s what I said, you’d just update the row, i.e. replace the existing data, i.e. overwrite what’s already there
u were talking about not keeping historical data, which is one of the proposed reasons you would have “duplicate” entries, i was just clarifying that.
… I don’t think you understand how modern databases are designed
it’s my understanding that when it comes to storing data that it shouldn’t be possible to have two independent stores of the exact same thing, in two separate places, you could have duplicate data entries, but that’s irrelevant to the discussion of de-duplication aside from data consolidation. Which i don’t imagine is an intended usecase for a DB. Considering that you literally already have one identical entry. Of course you could simply make it non identical, that goes without saying.
Also, we’re talking about the DB used for the social security database, not fucking tigerbeetle.
On June 25, 2011, the Social Security Administration changed the SSN assignment process to “SSN randomization”,[36] which did the following:
The Social Security Administration does not reuse Social Security numbers. It has issued over 450 million since the start of the program, about 5.5 million per year. It says it has enough to last several generations without reuse and without changing the number of digits. https://www.ssa.gov/history/hfaq.html
evidently they must be doing something else on the backend for this to be working, assuming there are quite literally 100M numbers, which is going to be static due to math, obviously, but they clearly can’t be reassigning numbers to 3 people on average at any given time, without some sort of external mechanism.
There are approximately 420 million numbers available for assignment.
https://www.ssa.gov/employer/randomization.html
that certainly doesnt seem like it would support several generations, possibly at our current birth rate i suppose.
DDG AI bullshit tells me that there are a billion codes. https://www.marketplace.org/2023/03/10/will-we-ever-run-out-of-social-security-numbers/ this article says it’s 1 billion
https://www.ssn-verify.com/how-many-ssns
this website also lists it as approximately 1 billion.
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No, they’re making a conscious choice to use the platform. The content itself is whatever pops up and looks entertaining.
you still need to physically and mentally engage with it in some fashion, otherwise it’s literally not being consumed at all, the only possible exception to this is being asleep, which isn’t particularly well understood.
If the algorthim shows you 2 center-right videos, 3 hard-right videos, and one nazi rant then are you choosing to be a nazi by watching the center right ones?
if you watch the center right videos, you are choosing to consume the center right leaning content, given that you are a content consumer equipped with the standard human feature of a functioning brain and sense. It would only be logical that if you were to see the nazi content in the corner and go “OOH NAZI CONTENT!” you’re probably leaning nazi already, and if you see it and go “oh good, nazi content” you’re probably not.
Even if you are slowly subsumed by the nazi content and slowly become a nazi over the course of 4 years, it doesn’t matter, you still made the choice, even as slowly as you did, to become a nazi, this is why the ability to recognize where you are, whether or not you’ve grown as a person, and what you should do about it is a good thing to be engaging with from time to time, otherwise you risk becoming a serial killer, or other various bad things.
Its never actually 3 hours of nazi things. Its an otherwise entertaining video making some off color jokes. It’s a streamer going on one politically dubious rant in a 6 hour stream. It’s a weekly podcast talking to “interesting” people; some benign, some funny, some actual problems… It’s about normalizing the conversation and the ideas. Nobody is getting handed a knife.
you should be conscious and aware of these things, these things are the reason that people get killed, you cannot simply ignore it and pretend they don’t exist, you must be aware of them, and try to be as conscious of them as you physically and mentally can. If you are not able to be conscious of these things, you are simply not fit to consume content, because clearly, you are just willing to assume the position of whoever is yapping currently, and therefore, offer no functional utility to the rest of humanity.
Yeah, there are some people take the red pill and actively go down the conspiracy rabbit hole and watch nazi shit. But I’m not gonna go out of my way to crucify people who have shitty ideas in their head at some point, there are lots of people that have stories of escaping the funnel.
that’s entirely understandable, my problem is that people simply aren’t aware of it, and yet, still consume the exact same type of problematic, or potentially problematic content, without being aware of what they could be experiencing and then they go “oh boy i sure am glad im not being indoctrinated to be a nazi!” as they’re being indoctrinated to some other bullshit actively because they subvert their own concerns. This is a fundamental problem with political media, you simply cannot uncritically consume it, it’s not tenable. In the same way that as a lawyer, you can’t just clap your hands and go “yeah boss i got this one ez pz, done twenty of these before today.” and expect everything to go well. You simply NEED to do your due diligence. You cannot afford the lack of due diligence, it’s potential destruction is simply too great.
Because at the end of the day a vote is just voicing an opinion to most people.
and that’s the problem, a vote is not “voicing an opinion” it’s giving your piece on who you think should be running the country, and how. But people do not understand the consequences of their own actions because they simply aren’t conscious of what they consume, and why. And this is why we’re where we are now, with republicans that think the democrats literally tried to steal an election, even though zero proof has been presented.
People don’t understand the gravity of politics, and they don’t understand the importance of their action, both of these in combination has lead to the “marketization” of politics into a form of content not dissimilar from reality TV, the simplest solution here is for you to be conscious about the content you’re consuming, it’s pitfalls, potential pitfalls, and the other content in existence around it, unfortunately most people consume this content with about 1 active braincell, obviously, not meeting these requirements.
“I was told tariffs aren’t a bad idea”… “Musk has points that there might be wasteful spending”… “Well Rogan endorsed him haha”…
and the problem is that these statements go from “well, there is some truth in these statements, as there is in an any statement, however these paint an entirely misleading and inaccurate picture” to “well duhh the government is inefficient, obviously we need to cull the entire fucking thing!” That’s the difference between what i have a problem with, and what you’re proposing. You are quite literally given every opportunity in the world to be conscious at ANY point in the content consumption pipeline, and yet people CHOOSE not to be. WHY?
If they were told they’re getting drafted to invade Greenland before they voted, they look at you the same way as the knife guy.
i’m sure they would, and i believe this to be the case, however they don’t even get past the “read the words written on the paper” stage of comprehending a written work, before they completely ingest it and homogenize it into their viewpoint and worldview, they are quite literally sticking an IV of poison straight into their bloodstream, by choice.
the question i ask, is why? What’s the reason?
man i love when random lemmy people who are on NSFW instances comment in random languages under my posts, shits always funny.
tbf, if im going through the trouble of using real stats math, i’m going to dig out some actually real statistics to base it off of, rather than some silly lemmy post, or comment claiming a specific thing, evidently, i didn’t do that.
these guys look like they’ve spent twenty years on the linux maintainer list.