“Amiable” is not “very friendly” - complete nonsense.

Not quite. It’s just easier to jump in to mechanics you already know, rather than try to reconceptualise the structure and learn to navigate new pitfalls: oh I need to select a server? Which one is the right one? Oh I need a client, which one? Oh I can’t quote retweet? How do I find interesting people to follow? Is this the right handle in the right server or am I following a bot?

Brill. One of us.

A fallacy matters if it’s central to proving the argument, otherwise it probably doesn’t. Eg Bringing up an anecdote, or a subjective experience as a way of illustrating a point could be said to be fallacious, but is not, if the argument is well supported enough that would stand without it.

I just had an argument where I ended my point with the words “this is a pure could have been:” and added a very likely scenario that may well could have come to pass it some events were different. Obviously it was speculation and not central to the previous argument, but in my estimation likely.

Then other person instead of responding to actual points took the last part and accused me of should’a, would’a, could’a.

Dude, yes! But not the point, also I was the one that pointed it out. The type of person that would explain to a comedian their own joke.

More not so fun facts: Israel is also asking, you Europeans did it in the Americas, Australia and Russia, and sit pretty on top of stolen land but now you have yours are playing holier than thou? It’s quite the sinking feeling that we had some moments when we thought we’ll escape our fucked up nature. I hope we can find a way to put the genie back in cause I’m hating this.

Most people here: Yes, I bought an advertiser’s device, hooked up in a million ways to that advertiser’s services, who’s well known for monitoring every aspect of the life of every person they can, but how dare they monitor this part?

“No give, only take“ - stack overflow’s license.

In this timeline he already killed Trotsky and Che is female (or I can’t tell who the person in the beret is).

My first thought.

I use LocalSend pretty much everywhere within local networks I trust

Fascinating, even if a gruesome thought if you reverse the analogy.

The system is geared towards negative presumption of the recent past even as it glorifies and reveres the long past (ancient philosophers and religious figures).

Just in case most of us figure out that anything we think of as new or intractable problems are things that we knew about and were deliberately ignored or actively campaigned against by the same forces that do it now.

Er, no we don’t. This is not Reddit.

It seems to me that the US is unfortunately too “-ist” to elect AOC.

Greece banned golden dawn as a criminal organisation and while a lot of members splintered into other parties it was overall a success in nearly removing all their influence as a political organisation from Greek politics - so, overall banning the fascist party, at least in one instance, worked.

PowerPDF or Kofax or whatever it’s called now was very close to parity if not exceed functionality for most office jobs.

Filing this under “Choice openings for certain success”

I doubt it would be a problem for Australia where 30% of the population is foreign born.

Also, having been to a hospital a few times during the last year for friends and relatives I’m pretty sure more than 60% of doctors were not white.

And either way, even if a small portion of the population would choose to avoid the imported specialists, their mere presence in the marketplace and being used by the vast number of people that don’t care would lower the prices for everyone.

The real problem is the choke hold the doctors’ lobby has on the numbers of specialists.

As a contrast, Australia has 1440 specialists per million people while Greece has 2700 per million. No other profession in Australia is insulated from competition as much as doctors.

I bet you if you told any doctor in Europe they could earn 1/5th of what the doctors here are earning they’d fall over themselves to come to Australia.

We’re importing low wage workers like they’re going out of fashion let’s open the floodgates in Universities and hospitals and create and import specialists instead with the same tempo.

There’s something obscenely wrong here when we talk about costs of healthcare and no political party raises the central issue.

We only know what ends up in our eyes and ears and while some of us have the ability to remember and cross check and actively hunt for info and compare most of us don’t have the inclination or time.

Unless/until we put algorithmic feeds back in a box we’re due for a new dark age.