Notices by Matthew Loxton (mloxton@med-mastodon.com)

@feld
All terms are "made up". That's how language works.
Language is representational, not realty itself - "The map is not the terrain"

@Moon

@feld
Que?
The WEF coined the term "Industry 4.0" to serve as a useful collective noun for emerging technology interactions that are driving us to a very different future in which many current habits and policies would be very maladaptive.

Exactly the OPPOSITE of "saving the whale oil industry", and very much about the need to prepare and adapt to rapid change across many industries, and the extinction of many "whale oil" industries and specialties

Not to be all dystopian on a Friday, but almost half the country have demonstrated that they cannot deal with the arrival of a future that acknowledges the rights of other races and other genders, and are utterly unprepared for the three really massive forces of change that are about to make their presence felt.

- Climate Change
- Demographic Transition
- Industry 4.0

If someone was struggling to cope with the idea of a black transwoman, then those three forces are going to hit like a tsunami

@aral
The one who just tolerates it, of course!

That guy can be influenced, and I can incrementally improve my options by selecting better and better people until I get the person who absolutely doesn't tolerate genocide. Sitting the election out, or putting other people off voting for the lesser of two evils, is what keeps getting us the worse option, and offering us increasingly worse alternatives.

We should stop doing that, maybe.

@jiub
I think you should pay a bit more attention to the original statement that this is always more complicated.

You won't be able to "just stop selling them weapons" or "just sanction them"
There are layered and interlocking reasons why the US inherited the British double dealing on giving Palestine to two different parties at the end of WW-2, and why this hasn't been solved yet, and why the alternate futures for that region all look bad.

@ariaflame @aral

@laprice
OK, but health insurance only exists and flourishes because care is exhorbitant and at least 30% of it is waste.

If care was not immensely profitable and wasteful, nobody would need insurance.