Social Justice is always sexually repressive in the end, because
1) sexual degeneracy is bad for the collective/nation, and we need good worker ants for the nation. Nearly all socialist philosophy regards sexual liberation to be a bourgeoisie/capitalist excess, inefficiency, and weakness.
2) they need more sins for people to feel bad about or be blackmail-able over. People with good self-esteem and no skeletons in their closet are harder to control/dominate.
3) social justice draws no distinction between fantasy and reality. Hence why wrong-think is treated the same as wrong-action. Also why they think portrayal = endorsement.
>t’s worth noting that this isn’t a Chrome-exclusive concern. Users of other Chromium-based browsers, including Microsoft Edge, Brave, Opera, and Vivaldi, should be on high alert and apply the available fixes without delay.
But that's just one website saying that.
I'm bothered that I cannot find easily which code base the bug resides in, Chrome or Chromium. I'm not logging in with Google account to see https://crbug.com/1479274. Why does it require me to login to see that??
@sim@JAJAX >Gulf of Tonkin incident That was the "attack" on US ships which was used to get the USA into the war in Vietnam. Later they said it might be "radar ghosts", and since then it's been declassified that it was all a lie all along, invented by the NSA, that there was no attack. The Vietnam War, for the USA, was based on this lie.
Misinformation is really just false beliefs and wrong opinions and lies. The purpose of calling it "misinformation" is to bundle all those things together into a kind of contraband to police, and create consent for the government to do so.
Look at COVID "misinformation": a lot of it turned out to be true. During the pandemic, speaking these truths was bannable on most social media, as influenced in the backdoor by government agencies (Twitter Files proves this). Their quest to "fight misinformation" led to suppressing truth and enforcing falsehood: their mandated beliefs were in the end, misinformation.
> There just has to be a general consensus based on the truth and facts which can be proven. My view is that consensus is neither possible nor desirable:
There are many topics for which truth is unclear, and creating consensus about them may lead to false consensus. Scientific consensuses can be wrong. Science is a process/method for discovering truth, not a set of truths.
There are many people who tragically, even when confronted with overwhelming evidence, will not be swayed. They cannot be forced to agree. Creating and enforcing a consensus is tyrannical, and in the past led to Lysenkoism.
Finally, even if somehow a true consensus formed, it would only serve to lessen people's ability to discern truth for themselves, as they would simply trust the consensus. Faced with new topics or issues, the consensus could become wrong about them, and would still be trusted.
So I was suprised that BG3 is apparently good, because Bioware, who made the previous ones, since went woke and stopped making good games. So I was thinking "huh. Bioware actually managed to make a good game despite going woke?"
Only in the past couple days did I realize it was a different dev studio, Larian, who made BG3.
@sim because they have no skin in the game, and do not have to live under the policies they propose. They bear no personal consequences for being wrong, because those consequences are borne by the other people implementing their ideas instead. They live in an abstract, armchair world, where they don't have to test their theories and can just imagine they are right.
I think there is a culture in academia of gravitating toward less and less real-world testable things, to more grandiose and subjective things. It's safer and more lucrative. STEM has also moved this way, like physics with String Theory and Dark Matter. If they did real, testable things, they might get put to the test or proven wrong.
That and the narcissism and conformity mentioned by other repliers. I'd add "being in a social bubble in academia" to that.
@apropos@sevvie it's not incompetence when they perform a massive coverup and prioritize persecuting those who would expose them, over doing their job. And then fail up.
The reason Fauci was in charge is because he funded the creation of covid. He was being Light Yagami leading the task force to catch Kira. Fauci was also the highest paid government employee.
I'm gonna ramble so feel free to ignore. I don't remember the exact numbers so they'll be inaccurate.
This reminds me of the Challenger disaster. NASA's stance was that they did nothing wrong and it was just really bad luck, and they would continue with the current design.
The Rogers Commission, which included Richard Feynman, found that an O-Ring in the design was made of a material that became too brittle at cold temperatures, causing the catastrophic failure.
NASA wanted to sweep this under the rug because it would slow their busy launch schedule. If NASA had continued with this design flaw, launches in similar temperatures to Challenger would have a 1/8 to explode.
With NASA's busy launch schedule, this would mean another Challenger disaster roughly every year.
Absolutely unsustainable.
Because of a fucking O-Ring. But more because NASA is perfect and can never be incompetent and no one must get in trouble, except the astronauts who die.
That's how I feel about the USA's current government handling of disasters. As we allow the corruption to fester, it becomes a question of how often do we have fuckery where hundreds or thousands die? The frequency of such fuckery will continue to increase as the corruption gets worse. How many people need to have lost loved ones for enough to be enough? Because it'll just keep increasing until it's enough.
@sevvie > "The same sheriff that was in Las Vegas for the Mandalay Bay shooting is the sheriff now in that place that got mega-fired! CONSPIRACY"
Actually when I heard that I said aloud "NO WAY. NO FUCKING WAY.", multiple times. Because the Las Vegas shooting is such a clusterfuck of "guess we'll never know what happened", where we absolutely deserve to know what happened.
So I watched most of that Timcast IRL because of the Hawaii fires which I hadn't kept up with. And... omfg.... Every single conspiracy-ish post I noticed on fedi that I thought "that's just rumors" or "that number can't be so high" or "that's just speculation".... Every single one was true.
1000-some people "missing"? Only 115 "dead", but never adding any of the missing to the dead, this long later? The state will buy up all the land with eminent domain, after crashing the prices by forbidding selling to out-of-state? The police turning people back to the fire to die? They didn't sound any alarm or send any text? They said they only had a tsunami alarm that would send people toward the fire? They lied, and actually had alarms for wildfires, terrorism, and other types of disasters?
They fucking murdered 9/11 quantities of people. Only a pedo-puppet chief-of-police could fail up to oversee such a thing, and have the job of making it blow over, until next time.
@sevvie we keep having weird events where the government actively makes a disaster worse and hundreds of people die and the government officials involved make sure we never know what really happened and then they get promoted to more important positions.
It's vampire castle politics, and we're the hamlet below the castle.
@coolboymew if those glass boxes were shipped in those cardboard boxes, with zero padding, I don't know what they're trying to illustrate, because I know exactly what they were expecting. The boxes don't even say "fragile" or "glass". Why not just break it themselves and get the fraud done faster?
1) I can hector everyone else about my pet peeves 2) No one can hector me about their pet peeves
They want inequality with themselves on top. This isn't a valid rule-set for rules that are equally applied to everyone. So a rule-set isn't what they're looking for, at least not a fair one.
@thendrix I did always think DeSantis was a magnet for Never-Trumpers as a "MAGA minus Orange Man", but at some point it changed into something much more sinister.
At this point I'd agree with your sentiment that the DeSantis campaign is taken oven by saboteurs, and DeSantis himself either can't purge them or is scummy like them. Either case means he's sunk.
Even Trump didn't get shafted this hard by the swamp-monsters he hired or neglected to fire.