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Oggie

@Oggie@woof.group

Keeping it vague for now. Cis, gay, he/him.

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futurebird , to random
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Ritchie Torres, you are a congressman and must set a better example. Do not tell Jewish people who is, and isn't being Jewish correctly. Just don't.

That was an ugly thing to say. Everyone noticed.

I'm very tired and do not want to run around trying to find a new congressperson in two years, OK?

@RitchieTorres

Oggie ,
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@futurebird I am hoping I am just tired and this wasn't, in fact, a no true Scotsman situation.

mekkaokereke , to random
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See? This is why I'm a so called "climate doomer."

  1. Because fixing the climate requires reducing anti-Black racism, and letting Black folk in the US vote, but the US just does not want to do that. There is no viable path to making progress on climate change without reducing anti-Black racism. None.

  2. Because so many people will see headlines like this, and not even recognize the problem with it. China is doing the right thing! But we frame that as a negative.

https://www.dw.com/en/from-solar-to-evs-how-china-is-overproducing-green-tech/a-68782157

Oggie ,
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@mekkaokereke The framing in the headline is something. 'overproducing' makes it seem like there is a set amount that should be created, and more than that is inherently 'too much', because the concept of more than the minimum is crazy.

It's priming people to certain mindsets right from the get go, via implication that there is an absolute set appropriate amount of 'green stuff's to worry about.

18+ hrefna , to random
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Like, seriously now. WHAT DO YOU THINK THE DEFINITION OF HARM REDUCTION IS?

"Harm reduction" is providing clean needles. It's making sure they don't trip while walking through the fire. It's providing a less harmful drug so that they don't self medicate with the more harmful drug.

It is not generally "putting out the fire."

Now. Again. Harm reduction is not sufficient, but it's not meant to be sufficient. It is a way of reducing harm in the meantime.
https://hachyderm.io/@hrefna/112526283353648297

18+ Oggie ,
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@hrefna
They weren't even saying (originally) 'I don't want to do that', they were saying 'that's not harm reduction'.

I know it's not incredibly apt, but the concept of 'We can't offer STI treatments, birth control, or any assistance to pregnancy, because people shouldn't have sex' came racing into my mind.

We can't feed the homeless, because then people might not break their souls to not become homeless.

Just...baffling.

futurebird , to random
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It was always exciting and important when as a child I’d pepper some adult with questions and (at last) they would say “you know what? I don’t know. Let’s ask this other person or let’s look it up!”

LLMs are like the kind of adult who just makes up some plausible BS rather than say “I don’t know” those kinds of adults didn’t really think my questions mattered they didn’t think I’d remember or notice they’d lied to me. I always noticed. I think these systems trigger me because of it LMAO.

Oggie ,
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@futurebird
I actually wonder how much this is going to normalize, on a social level, 'just giving an answer' instead of 'Huh, I don't know'.

Look, I'm not particularly young, and more and more as I get older the thing that strikes me about really smart people is they are the ones who say 'I don't know that term/phrase/meaning, can you explain it?' and then listen attentively.

It seems impressive to contextually glean, sure...when you're young. But everyone should admit gaps, and ask more.

randahl , to random
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"Dear Mr. Biden

We have been leveling cities, torturing, raping, killing, plundering and abducting children for so long, my army seriously needs a break, before all those western weapons arrive, and we lose the war.

Therefore, I think western countries should give us a breather, so I can replenish my troops and get back to full blown genocide in about 6-12 months.

From Russia with love ♥️

Vladimir Putin"

Oggie ,
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@randahl
Trump would let me take a break! Aren't you a better president than him?

pluralistic , to random
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Pining for the fjords

Oggie ,
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@pluralistic As long as you are not overly stunned.

Orewoet , (edited ) to random Danish
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Nice to see that my new bird house has been accepted.

Oggie ,
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@Orewoet And now I have that song running through my head (I'm a little glowing friend...)

Glad they're accepting it, even if they declined to use your interior decorator!

ElleGray , (edited ) to random

in my mind every one of these cows is a muppet. and they sing

Oggie ,
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@ElleGray You have no idea how much I want this to be a regular show I can watch.

rbreich , to random
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I still hear people arguing that prosecuting a former president sets a “dangerous precedent.”

The truly dangerous precedent would be to establish that presidents are above the law.

Oggie ,
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@rbreich The interesting thing to me about this, is that was the exact argument to not do anything to Nixon. Because that would set a dangerous precedent and then all our presidents would be constantly in legal battles.

That didn't really happen, and in fact, if we'd actually done more that direction we probably wouldn't be in so much trouble now with Trump. So let's try that version for a bit!

futurebird , to random
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Trump is upset he may miss his son's graduation because he's on trial.

Yeah, we do treat people in the criminal justice system harshly. People you have never thought about, people who have kids, and graduations, and moments missed forever.

But it's different now. He cries. It's happening to ME. To Me!

Nothing, no one, exists beyond the tip of some people's noses. They cannot see pain unless they feel it. Cannot recognize suffering unless it's their own.

What a stunted perspective.

Oggie ,
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@futurebird This might be bad/petty of me, but I feel like he would not even be going to that graduation if it wasn't a political upside for whatever reason.

futurebird , to random
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OK. This is obvious but it just clicked for me. The reason you accuse the other side of doing what you are really doing is because in the end someone did it and you are hoping some people will forget who.

*someone stole an election
*someone mishandled classified documents
*someone nearly got impeached
*someone abused campaign funds cover up adultery

Last one is harder... but they'll get there.

(You know they are looking for ANYTHING. Maybe Joe has one of those 50s pinups in the garage.)

Oggie ,
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@futurebird
I've always felt it was because if you accuse someone else of doing something, and they immedately accuse you back of the same thing, it's inherently weakened, and looks childish.

But they're really overplayed that, and it feels like that particular 'defense' has run it's course, so now it's let's try to weaken the arguments and throw up a lot of chaff.

lowqualityfacts , to random
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Wow, I never knew that.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

Oggie ,
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@lowqualityfacts The funny ones, to me, are ones like this that accidentally might actually be correct, in that the playing card company did do a lot of real estate work at one point!

18+ futurebird , to random
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I keep seeing these discussions in left circles about how terrible social media is. It angers & frustrates me that Mastodon & the Fediverse don't even merit a mention.

"The Majority Report" goes as far as dissing Threads but never mentions the fedi.

There are only 170 comments. Why not leave a comment asking why "the left" keeps complaining (rightly) about corporate social media but ignoring the alternative?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqY7sLRaUWQ

Oggie ,
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@futurebird @mensrea @KFuentesGeorge @bjc @secretsloth
I genuinely think it's sunk cost fallacy as applied to emotional labor.

I have made space on my head, and constructed a model of this person. Adjusting that model takes energy and effort. Instead, I will deny any need to change it, period. After all, I am a good person, and if I saw him as a good person, I am probably right, and new evidence to the contrary is probably wrong, or I wouldn't have constructed this mental image!

ElleGray , to random

of course the earth is flat. one of the old gods left the lid off and the oceans lost all their fizz

Oggie ,
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@ElleGray One of my favorite explanations on the earth being flat is that we are under constant acceleration and that is why we are being pushed down.

So much weirdness at that point my brain breaks a little, so I am certain they are tossing SR, but even without...

mastodonmigration , (edited ) to random
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Enough with the gaslighting!

The criminal rapist insurrectionist is calling for a bloodbath if he's not elected.

Everyone knows what he said and what he meant. This is horrific and should be disqualifying. Full stop.

Oggie ,
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@mastodonmigration Does anyone actually think that he won't call for bloodbath in 9 months?.

If he loses, yes, but also if he wins. Dies anyone actually think, at this point, based on his actions and history, that he won't do that?

I honestly am having problems modeling that. Once he does that's does anyone think that people won't do it?

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