Rottcodd

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Rottcodd ,

Probably the weirdest thing about modern American politics, to me, is the fact that the myth that left-wingers favor government intervention and right-wingers favor individual liberty still holds, when it's so bludgeoningly obvious that the opposite is in fact true.

At this point, it's pretty much just a given if you read an article about some government banning something - denying some right or another - that it's the right that's doing it. That's become their response to everything - whatever it is, we need to ban it. We need to get the government to interfere in everything, all the time.

Yet somehow, dunderheads continue to hold to this brazenly inaccurate myth that the left is the big government side and the right is the individual liberty side.

It's just weird to me, and not weird in a scoffing, cynicsl way - weird in an entirely alien, this doesn't even begin to even make sense way. It's as if right-wingers are running around, alternately billing themselves as the "don't get punched in the mouth" party and punching themselves in the mouth.

"See?! [Punch] If you vote for us [Punch] you won't get punched! [Punch] We're the party [Punch] that takes a stand against [Punch] punching! [Punch]."

Rottcodd ,

I think Hardwired is still one of the purest cyberpunk experiences out there, and if anything, the story is actually more relevant now than it was then. We draw closer to that dystopia every day.

And yeah - that reprint cover is awful.

The weirdest thing about it to me is that it appears that part of the goal was to try to tone it down a bit and make it more "realistic," but the original cover, cheesy though it is, is actually the more realistic of the two. Cowboy and Sarah, on the original, actually look pretty much exactly like they were described in the book. Sarah isn't even on the reprint, and Cowboy looks nothing like the way he's described.

Rottcodd ,

Amusingly enough, I would tend to think that the desire to ascribe belief in conspiracy theories to some specific and limited set of nominal causes is actually an example of the same sort of thinking that leads to belief in conspiracy theories in the first place. It's trying to stuff some inherently very complex and nuanced dynamic into a simple, one-size-fits-all box.

Rottcodd ,

That quote actually supports my point.

Exactly what is being said there is that the researchers did fall into just the trap I'm talking about, then were "surprised" when the study demonstrated that the matter was more complex and nuanced than they expected.

Rottcodd ,

What?

Where on earth did you get the idea that I'm trying to ascribe conspiracy theory belief to any specific cause, much less a single one? That's the exact dynamic I'm criticizing.

Rottcodd ,

...Iron Truth volunteers conflating Palestinian advocacy with material support for Hamas...

So Iron Truth lies.

How unsurprisingly Orwellian...

Texas could vote on referendum to secede from the United States this spring ( www.alternet.org )

Leaders of the Texas Nationalist Movement (TNM) — which openly calls for the Lone Star State to secede from the United States and become an independent nation again — appear to have surpassed the threshold to put a secession ballot initiative on the 2024 Republican primary ballot this March.Newsweek...

Rottcodd ,

Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

Do you think editing titles of posts a good idea?

I feel this way, posts can be hijacked after becoming trendy to be replaced with ads, or there could be other ways to exploit this. If there was a title in the typo, then it's easy to delete the post and re-publish it. But what could be use cases of having to edit a post title after publishing? Just add edits in the post body....

Rottcodd ,

I think it's generally a bad idea to eliminate a potentially useful feature because some people might abuse it.

It seems to me that far and away the better choice is to leave the feature in place along with some way to deal with those who do abuse it if and when they do.

And conveniently enough, deletion and bans - both of which are already within an instance owner's power - are ways to deal with, respectively, threads that have been maliciously edited and those who edit them.

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