Hegar

These many reasons include his words, actions, policies, advisors, finances and friends.

Sometimes, if it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, looks like a duck, hangs around with ducks, waddles like a duck, lives in a pond, gets fed bread, and has been classified as a duck by experts the world over - it might just be a duck.

I downvoted then blocked it because:

• I don’t trust its specific analysis of sites. Others detail some examples.

• I don’t think whole-site analysis is very useful in combatting misinformation. The reliability and fullness of facts presented by any single site varies a lot depending on the topic or type of story.

• Other than identifying blatant disinformation sites I don’t see what useful information it provides. But even that’s rare here and rarely needs a bot to spot.

• Why is an open-source, de-centralized platform giving free space to a private company?

• Giving permission for a private trust-assesing company to be operating in an open public forum makes it look as if these assessments reflect a neutral reality that most or all readers would agree on or want to be aware of. It’s a service that people can seek out of they decide they trust it.

Presenting this company’s assessment on each or most articles gives them undue authority that is especially inappropriate on the fediverse.

No, that’s too shitpost.

I’m going to, but i’d also prefer if it just weren’t here because I don’t fully trust they’re impartiality and I don’t like the idea of giving more weight to the group by publishing it here. If people want to seek out their services, that’s one thing. But I’d prefer if they weren’t able to operate in public forums.

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Right to disconnect laws were first introduced in France in 2017… One critic at the time said: " the French may quickly discover that their most productive workers are routine “lawbreakers” who stay connected during off-hours." … A 2023 Australia Institute study estimated Australian workers on average were doing an extra 5.4 hours of unpaid work per week. … equates to an extra 281 hours’ unpaid work per year. This is estimated to be costing workers an average of AU$11,055 annually.

For employers, productive is just a polite synonym for exploited.

Can we get rid of the Mostly Bullshit Fact Checking bot?

Public protest and unrest is a symptom, your society telling you something is wrong

This is something that the Chinese government actually pays very close attention to. Specific issues - food safety and pollution for example - they allow some protest so they can gauge how strong public sentiment is on the matter. Even when they arrest protest leaders, they’ll often make policy changes in the relevant areas. I’ve heard china scholars talk about how interested the chinese government is in public opinion and the roundabout ways they assess it in a system where it can’t be regularly expressed in open elections.

the appearance of a peaceful society without conflict is not the same thing as a peaceful society without conflict

For sure. I feel like as far as an authoritarian government is concerned though, they are functionally the same. Until suddenly they are not, of course. But again, the resilience of the CCP is due in part to working out what is up for public comment and what is most definitely not.

public unrest is a feature

Again, super agree. But I don’t think of public unrest as political chaos, at least not in the US context. The inability of the government to perform it’s most basic functions without brutally pointless culture wars, the myriad ways to gum up the works and prevent action, the increasing politicization of the public service, the willingness of so many to act contrary to the government’s own interests - that’s the sort of stuff I think of as All American political chaos.

I could definitely believe that some weibo users are very interested in Biden’s stepping down. Xi’s decision to stay on passed the original term limit was quite controversial even among some of his supporters. Stepping aside when the moment requires it is the hallmark of that paragon of Confucian virtue, the Duke of Zhou.

But no one in the world “envies” our political chaos. We’ve done real damage to the global reputation of democracy and given example after example for the world’s autocrats to point to when they argue that democracy is self defeating.

Not on normal courtyard/community exercise

That’s almost certainly a backronym. There aren’t enough records of its use to say for certain, but nonce probably shares an etymology with “nancy” as in nancy boy, or possibly with “ponce” as in perfumed ponce.

Belief in the divine likely comes from our brains’ hyperactive agency detection system: our brains err on the side of seeing agency where there is none in order to keep us alive.

If a branch snaps behind you and you react as if someone did it but it was really nothing, you’re fine. But if it was a human or other animal and you react as if it was nothing, you might be food.

Property crime is largely a factor of poverty, but also social inequality. If you lack a need you will try to fulfill that need. If you feel like you’re unfairly “less-than”, you’re much more likely to engage in prohibited behavior to correct that. But also if you have power or wealth, your brain becomes less capable of empathy making it much easier for you to criminally hurt others - the rich do most crimes.

Religion is just using this evolutionarily beneficial flaw in our brains to justify the unjust social hierarchies which drive crime. So in a roundabout way, religion puts upward pressure on crime.

That’s one of the cleverest pronunciation guides I’ve ever seen.

Not engaging and instead just letting readers see your other response would’ve been the classier move.

This is called parsing - your brain processing the speech sounds into meaning. That feeling of suddenly realizing what was said is your brain needing a little extra time to parse.

This can happen for lots of reasons. One time my sister in law was so grumpy that my brain struggled to parse what she was saying because the tone and words were so mismatched.

It would be nice to have a decent prez option.

It would also be nice not to live on a burning planet controlled by decrepit rich psychopaths but I don’t think either of us will be getting what we want.

I’ll still vote for whatever the democrats decide to run, of course, since minimizing or maximizing fascists’ access to government is the only question on the ballot this election.

This is part of Leonard Leo’s plan to re-mccarthy-ize US society and purge anyone left of fascist, same way he orchestrated the right wing take over of our courts.

These are all excellent and effective strategies for most human brains, but just not all. Very difficult to deal with teenagers aren’t solely a product of ineffective parenting - it’s not a 100% preventable problem. There’s neurodivergences like ADHD or ASD, hormone-affecting conditions like PCOS, and more severe behavioural health problems like schizophrenia - these are all incredibly difficult for well-adjusted, materially comfortable adults to deal with.

I definitely agree that not abusing kids will help reduce the amount of un-deal-with-able issue that those kids have as teens, but you can’t just wave a wand and make abuse stop. Unless we as a society allocate a large amount of resources to break cycles of abuse and eliminate the kind of poverty in which abuse festers, there will still be noteworthy amounts of childhood trauma.

I think some kind of state-run teenaged-care facilities is the best, most realistic option. It’s still a lousy option, but there would be more accountability than the private-run troubled teen industry, which is itself an abuse factory.

Even if you’ve given kids good independence skills, there will always be a certain percentage where hormones just hit them like a ton of bricks and they go kinda wild. A lot of serious mental illnesses can emerge at this time as well.

Teenagers are a problem that predates cars or suburbs.

Giving birth to someone does not give you the right to murder them.

Obviously not.

It just highlights how much of a problem teenagers can be that the only solution canaanites could find was “I guess sometimes killing them is ok?” It’s not. Throwing teenagers into the wilderness to pillage and rape is also quite obviously not on, nor is abusing them in a blizzard in Utah.

My point is that for thousands of years, we’ve been failing to find a reasonable way to deal with the problem of teenagers.

This is obviously brutish and inhumane, but it also highlights a real problem that we don’t have a great solution for: what the fuck do you do about teenagers? They’re often just unbearably awful. I know I was.

In the bible you get permission to declare your teenager wayward, take them outside the city gates and stone them to death.

Many Indo-European groups sent them off into the wilderness to harass and steal from distant or enemy towns, or to act as defensive scouts around your territory.

These teenagers sound like their behavior was pretty tame, but hormones are a hell of thing. Teenaged care facilities that aren’t just jail or a cult should probably exist.