Zompist Bboard Again

As to the question of who cares about the Washington Post... I don't know, but I wouldn't be so quick to pronounce the traditional newspapers dead -- though they may smell a bit funny. The Washington Post refusing to endorse Harris certainly didn't make or break the election, that's for sure. It do...

This is one of the mistakes the Democrats made. Who the hell cares about the Washington Post? Liberals do, and they love patting themselves on the back for it. Right, second only to the New York Times... which is an absolute monarchy. Oops! It's pretty funny how illiberal the liberal sense-making i...

That argument could work for the environment, health and democracy too: Everyone breathes and drinks water so surely want to keep environmental protections that Trump wants to remove and prevent the state from putting in place instead. Everybody has healthcare at some time in their life so would ra...

Why do you think that the non-economy-focussers would not survive? And that it would be appropriate to focus on that? Under Trump, 70% of Americans were living paycheck to paycheck before Covid. Under Biden, it was 60% IIRC. A bad economy limits their power to purchase essential goods. Fewer essent...

I am curious about you mean about "environmentally destructive lifestyles in the name of environmentalism". I'm mainly thinking of stuff like trying to get people to move to the countryside, where each person, on average, has a bigger environmental impact than in a city apartment. So neor...

Mainstream media? What's that? There's legacy media and there's new media. Newspapers don't matter anymore. People who engage in the recreational consumption and production of written text often don't realize how many people are not comfortably literate - if you rely on writing to distribute your m...

I'm not sure who you're thinking about when talking about Deep Green :) -- I can't say I've noticed Greens being particularly bothered by screens; I mean, they can be, but no more and no less than other political orientations. (There's a bit of overlap with free software activism) Yes. I suspect by...

I am very skeptical of any attempt to explain anything that seems to be entirely based on some people's aesthetic objections to things they don't like. Especially when these objections are coming from the Deep Green crowd, which promotes environmentally destructive lifestyles in the name of environ...

To me the whole "screens" thing is a moral panic, first and foremost. And the focus on "screens" in the present seems selective, how was sitting for hours in front of the boob tube decades ago (when they were real live CRT's) really any better? (I remember thinking as a kid back...

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There I'm not sure I agree with you. I'm a bit skeptical of the 'screen' things; more generally of the panic surrounding 'screens' in general. I can see the dangers -- but I wish the warnings were more specific. Video games, social media, TV shows, movies e-books, conlanging are all 'screen' activi...

Mainstream media? What's that? There's legacy media and there's new media. Newspapers don't matter anymore. People who engage in the recreational consumption and production of written text often don't realize how many people are not comfortably literate - if you rely on writing to distribute your m...

My hope is people will remember their awfulness next election, and we will repeat the vote-split, but it's definitely not a given America is the canary in the coal mine. If nothing is fixed systemically, in a generation, the UK will have their own Trump. To what extent was Johnson a British Trump?

So one part of is that every country voting in 2024 has rejected their current governments because of inflation due to Putin and megacorps. What if Putin did it deliberately? Inflation in these past few years has many causes; the chief ones being COVID and energy prices (corporate greed also, but t...

(7) Embrace outrage. Being calm makes you seem clueless, aloof, timid, and weak. People are living shitty lives, and you need to match their energy and emotion to let them know that you understand their plight and are going to do something to fix it. Also, acting calm associates you with management...

People are a lot stressed and pent-up nowadays. We need more calm. I heartily recommend Stillness is the Key by Ryan Holiday and Instant Calm by Paul Wilson, both adressing this issue, the first from a more philosophical perspective and the latter from a more practical one.

So one part of is that every country voting in 2024 has rejected their current governments because of inflation due to Putin and megacorps. What if Putin did it deliberately?

AOC has a good point that 1° most people are too busy with work, childcare and more to pay much attention to the news and 2° are overwhelmed by data. Hence some people asking her the following day "Is he really going to do that?". One antidote to this is knowledge of what constitutes a re...

This is a problem with overly focusing on the economy. You may get a self-proclaimed greedy person (along with his other faults of course). Morality should trump the economy. PS also overly focusing on immigration/people moving house across countries. It just plays into the xenophobes' hands. No on...

This is a problem with overly focusing on the economy. You may get a self-proclaimed greedy person (along with his other faults of course). Morality should trump the economy.

PS also overly focusing on immigration/people moving house across countries. It just plays into the xenophobes' hands.