Posts by gnu_lorien@ourislandgeorgia.net
(DIR) Post #AYnJyITXZtkWGGEIk4 by gnu_lorien@ourislandgeorgia.net
2023-08-16T16:58:20Z
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@Wolven On "constitutional originalism."The other night I was reminded that I've spent more time studying literature than is the default for techie people. One of the most useful classes I ever took was one that focused on literary critiques from different frameworks of thinking. There were two important things it taught me that seem to be lost on chunks of the world:1] Frameworks can give interesting insight into a work2] Frameworks can do this even when being entirely unsound, bunk, made-up garbageIn particular, I look at things like "constitutional originalism" and it seems like some people think, "There is a large body of work around this that leads to conclusions, therefor it must be sound and reasonable." That last part simply does not follow from the first part.The concept does exist in mathematics too around an argument that can be valid, but isn't sound. For some reason that basic building block of logic goes missing here a bunch of the time too. "If the Framers believed that you should jump off a bridge, then you should jump off of a bridge." Is a valid, but obviously unsound logical statement. For some reason though when "originalists" toss some academic and legal sounding words in there a certain sort of person gets up and starts applauding the amazing conclusion that was drawn.
(DIR) Post #AZheGgowRosX3CyNSS by gnu_lorien@ourislandgeorgia.net
2023-09-12T21:09:43Z
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@Wolven Wow. The judge literally doesn't have the info to understand the whole "Google made sure to essentially own their main competitor in one market using the power of their dominance in another."
(DIR) Post #AcfuFQYT4KbzVqRR9U by gnu_lorien@ourislandgeorgia.net
2023-12-10T18:35:42Z
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@Wolven It was a wild ride.
(DIR) Post #AdaApzXOMKyd95bmhE by gnu_lorien@ourislandgeorgia.net
2024-01-06T22:05:20Z
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@Wolven The rollers have truly revolutionized the game.
(DIR) Post #AhtkYjVAKAyigr7VqK by gnu_lorien@ourislandgeorgia.net
2024-05-15T00:13:39Z
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@Wolven I did recently talk to an actual person that may be part of this statistic. They seemed to be under the impression that the real culprit behind the spread of disease through milk was because of homogenization and that local, raw, unpasteurized milk is the way to avoid disease.Their thinking fell into that category that a lot of people's do where they sort of understand why epidemiology works, but don't understand that they aren't the first to think of it. They also just... don't really think it all of the way through.Like, let's take for granted that there's some advantage to you knowing exactly the cow you got the milk from. I think their words were something like, "Then if you get sick you know where it came from." Let's presume that's true... well what do you do with this information? What does the community do with this information?It's not truly a counter-point to your instinct here, but they seemed to genuinely believe that somehow they could isolate and it would be better. To me that speaks more towards part of them instinctually recognizing the threat of capitalism, but having been so suckered in by capitalism's lie that it's science who is the villain that they don't believe their contrary behavior is self-destructive.I can't entirely fault them for the starting premise of, "Everything the market is doing and the government is doing is going to get me killed." It's correct enough often enough. Especially since they vote Republican making sure that the decisions are not in their best interest.