Posts by tstrike78@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #Ai1h9sPpIgZmUyl4nA by tstrike78@mastodon.social
2024-05-18T20:13:30Z
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@Radical_EgoCom @Kaiz Yes, quite.
(DIR) Post #AiBhXQDTjrTZZToERU by tstrike78@mastodon.social
2024-05-23T16:04:51Z
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@Radical_EgoCom My observation has been that people are more left-leaning in their individual beliefs and ideas than they realize, but the forces of peer pressure and social acceptance push them to embrace the label of "conservative" and seek inclusion in that tribe.
(DIR) Post #Aj7szunYAKVmk2hbOK by tstrike78@mastodon.social
2024-06-20T17:46:30Z
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@grickle No one likes sand between their teeth.
(DIR) Post #AjYhCnBFpoohjJNfiS by tstrike78@mastodon.social
2024-07-03T16:11:27Z
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@futurebird When my kids were in elementary school, we had a lot of conversations about bullying. I don't like bullies and I wanted them to know how to handle it when someone tries it (because they inevitably will) and they all knew very early that I wouldn't tolerate them doing it to anyone else.Their teachers eventually told me that they were the first ones to go over there and stick up for other kids whenever someone was being bullied. I was very proud of them for that.
(DIR) Post #AjYhUdIbJRrKINK9ia by tstrike78@mastodon.social
2024-07-03T16:14:33Z
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@futurebird Because many people only feel that they're doing something "right" if they're in some kind of position to tell someone that they're doing it "wrong". The consequences to other people's mental health don't matter as much as massaging someone's own sense of correctness and righteousness.Self-righteousness can be a helluva drug.
(DIR) Post #AjYy4XWdr2LE542FXs by tstrike78@mastodon.social
2024-07-03T19:20:07Z
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@futurebird If you find anyone, send them my way. I need someone to talk me down, too. I have so much going on in my day-to-day life that I don't have any spoons left for politics. I'm just coping by dissociation right now.
(DIR) Post #AjtAifAlvUAHzcu3Rg by tstrike78@mastodon.social
2024-07-13T13:15:46Z
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@futurebird Republicans love problems, not solutions. I learned years ago to tune out whatever they're carrying on about at the moment because they're not actually interested in solving anything. You can see it in the immigration bill they pushed and then abandoned when they realized they wouldn't be able to complain about the issue if they actuall "fixed" it. They *want* the problem.
(DIR) Post #AjtCzMjRwPxRdDDQ3M by tstrike78@mastodon.social
2024-07-13T13:41:51Z
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@futurebird Agreed, but the insanity of proposing something and then killing your own solution because you want to use the problem to win an election is proof that the GOP is not a serious party anymore. They're just a bunch of assclowns trying desperately to hold onto the privileges they believe they're entitled to.
(DIR) Post #Ak5ehl4yoB2PAoRe4W by tstrike78@mastodon.social
2024-07-19T13:48:53Z
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@Radical_EgoCom Einstein famously insisted that "God does not play dice with the universe", but decades of quantum theory has prettymuch proven that, on some level at least, random chance does, indeed, govern the universe. There will always be some amount of random chance that plays into everything, therefore determinism is impossible regardless of how much human beings would prefer to believe in the orderliness of the universe.
(DIR) Post #Ak5gEMeClZ5wuT25k8 by tstrike78@mastodon.social
2024-07-19T14:05:16Z
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@Radical_EgoCom That makes no sense. Chaos is defined, on a basic level, as predictability that breaks down over time (and therefore becomes unpredictable). But if determinism is defined as all events being determined by previous events so that chains of events could not have occurred any other way, that should be predictable on some level (even if we humans can't do it). The universe cannot be both predictable and unpredictable at the same time.
(DIR) Post #Ak5jsl3LkJ9c32kMca by tstrike78@mastodon.social
2024-07-19T14:42:43Z
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@Radical_EgoCom That's where we disagree. What you're describing is a theory of determinism itself, but quantum theory tells us that on a subatomic level it is simply impossible to make predictions past a certain level of accuracy. Not beyond our current ability, flatly impossible. All you can do is approximate probabilities. So that means there will always be an element of random chance and unpredictability in everything that happens.
(DIR) Post #Ak5kf4JBSSOdfSBnc0 by tstrike78@mastodon.social
2024-07-19T14:47:48Z
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@Radical_EgoCom The existence of Hawking Radiation emanating from black holes is a pretty good example of this. We actually *can* predict that in a broad, general sense, but the smaller you get in scale the more difficult it becomes to make predictions about individual particles because it comes down to random chance.
(DIR) Post #Ak5snRZ1g4kXk96VJA by tstrike78@mastodon.social
2024-07-19T16:17:09Z
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@Radical_EgoCom It's the "it couldn't have happened any other way" part that I have an issue with because it absolutely could have depending on random chance. I have no problem with the idea that past events influence current and future events--that much is obvious--but I don't think that's necessarily *determinative* of human beings' actions and I don't think that robs the decision-maker of power to influence the outcome of events. Random chance does play a role in that part.
(DIR) Post #Ak5xcVok1SeVWL3s4u by tstrike78@mastodon.social
2024-07-19T17:04:34Z
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@Radical_EgoCom It sounds like that's what our disagreement is, then. I do not believe in determinism because random chance exists; you believe random chance and chaos are irrelevent. That's fine. That's just our fundamental point of disagreement.
(DIR) Post #Ak6HoeZlHbq9F67bOK by tstrike78@mastodon.social
2024-07-19T21:06:26Z
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@Flipboard @ProPublica I would be shocked if we hadn't been told that would be the result of school-voucher programs years ago. Now it feels like watching someone walk slow-motion into an oncoming train while they insist the tracks are clear.
(DIR) Post #AkQonJOPjqE2u5yqY4 by tstrike78@mastodon.social
2024-07-29T18:51:03Z
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@futurebird @apropos @stargazer Seinfeld fans. Oh, and those weirdos who "write" the story arcs for professional wrestling. I could really do without those people.
(DIR) Post #AkYftLNPvjvmTHzkY4 by tstrike78@mastodon.social
2024-08-02T13:48:46Z
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@futurebird It's the casual racisms that do the most damage, the ones that are just built into our everyday lives, but I also think the casual affirmations help the most.My kids had the hardest time wrapping their brains around racism and sexism when they discovered it, and it's partly because I'm such a #StarTrek nerd that Captain Sisko and Captain Janeway were just generally accepted as authority figures every single day of their childhoods. Small things stick.
(DIR) Post #Al0HQwd5OBMj8Y7wnI by tstrike78@mastodon.social
2024-08-15T21:26:46Z
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@stux Slow the fuck down and be more careful. People get too comfortable driving their ginormous penis-mobiles and forget that large vehicles require extra care and attention. They are not sports cars.
(DIR) Post #AlTD7Q6FLPTEVt2UGe by tstrike78@mastodon.social
2024-08-29T20:24:44Z
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@futurebird Yeah, I've had a few bad bosses in my day, but even the worst of them pales in comparison to that guy. I would just refuse to work for him. In fact, I'd refuse to be in the same room with him. I came very close to doing that with Kevin Shelley years ago at the Secretary of State's office.
(DIR) Post #AlVTwR03kCAvemPdaq by tstrike78@mastodon.social
2024-08-30T22:42:58Z
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@Ricardus The movie's theme was loss and how someone deals with it, similar to STII. Soran lost his family and dealt with it one way. Picard lost his family and dealt with it another way. Guinan lost her family and dealt with it yet another way. And so on and so forth.Picard losing his family was a direct contrast against the vengeful and cruel monster Soran was turned into by his loss. That's why they killed Picard's family. It made sense, thematically.