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Technical people (or people with bad social skills) also love to inadequately and incorrectly try and turn the complexity of social organization into simple laws and rules. This ki…

If you've been part of an organization or a community that has undergone a big conflict or a schism, you'd understand. Plus this community largely communicates exclusively over tex…

Does your LLM have hardware drivers in it? this is silly.

I would bet this one is vibe-coded as well

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The 201 definition is that second nature is a realm of development beyond the bio-social realm, that tends to form into institutions that have their own methods and rate of develop…

Everything is nature , but clearly human society is also distinct. Both can be true. Some anthropologist philosophers have referred to this as "first nature" and "second nature", s…

With regards to the Late Pleistocene extinction overkill hypothesis that you are referring to, your information is out of date, more recent evidence suggests that humans played onl…

Seems as though you are intentionally misunderstanding me. Urbanization is a practice that humans developed without ecological integration, it is a practice of subjugating or disre…

The lesson is more that indigenous people were (+ are) part of the ecology, not separate from it or above it. With cultural, social, technological, and spiritual practices that wer…

Sorry it's painfully obvious it's AI generated. The copy - "it's not left, it's not right," short punchy sentences. The spacing in the header - font sizes The copy in the header - …

sounds like very different groups of people. a few danish developers vs 27 politicians from across europe (european commission)

It's been scholarly consensus for many years that "Homer" was not a single person, and that the Odyssey was constructed over centuries by many oral poets.

BDFL is worse for all the reasons you mention. Stability? A BDFL can make decisions at a whim that radically destabilize and change the project. Lording over and causing immense ha…

Ok, have you ever been part of a directly democratic organization? Not everyone shows up to every meeting or every vote. An organization I was a part of had quorum at 10%.

Every organization has ideological goals. That's what I'm getting at. Sometimes they are unable to recognize it because it's been normalized. What you define as "neutral" is not ac…

I see this as a higher evolution of simpler community tech projects, which are incapable of tackling or comprehending these things as a group. And so simpler projects will often ne…

Yes, in communities that try to claim that certain things are "political" and certain things are "not political", "banning cryptocurrency" could be rejected on the basis that it is…

> Germans democratically elected Hitler This is such a tired trope and myth from people who haven't studied history Also, you're being comically absurd. You're literally comparing …

Kinda seems like you're doing the exact thing the parent comment is talking about, except in addition to laundering your disagreement through the lens of "politics", you're just ad…

"Democracy works OK when I agree with the result"

Great, nothing of value was lost. I get that you aren't used to people bending over backwards trying to try to cater to you in order to sell you something and get your money. And t…

And that's a slippery slope fallacy.

Your point is, they should do nothing about targeted hateful spam campaigns against their users? If someone starts flinging shit at your window, and you protested, I'd tell you to …

You're still not understanding the point. It's not about an organization being "private" or "public" (what does "private" even mean?). Everything is political. When you try and cle…