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But why not? They can still charge for it and have a FOSS dev model. Nobody who wants this without paying for it is going to have trouble getting it.

Don’t forget ‘houseless’ or ‘transient’ to describe homeless. Or ‘bodies with vaginas’ to describe women. Or ‘latinx’ to describe latinos. Pretty sure all of these are exonyms. The linguistic contortions we have to perform to describe things we already had perfectly acceptable words for is absurd and rarely serves the person or thing being described.

Does anyone else feel like Quanta is mostly a hype machine? I hear about seemingly earth shattering research there and never hear about it again.

I think a worse problem is the advertisement-based revenue stream and the analytics enabled by modern technology. They have to keep the audience’s attention, or their revenue dries up. So they try to maximize engagement, which often steers them in a direction that’s more about the feelings of the reader; what’s left is very little room for any serious thought.

There’s also the Twitter mob. If you don’t toe the line to some people’s preferred narratives you start losing advertisers and getting death threats.

I like people that can take something right in front of everyone’s eyes and figure something out that completely changes the way people think about the world. Thales and Herodotus come to mind.

When they try to change the way they’re viewed instead of bringing up relevant facts, you know that they know that they don’t have a leg to stand on.

I say we do to Facebook what JFK wanted to do to the CIA.

Imagine social media without a profit motive. Decentralize, distribute and encrypt the fuck out of it. I don’t want curated feeds, I want to keep in touch with people I know.

Are the battle outcomes fair comparisons? What if they had great warriors but poor decision makers? Could they have fought poorly matched battles for the sake of conserving resources, etc?

I don’t care about Sparta one way or another. But simply “looking at numbers” can be deceiving.

Are the battle outcomes fair comparisons? What if they had great warriors but poor decision makers? Could they have fought poorly matched battles for the sake of conserving resources, etc?

I don’t care about Sparta one way or another. But simply “looking at numbers” can be deceiving.