rgrieselhuber

This is just the same one vs the many dialectic that always leads to self-refuting positions over time. Orthodoxy is the only faith to resolve this problem.

Agreed, the comment reminded me of the secret king in the corner meme “they don’t know I have intellectual pursuits.”

People outside of cities can read good too.

It’s frequently explained to mean “universal” but my growing understanding of it is that it means that the wholeness of the faith exists at the local level, meaning that it does not have a dependency on some remote administrator in order to provide the Sacraments, etc.

This became an important point for the survival of Orthodoxy during the Arian crisis.

And it has to be peer-reviewed.

There does seem to be a unique form of escapism in the aesthetics. I often think of it when I think about the jazz cafe phenomenon that is popular in Japan. It's warm and cozy but it can also be a cozy sterility (but hey we have cats!) that a lot of societies seem to be going through now (in the West as well). A sleepy existential crisis that plays itself out in quotidian surrealism. It's not unpleasant but also feels somehow like a miss on both an individual and civilizational level.

It’s a question of normalization, not data.

If you look at institutions that are more concerned with punishing the type of people who will fight back than the bullies themselves, the motivations behind these sorts of policies make a lot more sense.

"And, to further be clear, there is zero first amendment infringement when private corporations silence your voice."

Couldn't agree more!

If you don't like it, just go build your own multi-billion dollar private tech company funded also by taxpayer money.

This is obviously going nowhere, but things are a little different now anyway.

What was tried in 2020 and 2021 ultimately didn't work and it won't work going forward. Censorship is being deprecated.

You're free to say and think whatever you want. The good thing is, we all are.

1. According to you

2. Bleach was debunked: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-inject-bleach-covid-...

It's not playing stupid, you're just not getting a free pass with this sort of rhetoric.

1. Maybe you don’t care but if nobody else cared then the entirety of legacy media would not have gone into overdrive to gaslight the American public about its existence.

2. I’m not aware of anyone telling people to inject bleach or horse tranquilizers. Have a citation for that? If not, you’re the one spreading misinformation.

“All the people flocking to Bluesky — were you outraged at the Covid censorship and Hunter Biden laptop election interference in October 2020?”

And the same gaslighting was echoed here on HN as well, don’t hold your breath for any such acknowledgement though.

Trees also convert CO2 into something useful

If it’s not in a peer-reviewed study, how do you know it’s true?

/s

Or this: https://web.archive.org/web/20200728203549/https://www.cdc.g...

Nor can we forget this:

https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/par...

Everybody's favorite "anarchist" himself, Noam Chomsky, promoted just such an idea.

(Proving that he's not really an anarchist.)

Of course, he couched it terms of plausible deniability but anybody with the ability to read between the lines knew exactly what he was saying.

This was during the environment in which small and family-owned businesses were being destroyed (yes, in America) and people were losing their jobs as well. It happened to a number of personal friends.

There were far worse excesses in other Western nations too, not just in China. The only reason things didn't go further in the US here is because Americans have fewer vulnerabilities than citizens in other countries do in the face of this sort of oppression.

And it was all cheered on by those who believed themselves to be on the right side of the establishment at that time. It was a regular thing to see and hear people fantasizing about the idea of forced injections, online and in real life.

And we learned about all this on, yes, social media (which was heavily censored at the time too).

The legacy media outlets were not telling the truth.

All this was only three years ago.

Things are a little different now, I'm sure you will find in many cases that forgiveness is possible in light of true apologies, but there will not be a forgetting.

And these things need to be honestly discussed if we are ever to achieve anything resembling national cohesion again.

In guess it comes down to: on what terms?

It wasn’t long ago that we regularly witnessed rhetoric hinting at putting people into camps and denying them access to food because they didn’t buy into the official narrative about vaccines.

Is that a better option? I don’t think so.

I do agree that there is a basis for building bridges and finding common ground but this is better done at the local level between people vs. trying to force it from on high. And definitely, in my opinion, not via some controlled medium.

I respectfully disagree. That state of affairs made people more “united” - perhaps, but it was at the expense of knowledge about the true nature of our reality.

We are “divided” now because we are basically in a battle for what is consensus reality, and the only way to have a satisfying answer to that question is to have unfettered access to the underlying facts and knowledge of who is who.

Sure, but at least you have options and get to choose.

Long form content, unrestricted by executives telling people how to run their show, all that makes a big difference. There is no need for corporate bureaucrats to try to run things.

This is one of the main reasons we're seeing the legacy media lose legitimacy. People want to hear authentic voices and go to where the new ideas are.

I never said it is selecting for parental survival. I was responding to "Evolution can't select for anything that happens significantly past the birth of your progeny."

The point is that there many valuable things that parents can pass on after the birth of their children that will increase their chances of success in future generations.

I was responding to the sweeping statement you made about what natural selection can select for, and it can absolutely select for these sorts of advantages. It will play out differently depending on environmental factors such as economic and other disparities but this just becomes a matter of which strategy is chosen to adapt to that landscape.

Sure it can. Knowledge, skills, and wisdom passed on to children and grandchildren well into adulthood significantly increases their chances of successfully passing on their genes to future generations, attract quality mates, and reduce stressors that can be passed down through subsequent generations.

This was the rhetoric at the time and it just doesn’t fly.

You can’t force people to do something to their bodies in order to make you feel safe.

If you’re that worried, just stay home.

It is already illegal to fire people based on their religious beliefs.

It’s not a reference to orphans.

Guess they never really tried it.

Will be very happy to see the prevailing “wisdom” on this eventually get reversed.

There is a reason dialectics are best avoided.