this is a really interesting point, thanks for pointing to it. Flarium to me competes with discourse in many ways, vs say, Reddit.
one of the biggest challenges to this model (IMO) has been that there is no "subreddit" or "stack exchange" model for discovery, or for communities to build their own "spaces".
my post comes at this from the perspective of - what would it take to create a decentralized "reddit", complete with subreddits etc. your comment makes me realize that I can do better in addressing this point! ty!
I don't want spaces where people talk about one thing in a bubble, and then have to manually jump from space to space. Reddit is both cesspool and useful resource, but I can easily move from space to space or combine them all into a bigger space of my choosing. Being able to build a multi-space of things that interest me and leave out (at least some) of what I don't like or care for is necessary. Mastodon isn't that. Reddit is, or was. Can both ideas be combined? I am not sure yet.
it is interesting how websites will need to compute the user-friendly url themselves from the punycode as can be seen on the displayed url on the HN UI
Supermax in a few years. USA does not forget or forgive these things. The later moves to help Russia distribute emails that moved a US election are just the icing on the cake.
Any release of damaging information about a party involved in an election can change the result. This has not been a problem before when Wikileaks almost definitely influenced the result of Kenyan election in 2007. Assange even got an Amnesty International award for leaking information then.
I suppose you're referring to pizza-gate. I'm also assuming you did zero digging into that narrative on your own. Keep eating that gov't cereal from the MSM.
Flat earth theory is all about humans not being able to do a specific 2d to 3d mapping using the natural brain circuitry/architecture/pathway we gained from evolution for this operation because the earth is too big for our brains/senses as an object viewed from nearby (like from a plane in the atmosphere) and we never encountered something with such measures and relationships (like a circular path that becomes linear to our senses) in the natural world we evolved. Some of us know the earth is not flat because we developed other ways (other brain circuitry) to do the mapping: some think it terms of pure geometry, some scale down earth to a ball and compare our senses to it, some think in terms of planetary movements, some use the moon to help with the mapping from our vision, etc.
I always just assumed that flat earth theory is some elaborate inside joke, that the practitioners all "get", and are collectively trolling everyone else. Somewhat like the illuminati theorists, etc. If you think about it, it takes quite a bit of effort to form a valid sounding debate on a topic that you don't believe in. And it is also fun coming up with defenses on either "side".
So here's a good one I came up with for the "round earth" side. The sun is always about the size of a dime held at arm's length, at sunrise, noon, or sunset. If there earth were flat, then the sun would appear larger at sunrise, smaller at sunset, when in New York, and it would be just the opposite (smaller at sunrise, larger at sunset) when in San Francisco.
No, it's much worse than that; it's a variant of the conspiracism disease, the belief that everyone else is lying about it while being unable to confront evidence.
All of that, plus a lack of understanding regarding the basics of astrophysics, it would seem. (e.g. I've seriously heard flat-earthers argue 'how can water stick to the surface of a ball?')
From what I've seen on youtube you're right, the one thing they all seem to have in common is that the have no understanding of gravity. Everything else seems to be an elaborate set of logical contortions to overcome this lack of understanding.
Washington Post linked to a reddit thread with comments bashing the CEO. The CEO did not like the world seeing him bashed by his own community and decided to impersonate the users to make them seem attacking the moderators of /r/The_Donald.
Reddit's TOS:
> You are solely responsible for the information associated with Your Account and anything that happens related to Your Account.
The CEO crossed the line because he thought he could get away from any liability for doing it.
Although it has been a project for more than 30 years, it is something locals are really proud. The same local company implemented both projects (the brazilian one and this in Jarkata).
After some reading [1] I found out that electrophilic ketones are better than valproic acid as histone deacetylase inhibitors. Maybe this is the source of the enhanced state-of-mind that people on a keto diet [2] report (me currently, reporting in).
https://discuss.flarum.org/d/32812-the-future-of-flarum-in-2...