chillingeffect

This is amazingly coherent and explanatory article!

the writer really went into depth about the problem and...surprise...the answer is almost embarrassingly simple.

Everyone in the country needs to read this.

yes some of the provocative imagery is non-productive in public spheres outside private circles.

As a remedy, I recommend everyone on the left read George Lakoff's book "Don't Think of an Elephant." It's a guide for how to communicate effectively, especially to people who have a vastly different worldview from themselves.

He's been consulting to organizations for a long time and these books are the distillation of his knowledge in plain language.

Preview:

1. He makes an (obv simplified) model of left vs right communication as "nurturing parent" vs. "strict father." There is obvious overlap - it's a model, but you can see how much this explains as he develops it a bit further.

2. He talks about a "staining" or "triggering" effect when communicating. what does that mean? people have key words that instantly shut down their thought, preventing useful discussion. For example, immediately upon hearing the words "trans," conservatives might picture a man in a dress molesting someone in a bathroom. Similar for leftists when they hear a word like "corporation" or "business." So he teaches how to communicate without stumbling on these.

What's needed are democratically-agreed upon guidelines.

Yes if you suck at science, you can't get paid.

But if the subjects you study are politically inconvenient to the presently-in-charge admin, you should still be allowed to research them.

I am generally agreeing with you. IIUC, your point is we can't survive like this, so why are we even pretending to go to Mars?

and i'm saying: let's not wreck ourselves trying to get to Mars/beyond the solar system in the next century. Let's background it. Live gently in the meantime.

I think the disagreement is you believe we're already kinda screwed? I haven't commented on that possibility previously. I'm not fully qualified nor informed enough to make a decisive opinion. But it does seem like it will very uncomfortable for a long time. And it's very difficult to get people to change their minds when the surveillance capital propaganda continuously shapes our conscious imagination to its own constraints.

Yes, it's important to leave the solar system...but we have 4 billion years to think about it.

We can do a little bit each year. We don't have to tap into all of our social services, cops on the street, clean water, and create an entire surveillance and surveillance capital infrastructure to get there by 2050 or even 2100.

We can aim to get there by, say, the year 100,000, and still have 4000x headroom.

Meanwhile we live healthy, safe, low-stress lives, where fun, outdoor activity, swimming in rivers, picking fruit from trees, having all night parties outdoors, swilling beer, reading great books, napping in hammocks, camping in the mountains are all freely available.

not useful in a disaster scenario:

YOU> HELP I'M DROWNING

C64> YOU' HERE!

YOU> OH NO I'M ON FIRE

C64> IGLAY!

YOU> IM BEING SWALLOWED BE A SNAKE

C64>

YOU> BIRDS ARE NIPPING ON ME

C64> YOU

I really like this...I've been trying to come up with a similar system, not necessarily for just gh, but for comms in general. And with groups so e.g. someone from my group can trust someone in the group of a someone I trust. And from there it would be neat to add voting...so someone requires a number of votes before they can be trusted.

yes and also no ;) Think of stirling engines as driven by "heat differentials" as opposed to "heat." At first when you fire up the GPU, it's hotter than everythign else and can start driving a stirling...but eventually everything heats up to the same temp and it stops moving. To get it moving again, requires a heat differential, so part of it would need to radiate, which is blatantly difficult in a vacuum(1), such as space.

In case it's not clear: Little-St. James Wannabe Invitee, Nazi-Saluter, Musk's full of it again, but to recognize it requires being halfway through college physics to understand it, so all the elites will be glazed over thinking they're onto the next big thing. grift, grift, grift, grift.

(1) a giant flipping vacuum.

> If folks want more Rust projects under licenses they prefer, they should start those projects.

100% true, but also hides a powerful fact: Our choices aren't limited to doing it ourselves. Listening to others and discussing how to do things as a group is the essence of community seeking long-term stability abd fairness. It'a how we got to the special place we are now.

Not everyone can or should start their own open source project. Maybe theyre already doing another one. Maybe they don't know how to code. The viewpoint of others/users/customers is valid and should not only be listened to but asked for.

True, but you might want to look into the licenses people are actually choosing for Rust versions of coreutils/uutils and who's promoting them.