yeeter

joined 1 year ago
[–] yeeter@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Maintaining the moral high ground is crucial when attempting to fight extremists with reason and discourse.

MLK understood this tactic and brilliantly deployed it with his non-violent movement, and he defeated extremists with reason and discourse.

You can call me naïve, but wouldn't have been a shame if MLK gave up when he was called naïve?

When they go low, we go high.

-Michelle Obama

[–] yeeter@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

So the solution is to just kick them off all the mainstream platforms and ensure they go to their own echo chambers where they are isolated from any reasonable counters to their ideology, which will just ultimately make the problem worse? Brilliant.

It’s like the war on drugs. If we just ban it then surely the problem will disappear.

How can people be this shortsighted?

[–] yeeter@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Sarno’s books helped me when nothing else would. Here is a link to a free program that in my opinion is a more modern and precise way:

https://www.tmswiki.org/forum/painrecovery/

[–] yeeter@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Wise AI technologists: We need to be extraordinarily careful about propagating this stuff. Like, we might need to wait 50 years until we fully understand what it does and/or we solve the alignment problem.

Meta: Here you go guys! Go nuts!

[–] yeeter@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What’s the limit on packs of gum? Asking for a friend.

[–] yeeter@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Fire is not fire. Therefore fire is not hot.

The distinction is between a thing in relation to other things and for us and a thing in itself. To the extent that water cannot wet, it is not water. To the extent that fire cannot burn, it is not fire. Yet precisely for not burning itself, fire is fire; and for not wetting itself, water is water. X is not X, therefore it is X. For precisely in its act of burning firewood, fire does not burn itself; and in not burning itself, it burns firewood. It burns in relation to something else, but in-itself (in relation to itself) it does not burn.

[–] yeeter@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Discord is worse. At least Reddit lets you delete everything you post. With Discord, if you are banned from a server, then there is no way to delete your posts in that server. That is insane to me in this day and age.