Plesiohedron @ Plesiohedron @lemmy.cafe Posts 2Comments 41Joined 4 days ago
You framed your statement as a question. And it's unnecessarily verbose.
You could filter it on your end
Handle it on the client side
This is why open source, total transparency, radical free speech and democracy is the one and only way. Because if there's even one little shadow there will be a scorpion hiding in it.
This is truth
And after 20 minutes yr exhausted and leave.
Srsly. I can't believe they went with "the alien looks like dad" bs and skipped the math thing
The carl sagan : contact
The movie is good but the book is better
Downloading both immediately
Thank you very much
Fiend Without a Face 1958
Vintage claymation
I'll do my own pandering thank you. With a collection of clear virtue signals, a rigorous purity filter and a crew of fanatical moderators.
If you saved yourself you would save us all.
Google keep. That yellow thing. Take notes constantly. SO useful. And voice to text. Wow
I relate. Dread every day.
My answer was to draw and read scifi all day. Let my grades slide. Ignore everything.
I graduated because... I dunno. I think they just wanted me out of there.
It could be inherently flawed. We look at a picture or a symbol and pretend it's real. That's insane. I mean, I know that's kinda how it works, but still. Insane.
Or maybe it's imprecise to call it a flaw. Maybe call it a trap, to be careful of. But nobody's careful. (So that's maybe an "out of control" situation)
(I know I'm not. I mean case in point. I'm watching this movie "don't look up" right now and I'm getting all teary-eyed and stuff. It's a fucking movie. An illusion of flickering images and bullshit. I know with great certainty that it's just a fantasy but I'm still having this reaction. So that's insane)
Is it inherently bad? Out of control? Something else?
We could order understanding by quality.
First there is perception. That's the closest. Then there is thought about that. Then there is the secondhand form of that, gotten from a friend. Then gotten from a mere associate. Then a stranger. Thirdhand and fourthhand. And so on.
Close to far. That close kind you don't even have to think or talk about it.
Perceptions like rightness, beauty, gut make a good guide. Art and invention are proof of that. Call it a good source of truth.
Not too good for building objective consensuses tho.
Hypothetically, one could step away from the whole internet/media/information system. Stick with firsthand experience and the testimony of trusted friends.
To what degree would that include "science"?
What would that look like. Amish?