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“Guilty”

Yes, this. I certainly didn’t come up with the phrase, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memetic_warfare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth-generation_warfare https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2013&context=jss

Listen. This is important. We are in WWIII

I hope democracy and rule-of-law overcome religious autocracy. It’s touch-and-go.

I hear you and will make a terrible confession – I used to be a hardcore libertarian and very opposed to “speech police”

I still am 100% opposed to enforcing speech. Don’t give someone a fine for saying the N-word, just treat that person as you would anyone who is vulgar or objectionable.

But I do see value in cultural shifts that bend in the direction of greater inclusivity and tolerance. I am with you in that I will absolutely not go along with ones I don’t see as authentic or valuable (eg “Latinx”, or for example I am a heteronormal male who presents as male. I don’t bother adding “he/him” under the photo in my work profile)

ummm note that wars today are memetic more than kinetic

I am absolutely right now engaged in memetic warfare. I give material support to groups like AAAS , FFRF , etc

I realize it’s kinda annoyingly P.C./woke

But yeah, I also have taken to referencing “allowlists” and “denylists” instead of “whitelists” and “blacklists”. And “worker nodes/manager nodes” instead of “build slave”/“master node”

they’ve also become a target for far right propaganda

Of course that’s the calculus. Stay and fight the disinformed where I am, or go to a more well-defended location?

It’s easy to forget that record numbers of US citizens have gone from proudly having belief with no evidence in a Sky Daddy, to not having any affiliation with anti-reason traditions

From only 8% back in 1980, up to 2024 where 25+% are now at least ostensibly members of the reality-based community

https://i.imgur.com/6evK4q2.png

As a kid and young adult, I used to say “American” to mean “Citizen of the USA”

Then I started working with multinational companies and a big chunk of my team was in Mexico and other parts of central/south America.

I’m happy for another word for “USA citizen”, tell me what to use

USAian here. Honest question. What is a good pluralistic tolerant democratic country with very low percentage of credulous adults who have a Sky Daddy?

TIA

They have a nice butt

“What’s the difference between Oracle and the Boy Scouts?”

“The Boy Scouts are led by adults”

For me it took 200mcg but ymmv

Whole network down for want of a terminator.

BTDT

Now I have a box with several

Rookie. My box has been growing since the '90s

Never know when you’re going to need an RJ11 POTS connector!

You’re lucky

I got banned with no warning or even indication what post was offensive (I was not being anything-phobic or inciting violence)

But that was lemmy.ml so I should have known

The holy book about his last moments will be based on Ayn Rand

“The fountainkirk”

They have belief without evidence. And a Sky Daddy. They don’t need logic or reason

That’s a lot of protesters!

/ducks

Scientific research

Sci-hub FTW

This needs to go so fucking viral