@ElBeeToots @mykhaylo It was/is, but that’s no excuse for invasion and occupation. Whether it’s this war or the Yugoslav Wars.
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enoch_exe_inc (enoch_exe_inc@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 16:41:55 JST enoch_exe_inc -
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enoch_exe_inc (enoch_exe_inc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 23:50:40 JST enoch_exe_inc @RuiSeabra @enoch_exe_inc In every other way, though, it doesn’t look like we’ll ever see eye to eye. I consider pluralism to be an unsolved problem in political science much like the P vs NP problem in computer science.
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enoch_exe_inc (enoch_exe_inc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 07:42:05 JST enoch_exe_inc @RuiSeabra @enoch_exe_inc On that, I agree. “Literally 1984” memes have it all wrong. It’s not the revision and creation of new words that’s Orwellian; it’s the annihilation of words and the dictionary getting thinner. In terms of linguistics, Newspeak would never work, but that hasn’t and isn’t stopping people from trying.
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enoch_exe_inc (enoch_exe_inc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 07:36:45 JST enoch_exe_inc @RuiSeabra @enoch_exe_inc That may be true, but it’s not what freedom of speech is taken to mean, at least not in all the countries that proclaim to have it. Supposedly, freedom of speech prevents the government from removing opinions it doesn’t like, but that is, at best, binding only to those with lots of money; and, at worst, a blatant lie. Also, it’s usually those with lots of money who get the power to determine which opinions are sanctioned and which may send you to the secret prisons.
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enoch_exe_inc (enoch_exe_inc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 07:20:16 JST enoch_exe_inc @RuiSeabra @enoch_exe_inc Personally, I see the paradox of tolerance like I see Russell’s paradox in set theory: unavoidable and inevitable in retrospect. However, another way of seeing it is that if there were no limitations on freedom of speech, people would make them anyway, and in an environment where all ideas are equal, tend towards their extremest versions.
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enoch_exe_inc (enoch_exe_inc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 06:24:11 JST enoch_exe_inc @RuiSeabra @enoch_exe_inc I’m not defending censorship. In fact, I want to maximise free speech. However, because some speech naturally drowns out other speech, the relative power of some speech must be restricted, unfortunately, but necessarily.
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enoch_exe_inc (enoch_exe_inc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 03:45:30 JST enoch_exe_inc @RuiSeabra @aral @ammdias Karl Popper could’ve read his classics better, for he misunderstood Plato and Platonism quite badly. He also wasn’t the first to discover the tolerance paradox; only the first to call it as such. To my knowledge, this was first laid out by political philosopher (and literal Nazi) Carl Schmitt in his book Political Theology (1922), arguing that liberals and their love of free speech would defend the free speech of those who sought to destroy it.
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enoch_exe_inc (enoch_exe_inc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2024 09:12:33 JST enoch_exe_inc @ryanhoulihan Got it. Beginning new research project on practical means of electronic harassment and less-lethal directed-energy weapons for self-defensive active area denial against law enforcement during protests.
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enoch_exe_inc (enoch_exe_inc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 12:11:59 JST enoch_exe_inc @ikanreed @ark_lamp_umbrella @privateger @seraph Unless you have no choice but to use regular etwitterpressions. At least they’re better than simple substitution. Clbuttic mistake. #ScunthorpeProblem
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enoch_exe_inc (enoch_exe_inc@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Mar-2024 23:09:21 JST enoch_exe_inc @GottaLaff @enoch_exe_inc Also, “nation of laws” is almost objectively untrue. I don’t know how 340 million+ people can believe it, but your society is organised into strict socioeconomic classes in which those at the top can blatantly break the law whereas those at the bottom are disproportionate punished for even minor infractions, all because the law assumes every person is totally identical and treated equally when this is obviously not the case.
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enoch_exe_inc (enoch_exe_inc@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Mar-2024 23:09:07 JST enoch_exe_inc @GottaLaff But, we CAN make him stop. Just arrest him and throw him in jail. There doesn’t need to be a legitimate reason; loads and loads of people are regularly tossed into jail for no good reason all the time, and America is arguably the world capital of mass incarceration.
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enoch_exe_inc (enoch_exe_inc@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Mar-2024 23:09:06 JST enoch_exe_inc @GottaLaff @enoch_exe_inc Spoken like a true liberal. What’s the phrase, “I don’t agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”? Well, fascism is extremely effective against liberalism for precisely this reason, and fascists have used this fact to undermine liberalism from within.
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enoch_exe_inc (enoch_exe_inc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 09:22:35 JST enoch_exe_inc @ryanhoulihan It’s mainly for the nostalgic value that I play fire up the old DS emulator and load up those old Lego Star Wars and Harry Potter ROMs. I don’t play the new games, for I’m otherwise occupied with Factorio.
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enoch_exe_inc (enoch_exe_inc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 09:05:23 JST enoch_exe_inc @ryanhoulihan Don’t worry. I pirate all my games, sometimes dedicating more hours to cracking the copy protection than playing the actual game.
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enoch_exe_inc (enoch_exe_inc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 16:00:55 JST enoch_exe_inc @Gargron So far, it’s been more or less a hobby of mine. The programmer and computer scientist in me is more fascinated by how it works internally and what I can make it do than in the output it generates; meanwhile, the creative spirit in me is more interested in what it synthesise out of the large amounts of digital art I’ve created, edited, composited, et cetera, and fed into it.
Point is, these two things don’t have to exist in opposition.