Notices by Steve Foerster 🌐 (stevefoerster@social.fossdle.org)

@nsarwark

@staringatclouds Babylon 5 is my favorite show ever! It's a masterpiece, especially considering they accomplished it on a shoestring budget.

@fu @nsarwark I'm unsure who "normies" are in this context, and I'm also unsure how to make what I said more clear.

@fu @nsarwark Are you asking whether it's new that people are catching on to intellectually dishonest arguments, or that such arguments themselves are new?

I don't know whether either is the case, but I do think that we're at or near a polarization peak, and that lends itself to the latter, which in turn to the former.

@nsarwark I'm happy to read essays from perspectives other than my own, but this one lost me by starting out with an intellectually dishonest leftwing caricature of how most people who don't share their views define freedom.

@lain I assume this is nominal and not PPP?

@evan @greenpete @streetartutopia That seemed like a moral argument, not a legal one.

@lain They sent it empty. Turns out they'd have been fine had they ridden down in it. But hindsight is always 20/20, and I get why they chose to send a more reliable reentry vehicle for them.

You know the debt-to-GDP ratio is getting dire when someone at the Manhattan Institute is arguing in favor of increasing taxes.

https://thedispatch.com/article/how-to-truly-fix-the-federal-debt/

#uspol @economics

@lain I'm in the regular tropics right now, is that close enough? 🤔

@nsarwark Without deconstructing the left-populist rhetoric, I agree that people should want to end homelessness. That starts by recognizing that in the majority of cases, solving it is a lot more complicated than just handing out cash to people on the street, and that in many cases it will take the initiation of force against the homeless to coerce them into changing their approach to their own mental health, drug abuse, etc.

@lain I was there, Gandalf....

This is my one thousandth post in the Fediverse, and I can't think of anything more appropriate to say with it than this: I've deleted my accounts on Facebook and X permanently.

https://stevefoerster.com/taking-my-mind-back/

@lain

@fu That must be incredibly frustrating for you, and I'm very sorry that's happening. 😔

The Libertarian Party stopped being #libertarian a few years ago, but now it is also no longer meaningfully a political party. #uspol

https://apnews.com/article/trump-libertarian-rfk-jr-voters-gop-biden-659e6f19dec85344bfe1f93e0ea1c0a1

@lain @dym His sons, once close, are now at odds. That seems a bit medieval as well.

@lain

@lain I prefer the drunks.

@lain Brazil and Argentina? Two drunks can't prop each other up.