Notices by Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) (tokyo_0@mas.to), page 3

@swelljoe Interesting! That does make sense. Folks with mortgages will just end up paying more interest, I'd have thought, but maybe not enough more that it outweighs the other benefits? 🤔

@steven I am genuinely curious and too lazy to Google as it's 6am and I woke up and can't get back to sleep again.

So what's going on with the flurry of accounts on india.goonj.xyz recently that are presented as people but which post a ridiculous volume of photos to the Mastodon Indians group list and hashtags? No one genuine takes or posts that many pictures and they seem totally random and unrelated, too. 🤔

Why is 2% inflation supposed to be a good thing, anyway?

@gamambel @jeffowski You had opportunities to do all those things already. You spent those opportunities doing something else instead. That was your choice. The world doesn't owe you repeated opportunities. No one owes you their time or engagement — that sense of entitlement is misplaced. People are within their rights to choose whether they engage with you. Goodbye. 👋

@gamambel @jeffowski I don't think you're in danger of that here. But I do think we're done, for good. I reached out to you because I appreciated the valuable insights you'd shared in the past and thought you were someone who would understand some basic ideas that are important to me. You've shown me you are not. Thanks for taking the time to do that. But this is a boundary—please respect it. All the best. 👋

@drupler It's not logic, it's rhetoric. Power decides the truth now. 😞

@gamambel @jeffowski There are some other things I need to do, so I think it would be best if we conclude our conversation here.

@gamambel @jeffowski I never said anything about being offended myself. What I said (here👉https://mas.to/@tokyo_0/112664812257064797, 3 hours ago) was that it was an offensive and unhelpful over-generalisation.

It's clear expressing an idea like that is going to cause a significant number of people offence. Whether the author accurately communicated their own ideas is their responsibility. It's a very straightforward statement. I don't think any "reading into it" is necessary to recognise that it's contentious.

@gamambel @jeffowski Yeah, that's just not how communication works, though. We don't get to make statements we know might offend people and then when they're offended come back with "well actually I didn't mean the generally understood meaning of those words when I said that thing" and then take up hours of people's time schooling them on our own personal definition of the world. I mean, you can try. But I don't think it'll work out well for you.

@gamambel @jeffowski Ok, well personally I think the way you're going about it will probably prove to be a net loss for you overall, because you're approaching the debate in a way that is going to damage your relationships with the people you're having that debate with. But I wish you all the best with having these kinds of debates you say are so important to you, with other people.

@gamambel @jeffowski Well I wanted to bring it to your attention, because in the past you'd shared some psychology materials I found particularly helpful and seeing that you'd boosted that idea seemed very much at odds with the impression I had of you as someone who was interested in people's wellbeing. And rather than just hit the "unfollow" button when I saw it, I thought it was worth having a conversation with you first to see if some shared understanding could be found.

@gamambel @jeffowski Whether or not someone agrees with it or disagrees, it's not hard to recognise that "religion is poison" is a contentious viewpoint likely to offend a significant number of people.

@gamambel @jeffowski Ok, well I think it's worth considering whether whoever you're having these debates is on board with digging into the same kind of deep, broad-ranging philosophical debate as you're trying to have. I think it could come across as a search for more and more convoluted intellectual gymnastics to tell someone their legitimate concern over something they feel is likely to cause offence is invalid.

@ton Now it looks like every question will get this underneath it, too 🤦♀️ This is really so bad. I can't believe they found a way to make it worse.

@ton It's as though they don't even want premium customers 😅

@gamambel @jeffowski What is it you're getting from this?

@gamambel @jeffowski That's interesting. I disagree, so we can just add that to the list, can't we.

@gamambel @jeffowski Do you think this is benefitting you in some way?

@gamambel @jeffowski You keep telling yourself that's what happened here, Moritz 😂