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  • The US response (media/police/even some of the public) to anything in protest is the most authoritarian response I have ever seen every single time, but I guess that’s understandable when you’re busy fully supporting a genocide and about half a dozen regime changes attempts per year.

    “This is absolutely unacceptable and understandably scared travelers,” said US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy[1:2]. The airports quickly shut down affected systems and searched aircraft out of caution, though no security threats were found[1:3].

    Does the computer in your living room get hacked? Check for explosives your basement!
    And while we’re at it…

    The hack targeted cloud-based audio and display systems through a software provider[3]. “Nobody informed us what was going on, there was no crisis response. Everyone was just really confused,” one Kelowna passenger told CNN[1:4].

    bring in the guns!
    Let’s have an army of ICE goons walk in next time and have them shoot random passengers
    who may look like they could be part of the terrorist hackers!


  • Yeah, so I have a problem with #1 and #2 as to what we were taught.
    Because what usually happens is…

    1. Observe a phenomenon
    2. Wonder how that works
    3. Search for information on wikipedia
    4. Gain knowledge

    You don’t need to raise questions then.
    The only time you raise questions is when there’s a lack of knowledge on the thing
    and I think it’s more often the case that your theory starts when there IS knowledge,
    it’s just that you think it’s either externally wrong (that’s not how the balls fall when I drop them from the leaning tower of Pisa)
    or internally wrong (This author is saying balls and objects in general fall due to air pressure, but in another book the author says balloons float due to air pressure, huh?!?)


  • I got that part and most of it from another person, though I added a bit here and there.
    So this part has been a bit confusing for me as well, but I think that once you have done your
    ‘perceived discovery of external error’ by dropping metal balls from where the author’s claim doesn’t match your observation,
    you will need to list all the things that you think are relevant to what led up to your discovery.

    Now I stole the above image from wikipedia, but it’s stuff like that that I assume you should have a gallery of,
    so that everyone and your grandmother knows what we’re talking about and don’t mistake it for anything else.

    So one’s list (the hypothesis) should at least consist of

    1. The leaning tower of Pisa (A nice little picture, where it’s located)
    2. A big metal ball (what it’s made of, where did you get it)
    3. A small metal ball
    4. Planet Earth
    5. The air (and why you think that’s relevant)
    6. The dropping mechanism (I’m assuming one’s hands)
    7. The exact section (book, page, paragraph) where it says that they should be falling at different speeds
    8. The above image showcasing what and a video of you dropping the balls

    And that’s for the observation that lead to the perceived discovery of external error.
    Then you will need to add to the list of what your experiments need.
    You know, a stopwatch, more objects, 3D models of those objects,
    a better dropping mechanism and a 3D model of that so that people can recreate your experiment,
    an air chamber, where you can increase and decrease the pressure.
    Stuff like that.





    1. The ‘assumption as hypothesis’ should be replaced with a ‘picture gallery of relevant objects and dynamic object group concepts (tornado’s, fire), with a description and argumentation why you think these objects or concepts are relevant’ as hypothesis.

    2. Before hypothesis, an incubation phase should be added where you start with an event that led you to making a hypothesis for your new theory that either led to a (perceived) discovery of ‘a lack of information’, ‘an external error’ (the theory doesn’t match your observation) or ‘an internal error’ (the theory says A on page 28, but !A on page 76 in the author’s previous book without acknowledging the inconsistency).

    3. This also means that during the new method, the entire paper should be inspected for internal errors by going through a complete list of fallacies and checking each sentence for any internal inconsistencies, unaddressed external inconsistencies and any absences of information.

    4. And this means that a glossary should be added that’s similar to the hypothesis, except the terms are without argumentation for why it should be included the new theory.

    These might look like small nitpicks, but this ‘fallacy checking’ and ‘explain by picture’ method can turn into a philosophy of it’s own that’s more fundamental than ‘the laws of physics’.


  • The difference is how leaders are voted in and by extension, how they rule.
    People’s democracies and liberal democracies basically have two main different ways of doing that.

    For a liberal democracy you have:

    1. The two-party-system, where there’s a first-past-the-post voting system so in practice only two party can be realistically be voted in.
    2. The multi-party-system, where the winning party in practice always needs a coalition of parties in order to function.

    The problem for these “democracies” is systemic campaign fraud that puts oligarchs in power and, in practice, for all-countries-but-one this means foreign oligarchs only and this in turn turns into a one-nation-rules-all empire, where all other national leaders are simply vassals to the oligarchs of the dominant nation.
    The most blatant example of this are the concept of interim presidents, but only for non-compliant nations to the liberal democratic dominant nation of course.
    I mean, do you really think you would accept an interim president of a national from your country that fled to the country choosing the interim president, let’s say a US socialist that fled to Venezuela or Edward Snowden coming back from Russia?

    For a people’s democracy you have:

    1. The vanguard democracy, where a socialist committee chooses a candidate and have just one person on the ballot, people can then vote for or against this person. If voted against, the committee chooses its next candidate.
    2. capillary democracy, where you vote locally and those local leaders vote upwards until the national leader is chosen, with a socialist committee that filters out candidates through having them take civil service exams.

    While it should be obvious that a capillary democracy is superior in getting people their voices met,
    even a vanguard democracy solves the giant issue of systemic campaign fraud benefiting the oligarchs.


  • No, it’s because liberal democracy is illogical in the sense that the narrative of getting the person the people want doesn’t hold up in reality.
    It ends up who can spend the most on political campaigns, which in turn ends up having the leader being bribed to do the bidding of the richest oligarchs rather than the will of the people.
    And what’s worse is that these oligarchs don’t have to be oligarchs of your country.




  • US still has an abundance of coal. Together with the weak monarchic but oil rich Saudi Arabia, the oil rich, but coal poor Soviet Union collapsed. Now there are two alternatives, China’s weaker, but socialist coal industry and the much much much stronger solar photovoltaic industry completely dominated by China again.
    It’s both of these developments that are causing the situation to be normal instead of the weird events of 1989-1992 and 2008.


    1. People’s democracy > Liberal democracy
    2. The (current) scientific method is as flawed as liberal democracy.
      And they’re actually very similar in that both started out as ‘free-for-all’ little narratives that fall apart when you start asking the important questions and both “work” through attempts to patch up it’s major inconsistencies which leaves even more inconsistencies and then patch up those inconsistencies which leaves even more inconsistencies and then continue the process until it becomes a complicated mess.
    3. People who flip out calling for the death for anyone who does X, can and will at any time do X if X becomes popular enough. Even on a dime and unapologetic.


  • That’s been argued before, saying that the French revolution was just a fluke and we’ll go right back to monarchy rule, replacing the Capetian dynasty for the Bonaparte dynasty.

    The fossil fuel revolution has replaced fuedalism with capitalism and so will the ground solar revolution replace capitalism with socialism.






  • folaht@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlDon't tell them what it says 😏
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    Sorry, but I’m not a fan of jokes at the expense of the colorblind and self-doubters,
    where you have people keep guessing and second guessing what’s in the pile of dots.

    Especially when this is on Lemmy.

    If you are colorblind and even if you’re not.
    You’re being lied to here.
    There’s nothing in this meme.

    Topic Starter should come out and confirm.