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    Enviroment Trump wants to increase logging in national parks

    I just want to mention one of my favorite books: The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
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    Feature requests

    It's the perennial problem. How do you foster an environment where consensus can be challenged, but without platforming bad actors?
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    Enviroment Climate change emergency skepticism

    That article is 30 years old. Its primary citation is from World Climate Review, a defunct publication by Patrick J. Michaels, a climate change denialist who was funded in part by the fossil fuel industry. He was also a liar, and claimed to be Virginia's state climatologist until the governor...
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    Enviroment Climate change emergency skepticism

    First, you share a video of a "top Australian government business adviser" claiming that climate change is a UN hoax. He - a business advisor - makes a claim that nearly all earth scientists disagree with and cites nothing, and you think "Yeah, this is my guy. This will show them?" I will just...
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    Taking back power from tech oligarchs

    I'm not really following, either. I totally hear you when you say boycotts don't tend to work, at least to the extent that they don't tend to catch on, but I don't see the difference between "popular pressure" and "individual solutions" that are adopted by a large number of people.
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    Feature requests

    Yeah, I take your point. I could even see "strikes" from a formal system serving as a badge of honor. "Look how hard they've tried to silence me..."
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    Feature requests

    I don't know how something like this could be responsibly implemented, but I've always wished that it were possible to mark falsehoods and invalid arguments somehow. This would be a big feature and probably out of scope re: what you're asking for. In this example, I'll refer to "strikes", by...
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    Taking back power from tech oligarchs

    You are both right at the same time! Rapid effects aren't the only effects. There is no opportunity cost to doing both. Sustained principled consumption - voting with your wallet - does stand to affect the burgeoning oligarchy, and it does not require that you draw your eye from more...
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    Other How do you identify politically?

    At its best, the function of the "group" label is a shortcut to a set of values. e.g. I don't have time to understand all the things you value, so I need a label so I can understand the sorts of things you value. It's a heuristic. In addition to our human tendency toward tribes, I also think...
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    Other How do you identify politically?

    Not to be a pest, but I feel like identification is part of the reason we're in this mess. This is not another "I don't believe in labels" post by a self-professed "apolitical" person. I definitely have convictions, and many of my convictions intersect with the field of politics and statecraft...
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    Hello from Maine

    Hi all. Looking forward to good, rational, congenial discussions. ...on the internet.... ...am I a glutton for punishment? No, I am hopeful that we can maintain a critical mass of good faith actors here. I will do my part.
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