"Anyone can upload anything and anyone can delete anything" is moderation strategy that seems interesting and might have some niche uses. Particularly for minimizing the need for admin input, since "you are hosting illegal content" seems less convincing if the police (just like anyone else) can delete the illegal content.
I like this idea. Let’s carry it to its logical conclusion: a social media website that has only one post, which anyone can edit.
We’ll call it Greenr.
"I don't care about the Writers' Strike because a few of the shows I watched had shitty episodes"
Under that same logic, no Starbucks employee should get paid or treated like a human being because their quality has tanked in the past few years.
Under that same logic, no nurse should get paid or treated like a human being because of the few who were being obnoxious on TikTok during the Pandemic.
Under that same logic, no one working for an ISP (be it Customer Service or maintenance) should get paid or treated like a human being because of shitty response times.
If you can't understand why that logic is faulty as hell, then could you just admit that you don't see writers as human beings and move along?
The irony of these statements in that these people don't realize the connection between overworked underpayed writers being unable to put out good work and/or wealthy nepo babies being hired over actual skilled writers who can't afford the shitty pay and the quality of the shows themselves.
the counterpoint is: under this logic, is there any set of circumstances that could possibly lead you to any other conclusion than “the managers are evil and are exploiting the workers who are helpless and powerless”?
in your assessment, is it ever, ever, ever possible for anyone but the corporate managers to be responsible for anything bad that has happened?
> in your assessment, is it ever, ever, ever possible for anyone but the corporate managers to be responsible for anything bad that has happened?
... this may be my particular background talking but “no actually.”
Even if, returning to the starbucks example, even if you get one of those asshole baristas who replace your request for soy milk with real milk because, fuck, I still don’t understand why those assholes do that, that is a management problem. Specifically, it is a problem that they hired this dumb asshole, and a further problem that they haven’t fired this dumb asshole.
It is also, separately, a personnel problem, but that problem is internal to the starbucks - for me, as an outsider, this is a poorly run starbucks.
There is no amount of managerial diligence on the part of Starbucks that will reduce the asshole barista rate to zero. They can always reduce the rate of asshole baristas by spending more money on the problem, but they can never completely eliminate it. That being the case, there comes a point where further reduction costs more than it benefits. And since costs borne by the company directly influence the costs paid by you the customer, there comes a point where the benefit to you of a lower asshole barista rate is not worth the additional cost to you for a cup of coffee.
(And probably in practice Starbucks is nowhere near that amount of diligence, but the standard here is “is it ever, ever, ever possible,” so assume for this discussion that we are at that point.)
Now, in this situation, if you get an asshole barista, you can say “it’s the fault of management for not doing something that I would have preferred they not do,” but I don’t know what good that will do you.
I was going to just leave this in the tags but no, I've seen too many people misunderstand this and it's very simple and easy to explain so I don't know why anyone who shares this fun fact doesn't use this analogy.
so if you took a few leaves and threw them into a blender and pulverize them to as fine a paste that you could they would still be green. this is because chlorophyll has a green PIGMENT in it. now I can't speak to the base color of blue jay feathers so we're just going to talk about blue macaws for this example. If you went and put a Blue macaw feather in a blender and pulverized it to the finest powder that you could you would get black powder. this is because blue macaw feathers have black pigment in them, but they reflect blue light because of a microscopic bubble texture on the surface.
to explain it further, have you ever seen one of those little rainbow hologram things? like how they'll put a holographic Crystal or sparkle pattern on like a Pokemon card?
yeah that motherfucker, if you tried to scrape the top layer of this card off to get the hologram "pigment", you wouldn't get bubkis. in fact if you scrape the top of this card very lightly, the yellow part would still stay yellow because it's yellow because it is PIGMENTED, but the hologram where you scratch it will stop being holographic. now it will still have the pigment underneath it because that is pigmented but the rainbow effect comes from a TEXTURE on the top.
you could even put these kind of holograms on chocolate, are you following? it's a texture!
it's the same reason that bubbles are rainbow colored despite being too thin to see pigment in them.
IT'S A TEXTUREEEEEEE!!!
blue pigment will always be blue, you can crush up a Rose and use the Rose goop to color something else the color of that Rose! leaves, bones, clay, rocks!! that's pigment! disturbing its structure will not change the color because its a PIGMENT!!!
but a blue macaw? a pigeon's neck? a raven's feathers? and a blue jay apparently? that's a texture.
"yeah that's how color works" NO!! bubbles are clear!!! they just happen to have a broad spectrum iridescent TEXTURE, and some bird feathers have a short spectrum of iridescence.
bird texture
i like what you're going for but color isn't always inherently pigment only. just cause something isn't the pigment blue doesn't mean it isnt the color blue? all pigments are colors but not all colors are pigments?
i mean thank you for the science though.
I mean, I think you're missing the point in that this is just describing a difference between a couple of ways that colors can exist beyond our perception. it's clarifying why that fun fact is relevant, what its really trying to say, and why the response of like, "that's how all color works, that fun fact is wrong and patronizing" is both inaccurate, and flattening a real truth unnecessarily.
when something "is blue" vs. "looks blue", that's a useful distinction to understand; I know that my computer screen is not Actually Blue, but rather is shining blue light at me to look blue. when it turns off, the screen is black. which is also different from the black of a dark Tumblr theme.
maybe I specifically am not doing anything with that understanding, but isn't there inherent value in understanding the world around us a little more?
I got the impression that the original tweet's intent was not "this fun fact is stupid and boring", it was "don't slander blue jays, they aren't fake blue, they're real blue"
it's not a matter of insulting them, it's just an interesting detail!
huh, the "it's not a color it's a texture" is a kind of color eliminitivism i havent heard before. i don't see why that stops at iridescence. Can move on to pigments: it's not a color, it's a molecular structure. It's just atoms. Apparently there are colored objects, actually just atoms and empty space.
Birds aren’t real. It’s just a texture that we perceive as bird.
People will add just about any favor to their coffee, and just about any flavor to their tea, but they never add tea to their coffee or coffee to their tea. Seems suspicious.
mild horniness is i think the single engine powering any good thing in the world. think of all the classes you’ve shown up to due to mild horniness. the times you’ve put on a nice shirt. the times you actually bothered to understand some arcane concept. are you sure that mild horniness had nothing to do with it? if we could harness this into energy we would actually solve for the oil & gas crisis.
now think of all the things you’ve ruined with extreme horniness, truly a dichotomy…
Patient: Doctor, I’m depressed. Life seems harsh and cruel. I feel all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain.
Doctor: Treatment is simple. Mild horniness.
Patient: So…nothing to do with clowns, then?
Doctor: *shrugs* Only if you’re horny for clowns. I don’t judge.
so what y'all are saying is we all need to be mildly slutier and all the problems would just go away?
Never underestimate the power of a small group of mildly horny people to change the world. In fact, it is the only thing that ever has.
I take the point that a lot of Hollywood is garbage, and also that thinking this doesn't mean that you are against people currently employed as writers and actors in Hollywood don't desreve fair compensation for their labour, whatever it is they do or will do in the future. But you gotta be careful here because there's a contradiction embedded that I think people skip past.
Any time there's a strike that makes the news, people ostensibly on the left come up with reasons why the work shouldn't be done, or isn't important, or why the company that employs them shouldn't exist. And that's just going entirely against the logic of the strike. The reason workers strike is to be fairly compensated for the value that they create. If your opinion is that the thing they were doing before striking is not valuable, then striking is an ineffective tool. "We're not gonna do this, see how well it works out for you" "Yeah okay, no one should bother doing this" is not supporting the workers.
Workers in an industry overwhelmingly don't actually want the destruction of their industry, and it feels crazy to me to have to point that out.
And we can look forward to more of this if the Teamsters strike UPS, which seems likely.
mild horniness is i think the single engine powering any good thing in the world. think of all the classes you’ve shown up to due to mild horniness. the times you’ve put on a nice shirt. the times you actually bothered to understand some arcane concept. are you sure that mild horniness had nothing to do with it? if we could harness this into energy we would actually solve for the oil & gas crisis.
now think of all the things you’ve ruined with extreme horniness, truly a dichotomy…
Patient: Doctor, I’m depressed. Life seems harsh and cruel. I feel all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain.
Doctor: Treatment is simple. Mild horniness.
Patient: So…nothing to do with clowns, then?
Doctor: *shrugs* Only if you’re horny for clowns. I don’t judge.
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For those who don’t get it: “Catholic” is not just a funny word they attached to their religion, it means something.
Specifically it means “Universal” from the old greek “Katholikos.” The joke is it’s a dude who is anti-globalist and a member of a Church that is supposed to universally include everybody across the entire globe.
