Notices by clacke@libranet.de ❌ (notclacke@pleroma.soykaf.com), page 5

The fact is, people who base their self-worth on being right about everything prevent themselves from learning from their mistakes. They lack the ability to take on new perspectives and empathize with others. They close themselves off to new and important information.

From The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck

@wxcafe what you’re describing is basically Lenin’s contribution/invention: The Party. Anne Applebaum from a historian’s perspective wrote a couple of books showing how it’s an inherently authoritarian construct on the theory level (as opposed to turning into dictatorships in practice).

Mathematicians would probably say that elections are a required but not a sufficient (in themselves) component of a healthy democracy 😉

@drequivalent I agree with a great deal of what you're saying (and the "looking for a pen I have in my hand" thing is VERY FAMILIAR). It's all a very fuzzy area and there's a lot of room for new ideas.

I do also agree that all of human civilization would be better off if we had a custom of a) learning more about our own traits b) being more open about them with others and c) accommodating each other when reasonable to do so. We're dropping so much potential on the floor the way things are now.

@drequivalent

Put another way, "if you can learn emacs you're not learning disabled" could be viewed as yet another de novo invention of the "if you can pay attention to $interest_domain, then clearly you're just not trying hard enough to pay attention to $boring_domain," an argument which people with ADHD have been dealing with from uncomprehending neurotypicals for their entire lives.

#OMEMO is a big fish 🐠 in the upcoming #Debian 10 release (#buster) bowl. It hopefully will feature five #XMPP clients with this modern #e2e #encryption: #Gajim, #Dino, #Psi+ (all graphical), #jp (command line), and #primitivus (console), the latter two part of #SalutAToi or #SaT

“But it’s been burned down?”

“Yes.”

“Twice.”

“Many times.”

“And rebuilt.”

“Of course. It is an important and historic building.”

“With completely new materials.”

“But of course. It was burned down.”

“So how can it be the same building?”

“It is always the same building.”

From https://www.futilitycloset.com/2012/12/01/edifice-complex/:

On visiting the Gold Pavilion Temple in Kyoto, Douglas Adams was impressed at how well the 14th-century structure had weathered the passage of time. His Japanese guide told him that it hadn’t weathered well at all; in fact it had burned to the ground twice in the 20th century.

“So this isn’t the original building?” Adams asked.

“But yes, of course it is.”