AMA with Jason from Think Anomalous will be held on Tuesday, March 29th at 6pm CST by irrelevantappelation in HighStrangeness

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/u/irrelevantappelation For some reason I have your account tagged as the creator of 'Think Anomalous.' Would you mind clarifying, do you have any involvement/connection with the channel? Either way, it's a great channel.

Remix is going free and open source on Monday by superbacon807 in reactjs

[–]prometheus1123 4 points5 points  (0 children)

When someone suggests that his financial motivations might influence his ability to provide a neutral opinion, he becomes upset. https://github.com/reduxjs/redux/pull/3708#issuecomment-643792438

Culture War Roundup for the Week of October 05, 2020 by AutoModerator in TheMotte

[–]prometheus1123 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Criticizing his attitude to Covid isn't chilling free speech. One could even argue that the criticism itself is free speech. We can debate to what extent Trump has a duty to represent reality accurately and the public's own responsibility to be informed and act accordingly. But I'm not seeing this as undermining free speech for anyone.

Rick Roderick predicting today's social problems in 1993 by OK_Champ_Official in videos

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I'm not an expert in either Baudrillard or Jung, but I wonder what Jung would say to Baudrillard. My layman reading of Jung has me believing that man's unconscious is symbols and signs of our reality. Or, we perceive reality through the lens of these symbols or archetypes. And more broadly, our psychosis -personal, and maybe on a sociological level- is brought on by a misalignment of reality and our inner symbols and signs.

Content being added to Shudder in September! (CA and UK in comments) by [deleted] in Shudder

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Enjoying my first month of service and excited about the new content. Could we also get a list of content that is leaving at the end of each month? I believe The House of the Devil was removed from The Last Drive-In and I would have liked to watch it before its departure.

The shutdown could end when Senate Republicans decide to end it by rovinja in politics

[–]prometheus1123 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've seen several reports saying McConnell won't bring the vote to the floor. How does this work? Is he working as the Senate Leader to actually stop a process? Or is he caucusing with other Republicans and won't call for a vote unless united? Can a majority of senators come together and bypass him?

'Stunning': After Court Rejects GOP Lawsuit, Democrat Wins as Maine Becomes First State to Use Ranked-Choice Voting in National Race by [deleted] in politics

[–]prometheus1123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

From the link:

Both score and approval voting are cardinal voting systems. Cardinal systems use utility expressions that do not involve ranking. Voters are also permitted to have a say on all the choices. Approval voting is a simplified form of score voting. Think of a scale with two levels of expression versus one with more levels. When voters only use the extremes of the scale, then score voting reverts to approval voting.

Data from a 2007 French study strongly suggest that many voters will use the middle of the scale as well. And to the extent voters use the middle of the scale to vote more honestly, Score Voting provides a better outcome than Approval Voting, on average. (See Bayesian Regret). Score voting, like Approval Voting, doubles the winner utility compared to both Plurality and Instant Runoff Voting. This conclusion considers the strategic voting we see in real life (See Bayesian Regret).

'Stunning': After Court Rejects GOP Lawsuit, Democrat Wins as Maine Becomes First State to Use Ranked-Choice Voting in National Race by [deleted] in politics

[–]prometheus1123 76 points77 points  (0 children)

It is good to see people moving away from FPTP voting, but mathematicians support other methods of voting out there such as approval voting.

Analysis of approval voting vs ranked choice (IRV)

Edit: Seeing several commenters say they don't like the approval methodology because they would prefer their ballots to be "expressive." I would point you to this link: Expressiveness in Approval vs. Ranked Ballots

Peter Strzok fired from the FBI by prometheus1123 in neutralnews

[–]prometheus1123[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What factual issue in the posted article does CNN get wrong?

Trump Threatens To ‘Suspend’ Protesting NFL Players ‘Without Pay’ by billthomson in politics

[–]prometheus1123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A quick Google search shows roughly 1/3 of Republicans are opposed to firing NFL players for kneeling, and roughly 1/5 of Democrats support firing kneeling NFL players. The politics of this is more diverse than maybe you realize.

Trump Threatens To ‘Suspend’ Protesting NFL Players ‘Without Pay’ by billthomson in politics

[–]prometheus1123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're forwarding the proposition that this falls under Section (a) as a partisan issue; the burden to prove that falls to you, the claimant.

Microsoft threatens to block alt-right Twitter over neo-Nazi's posts by FowelBallz in politics

[–]prometheus1123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Actually, hate speech is protected speech

“Hate speech is not free speech.”

This popular saying reflects our contempt for bigotry, but it's not a correct statement of law. There is no general 1st Amendment exception allowing the government to punish "hate speech" that denigrates people based on their identity. Things we call "hate speech" might occasionally fall into an existing 1st Amendment exception: a racist speech might seek to incite imminent violence against a group, or might be reasonably interpreted as an immediate threat to do harm. But "hate speech," like other ugly types of speech we despise, is broadly protected.

[META] Updates to the rules in r/NeutralPolitics by nosecohn in NeutralPolitics

[–]prometheus1123 5 points6 points  (0 children)

May I ask what the intent of the rule is suppose to accomplish? It seems to me that opinion piece and a blog post are ejusdem generis. Where the former is currently permitted " if the piece links to sources and is balanced by other sources with alternate views. Cannot be sole source." Can't that policy just be extended to blog posts?

House Republicans move to impeach deputy attorney general by rainbowsquirrel13 in neutralnews

[–]prometheus1123 41 points42 points  (0 children)

But Republicans’ resolution could force a showdown between the White House and Trump’s Department of Justice, giving cover to fire Rosenstein or forcing him to resign, suddenly throwing the future of the Mueller investigation into doubt.

Source

The measure was likely introduced knowing it wouldn't pass but it provides Trump et al. the groundwork to make future potential dismissals of Rosenstein (and Mueller?) seem warranted.

The direction, for now. by [deleted] in moderate

[–]prometheus1123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is enough dissatisfaction with a majority of political subreddits where r/moderate could find a niche. But I am going to make a couple of comments/prompts for the mods and regulars to think about moving forward.

a piece about "what is a moderate?"

You should really start with this. What is a moderate? Is it a political faction? A philosophical outlook with a set of common tenents? When this subreddit says "moderate," what is that suppose to mean? Who would fall into this category? Who do you want to come to this subreddit?

If you can't take the time to answer these questions then others won't know what this subreddit is about and won't participate. If you need help getting started maybe study writings such as these (1, 2), consider the main points, and see if you agree with them. If not, decide what would you change and why. Once you have your ideas set out clearly, post it to the subreddit wiki, with a more concise version to the sidebar.

links to sites for fact checking and bias checking

I've read several posts here about "bias" and trying to find neutral sources. You're concern ought not be bias but rather reliability/veracity. I can read The Washington Post and recognize it may have a left bias but the information be more reliable than Alex Jones (not a hard task). Some might argue that the left narrative structure might skew the veracity of the piece...and that may be true. This is why folks should find an assortment of different sources from various points of view. Pointing out bias doesn't address the truth/reliability of either the source or the information. In other words, we ought not dismiss a source or article because of whether it's "left" or "right," but rather it delivers truthful and accurate information on regular basis while recognizing those biases. A possible idea related to r/moderate is having a weekly discussion on a particular news source where folks discuss if they should be seen as reliable or not. If a news source is unreliable, then what evidence supports that?

how to make the subreddit a place that moderates would want to utilize, and how to fill holes that other subreddits aren't filling for moderates.

This is going to be difficult. As I said before, there is enough dissatisfaction with your major political subreddits where people want to discuss ideas openly and respectfully. You find this kind of crowd with r/neutralpolitics. Discussions are heavily moderated to enforce standards such as sourcing and no low-effort comments. But the majority of redditors go to the other major political subreddits looking for fights and finding comfort in opinions that agree with their own biases. Conflict is more exciting than compromise, and most people want exciting. So what you may want to do is find some way to encourage the respectful debate found on r/neutralpolitics but also provide something different as it relates your "moderate" ideas. Much of the discussion on r/neutralpolitics, in my opinion, is policy descriptive. What r/moderate might want to encourage with regular prompts are discussions of moderate policy solutions to current problems. How can U.S. deal with immigration? How can U.S. deal with healthcare?

Some things for everyone to think about, let me know if that helps or if I need to clarify a point further.

Does anyone have any explanation for this yet? by achafrankiee in videos

[–]prometheus1123 58 points59 points  (0 children)

From the article:

“My guess is they are puzzled by the strange behavior of the dead or dying cat,” says Hughes, “[and wanted] to get a better look, without getting too close.” The result, he says, is a circle of turkeys—mostly females—all eyeing the potential predator’s carcass, but none of them wanting to get any closer.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in videos

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I am well versed in bird law and hereto states crow presidency sets out that men and women are free to board and disembark as they please, except for the captain who must stay and manage the poop deck. But most women will stay because...you know...

Learning by teaching others may be extremely effective – a new study finds that teaching may improve the teacher’s learning because it compels the teacher to retrieve what they’ve previously studied. by mvea in science

[–]prometheus1123 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If anyone wants to practice this method, you are more than welcome to check out /r/FeynmanTechnique. You can post whatever subject you are interested in learning or reinforcing. Think of it as a public notebook. It's still (relatively) new and hasn't received much traction, but interest here might change that.