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Mediterraneo10 commented on Disproportionate amount of bad online behaviour stems from psychological issues   unherd.com/2021/06/are-tw... · Posted by u/SkyMarshal
tus89 · 4 years ago
> the whole point of UnHerd is that it is includes people from a range of ideological outlooks.

You keep saying that. Let's like at some random headlines from their "contributors" page:

> Ideology should not trump children’s health (anti-trans)

> France’s mega-mosque problem

> The emptiness of ‘British values’

> The death of American patriotism

> The problem with male feminists

> Universities have destroyed feminism

> Can Labour be saved from the hard Left?

> Labour isn’t working

> Why liberals are scared of football

> Is Labour dead?

> America attracts the wrong immigrants

Mediterraneo10 · 4 years ago
Again, the whole point of UnHerd is that it includes people from a range of ideological outlooks, who ordinarily would be opposed to one another, because they share some concerns and can forge a common cause in publishing.

None of the headlines that you cite are specific to “extremist Christian-right propaganda”, indeed these are themes are commonly discussed by those who identify as leftist and unreligious, but feel that certain things that are presently insisted on in leftism as de rigeur, are not part of the leftist tradition they recognize from a few decades back. For example, with regard to being “anti-trans”, there are a lot of soixante-huitards who find the current focus on trans activism on the left excessive and even problematic, because it was utterly foreign to their struggle against rightist forces.

You have still not brought forth any proof of your claim above that UnHerd was founded and funded expressly for “extremist Christian-right propaganda” purposes. The gentlemanly thing to do would be to back up that claim, or retract it.

Mediterraneo10 commented on Disproportionate amount of bad online behaviour stems from psychological issues   unherd.com/2021/06/are-tw... · Posted by u/SkyMarshal
tus89 · 4 years ago
So I search google for "undherd Richard Dawkins", first link:

https://unherd.com/2021/04/why-the-atheists-turned-on-richar...

"Why the atheists turned on Dawkins - They care more about social justice than whether or not God exists"

Written by: Ben Sixsmith is an English writer living in Poland. He has written for Quillette, Areo, The Catholic Herald....

Mediterraneo10 · 4 years ago
Yet at the same time, there is this [0] posted by a higher-ranking staff member. That you have found an article written by a contributor who has also written for a Catholic publication does not served as proof of your claim in the GP that UnHerd was founded to push “extremist Christian propaganda” – the whole point of UnHerd is that it draws on writers from a range of ideological outlooks.

And FWIW, the idea mentioned in these links that early-millennium New Atheism eventually evolved into the current wave of social-justice activism, is something that has been often set forth by people here on HN and is not exclusive to any particular religious or anti-religious viewpoint.

[0] https://unherd.com/thepost/richard-dawkins-scientism-is-a-di...

Mediterraneo10 commented on Disproportionate amount of bad online behaviour stems from psychological issues   unherd.com/2021/06/are-tw... · Posted by u/SkyMarshal
tus89 · 4 years ago
It was created to promulgate extremist Christian-right propaganda - the kind that is "un-heard" in the mainstream media in the UK apparently.

There are a lot of such organizations that don't openly declare their ideological background, and funding sources.

Mediterraneo10 · 4 years ago
Can you cite that UnHerd was founded by and funded by “extremist Christian-right propaganda” forces? Considering that its executive editor has frequently featured commentators who are downright anti-religion (e.g. Richard Dawkins), and various commentators who subscribe to old-school 20th-century leftism including its antipathy to religion, that is a claim hard to believe.
Mediterraneo10 commented on The Banning of Joyce's Ulysses   crimereads.com/banned-boo... · Posted by u/okfine
leephillips · 4 years ago
The difficulty in reading this book is usually greatly exaggerated. It takes a while to come to grips with, but it is not in the least impenetrable. It’s one of my favorite novels. It’s certainly no Finnegan’s Wake, which I pick up and read a page of every few years, only to put it down, saying, “not this time”.
Mediterraneo10 · 4 years ago
Indeed, Ulysses is accessible to anyone with a well-rounded humanities education, even some particularly bookish high-school students. Sure, you might not get every single reference, but the story is plain.

Arguably the most challenging element for readers is not Joyce’s heavy erudition in drawing on the classical canon. Rather, it is some of the Irish politics in the early 20th century that will baffle most readers outside Ireland (and probably most readers inside Ireland, the colonial era being so far away now).

Mediterraneo10 commented on Signal not in compliance with new rules, say officials   hindustantimes.com/india-... · Posted by u/inian
andix · 4 years ago
I'm really interested how this will continue. At least on Android phones you can still sideload Signal via an alternative app store.
Mediterraneo10 · 4 years ago
There has been speculation that in a future Android version, Google will extend features of its Advanced Protection program to all devices. One of those is that sideloading of APKs will no longer be possible unless you do it over the command line via ADB. Only a tiny percentage of the population, techies like us, would be comfortable doing that. So, "you can still sideload" might not be a thing for long.
Mediterraneo10 commented on Police have been quitting in droves in the last year   nytimes.com/2021/06/24/us... · Posted by u/lxm
recursivedoubts · 4 years ago
That appears to be a general argument for self-determination or segregation, according to tastes.
Mediterraneo10 · 4 years ago
The concept of policing by consent arose in a city which, at that time in the 19th century, was not riven by racial conflict. To claim that it is an argument for segregation is ahistorical. Self-determination maybe, but the concept was originally put forward in order to improve outcomes, not for the political liberation of the local people per se.
Mediterraneo10 commented on Police have been quitting in droves in the last year   nytimes.com/2021/06/24/us... · Posted by u/lxm
recursivedoubts · 4 years ago
Democracy is said to be the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

However, I note that, from a democratic perspective, it appears that the broader public does not actually want a reduced police force, and this appears to be true across racial lines[1].

So, let us perhaps say, instead: democracy is the theory that the extremely-online elites and activists know what they want, and that the common people deserve to get it good and hard.

1 - https://news.gallup.com/poll/316571/black-americans-police-r...

Mediterraneo10 · 4 years ago
It is true that even among minorities support for the existence of an active police force remains high. However, the principles of policing by consent still hold: a community deserves to be policed by police it recognizes as members of that community, not outsiders, and which have the community's best interests at heart. There is still a lot of work to be done in the US regarding these things.
Mediterraneo10 commented on Police have been quitting in droves in the last year   nytimes.com/2021/06/24/us... · Posted by u/lxm
plank_time · 4 years ago
The paranoid mentality that any call could kill you is the exact reason why so many unarmed black people are shot. If you can’t carry out a day’s work without the unreasonable fear that you will be shot, and any action makes you “fear for your life” so that why you emptied your clip into a car, then you shouldn’t be a cop. Cops needs to have cooler heads and this should be measured and verified before allowing them to carry weapons.

I’ve heard that ex-military make the best cops because they are used to dangerous situations without panicking. I fully support this because they know that they aren’t GI Joe.

Mediterraneo10 · 4 years ago
Maybe ex-combat military, but the vast majority of military never see combat.
Mediterraneo10 commented on Librem 5 Evergreen vs. PinePhone (Part 2)   thatgeoguy.ca/blog/2021/0... · Posted by u/ThatGeoGuy
CameronNemo · 4 years ago
Good to hear. But I still use Venmo, Slack, Zoom, iNaturalist, and my bank app. Along with plenty of open source android apps that I will pretend can be automagically ported or reimplemented.
Mediterraneo10 · 4 years ago
Don't expect your bank app and other common non-FOSS apps to ever work on Anbox. The problem is that more and more Android apps are requiring the device to pass SafetyNet. Not only will Anbox not pass SafetyNet, but even de-Googled Android ROMs like LineageOS have generally lost this war.

Generally supporters of FOSS phones who have to run an Android bank app or their country’s official ID app which is SafetyNet and Play Services-dependent, are encouraged to simply get a cheap Android phone for those limited purposes. Not to expect the PinePhone or Librem to run such apps.

Mediterraneo10 commented on Librem 5 Evergreen vs. PinePhone (Part 2)   thatgeoguy.ca/blog/2021/0... · Posted by u/ThatGeoGuy
redthrow · 4 years ago
Unless what's discussed in the Anbox section of the article (how to run apps that people came to depend on, such as WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal) is properly addressed, most people wouldn't even consider one of those phones.

We should remember that the late Blackberry phones did have Android app compatibility and still failed. Librem and PinePhone are not even at the starting point yet, which is unfortunate.

Mediterraneo10 · 4 years ago
Signal on the Librem 5/PinePhone is already usable through one client (Axolotl), with possibly more clients on the way – the Signal devs still don’t publicly endorse third-party clients, but they have softened their stance and even quietly helped some other projects. So, a working Anbox isn’t seen as a must-have for Signal.

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