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jvb1000 commented on Ottawa to create regulator to hold platforms accountable for harmful content cbc.ca/news/politics/onli... · Posted by u/segasaturn

canadiantim · 2 years ago

The data backs up what I was saying. Very few bills are rejected by the senate. Most of what you are seeing are bills that died in place because parliament was either prorogued by the liberal government or an election was called resulting in the dissolution of parliament, not because the Senate actually rejected those bills.

jvb1000 · 2 years ago

The role of the senate in Canada is not to pass or reject bills. Their role is to make sure the bills are written coherently and accord with previous legislation. Think of them more like copy editors.

jvb1000 commented on British police launch first investigation into virtual rape in metaverse euronews.com/culture/2024... · Posted by u/cannibalXxx

jvb1000 · 2 years ago

A terrible story but not new. Reminds me of a fascinating article from decades ago, "A Rape in Cyberspace."

jvb1000 commented on North Korean science fiction arstechnica.com/culture/2... · Posted by u/isaacfrond

jvb1000 · 2 years ago

Even if it's not true of all science fiction (especially the pulp traditions of American sci-fi), it is arguable that the origins of science fiction are thought experiments that exist to help think through and critique the present. A lot of influential writers have said exactly this, including Le Guin, Gibson, Vandermeer, Doctorow, and Palmer to name a few of the top of my head.

jvb1000 · 2 years ago

Alongside this, there are also several international traditions of sci-fi (Russian, French, Indian, Chinese) that imagined modernization in supposedly under developed countries to contrast a possible future against the very real modernization of developed neighbours.

jvb1000 commented on North Korean science fiction arstechnica.com/culture/2... · Posted by u/isaacfrond

rexpop · 2 years ago

> SF is pretty much always about the current day.

I can't comprehend this. Scifi is famously occupied with the future, and not the current day. Space travel, advanced technologies, artificial intelligences, and generally things that don't yet exist are par for the course. Most of SF is literally not about the present.

Do you mean to say that SF's subtext reflects the zeitgeist at the time/place of its writing?

jvb1000 · 2 years ago

Even if it's not true of all science fiction (especially the pulp traditions of American sci-fi), it is arguable that the origins of science fiction are thought experiments that exist to help think through and critique the present. A lot of influential writers have said exactly this, including Le Guin, Gibson, Vandermeer, Doctorow, and Palmer to name a few of the top of my head.

jvb1000 commented on North Korean science fiction arstechnica.com/culture/2... · Posted by u/isaacfrond

thriftwy · 2 years ago

I saw a We play a year back, and it was highly contemporary with its office-style glass walls, mixed-use spaces and complex rituals around dating.

jvb1000 · 2 years ago

For those not aware, despite it seeming highly contemporary, the first English translation of the book was published in 1924.

jvb1000 commented on North Korean science fiction arstechnica.com/culture/2... · Posted by u/isaacfrond

thriftwy · 2 years ago

I saw a We play a year back, and it was highly contemporary with its office-style glass walls, mixed-use spaces and complex rituals around dating.

jvb1000 · 2 years ago

That's probably a testament to the criticism. Interesting that what Yevgeny Zamyatin presents as a clear, almost too on the nose dystopian satire has been repackaged as a desirable work environment.

jvb1000 commented on North Korean science fiction arstechnica.com/culture/2... · Posted by u/isaacfrond

calimoro78 · 2 years ago

Can you share some examples of Soviet SF? Should be quite exciting.

jvb1000 · 2 years ago

Kurt Vonnegut was accused once of ripping off George Orwell's 1984 with Player Piano. He responded by saying that he and Orwell had both just ripped off Yevgeny Zamyatin's We. Yevgeny Zamyatin was a Soviet author who ran afoul of Stalin and wrote We inspired by his perspective of the revolution.

jvb1000 commented on The Rot Economy wheresyoured.at/p/the-rot... · Posted by u/hodgesrm

andsoitis · 2 years ago

> more

Doesn't the "fault" lie within human nature? The desire for more? If that is true, then why expect an economic system to have a different goal?

jvb1000 · 2 years ago

What arguments/evidence do you have to support claim that humans by nature always desire "more"?

jvb1000 commented on Why human societies developed so little during 300k years woodfromeden.substack.com... · Posted by u/elsewhen

peoplefromibiza · 2 years ago

as the article points out

The Yanomamö simply killed each other efficiently enough to keep populations down. In practice they ran into violent neighbors long before they ran out of land to farm och game to hunt. For security reasons they had to leave large swathes of land as buffers between villages.

That's the result of the lack of politics, what you are referring to is policies that kept the different groups separated based on their choices or caused splits among them.

Hammurabi was a great politician because he reunited the Mesopotamian tribes in a single state city, convincing them to work for a common goal, making them all prosper together.

jvb1000 · 2 years ago

The Yanomamo were one of probably thousands of different groups that lives in the prehistoric era. One problem in the study of prehistoric human life is that only a few groups kept their way of life consistent from prehistoric times to modern. So these groups have strongly influenced our perceptions of what life was like in the prehistoric era. But this is inaccurate sampling if we want to draw conclusions about prehistoric life. More nuanced looks at the evidence, such as the dawn of everything, find more diversity, including politics among different groups in the prehistoric age.

jvb1000 commented on Why human societies developed so little during 300k years woodfromeden.substack.com... · Posted by u/elsewhen

revelio · 2 years ago

>> observations from one tribe

The article claims otherwise:

As time went by, evidence for Chagnon's claims became too overwhelming to ignore for most anthropologists. Numerous other anthropologists came to the same conclusions as Chagnon, both before and after his work. From Australia to Papua New Guinea to South America, the same phenomenon has been observed: Men kill each other at high rates in conflicts that center around the distribution of women.

jvb1000 · 2 years ago

As others have pointed out, the issue with observations about prehistoric life have been generalized from a small sample size.