To make things more confusing, I program, I use linux, and I talk about all of these stuff, but I am not a programmer :p .
If you program you’re a programmer. No need to do it professionally to call yourself that.
Nerds!
Yay nerds!
Ftfy
I’m a programmer but I don’t go to social media to talk about programming.
Political science? Hmm, switch to all communities and sort for new. Have fun.
That’s how I browse (all & scaled or all & new) and I’m a CS nerd. To make the experience less annoying I’ve blocked a bunch of communities mainly because they’re not interesting to me (there’s a lot of anime and/or porn communities, fucking hell), but it’s generally a nice experience – I can run into all kinds of things that I hadn’t heard of before. I haven’t even gotten traumatized yet! Shame the only way to filter the feed is to block communities, but eh
What am I doing wrong? I never get any anime content nor porn.
If the instance your account is on decides to defederate with the instances those are on, you will never see the posts.
You can check what your instance blocks here:
https://federation-checker.vercel.app/
I like Sync because you can block instances or keywords.
I’m gonna have to check this out because I just mentioned this as an idea for Lemmy the other day. The amount of posts I see about the same thing in different communities is too damn high.
Don’t you like jeans? (Beans with jeans brand)
Haha, the appeal of political science to me is less about arguing with strangers about the news and more talking about broader philosophies and theories and then applying them to what we are seeing in the world. I feel like I can have a more nuanced conversation about the prisoner’s dilemma with regards to x topic, or applying philosophies like American Pragmatism to solving problems.
Talking about the news without using some of the tools political scientists use has so many emotional trip wires that it can feel like I’m just keeping up with the Kardashians. That said sometimes I just can’t help but keep up with the Kardashians.
Lmao.
Try talking soil science with gardeners and permaculture geeks.
Is American Pragmatism a thing? If you explain it to me, will I feel better about myself?
“You can philosophize over how many fairies fit on a toadstool all day, but if it won’t help anything, what’s the point?”
If you’re talking politics, you need to take a step back and ask how useful your questions are. It may be tempting to try solving a conflict that has a long history by finding out “who started it”, but if the answer would yield no progress in the peace process, it would be a better use of time and energy to focus on other discussions.
I’ve used it as an economic philosophy as well. Instead of looking at capitalism and socialism as ideologies to guide thought, look at them as tools to an end. Identify your goals for society (more educated populace, lower infant mortality, greater freedom of the press, etc.) and then look at what different perspectives bring for solutions. Sometimes you may find letting a free market take it’s course is an answer. Sometimes you may find deep regulation or nationalization is the answer.
When this philosophy is applied to something more personal like religion, it would ask “is the religion that you are in helping you or hindering you?” If someone’s religion gives them immense guilt and depression, it would be worth it to consider something else. If an alcoholic finds peace in a Mormon Temple, then it might just be what they need. It’s a pretty chill philosophy when it comes to religion.
Thank you, that’s an excellent read! This reminds me of the “expected value of perfect information” - sometimes it is worthwhile to answer a question, and sometimes it isn’t. Every once in a while I find myself in an engineering call discussing a minor problem, and I run the numbers to see if the change we are discussing is even worth talking about. One time the combined salaries of the people on the call had already outpaced the cost savings of the change over the next 10 years. We quickly stopped that discussion lol
Recently the only news about politics I don’t find disgusting is done by political scientists. You you recommend a book on the topic for beginners?
A book about current events or a book about the study of politics? OP indicated they were political theory focused, so a lot of the theory was written by old dead guys; not exactly news about current events.
About the study of politics, like Plato, etc, but all in one for beginners
Plato has basically nothing to do with modern politics.
You’re going to laugh, but I’m absolutely serious here: if your objective is to understand modern politics, I would start with The Prince and the Communist Manifesto.
Both of these are short, written by extremely influential figures, written for non-academic audiences, and have some amount of relevancy to current political operations. They absolutely do not explain modern politics, but they are important foundational texts. Spend 20 hours on the manifesto; 2 hours to read and 18 hours of commentary and related topics. Avoid going deeper into the communist rabbit holes. stop there. Spend 30 hours on the prince; look for college level lectures. You can spend more than 30 if you like, but don’t go for the self help guru dipshits, obviously.
Just keep in mind the target audences and the potential bias the two authors bring to the table.
After those two, I want you to read On Liberty and read up on John Locke’s social contract theory. Those four works will get you a lot of milage.
I’ve read a good part of Communist manifesto and found it interesting. The fascist Manifesto is very similar to it. I found very weird that communists are against fascists, given that their manifestos are so similar.
Depends on what you’re wanting to focus on, but a great start would be Rules for Rulers by Arnold Meltsner, Freakonomics by Levitt & Dubner, CIA: legacy of Ashes by Tim Weiner, confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins are some that I started early.
CGP Grey did a great job synthesizing Rules for Rulers on YouTube as well.
Also a big think video Why Sociopaths Rise to Power
Also Veritasium has a great video on game theory
Hope that helps!
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CGP Grey did a great job synthesizing Rules for Rulers on YouTube as well.
Veritasium has a great video on game theory
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
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Economic hit man I read already and it’s good. Another nice one that I’ve read was “Silk roads” from Peter Frankopan
I studied both political science and programming.
I can’t think of a good joke, but I wanted to share.
I sir am a Linux engineer and resent your insinuation that I’m a programmer.
What’s Linux?
Fuck openai
A corporate going down in history for the abuse of word open despite being anything but
The FLOSS community should have the right to revoke usage of the word “open” from for profit companies like that.
When the company was named, they intended to create open source AI tools, but then greed.
Their entire business is constructed by harvesting the open internet, then keeping the end result closed. Yet they are called "open"AI.
openaiclosedai
Me: needing to become a programmer because the professor for my graduate stats class has a hard on for R…
Ya like jazz?
Do jazz shitposting communities exist? I don’t have the time to create one, but I’d love to see some.
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wiggles fingers jazzily
(doesn’t exactly fit, but still funny enough to share, I hope!:-P)
I just wish that other users were into sports too. At least a couple!
What’s there to talk about sports?
…watching or doing? There’s more to talk about doing.
If other sites are anything to go by, drama. Nothing but complete and total drama. Stats are ok, but only if they support maximum drama. Play analysis and tactical discussion is completely unacceptable.
A couple people or a couple sports? I’d be happy to talk about sumo but we’ve only got 45 subs over at [email protected]
Healthcare gang represent!
You will assimilate
Python? Where? All I see is people praising Rust here. Also, Ubuntu? That’s the most hated Linux distro on Lemmy.
So this supports my point completely. No fuckin clue what you’re saying.
Gottem
Don’t worry, you’ll learn soon enough
Yeah, the rust circle jerk is hard here… I’ll be over here getting work done with my hated OS and my hated programming language. Living life on hard mode, man, I just wanna relax. 😵
