Show threadRiley S. Faelan2d ago

@pedromj As for your last question — yes and no. Large-scale intolerance tends to be presented as enforcing social conformity, though, and it doesn't always look like intolerance to a Western-er observer. The new thing about the "True Finns", though is, they're eager to import American-style intolerance rather than use the old-timey, er, dog whistles

You might want to look up 'Jantelagen' / 'Janteloven' / 'Jante's law'. The written rules are, well, a bit #HHOS, in that the real-life version is more vibes-based attitudes than written rules that one could lawyer, but as attitudes, they're a real thing, and that has both positive and negative effects on abstract 'freedoms'.

Show threadRiley S. Faelan3d ago

@screwlisp Oh, and among mammals and birds, most species that clearly play are either carnivorous or highly social. Cats play. Dogs play. Elephants play. Dolphins play. Corvids play. Wildebeest may not play. Cows may not play. Sloths appear to not play. Pandas might not play (which would be weird; most othe bear species play). Flying foxes play. Goats play, but sheep might not. &c., &c.

Bumblebees are not predatory, so if they follow the same pattern, bumblebee playing is related to the bees' social structures. If that is, indeed, the case, then one likely implications of it would be — beehive societies can probably be arranged in several radically different ways, which the bees of the hive can likely just learn to handle. Honeybee democracy might not be just a joke; it might be an #HHOS joke.

Honeybee Democracy

How honeybees make collective decisions—and what we can learn from this amazing democratic process

Show threadRiley S. FaelanMar 20
@junesim63 It's a quip, but it's also an #HHOS point. Right-wing propaganda has long relied on a lot of people's brains not easily moving between the levels of abstraction. In this sort of context, their trick is to avoid discussing the policies, but to generate negative vibes around the abstract, vague, concept — the branding, so to speak —, and then, selectively, on an as-needed basis, tie specific things they want to defeat to these general vague negative vibes.
-dsr- (not a dog)Jan 3

That is so January 1. Get with the program. Your approach is obsolete. You will fall behind in the global arms race. It's almost January 3, it's time for a new methodology!

Pro-tip: move to an earlier timezone so you can get the real edge on your competition.

#ai #sarcasm #hhos

Riley S. FaelanDec 9
@JoBlakely On a less obvious #HHOS note, the autistic infodumping protocol might be more resilient to the current wave of #enshittification than many of its neurotypical counterparts. It is possible that in the current era, autistic people doing what feels right just tend to make better, more informative, videos than neurotypical people trying to micro-optimise their "content strategy".
Show threadRiley S. FaelanNov 28
@oblomov The #HHOS part is, this sort of thing might actually work well for embedding Lisp-style free-form data structures in programming languages that can handle Lisp stuff but for whose syntax it doesn't quite come naturally. It's could be kind of like the Potion's data language.
Show threadRiley S. FaelanNov 25

@Infrapink Ah, but have you considered how many permachemicals your body might contain, and poison the poor innocent vultures? As long-living apex predators, humans have such a notorious tendency to accumulate crap from throughout the Web of Food that an impulse to bury them in biohazard containers is very understandable.

#HHOS, but also the historic context that vultures suffered horribly from DDT before it got banned, and for quite some time afterwards. And DDT is far from the most persistent pesticide out there.

@hellomiakoda

Show threadMartin SeegerJun 18, 2024

@MostlyHarmless Worse was the robbery in the hospital last week. The used syringe was was a quarter million…

#hhos

Riley S. FaelanJan 30, 2024

Here, Beau discusses the recently arisen possibility that major world powers might end up formally recognising Palestine as a state as a way of applying pressure on Israel, which would likely speed up the end of the current wave of the Middle Eastern conflict, and could improve Palestine's chances of becoming a real, functional, state.

One of the side effects of this happening would be, the massacre that heralded the current wave of the conflict would effectively, retroactively, become the beginning of a successful Palestinian revolution. Yay! We get to see the gossamer-thin line between terrorists and freedom fighters merely by living through interesting times!

Yes, I'm being sarcastic, but I'm also being serious. #HHOS and all that. Most revolutions have, throughout history, in fact, been quite violent affairs, and whether they will retroactively be seen as good or evil depends, in large part, only on whether the violence will have succeeded in changing the regime. Histories get written by the victors and all that.

And the historians who write most angrily about failed revolutions tend to be the ones who support people who made a peaceful change of power impossible in the first place.

This can open a whole can of writhing ethics conundrums for people who don't believe in having nuances in their principles (and, I suppose, don't remember what the previous revolutions were like — even though a whole bunch, peaceful and otherwise, successful and otherwise, have happened within relatively recent past). Can one support Palestinian statehood while condemning the massacre that will possibly have made the statehood possible? Can one support the Israelis' right to elect their rulers while condemning the massacre that the elected rulers then undertook?

Ain't no situational ethics like international relations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y310oJHLDzk

Let's talk about the UK, Palestine, and a signal....

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Show threadSyressaAug 24, 2023

@amy Huh. Curious if this will ever be the case for me, as I still *loathe* the handful of boymode shirts that I kept.

How much is "a certain amount"? #hhos