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Yeah, I like that. After being able to recognize and validate claims, being able to verify the validity (at least logically if not factually) of any conclusions drawn from those claims seems like a good next step.

I dunno. For someone just starting to want to think critically during discussions of when reading things, asking them to get serious in the academic pursuit of logic and argument theory might not be the way. For one, it's probably just asking for them to get stalled in the sort of dunning kruger zone of identifying fallacies and stopping there.

Especially when such behavior is already endemic to the internet and many platforms have feedback loops designed to reward this behavior. Just dunk on 'em and move on - watch the upvotes and retweets roll in.

I definitely don't want discourage OP from learning anything, but I do want to be careful in what direction we point a beginner.

I think maybe learning to find good sources of information and verify claims might be a better first step. That doesn't give OP any shortcuts I'm discussions, which is good. Then they may begin to notice different patterns or forms of discussion and at that point they can start to classify them and learn about them if they see fit.

Agreed. OP should be working on critical thinking skills in general and not specifically focusing on logical fallacies.

Logical fallacies and argumentation theory in general certainly have their place. But unless you're taking part in a debate club or otherwise getting really really deep into these topics, they may do you more harm than good in thinking critically and having productive discussions.

The reddit (and, previously, slashdot) obsession with logical fallacies has been almost entirely as a way to prevent critical thinking and end discussion rather than promoting either.

Tom Waits - Glitter & Doom

James McMurtry & the Heartless Bastards - Live in Aught-Three

16 Horsepower - Hoarse

Pain of Salvation - Be (live)

I almost never prefer live albums, but these work for me. Some live albums are "you had to be there" things for me. And even some where I was there (Rush Snakes and Arrows Live), they don't work for me. I can't really articulate why.

It's a whitelabel Mullvad VPN, so it's fine. I've used for a year (or more?) on Linux, Android, and OSX. I don't use it a ton, but I'd say I use it a moderate amount.

I've never really run into problems with it, but I mostly only do regular web browsing stuff with it, so I'm not sure how more data intensive or latency sensitive might fare.

I've had this as my Slack status at work for 3 years now and either people have learned this independently over time, or it has done its job.

I also do keep it as a firm boundary - if people just say "hello" or "how are you" I ignore the message until they actually say why they want to talk to me.

At first I was worried about seeming like a passive-aggressive asshole, but it has really improved my quality of life. No more spikes of anxiety when I get a "hello" and have to sit there and be like "ah fuck what's this bullshit gonna be about" while deciding how and when to answer. Now I can take a quick glance and decide whether to respond now or save it till later.

When you sign up [for Mastodon], you join a server (called an “instance”), which resembles a forum and is based around a shared interest.

What an incredibly ineffective and possibly outright misleading way to describe that.

I have no illusions that if Facebook and Google had started with proprietary and non-interoperable chat systems that XMPP would be flourishing today. I think that, by and large, we'd be in the same place with it.

People chatting from XMPP to Facebook to chat with folks probably by and large would've gotten Facebook accounts for the non-chat functionality that was never interoperable and not part of real time chat communication. Think groups and events.

If you only interacted with Facebook people over XMPP, you were locked out of a huge portion of functionality unless you signed up for Facebook even while XMPP worked.

A lot of people are focused on "extend" in the vein of Facebook and Google playing fast and loose with the XMPP spec and implementation until the whole ecosystem got fucked and then walking away. Which is a real danger. I mean, in a lot of ways Mastodon itself has already proven that. How much fedi drama over the years has been caused by Masoton unilaterally deciding something that other AP microblogging platforms just needed to deal with? Lots of people have beef with Eugen for a reason.

But even more insidious than that will be luring people onto Threads for ancillary benefits and then cutting off that large swath of the fediverse after the drain is complete. Then we would definitely not "end up exactly where we are now."

Imagine in 3 years. "Ohh threads supports a live chat thread feature but those threads don't federate. My friends are gonna do one while they all watch the season finale of Marvel Bullshit Infinity. Guess I could sign up for Threads to take part. Hmm I can still follow all my friends in the broader fediverse from here, I can just make this my primary account. Scratch that I'll make this my only account. Oh, what Threads is turning off federation? Oops sorry everyone else I have no way to reach you anymore, maybe you can switch to threads?"

So my two theories are:

• This was a rushed launch to capitalize on the latest Twitter shit show and the home timeline wasn't done yet.
• They didn't want people to log into Threads and see nothing if none of their other follows have activated yet, so instead they force you to see everything so you don't run out of content and disengage.

Either way I'd expect to see it soon.

That's much better and more succinct than the similar-but-awkward-and-meandering I posted the other day. I don't know if "gentrify" is necessarily the most accurate word, but i think the broader theme of the death of downtown definitely is apt.

I can't tell from your post, have you tried the Dark Souls games or Bloodborne? Or just ER?

I found I did more grinding in ER than the other games. And in the other games your death spot isn't marked anywhere, so you may find it less stressful.

Though as others have mentioned, ER is probably the most forgiving on bonfire placement, so if that's no good for you the other souls games might not do much for you.

But ultimately, as others have said, corpse runs are really a fixture of this subgenre so you might have trouble finding heat you want.

As others have mentioned, the Jedi games have a lot of these elements but are a bit more forgiving. I also really like the combat in Kena, but I don't remember if there were corpse runs. I haven't played it in a while, but I also remember liking Ashen - though I think I did have corpse runs and the combat was a little less dynamic than souls games.

Yeah that makes sense. I don't have an insta or facebook account, so I don't know what-all information you can fill in there. But it makes more sense than "any website or app with a freetext box must say they collect any possible data."