alyaza

alyaza, 1 year ago (edited 4 months ago)

for a variety of reasons:

• we don’t have a rule against what is effectively posting cringe and i am opposed to a rule of that sort on principle
• what is considered cringe is a completely subjective and arbitrary judgement that, if we made it a rule to not post cringe, would lead to a lot more bickering about sourcing. it’d also almost certainly make this place a lot less interesting, a lot more ideologically homogeneous, and a lot more prone to confirmation bias
• personally, i am just not all that interested in trying to parse “trustworthy” and “untrustworthy” sources beyond the absolute minimum “is this a crank blog or self promotion”, especially when media is not heterogeneously trustworthy on every possible issue. i don’t think most of our mod team is interested in trying to parse such a thing either
• we generally trust our userbase to be discerning
• we generally trust our userbase to be self-regulating etc.

alyaza, 1 year ago

as i recall, the leadership of Israel has also ruled out an independent Palestinian state and a two-state solution, so i’m not sure why it’s news to the Times of Israel that Hamas doesn’t want one either. it’s clearly not advantageous to either party

alyaza, 1 year ago

Alyaza what have been your favorite/most interesting book among the four?

the majority of my reading list would not make for particularly comfortable reading so i’ll just point you to the fairly normal pick from last year, which is I’m Glad My Mom Died

alyaza, 1 year ago

now that i’ve read a bit more this week: The Great Transition by Nick Fuller Googins is an early contender for my book of the year and the first to get 5 stars this year from me (although i’m a generous reviewer)

alyaza, 1 year ago

As much as that writing style is rather unique and interesting, it is dreadfully difficult to follow.

that’s the Defector special