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You make a lot of good points, but the conclusion is, depressingly, as always, that power and influence necessarily win out over truth every time.

There’s no reason to expect truth to prevail in an environment where it doesn’t have an adaptive advantage.


Why are you commenting if you didn’t take in the content of the link?

The little fact you drop here for some reason is right there in the video description.


There's this little thing called prior history. This video may be new but the opinions espoused by Sanger are not. SirensOfTitan mentions as much in his comment. You only need to watch the first few seconds to realize his opinion hasn't changed. Sanger complains about trolls on the site but Sanger himself is a bit of a troll as he once reported the wiki commons org to the FBI for hosting child porn, it turned out to be depictions of child abuse but not actually porn. Many accused him of doing this simply because his own wikipedia alternatives were failing at the time.


What's your point?

I'm saying that SirensOfTitan's comment adds nothing that isn't already present in the linked video (and he freely admits that he didn't watch it) and therefore really serves no purpose (other than to boast, "I know things about this topic already _and_ I don't even need to watch the video".)

Your defense of SirensOfTitan's comment's supposed utility is to make your own tangential point which does nothing to argue that the original comment is valuable.

So I maintain: What was the point of SiresOfTitan's comment?


The point is when someone has already established themselves as an idiot its pretty easy to dismiss them. The utility SirensOfTitan's comment is informing us that the person in question has already established himself to be an idiot. It is therefore relevant because anything the video says is already suspect, it can easily be dismissed. You don't have to go far in the video to establish this as the first statement in the video is a balance fallacy.


So if I declare you to be an idiot nobody ever has to listen to anything you have to say in the future?

Aside from the obvious problems of how to determine “established oneself as an idiot”, what implications does this have for the concept of redemption?


> What implications does this have for the concept of redemption?

People don't change without an impetus to change. Since the majority of the complaints that Sanger has had with wikipedia can be equated to the false balance logical fallacy and Sanger opens the video with the false balance logical fallacy then Sanger has continued to establish that he is in fact an idiot. Pretty easy to dismiss. You can declare me to be an idiot. You clearly don't care what anyone has to say, you seem to have an agenda, I don't know what it is or why you're so hot under the collar about this but I could call you an idiot as well and dismiss what you have to say. As a matter of fact...


So, bad news for me if I’m using GitHub?

Edit: looking in to https://workingcopyapp.com/ now. an iOS git client.


Did you use some plugin that helped with the committing and pushing?

On Android you could probably somehow do a local checkout, but don't think that will work with iOS due to file system restrictions.


I just found this: https://workingcopyapp.com/


Sounds like you're in luck with Working Copy, as they mention this as being the only (known) application supporting background-sync for specific directories.

https://help.obsidian.md/Obsidian/iOS+app#Sync


Confirming: Working Copy is _itself_ amazing, and solves the syncing-obsidian-to-github-on-ios problem.


That sounds very intriguing. How does syncing work in practice, though?

Do you have to remember to manually trigger commits/syncing or can you set it to commit/sync automatically (e.g., after a short period of inactivity)?


I haven't looked into any automation options, but I doubt it. Seems like Working Copy takes a specified folder in the "Files" app and treats it as a git repo (in this case, the Obsidian/YourVaultHere folder). When you launch Working Copy you're basically sitting at a (very nice) git UI, so all the standard git workflows are present.

I'm used to using a variety of editing software and then manually pushing my notes repo, so the lack of automatic syncing doesn't bother me. In fact, I prefer it. I've been burned by auto-syncing before and it makes me nervous.


> Did you use some plugin that helped with the committing and pushing?

No, it's just a folder of markdown files that I keep in version control and access through a variety of software, including (usually) Obsidian.


Working Copy is the way to go on iOS/iPadOS.


Is there a non-paywalled version somewhere?


That’s what THEY want you to think!


It had this quality seemingly out of the gate, not after a period of selection. that’s part of the problem.


The mechanism that duplicate the virus genome is fairly imprecise, which means that they produce an astronomical number of mutants. The only mutants that we will really notice are the ones that survive. There is nothing sinister about the fact that the very first COVID virus was already adapted to humans because otherwise it would never have been to infect humans.


aren’t the weapons a bit different? or do you think rural americans are stockpiling rocket launchers and AK47s?


IEDs are the more commonly used weapons, and they aren’t hard to make. I also have zero doubts that if the military actually started fighting the civilian populace, more powerful weapons would get introduced (possibly by other states, as with in Afghanistan.)


Yup. And the heavier the equipment used against civilians, the greater the anti government resistance. The military will run out of Apaches and Abrams long before the people run out of ideology/anger.


... and, just like in Afghanistan (especially during the Soviet invasion in the 80's), rebels will ambush convoys/advanced bases and steal weaponry and associated material.


Military defection as well.

The military has a lot of conservative pro-gun people.


We just need new disruptors.

A little tougher now that the current companies have the government on their side.


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