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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

As someone who modded a couple subs in the hundreds of thousands plus range on reddit. Most the decent mods left during the exodus. Those who stayed tended to be the powerhungry types who wanted to push a certain narrative.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

But did you even read my full comment. Aside from the general trend in names, it brings up the bigger subject of erasure of non-western thinkers from mathematics.

If nobody cared there wouldn’t be an entire adacemic subfield pertaining to this.

Also what does a random historical essay about the end of the golden age of science in the arabic world pertain to erasure of non-western contributions in mathematics?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

Band aids don’t have the implication that whoever invented them was band-aid.

Naming a mathematical theorem after someone has the implication that they were the inventor. Obviously if it happens in some cases it’s not too problematic. But if there’s a general trend of removing certain groups from mathematics it does become one.

For example the myth that mathematics was mainly invented by greeks in commonly taught in schools around the european and anglophone world.

There’s a real phenomenon of eurocentrism and erasure of mathematical contributions from outside the west. This is a well documented problematic which has had dozens of books and papers written about it. So I don’t think your dismissal as idiotic is warranted. Obviously that was just some random guy in a 30 second video which was made to be engaging as much as informative, but it raises an interesting subject.

If you want to delve further this is an interesting paper to enter into the subject. I enjoyed reading it for the history of mathematical analysis course I took for my masters. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249740664_Eurocentrism_in_the_History_of_Mathematics_the_Case_of_the_Kerala_School

Anyways, I didn’t make that video, and it is obviously far from perfect. But your dismissal of it as “idiotic” strikes me to be oddly closed minded.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

Care to elaborate on your criticism?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 weeks ago

Please don’t give me medical advice. I know what I have. I have a multitude of non-autoimmune diseases triggered by COVID which fall under the umbrella term of long covid. I did not ask for advice. I just wanted to vent.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

-24 (It was only today I lost faith in humanity one step further)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago

There’s a whole lot of body dysmorphia, andrew tating inceldom in between.

But yeah it ends up being a bitcoin bro pretty quickly

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

DAILY MAIL is a shit SHIT source.

But fuck reddit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

You’re right that all their point all bullshit. But allsides is an absolute shit tier source. It’s a poll of internet randos that rates reuters as left wing biased.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

I’m censoring you? Lmao your delusional.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)
  1. This is literally the second paragraoh on the wikipedia page you sent:

After the first set of files was published, various technology and media journalists said that the reported evidence demonstrated little more than Twitter's policy team struggling with difficult decisions, but resolving such matters swiftly. Some conservatives said that the documents demonstrated what they called Twitter's liberal bias.

Also yeah. Twitter’s owners used to be centrist (center-left), now they are far-right. No “censorship” in this example.

  1. Fact checking is simply trying to guage the trustworthiness of information. Some fact checkers are shit, just like some news sources are shit. Fact checking is not censorship, if you think scrutiny is censorship, then you’ll have a tough time in life.

Your source is a conservative thinktank with no reputation for trustworthiness. Created by this guy who has worked with the republican party. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Tucker

Yes facebook labeled as misleading some vaccine conspiracies. Is that censorship? It wasn’t removed. Secondly entire governments were pushing disinformation and “keyboard army” to try and discredit vaccines. So there had to be some pushback unless you prefer we are all fed putin propaganda.

Your source is a poorly refered online conservative magazine funded by a far-right think tank. Find me a higher quality source.

  1. Google? how are they censoring you?
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (7 children)

Who is censoring you?

What kind of stuff do you say that leads to censorship?

What do you mean by censorship?

Some US colleges will fire you if you question the IDF’s treatment of civilians. Elon Musk won’t let you say the word “cis” on his bastion of “free speech” platform. Where are you being censored by “liberals”?

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