Interesting Links for 22-10-2021

[andrewducker]

The NFT-based book-writing group aimed at teens that lasted nearly 12 hours before being questioned to death

(tags:writing cryptography wtf epicfail copyright publishing teenagers )

Vienna Tourist Board museums join OnlyFans after explicit artworks censored online

(tags:history art socialnetworking nudity censorship )

This Taiwanese Teacher Who Puts Their Math Lessons on Pornhub

(tags:taiwan teaching porn videos )

The 'Most Controversial Opinion' Hinge Question Is Easier Than You Think

(tags:dating questions )

Tory reforms redistributed schools cash from poor to rich areas

(tags:poverty school inequality UK conservatives )

Government refuses to publish Brexit plan legal text for scrutiny

(tags:UK Europe NorthernIreland )

Comments

[andrewducker]

Hmmm.

Possibly that it's just fine to have any fantasy, or thought, in your head, and that having them doesn't make you a bad person.

(Which doesn't seem like it should be a controversial opinion to me, but apparently is.)

[mountainkiss]

This isn't controversial to me. But I hear you when you say that you have found it so.

[andrewducker]

Yeah, part of the issue is that different opinions would be controversial in different company.

I have friend groups for whom believing in IQ would be controversial, and ones where not believing in it would be controversial. Ones where "economics" clearly has no value and ones where it's clearly of great value (and misrepresented greatly). Ones where any kind of connection between evolution and psychology is clearly just right-wing awfulness and ones where there's obviously a connection.

So my controversy would be fairly localised in any case.

[mountainkiss]

I think another frame on mine might be that in general I think there's something important in both sides of every issue and the problems caused by polarisation tend to be far greater than the problems caused by either one of the two sides. I recognise that there are exceptions to this.

[andrewducker]

I was working up to getting into an argument until that last sentence :-)

But yes, once you take out human rights type of things there are definitely plenty of arguments where people on all sides have good points

In fact the main adjustment I'd make to your statement is that there are usually more than two sides!