A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt

A caustic observer once remarked that when Dr. Johnson spoke of patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, “he was ignorant of the infinite possibility contained in the word ‘reform.'”

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)
Essay (1900-06), “Latitude and Longitude Among Reformers,” The Century Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 2

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/2…

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Richard G Howe Bill Rutland - Debate on Justification https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfv6vzZgVRk #Christianity #doctrine #justification #debate #Catholic #Protestant

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EU States: Justification Required for Any Limitations on Free Movement #World #free #Justification #Limitations #movement #required #States 
https://tinyurl.com/2ackftbu

Oh … so that was the entry on #justification, on p66 of #NewHartsRules … 

You learn something new, every day … 

#Words
#geekery
#DesperatelyTryingToLookIntellectual … 

New entry of AI-generated #comics and #jokes added to our #website:

#MacBook Air #Justification

comics.lucentinian.com/5834
#AIHumor #AILaughs #AIComedy #NewsLaughs #AIGeneratedJokes

1. If you're going to #report somebody you need to give #examples of what #activity you're reporting. Just #reporting a #profile and telling an #instance #admin that an #account is being "#spammy" doesn't cut it. Not when we can clearly see the user is not.

2. Again, not a very helpful report. You report a user and say they're a #SCAM account but offer up absolutely no #evidence to support your #claim.

3. Every account was new once, including the person that reported this one. As long as #NSFW #content is properly #flagged, there's no issue. Suspecting an account to be a "scam account or worse" is not a valid #reason for reporting an account.

4. Another report without any basis or #justification.

5. Again, another baseless report about somebody with absolutely ZERO evidence to back up their claim.

So here's what's going to happen....

The instances that forwarded these #bogus #reports to me, and wasted my time, each have a strike against them.

Strike three and we tell #Sharkey to #ignore any and all reports coming from the #instance in the future.

No #admin wants #BadActors on their instances, and no admin wants a #BadActor to make someone else feel unwelcome.

But you can't just flag and report an account for any bullshit reason either.

You have to give us proof and evidence.

This is not high school and this is not middle school. If somebody is being disruptive or causing problems, let us know.

But if you just suspect someone might cause problems or they might be disruptive... wait until you have proof and evidence and then let us know!

#FediAdmin #AdminStuff #administrivia #UserReports #FediReports #InstanceAdmins #MastoAdmin

New entry of AI-generated #comics and #jokes added to our #website:

#Weekly #Justification

comics.lucentinian.com/4959
#AIGeneratedJokes #Comedy #VisitNow #NewsJokes #DailyLaughs

Que faire quand rien ne marche pour obtenir des lignes de longueur raisonnable ? Nouveau billet sur notre blogue d’une série consacrée à la mise en pages et à la #typographie : « Réussir une mise en page. — Justification : un point essentiel (2) » https://www.dcao-sarl.fr/blog/blogue-a-part-2/reussir-une-mise-en-page-justification-un-point-essentiel-2-9
#pao, #miseenpage, #édition, #autoédition, #justification

Nouveau billet sur notre blogue d’une série consacrée à la mise en pages et à la #typographie : « Réussir une mise en page. — Justification : un point essentiel (1) » https://dcao-sarl.fr/blog/blogue-a-part-2/reussir-une-mise-en-page-justification-un-point-essentiel-1-8
#pao, #miseenpage, #édition, #autoédition, #justification

A quotation from Cicero, Marcus Tullius:

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Any peace, even the most inequitable, should be preferred to the most righteous war.

[Iniquissimam pacem iustissimo bello anteferrem.]
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/cicero-marcus-tullius/74040/

#quote #quotes #quotation #justification #peace #righteousness #war

Lately, our independent work has coalesced around a particular shared idea: that #misinformation is powerful, not because it changes minds, but because it allows people to maintain their beliefs in light of growing evidence to the contrary. The #internet may function not so much as a #brainwashing engine but as a #justification machine. A rationale is always just a scroll or a click away, and the incentives of the modern attention economy—people are rewarded with engagement and greater influence the more their audience responds to what they’re saying—means that there will always be a rush to provide one. This dynamic plays into a natural tendency that humans have to be evidence foragers, to seek information that supports one’s beliefs or undermines the arguments against them. Finding such information (or large groups of people who eagerly propagate it) has not always been so easy.

A quotation from Cicero, Marcus Tullius:

«
After a survey of all our civil wars, with a wealth of detail you urged the Senate, while they feared the warnings of the civil wars within their memory, to draw the inference that, as the earlier combatants had shown a ruthlessness hitherto quite unprecedented in the Republic, so whosoever should subseque…
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/cicero-marcus-tullius/35365/

#quote #quotes #quotation #baseline #example #justification #model #norms #precedent

There is no #justification.

👩‍👦Looking for #justification to convince your mother to let you play #videogames? Nothing like a scientific #study on the benefits of video games to impress her! 👩‍🔬 Follow the link young padawan.👇

A quotation from Orwell, George:

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In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to …
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/orwell-george/72718/

#quote #quotes #quotation #euphemism #politics #writing #justification #speech #vagueness

Justification
https://wp.me/p84YjG-4ic #justification #purpoose #meaning #interest #zsoltzsemba #experiences

https://zsoltzsemba.com/2024/10/27/its-hard-to-filter-through-all-that-and-figure-out-what-your-purpose-is-social-media-bombards-us-with-so-much-noise-that-its-easy-to-feel-lost-you-see-everyone-elses-highl/

— The #collegiate #leagues should #pass a #rule that if a #team #forfeits a #match without a #reasonable and #clearly #articulable #justification, they will be #banned from #participation for the rest of the #season."

#AtWill #Employment Must #End. Our #CivilRights Depend on It. At-will employment allows #discrimination to run rampant in the #workplace.

#NewYorkCity can become the first major #US #city to #require #employers to give #workers #advancenotice of #termination and a #written #justification for why they are being #fired.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #NewYork #NewYorkCity #Business #Workplace #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/at-will-employment-new-york-city/

A quotation from Smith, Sydney:

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But now persecution is good, because it exists; every law which originated in ignorance and malice, and gratifies the passions from whence it sprang, we call the wisdom of our ancestors: when such laws are repealed, they will be cruelty and madness; till they are repealed, they are policy and caution.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/smith-sydney/72004/

#quote #quotes #quotation #justice #justification #law #legalism #persecution #progress #tradition