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Re:Critical ignoring as a core competence for digital citizens by chitowneats on Monday November 28, 2022 @09:22AM (#33773921)
Humans, and the systems they create amongst themselves, like governments, are infinitely more fallible than hardened features of computer systems like database transactions. This is an unbelievably poor analogy.

This entire conversation reaffirms my belief that we need to require more humanities education for STEM majors.

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Re:Critical ignoring as a core competence for digital citizens by frostburg on Monday November 28, 2022 @09:39AM (#33774112)
What is being said here is basically the tautological truth that official government acts are indeed the official government acts, generally with some mechanism such as signing, publishing in an official gazette or something like that. Not that government can define reality.

Your Trump example in the other post is the most interesting because Trump actually created confusion on this point, by tweeting random stuff about acts that he then would never follow the proper channels for etc.

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