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    It seems absurd to defend the incapacity & redundancy of a deficient technology. Did you miss the part where OP can’t set the URL of their post & doesn’t seem able to perform an easy edit? The URL in the body is still wrong.

    Your comment needs text alternative.

    Images of text break much that text alternatives do not. Losses due to image of text lacking alternative:

    • usability
      • we can’t quote the text without pointless bullshit like retyping it or OCR
      • text search is unavailable
      • the system can’t
        • reflow text to varied screen sizes
        • vary presentation (size, contrast)
        • vary modality (audio, braille)
    • accessibility
      • lacks semantic structure (tags for titles, heading levels, sections, paragraphs, lists, emphasis, code, links, accessibility features, etc)
      • some users can’t read the image due to lack of alt text (markdown image description)
      • users can’t adapt the text for dyslexia or vision impairments
      • systems can’t read the text to them or send it to braille devices
    • searchability: the “text” isn’t indexable by search engine in a meaningful way
    • fault tolerance: no text fallback if
      • image breaks
      • image host is geoblocked due to insane regulations.

    Contrary to age & humble appearance, text is an advanced technology that provides all these capabilities absent from images.






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  • Voting is the bare minimum. The populace has grown complacent, disengaged, & polarized by neglecting to organize, recruit, educate, civically & politically engage each other in open, democratic discourse & community. Enough participation to keep democracy relevant & engaged to the people’s interests is needed.

    The way we engage with information & opinions of the community isn’t helping. Instead of dividing the community through censorship & exclusion, a free, democratic society needs to openly resolve contentions by legitimately discrediting problematic causes & misinformation and by promoting better causes & information. The social media trend of deplatforming each other with moderation rules maintaining “brand safety” exacerbates divisions & denies society the necessary exercise of airing & openly contending with ugly ideas or seeing the sometimes violent, unvarnished truth (eg, incidents of deadly violence).






  • Yeah, those in power always preach peace to preserve the status quo.

    Those in power are interested in provoking violence to delegitimize a cause. Violence is their playbook: they know to how to retaliate against violence with violence. Repressing nonviolent resistance, however, backfires: when the government’s illegitimate violence is harder to contest, more people condemn the government’s use of force and shift their support away from the regime. Nonviolence is harder to deal with, attracts people, and leads to “defections” within institutions sustaining authoritarian regimes.

    Such movements are statistically more effective at combatting authoritarianism than violent resistance. Where violence fails, nonviolence has succeeded in overcoming oppression & authoritarian rule. This documentary covers multiple instances of that happening in the 20th century in India, USA, South Africa, Denmark, Poland, Chile.

    Moreover, nonviolence isn’t passive: it can range from quiet acts of disruption to consumer boycotts to walkouts to large-scale protests. When large numbers of people engage in acts of defiance and non-cooperation, they can take power back from a repressive regime.

    It takes greater courage to resist injustice nonviolently. Plus, you may have seen the post months ago on research that shows nonviolent protest is more successful than the alternative.

    The message is that intuition is fallible, and we should follow the historical evidence & research.