Oof, that kills it for me. Would be 100% contributing to this otherwise.

Firstly, by not intimidating them with a book list

Too lazy

Well okay thats not something I could describe for without actually doing it, and I’m not finna make an hour long course for you bro

What are you asking for? Like my method of teaching?

Explaining it to them without the fluff?

However else you explain any other concept, these are very simple ideas.

Counterpoint, you can understand the core points of socialism very quickly. One need not read 50 books before joining the conversation.

This is again part of the problem. You can understand the fundamentals of ML in like an hour or less. A quick start guide being like 12 hours long is insane.

Genuinely might be an evolutionarily selected disposition. Could totally see there being an advantage there.

Which you shouldn’t continue to do.

Now that is actually smart

Bro how are audiobooks not reading? Worst take of the bunch, and frankly pretty ableist.

Studies have consistently shown equal comprehension from whether something is read or spoken to you. So firstly you’re literally consuming and understanding the exact same story in your head.

Audiobooks are also far more accessible, you can listen to one and drive, clean, cook, brush your teeth, etc…

And like for many people, audiobooks are THE best way they could possibly consume books. Say they have dyslexia, visual impairments, adhd, etc… that all make reading take much more mental energy. That all disappears in audio format.

And like there’s so much you can add with stuff like graphic audio, you can have a whole cast, music, sound effects, things you simply can’t do just via the written word.

And lets not forget the tradition of human storytelling began from passing on stories purely my mouth. People told a story and remembered it and spoke it again. People are naturally built to take in stories audibly, and its no wonder many people find this method (of telling the exact same friggen story!!!) more natural. Also like we’re these oral stories somehow less legitimate until they were written down?

Wow. That is an actually controversial take. Could not disagree more.

I think this is a less controversial take tbh

This is where my democratic socialist ass loses you

That is just such a broad statement to make that is not always true.

How about hell fucking no you idiot

It has been absolutely seamless with zero issues for me, but I’m a relatively recent adopter with low traffic just for friends.

Only problem is that its only available in the official element app but thats not a dealbreaker for me.

I can search users and spaces across any federated matrix server