That said, the use of fallacious arguments is the tool by which one gaslights. They aren’t mutually exclusive.

Fair point in that they aren't mutually exclusive, but I would disagree that logical fallacies are then only means used to gaslight. Gaslighting is the action by which an abuser sews doubt in one's own judgement, and beliefs -- that can be done any number of ways.

When you use fallacies intentionally to convince someone that their basic and true point is wrong… That’s a form of gaslight.

Gaslighting isn't necessarily attempting to convince someone that what they believe is wrong, it's meant to cause someone to question reality, their own sanity, beliefs, memories, etc. This can of course be used to sway average public opinion in the direction of a desired agenda, but it's not trying to convince change in one's opinion, I would argue.

The term doesn’t need to only apply to relationships. Political gaslights have become increasingly prevalent through social media.

Oh, for sure. A simple example would be the official denial of a true event's occurence.

Ok, seems fine.

What is the context behind this post?

Out of curiosity, what's the output of # dmesg | grep iwlwifi?

Your mask isn’t there for your own good. Wearing a mask may reduce the viral load you may receive if you’re exposed, improving the odds your immune system can stamp out any nascent infection, but that’s just a bonus. The purpose of a mask in a mask mandate is to protect others from you in the event you’re infected but in the window between becoming infectious and becoming symptomatic and therefore aware (and possibly beyond if you’re the kind of person that knowingly mixes with others and coughs openly when sick). Because it’s for people who don’t know they’re sick, it only works if everyone does it.

This is, indeed, a critical issue to note. When thinking about such types of policy (I'm referring to policy on the government level), I try to follow the "non-aggression principle". What one must then ask is: "Does not wearing a mask violate the NAP?". If one is aware of their transmissable ilness and is knowingly spreading it to others by not wearing a mask, then this certainly would be a violation of the NAP. In such cases, one would be required to wear a mask. Now if we are talking about a case where an individual isn't ill, yet their bodily autonomy is still being infringed upon by being forced to wear a mask, then this would also be a violation of the NAP. That being said, things become a bit more grey if we are talking about the situation where one could transmit an ilness asymptomatically. I'm inclined to say that, in this transition point, it would be best to rely on people's own precautionary measures like getting vaccinated, and self-masking; however, I agree that I am biased into this line of thought. (Some extra discussion if you are interested)

This was particularly important with the original strain of SARS-COV-2 because it had a particularly long incubation period.

Please forgive me if I am incorrect -- epidemiology is certainly not my strong suit -- but isn't this statement contradictory? I have the understanding that "incubation period" means that one is asymptomatic while the virus replicates within themself.

Incubation period (also known as the latent period or latency period) is the time elapsed between exposure to a pathogenic organism, a chemical, or radiation, and when symptoms and signs are first apparent. -- Wikipedia:

If one is asymptomatic (no coughing, no runny nose, no sneezing, etc.) then wouldn't they not be transmitting the virus? The only thing that I can think of is that one may be sluffing off virus through physical contact, but, if so, there are a few issues: the first issue would be that masking would then become pointless, and the other would be that one could simply wash their hands after contact, unless, of course, we are talking about a virus that could hypothetically be absorbed through the skin.

General, society wide, mandates aren’t imo necessary under the prevailing conditions, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be situations (close knit group with a spike in cases for example) where reintroducing such rules make sense.

I have no issue with a closed group deciding to implement such restrictions amongst themselves; people are free to do as they wish so long as it does not infringe on the lives of others. I just, personally, hope that this doesn't become more widespread, yet again.

I did say "generally". Also, in the general sense -- I'm not specifically talking about Covid -- if a person chooses to endanger themself, then that is not of my concern.

Isn't Friendica the fediverse equivelant to Facebook?

I enabled that in /var/snap/nextcloud/current/nextcloud/config/config.php with 'filesystem_check_changes' => 1,, but it did not fix the issue. It did seem to remove one error that was popping up, but I am still getting a prompt stating that the file could not be created (which is strange because, when I did a file scan, it shows that they were created), and the files are still not displayed.

It should also be noted that I restart nextcloud after applying the changes with # snap restart nextcloud.

Tried this. Still nothing.

for example to 777 as a temporary solution

Just tried this, and still nothing.

# chmod -R 777 data-directory

Is it possible to sync Nextcloud News to it? What repo would be their main one? Netiher Github, nor Gitlab have issues enabled.