LarmyOfLone @ LarmyOfLone @lemm.ee

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I see lemmy as a sort of test-balloon: Can we overcome network effects? And in a larger (and maybe slightly hyperbolic) sense, can we become a rational civilization or are we doomed to fail as a species?

On a civilization level we are currently seeing a massive downward trend due to news and social media become completely... well wrong. And it's getting worse. The main media aspects of the internet have done the exact opposite of what we wanted it to become. And most of it is because it's run only for profit.

So lemmy and the fediverse is a pretty good attempt at trying to break that and replace it with something more democratic and sane. But I think it's likely that lemmy is going to fail to achieve that. The synergy through network effects is just too strong. Reddit, youtube, facebook, google, twitter will never be replaced. At least not without a massively funded alternative (e.g. tiktok that funded creators for a while) and that just ends in the same way again. Seeking profit instead of serving the users is a kind of insanity for our "means of communication".

Of course that is a bit hyperbolic and lemmy is fine and fun to use as it is, but I wish it would fully replace reddit as a sane alternative.

I mean it was a cool idea on first glance because it does things differently. But then a sane person would think about it for a while and listen to the engineers why there is a reason cars don't look like that.

Huh I read your headline in a sarcastic tone so was totally ready to argue with you. But I agree. Not sure if it's an unpopular opinion though.

force Europe to stop being hypocrites

Not sure what you mean? This is a proxy war. The objective is to bleed Russia and end up owning a big chunk of Ukrainian assets (or our banks will). But mess with the gas supply of the EU and support is going to turn hard on Ukraine.

It's possibly this is going to turn into a long turn problem between the EU and the Ukraine left bitter by the war. Of course, every crisis is a great opportunity to make money! Even a hypocrisis

How many liters is 1 square meter of 1mm thick steel?

I'm definitely on board for megameters. One AU is about 150 gigameters and 1 light year is about 9.5 terameter!

Of course, until we all switch you’ll really end up being bilingual…

Biunitated?

Oh yeah? I bet you also use mebibyte instead of megabytes!

Blanket. I'm believe that technology was invented before clothes or even fire.

There is a video of the cybertruck crash test and the thing is very stiff with very little no crumple zone - so most of the energy of the impact goes directly to the driver and passengers.

And the edges are sharp like a knife in a crash. Incredibly dangerous.

Nationalize google and turn it into a coop that is democratically controlled by worker and users. Lets us vote on their management and corporate priorities and policies.

To hell with the shareholders! They ruin everything!

In a 100 years it will be completely normal to have painless and routine medical transhuman enhancements. I'm getting a variable sized dick just as a courtesy enhancement!

All right. I have prepared for this over the last day. I've copied and reformatted this full list of Unicode single emojis! You asked for this!

That is a cruel and stupid thing to say

Just privatize the army, I hear it's way more efficient

Are you John Wayne?

It's like the domino theory. If the US falls to fascism, so will the rest of the western world!

Why do I have to look at that murderers smirking face? He's scum. Who gives a shit about him? He should be ignored.

Well I really neither mean conservatism or capitalism but greed. Not an ideology at all. As a Sith might say it: There is only power. And those that seek power at all cost, and those who want other things. (same goes for power, wealth or influence). Ideology is just an interchangeable tool, not a belief.

Unfortunately anyone seeking power for "other things" like wanting to make things better has to compete with people who knowingly or unknowingly don't really give a shit about anything.

Anyway, outside current US politics conservatism really only means to continuing to do things the way they have been done so far and / or change things slowly. And actual conservative today would want to continue the social democratic system that made the US great, e.g. affordable healthcare, low education and university costs, high vertical mobility. Keep doing what works instead of trying to reinvent the wheel with crazy new and untested ideas. Theoretically conservatism is a perfectly valid and honorable approach to governance that you can compromise on.

Today's republicans are said to be reactionary or "paleo-conservative", that want to go back to the times pre new deal. They are not conservatives at all.

But really they are neither, they are just greedy or power hungry, completely self serving. They believe in nothing.

I suspect most are on the lower spectrum of sentience, and some people like Trump aren't even able to self-reflect at all and are permanently trapped in a kind of psychotic break. Like Musk they are intelligent and continue to optimize for their power seeking behavior but have made their minds completely subservient to the one ring power/money/influence.

Sorry for the long rant lol

One of the core values of conservatism capitalism

FTFY ;) But yeah I think you're onto something. There is, I suspect, a kind of self delusion. He really only pursues power and ideology is merely a tool he uses. He's feeling the pressure economically because he likes the role of the captain of industry but he's starting to fuck up more and more with Tesla and SpaceX. So is growing extremism in the recent years isn't part of a rational thought or honest ideology but a narcissistic rationalization. He wants to continue being powerful and accumulating more power so he has to counter by embracing the more extreme ideology. But he doesn't really give a fuck about family, economy, society or anything.

If he only kept his mouth shut about politics and continued with his ideas I'd be fine with him being a flawed and scummy entrepreneur that still manages to move and change our global industry. Even if he steals the accomplishments of others and lies and over-promises he acts as an effective mouthpiece for ideas I like. He would have had a flawed legacy.

But instead he became this monstrosity.

You can’t have enough emojis. Ever.

Oh it's on!