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Pretty provocative existence you're doing over there

Or just 10 billion into the school system? Please? Anything?

If I ever come home to 2.3 kids I'm gonna be so mad. Where is the 0.7 kids I'm missing?!

Germany took a part of Czech territory without anyone really doing anything about it because they pinky promised not to do it again

I guess the idea was always that the public would need to stop the gish gallop until the judicial system has caught up to restore the balance. In the hopes that there would still be an executive power functional enough to enforce the ruling.

Dicks Out for harambe is a thing

Yeah but the goal here is to escape the algorithm deciding what you consume

Yeah pixels are great in that regard. But they are flagship phones with latest and greatest hardware costing a ton of money.

Also, I absolutely do not need the newest shiniest hardware. I want something that can handle WhatsApp/Signal encryption. YouTube playback would be nice, doesn't need to be 1080, 720p is absolutely enough on a phone. And frigging security updates for more than a few years. Can we please figure this shit out.

There's a big difference between alone and lonely, at least for me. And I quite enjoy being alone for extended periods of time. So that's not a con for me.

That aside, it's what I'm good at. And it feels good to do something for a living that I'm good at.

Archenemy: There's a reason to believe

The pruld: We are the souls

Emmit Fenn: painting greys

My mum had a big mare, sweet thing. Would let me cuddle with her head that was about as big as my whole body. Many happy memories there :)

It doesn't tell me to go acquire wages so it's arguably even better!

Yeah I miss that, I grew up around horses. Right now I'm living in a city and I have no connection to anyone with horses but I'm always glad to spend time with the pony my mum has when I visit home!

You made me have a happy moment, thanks :)

Is this the correct setting to make a "your mum" joke at work?

The question to me becomes: what facilitates quality over quantity? What encourages earnest dialectic dialogue over raging and trolling?

Yeah that definitely is the question. And I'm not going to claim that I have the definitive answers.

I think one aspect is that it used to take a lot of effort to publish something. So there was an incentive to only publish stuff that was worth publishing. That doesn't mean it was necessarily close to factual or even strictly objectively "better". But it was harder to unleash a shitstorm on small things and, since a lot less was published, there was more time to consider the things that were.

I think that ties into the second point, people had more time to process stuff. We are racing from headline to headline and only processing using emotions not rational thinking.

But I also have to admit that manipulation and propaganda obviously were a thing and worked in the past too so maybe that's all just romanticism for a time that wasn't actually better, just different.

Edit: I think Lemmy is better only because we are still in relatively small spaces and many instances are relatively quick with banning trolls (and even defederating entire instances). So maybe smaller but diverse spaces with harsh moderation on trolling/intentional misinformation are the answer?

The answer to ill-informed speech is more speech.

It really doesn't feel like that is the case. It feels like the more speech we produced on the internet the more of it turned out to be bullshit. We need to turn to quality over quantity.

Where I agree with you is that this isn't something we'd want to entrust to a government. We need non-profit news outlets that are publicly and internationally founded with transparent decision-making.

They want to leave the euro and go back to the deutsche Mark. They also want to dismantle the EU and instead build a "Europe of Motherlands" where the Nations have more control again.

I'm not sure what musk sees as the benefit here. Maybe it really is the "chaos is a ladder" kind of thinking. But maybe it's just also the "anti-woke" stance he finds appealing without him having any other knowledge of the German parties system

It's also explicitly what they lay out as their plain in their parties programme