nomadjoanne @ nomadjoanne @lemmy.world

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You're joking right? Let's look at your examples. China has invaded Southeast Asia something like 17 times throughout its history. It dominated Manchuria and Mongolia for much of its history as well as the Tarim Basin area. The Aryans invaded ancient India and gave its current Indo-European religion as well as many of its current languages. Later, Buddhism was essentially driven out of the Indian Subcontinent, it's place of origin, entirely as a result of holy wars.

Europe and its offshoots have run the world for the past couple hundred years mainly because for the first time in human history, technology has permitted globally spanning empires, not because their culture was any less expansionist or more ethnocentric than anybody else.

You're naive, have an extremely limited knowledge of history.

The rest of what you have said seems like disjointed thoughts about how it isn't fair that the material wealth isn't evenly distributed on earth. I guess. I don't really know what point you're trying to make to me about it though. It's an objectively true observation.

Yes, you are right. @ZombieMatrix isn't.

They have their moments of this. But they still do have some genuinely good stuff.

I have no issues with this. I generally agree. Very well said.

Good point.

I mostly agree.

As for the backwardness of certain areas, I think that some of it is the result of Europe and North America meddling with them. But also, Europe and it's offshoots had a lot of geographical advantages, like fetike arable land, that the Middle East (outside if the Fertile Crescent) never did.

Geography is not destiny, but it has a big influence. That might have been why Europe was able to industrialize and rule the world for a while. But the rest of the world is catching up.

The supreme court said he can't.

Maybe you're right. I admit I'm a bit naive on some of the economic implications.

I feel like allowing bankruptcy would punish the dumb borrowers somewhat, but NOT punish them with crippling debt for life, as is currently the case. It would also punish loaners (including the government) for lending money to people for fairly useless degrees who would never be able to pay them back.

I think they just need to let people default and get out via bankruptcy. Doubt it will ever happen though.

So does the state.

In the mainstream, 30 to 40 years. It gained traction a lot slower than the trans rights movement, which has burst into mainstream consciousness rather quickly.

A lot of tiny groups exist. Nobody supports the KKK. Nobody. There are also micro-sized Nazi movements in Western countries today. Nobody supports them. They are utterly anathema to mainstream morality.

The amount of mental gymnastics you do to defend the Islamic world is a joke. They'll imprision trans people happily. They'll imprison gay people happily. But in the West "Muslims" and other minorities are client groups of the elites. So you know, you gotta square the circle. To be fair, there are very open-minded Muslims in the West. But they are sadly a minority in their countries of origin.

Go insult Trump some more. It will make you feel better.

No. They were lynching blacks 70 years ago. The American South has changed profoundly over the last century.

What they dislike are what are current avant garde ideas. Mainstream discussion of trans rights is what, 10 years old? A lot of the most ardent opponents to these ideas would be considered leftist by the standards of the 1970s. These changes seem slow to us. Historically they are not that slow! They're just difficult to live though.

Trump is crass and corrupt and hurts the feelings of leftists. He'd still be a liberal by the standards of the 1970s, albeit still definitely a crass and corrupt one.

You know who supports beheading or the abolition of alcohol in the modern US? For all intents and purposes no one.

Keep in mind, that when Europe was in the dark ages, the Middle East was flourishing, so was China. Northern Europe, now one of the most advanced places on Earth, was once savage compared to the Mediterranean. Today though, the West is far more civilized than the Islamic world.

I did not say that Muslims were incapabable of developing, I made no such racist argument on the basis of genetics or anything else. On the contrary, there are plenty of secular Middle Easterners in the Western world who are very smart and doing just fine.

But sadly, the culture of the Islamic world is by and large savage and medieval by modern, ethical standards. It's morons like you who would decry when the US executes somebody (very right so) but turn a blind eye to Saudi Arabia beheading people.

The West is the center of the world in 2023. But probably it won't be forever. In fact, a lot of these places are actually changing quite rapidly, it just seems slow from the perspective of a single lifetime. So who knows where they or we will be in 200 years or so.

Oh I'm not so sure about that. Look at the Gulf countries. They are rich. Look at their culture. It is changing fast, but still backwards and brutal compared to the modern West.

I assume this is a larger theme across the Fediverse?

Could you expand on what causes the massive bandwidth needs? I'm have a vague idea but I'd be very curious to know.

It should try to grow larger than in currently is, but not try to be a top website.

Trying to do the latter will involve clashing with online legal regulations, politicians, and compliance to a much greater extent than is required now. Furthermore, it will be inundated with "normie" culture if it strives to be as popular. If you make it accessible to the lower common denominator, you get the lowest common denominator.

Christians used to behave like this centuries ago. They grew up. Let us hope our Muslim brothers and sisters can do the same at some point.

Oh yes, antennapod is great

I like Vorbis/Ogg, which Spotify uses, because it's FOSS, but AAC/M4A is just has good, een a bit better at very low bitrates (<=64kbs)

People still use mp3 because, who knows, tradition.