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pruwyben
pruwyben @ pruwybn @discuss.tchncs.de
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What are the best steps to reduce the wealth of billionaires?

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  • To answer the question in terms of things you personally can do, I think the boring and realistic answer is to research organizations who align with your goals and who you think have effective methods, and get involved with them.

    Personally I like represent.us - They're specific to the US, but their idea is to put anti-corruption laws into place that help remove the influence of money on the government. This would help get laws passed that favor everybody instead of just the rich. Their approach is to begin at the local level and get enough momentum for a national movement to have some power.

    Here are a couple of videos they made, first about what the problem is, and second about how they are trying to solve it:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu32CCA_Ig

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhe286ky-9A

    • Lmk

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  • I thought the second was Buddy Holly by Weezer.

    • Would it be worth it to stop using the Internet?

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  • I think the premise is questionable. After a quick google search it was easy to find studies showing that internet access is beneficial to health.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9218541/

    "The results indicate that access to the Internet significantly improves the average health condition and alleviates health inequality."

    https://www.fcc.gov/health/SDOH

    "There is increasing evidence demonstrating a strong relationship between broadband access, Internet adoption, and health outcomes."

    • Tree falls in the forest

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  • Guy: That just raises further questions!

    • 🫄🎣

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  • Give a fish a man and he will day for a fish.

    • Xenophobia is to racism what homophobia is to ... ?

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  • I've seen the word homomisia and the general suffix -misia used to reflect that a lot of "phobias" really mean hatred and not fear.

    • Countries that spend the most and least time on their screens

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  • Japan: the lowest screen time in Asia and Oceania (also the world)

    • Pizzakinesis rule

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  • One time I dreamt that I had the ability to make tater tots appear out of thin air.

    • Lemmy Needs to Fix Its Community Separation Problem

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  • That's true. I guess I like the idea of being able to distribute a community across servers, but it may be more trouble than it's worth to implement.

    • What free things online should everyone take advantage of?

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  • Also kanopy.com lets you make a free account with a library card or university login, and you can watch movies for free.

    • Lemmy Needs to Fix Its Community Separation Problem

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  • I personally don't think this is a huge issue, but it is an issue. I usually pick the biggest community on a topic, or if there are multiple that are fairly active, subscribe to both/all. The only real complaint I have about it is that users will often make the same post to both communities, so I see duplicate posts on my timeline and the discussion is split in half.

    I do think it would be nice if there was a way for community mods to choose to combine two communities across instances, in a way that they would appear as a single community to users. I don't know how that would be implemented though.

    • Most people’s responsibilities rely on other people’s responsibilities, so when we tell ourselves “not my job” there’s almost always an “as long as they do what they’re supposed to” addendum.

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  • If I work at the deli in a grocery store, and they run out of cheese, then it's my job to buy more cheese?

    • is a hot dog a sandwich

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  • So bread is toast I guess.

    • Have mercy on our souls

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  • It's pronounced like the g in high.

    • Is "If A then B" equal to "B if and only if A"?

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  • You left out the "not" part - "If not pizza lunch, then not Tuesday" does indeed work.

    • The duality of rule.

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  • Was there an umbrella in the photo?

    • Noooooo

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  • We're all headed for the minus world.

    • Change my mind: The Fediverse is not as connected as were told, and it's splintering even more.

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  • It's a shame this is being downvoted, because I think these are interesting topics to discuss. A while back I found this article which talks about similar ideas; it's is from a few years ago but I think makes points that are still valid. It talks about how there is a lot of ambiguity in ActivityPub, and there aren't really standardized ways for different implementations to interact - a lot of it is ad hoc, and as you pointed out, doesn't always work well, or may work better in one direction than the other. Hopefully it will become more standardized in the future and remove some of the ambiguity.

    • One thing I hope to see in the Fediverse is people engaging with old content

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  • I hope this one works better! I signed up at tchncs when I started Lemmy, and it seems like I chose well :)

    • Lemmy instance which has not defederated with any other instance.

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  • Make sure you go to Settings and select any languages you want to see as well as Undetermined - I had a similar issue which was fixed by doing this.

    If that's not it, it may be a delay in comments federating if it's a community you just recently subscribed to, or there could be federation issues. If the post is on an instance that's defederated with yours, I don't think it would show up at all, unless the defederation happened after it was made.

    You can check who an instance has defederated with by checking the Instances link at the bottom of the mane page (or adding /instances after the URL). There's also a tool to see what other instances have defederated with a particular one here: https://defed.xyz/