Yeah it took me a few months to realize the extent of the problem too. I was getting modded for suggesting that Ukrainians should fight back against Russians.
I don't participate in any .ml communities any more and I block the ones who leak out into others. It's a real pity that so much of Lemmy is ruined by tankies.
Was it the admin of the instance or an individual mod? I'm still trying to figure out the policies of each instance versus its communities. I mod a few communities on .world and have never had any admin come in and do anything there.
I'm not sure it's good to condemn all of .world if it's just a few mods doing this, especially since .ml is one of the main alternatives and thousands of times worse, removing anything remotely critical of China or Russia.
It feels like we are more the early adopter tech savvy redditors though. As user ~2000 of Reddit, Lemmy feels very much like Reddit did prior to the Digg migration (after which things seemed to dumb down considerably).
It's not just you, it's capitalism in general. The incentives without government intervention are entirely to plunder the natural resources to the maximum extent possible as quickly as possible, because without government intervention, they are all basically free, despite having massive value.
AKA The tragedy of the commons or economic externalities.
For most of this stuff it would cost more to dispose of than it does to send it to Ukraine. And when they send the old stuff, someone gets a job creating new stuff to replace it.
That's a pretty important caveat. I would take it one step further to say that it only matters in non-communist governments. Yes, maybe China can pull it off. But even losing a large chunk of 40% of the economy will be pretty bad and they'd have to switch to something pretty close to fully communist pretty quick to pick up the slack.
I don't think you necessarily need GDP growth to have a healthy small amount of inflation. Inflation has more to do with monetary supply than GDP growth.
The problem with deflation is that people end up hoarding all their cash because you get a return on it without doing anything with it.
So large swathes of money start getting taken off the playing field. Investment dries up, growth slows, people get laid off, and this cycle continues, one thing causing the next, causing the next in a circle. It's one of the most destructive forces possible to an economy.
That's why the central banks strive for around 2%. It's enough to force people with cash lying around to invest it in something useful which will create jobs, etc, but not so high that it will make everyone panic and run the banks.
I only use Kagi when I can't find something on other search engines. It often delivers where others can't. But so far the free 100 searches have lasted me 3 months and I think will likely last me years at the rate I'm using them.
I'm with you man, I'm all in favor of the idea. It's just that I'm pretty sure that Nintendo looked at that market and decided that the risk to their core business was too great to take the plunge.
If anything, I think they'd just release their first party titles on other platforms before releasing a first party emulator (though I'd welcome either).
I don't think I'd buy a Switch either if I could get the games easily and reliably elsewhere, like on the steamdeck.
The whole point of consoles is to have an easy to use out of the box experience. As soon as 3rd party hardware gets involved, that goes out the window. Look at the epic failure of steam boxes. Rumors are that the next iteration will be first party hardware for exactly this reason.
If I'm wrong, tell me how. You don't get to just ignore the facts because you don't like them.
None of the other countries we attacked in the last 50 years (with possibly Afghanistan as the exception) were fighting soft wars against the US and actively prepping for a hot one. When someone's actively punching you in the face, pacifism starts to lose its glow.
Lemmy is at least as cheap as the alternative.