tabarnaski @ tabarnaski @sh.itjust.works

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To me, people complaining about how hard it is to adjust to daylight savings time is the epitome of a first world problem.

Well Trump did actively support an insurrection, I don't know how you can't see this as a threat to democracy in the US...

"Religion A is less genocidal than Religion B". This is a supremely futile argument to make.

And millenials will be in 15 years, then genZ in another 15... As generations get older, they tend to shift to the right.

If my kid comes back from biology telling me about intelligent design because his teacher mentioned it in class I admit I'd be pissed off, but I don't think I'd call for the teacher to be fired or try to censor them. Instead I might tell them about the scientific explanation and why I think what the teacher says is bullshit. As a parent I try to participate in my kids education. Problem is, some parents don't, and then they go crazy when teachers different ideas than theirs.

Teacher here. IMHO the job of any pre-university teacher goes beyond the strict subject matter of their class. Nothing wrong with a math teacher doing a bit of computer science, or a language teacher talking about history, or a history teacher doing ethics. Helps students develop their critical thinking skills, judging by themselves the worth of someone else's opinions. Some people think that teachers must be controlled so that they don't indoctrinate kids or whatever but this completely ignores the fact that kids are smarter than what most adults think. School is the place where they can exposed to a diversity of opinions, new ways to think about stuff, learn to live in a society. If you think of school as a service and education as just another product, you're wrong.

Maybe it would be a good thing for the digital world to be free from the concept of ownership.

Even if the messenger might have dubious motives, I think the message deserves to be heard.

Doesn't have to be connected to the cloud for that, except if you do your laundry when you're not home.

Please do starfield next

There are different levels to being a threat to democracy. I'm pretty sure what Democrats did doesn't really compare with the dictatorship Trump has in mind and what happened on Jan 6.

They just had more time to practice than Nazi Germany did.

It's doing a not so bad job in a few countries (spoiler: the US is not among them), e.g. Finland, Denmark, Germany, Canada. I'm not saying it's a perfect system, not even a good system, just that it's a good place to start.

Wealth redistribution requires that there's wealth to begin with, and capitalism is clearly the system with the best incentives to create wealth. You just need strong policies to prevent sociopaths a la Musk, Thiel or Bezos to try to hoard "all the money", to easily break up monopolies, etc.

In any case, claiming immunity implies you admit doing what you're accused of doing but you just don't want consequences to apply to you.

While I agree with your first paragraph, I'm not sure that communism would be a solution, given how history has shown us that it can be quite easily corrupted and used by the elite to exploit the masses.

A capitalist system where political power have the means to control financial power, and where there are limits to the influence of money in politics, might be better IMHO.

Russia is just much more powerful than them even with full NATO support.

Not so sure about that: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1293174/nato-russia-military-comparison/

Anyway it's been a while since a war has been won in the traditional sense. I find the conditions of victory hard to define for Ukraine or Russia.

Bioshock infinite comes to mind, even though the timeloop aspect of the game is entirely related to the storyline, no game mechanics use it.

Gotta live the "ideas are cheap" stance when you know how much money some patents can be worth.

Tabarnaski, pleased to meet you.

Sometimes I feel like the internet is reliving in a 30 year span what retail went through over a whole century. General stores and small specialized shops serving a limited number of clients, same as when you could put on a website to sell to the world the birdhouses you made as a hobby. Then came shopping malls and Walmarts and everybody went oh my god this is so cool, everything in one place. The same enthusiasm we felt over Facebook, Google, amazon. And now, seeing how the big players all sell cheap stuff, control the market and kill all competition, we look back at a time when there were more options, more freedom, and choose to use Lemmy instead of Reddit, and buy our coffee at the local roaster rather than Starbucks.