Why did the metaverse die? Because Silicon Valley doesn’t understand the concept of fun
I was looking into hosting a threadiverse app previously and was interested in kbin because lemmy was dealing with the csam stuff at the time and I liked the idea of combining microblogging into the threadiverse app. My overall takeaway from kbin though was that it was too new / missing too many features I needed, and development was slow enough that it felt like I'd have to implement all I need myself. So a community fork of an already not super active repo sounds... Well, I'm not optimistic about it, at least.
Not new, but we are still defederated from world so I can't subscribe
Imagine looking at a video where he explicitly states leftists have no desire to rule by violence, and repeating the tired comment that he's a tankie.
Beehaw moment 😔
Well funnily enough I think that part, legally, is totally fine. There's nothing anti competitive about being in two unrelated industries, and I don't think there's a good case that aws is a monopoly. There are viable and cheaper alternatives like hetzner, aws is just popular but it's not manipulating the market
That's a really interesting article on how Amazon makes it money when prime is such a good deal for the consumers. I really hope Amazon gets broken up
I didn't assume you were a fan of suburbs, I just read your comment about cities being blights upon the earth and argued why I think suburbs are more blight-like.
The only assumption I made about you is that you'd appreciate an appeal to environmentalism, since you called earth our beautiful planet
That's a very fair point, and one I agree with. I also think it'd help to move away from capitalism though. Capitalism is the force that encourages so many companies to throw away excess food rather than give it away, because doing so would lower demand and be "bad for business". If we could just reduce our food waste that alone would do wonders in decreasing land use for farms, monoculture or otherwise.
I also think, over time the world should become more vegetarian. Even if you believe in food chains and that it's okay for us to eat meat in general, the farming of animals often in cartoonishly cruel conditions solely for our consumption is abhorrent. Moving from meat based diets to (at least mostly) plant based is a moral necessity, and on top of that will massively reduce emissions (15% comes from livestock), land use, and biodiversity loss
What's the bad space? Based on them mentioning block lists, I'm guessing it's a community that gets blocked by a lot of instances?
Fwiw, I think it's totally fine for communities to defederate from other places en masse. The whole point of federation is for small, customized communities. If a community decides it doesn't want x or y, then that's fine. Individuals who no longer feel like they align with the community can find another or create their land.
Walkable cities produce less pollution per capita than suburban or rural areas due to less pollution from commutes and increased efficiency delivering utilities (due to the population density).
Suburban sprawl is what truly makes ugly stains on our word - concrete everywhere, destroying the watershed, with no native grass in the medians, and so many cars spewing out fumes, micro plastics, and disrupting migration patterns. They're depressing places to live.
Fwiw, I think using a self hosted home automation setup (shout out to home assistant) paired with smart devices that don't use internet (e.g. zigbee, zwave, or matter once it comes out) can allow you to have a smart home without these kinds of fears.
That said, I would definitely agree to using mechanical locks. Although a monitored smart security system is probably still a good idea - you're letting a company virtually enter your house, but you can't rely on a self hosted solution to notify you when your power goes out, for example.
I think you're confusing liberalism with leftism. The post is talking about neoliberalism, which is fundamentally a political philosophy of "no bad systems, only bad actors", and is actually pretty darn anti-change and therefore conservative. If you'd like to watch a longer form essay that goes into more detail on the points that greentext brought up, and explains it within the greater context of Rowling's own politics, I highly recommend this video by Shaun (a leftist YT essayist): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1iaJWSwUZs
Older rural areas are actually typically much more walkable than American cities. Keep in mind, rural towns were very common before cars existed. They're typically structured to have a small center, sometimes basically just a "main street", with all the places you need to regularly visit, and houses surrounding them, and the farmland surrounding that. This way the people are all relatively close, and the farmland is not between you and others. These towns are all about self sufficiency within the community, but ofc if you keep a car for when you need to travel somewhere else that's fine, and no one is begrudging you for using gas powered farm equipment on your farm. The main point is you don't have a daily commute that requires a car, because it's either your farm or one of the lose shops that are close to everyone.
And for what it's worth, a lot of train networks used to go to these rural towns as well, and it'd be awesome to see those return for Intercity travel.
I think it makes sense for a community to dictate what tags are allowed within that community. It's a similar system to tags on reddit. The programming community would probably have tags for each paradigm, you just wouldn't have to worry about people writing Vue, Vue.js, and Vue.JS as different tags.
Good point, there's probably 999 other people working on those same exact pieces.
You're correct, I am unfamiliar with driving in the US - I've lived here my whole life, but have made it into my mind 20s without a license. Needless to say, I don't live in a particularly rural area (I live in a suburbs where I can ride my electric bike to nearby stores or the train to commute downtown). I wasn't trying to suggest people pass on the shoulder though. I hadn't thought of winding roads, but that's a fair point where there could potentially be two lanes but it's still not safe to pass. For the single lane scenario I still don't think it makes sense to suggest a giant RV regularly move into the shoulder (if it's even present), especially not "any time there is a car behind them" as has been suggested elsewhere in the thread.
Regardless, in general I think it's more important to strive for systemic solutions rather than expecting/hoping for/pressuring all individuals to act in the way you want. In this case, since we're talking about rural areas, I think fixing our broken rail network would help immensely. Building the network and corresponding culture around trains for inter city travel would be cheaper for individuals and the government, better for the environment, would allow everyone on board to relax, and it'd even be faster than driving. For popular vacation locations the frequency could even be high enough to eliminate the last barrier of it being on a sometimes inconvenient schedule! Now, of course the locations themselves may not be easily traversable without a car (and trust me I'm aware of how often that applies), but if you're trying to escape concrete jungles anyways then perhaps walking around was the goal anyways. Otherwise, you can probably rent a car (or a bike!) and still save money compared to the fuel and maintenance cost on driving the vehicle there.
Did you know we throw away more food than it would take to feed the hungry? That there are more empty homes than homeless people? Capitalism incentivizes scarcity, so it is artificially created. The only thing stopping us from achieving post scarcity immediately is working out the logistics, but those in power don't want that to happen, as they are currently high up in society.
I don't think that's what the previous commenter was suggesting, but sure slower vehicles being in the rightmost lane makes sense and is also taught in American driving schools.
Hell even in a car there's a car behind you most of the time. I can't believe your suggesting they literally detour at every single moment. That's adding a hell of a lot more than 25% to the trip duration
I think this article makes reasonable sense. Also that quote from Spez is so disheartening. Glad I'm not on reddit anymore