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[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago (6 children)

I give it 5 hours from mass release before ad blockers catch up.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

I so badly want to see her wipe the floor with him, but now sadly the popcorn I bought in anticipation will have to settle for a movie.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Don't forget planned to murder every Democrat, Republican who didn't do what they wanted, and the Vice President.

"HANG MIKE PENCE!"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

As I already said, we're not going to be able to get rid of the sociopaths. It's a mental disorder, by chance and or trauma. They'll always be with us, barring some genetic engineering that borders on eugenics. That's not the point.

The point is to make them the minority, and have a system where everyone isn't forced to act like them in order to succeed.

I've already stated a potential option. Capitalism on its own is technically a purely neutral economic system, provided it's ONLY the economic system. We have expanded that system into our society as well, and that's when it becomes toxic.

Use a capitalist economy, but strapped and locked down by socialist (true socialist, not the USSR or communist) principles and systems. Ensure that if capitalism has social effects, they're extremely minor, and elevate the good of people above that of capital. Socialism Strapped Capitalism.

Good inroads to this are things like UBI, a maximum income, and ensuring social and environmental effects are included in corporate financial calculations.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Thank you for being my first block here, you galactic brain simpleton, you ;)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for your reasonable reply and question! As for what I love about UI, it's simple;

I don't have to remember what to enter, just the pathway to get there.

With command line, you have to remember commands, arguments, syntax, and gods forbid you enter something wrong. It won't work.

But with a (decently designed) UI, you merely have to remember the path you took to get to wherever you want to go, what buttons to press, what mouse movements to execute.

As someone with a limited attention span and energy to do things, this is a lifesaver.

As for Visual Studio, that's a development preference. Code is too different for me to be comfortable in it, and relies on command line too much.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (8 children)

I'll switch to Linux when Visual Studio Community (NOT Code) works on it and I never have to touch the command line ever again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It's worse. Certain economic and social systems are designed to make the only viable, or most viable, survival strategy to be a sociopath or worse. Most people are forced to cosplay that at some level in these systems, whether they have those traits naturally or not, in order to survive. And despite human nature being communal, it's more powerful in survival adaptation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I'm morbidly curious as to when you think capitalism started, considering your take here :V

Hint: it was fire

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

That's not the problem. The problem isn't the people willing to exploit the system. They're the sociopaths in question that capitalism is designed to help succeed.

The problem is, everyone else has to cosplay them in order to survive. And human nature, despite being communal, is more powerful than that in only one way; survival adaptation.

Our species will adapt as hard as it has to in order to survive, no matter what.

In a capitalist system (mind you, societal as well as economic, socialism strapped capitalism might actually work very well), because the best survival strategy is to be a sociopath or worse, most people will be forced to do so to at least some level.

Change the system, change the outcome.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Why would I lay one on you if you can't lay

[–] [email protected] 117 points 1 year ago (20 children)

It's almost like capitalism is designed to make sociopathy the more successful survival strategy

 

Did you ever hear the tragedy of the Martians who invaded Earth? I thought not. It's not a story the humans would tell you. It's an old legend of theirs. The Martians were rulers of the planet Mars in the Sol system, the same system as Earth, so powerful and so wise they were able to build spaceships capable of crossing the void between the planets and walking on the surface... They had such a knowledge of science that they could do this before the humans even invented flight! The Martian evolution was so advanced in time that they could even keep their species alive against all attacks. Their ships were considered by many humans to be unnatural, more like monsters of the deep than spacecraft. They became so powerful... the only thing they were afraid of was losing their supremacy to the rapidly advancing humans, which eventually, of course, they did. Unfortunately they did not check Earth well enough to find it a death world well beyond Mars, and so soon after they landed to try and take it for their own, the microscopic life humans took for granted killed them in their sleep. Ironic. They could travel the void, save their race from all they had done to their world, but they could not save themselves from Earth.

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A well known feature from Reddit, default communities (subs on Reddit) are communities that newcomers are subscribed to by default. Lemmy, and specifically lemmy.world, could use some of these, I feel. At the very least, communities like lemmyworld, general, and newcomers are good ones to include, if we're still somehow sticking with the old Lemmy ethos of less guided interaction. Aww, pics, videos, memes, news, etc, are good ones if not. This massively sped up the integration of new users on Reddit, and I believe it's a good addition to Lemmy.

Added on to this is a capability that Reddit had and lemmy doesn't yet, which is multi(reddits) communities, or Collections is probably what we'd call them here. I could see a 'default' collection being applied to new users, for example. The pie in the sky version of this would be publicly browsable and shareable collections, so you could send your friends a link which allows them to subscribe to multiple communities at once and create a new personal Collection automatically based on it.

 

Like Reddit is? e.g. for Google, or Bing (shudders), you know. Search engines. One of the ways many people around the world interacted with Reddit was looking up solutions, discussions, or similar from a search engine and NOT on Reddit itself. Is that possible in this thread of the fediverse?

 

Right now, when I follow a link posted on this instance to another instance, it takes me to that instance. I'm aware that this is Mastodon's behavior, and I find it repulsive there too, but it's even worse on a Reddit equivalent. Currently, to actually get subscribed to a sub, I have to either go to the actual instance and copy the link, or copy it manually here, travel back to this instance, pull open the search bar, post it in, search for it, wait for the search, and finally it'll let me click on a button to take me to a page on this instance where I can subscribe to it from this instance.

Please. For the love of my poor mobile fingers.

Make instance links skip most of that and just go straight to the local subscribe page?

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