uuldika

@uuldika@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phasing thru walls⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  it was successful?? how?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phantom Limb Pain⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  there’s a rare mental illness called Body Integrity Dysphoria which makes people want to amputate a limb. They have less phantom pain than ordinary amputees, supposedly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are most people here left-wing?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a few ways to handle, but for example:

  • Roads: large towns and cities would mostly handle their own road maintenance. Roads connecting towns would probably be joint ventures. Projects would be funded and contracted by the towns and financed by town income tax. Rural areas would be underfunded, but that’s partly intentional - dense population centers are more sustainable.

  • Environmental regulations: handled at the level of impact. for example, water quality standards for a river bind everyone who accesses the river. restrictions (e.g. standards for heavy metal levels) would be passed by minority vote - if 40% want a standard, that’s enough. carbon credits would be administered at the Federal or World levels, by a combination of central government and treaties.

  • Education: probably pretty devolved, mostly a choice by municipalities in what they offer/teach. there’d likely be standardized tests that most places agree on for transferability (e.g. how the SAT works today.) religious schools could exist in religious communities, or you could have a Montessori program in your secular socialist Kibbutz.

  • Slavery: illegal at the Federal/World level. same with indentured servitude and coercive contracts. one of the most important functions of the central government is to protect the civil liberties of individuals.

  So the principles are mostly:

  • Externalities are handled at the level of their impact.
  • More power locally, less power centrally. City governments are more like micro-nations bound by a sort of EU.
  • Cities largely have a lot of direct democracy with some representatives. Critically, city governments wield lots of power over the businesses that operate in the city. This is critical to check corporate power.
  • Federal government exists as a backstop to safeguard fundamental rights and for truly national concerns.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are most people here left-wing?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a left libertarian. I embrace decentralization, collectivism, freedom from corporate and central government tyranny, and want to maximize individual liberty and progressive values as we ideally move towards a society like the Culture series by Ian M. Banks.

  I’m not Anarchist because it’s too chaotic and unrealistic, and I’m not ML because I don’t like State authoritarianism and central planning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Listening to some old albums while reviewing my retirement savings⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been denied all the best ultra sex 😞

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're cooked, I'm hooked⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  once in a lifetime recession

  slightly bit-crushed Mr. Incredible

  once in a lifetime pandemic

  monochrome nightmare fuel Mr. Incredible

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is worried about men⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  mRNA technology premiering on the eve of a killer pandemic leaps to mind.

  that’s fair. progress in medicine more generally has been good. we’ve started curing fatal genetic disorders, we found the cause of multiple sclerosis, there’s a new antipsychotic with a novel MoA for the first time since chlorpromazine…

  None of this was indicative of better economics or a functional political system.

  Obama, Reagan, Bush and Clinton weren’t fascists. even Trump wasn’t a fully-fledged fascist in his first term. he is now, and what’s happening to the Federal Government is unprecedented.

  look, I know the Weimar Republic had its problems, but you can’t claim Hitler was just more of the same. so it is with the US in 2025.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bubble Wrap!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  eyebrow crabs?!! doctors are a different breed, that’s nightmare fuel to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Based on a true story⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  America: third world country, first world prices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Based on a true story⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s extremely rare to find such a cheap used car. my partner spent $8k on one that lasted a year. also, you might be surprised to learn that driving isn’t optional in most of the US - it’s literally impossible to live without a car. I live in a suburb. it’s several miles of dangerous roads to get to a grocery store. there is no nearby public transit. even large cities like LA were completely designed around cars. zoning and urban planning here completely screwed us.

  yes, it sucks, yes I’m aware, yes I’d love to live in a walkable European city with commuter rail and cafes on the street corner, no I don’t have a choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is worried about men⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Westoids live in the wealthiest, easiest, most affluent era of human history.

  decades ago, houses were affordable, college was cheap, Americans weren’t crushed under mountains of dischargeable student debt, wealth disparity and effective wages were far better, and we had a far more functional political system.

  I can’t think of much that hasn’t gone downhill since 2016.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We are so cooked⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  weeds are to gardens like my house is to HOAs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨long⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  is this… somehow… real?

  could you make this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is Turkish⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  they thought the bird came from Turkey iirc, that’s why it’s named like that. 🦃

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  oof.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Acetone: A Thread⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a bong as a freshman. I cleaned it with acetone. I then had several tubes instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Late 1900s⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  and I was just looking at a 100Tbps backhaul the other day… that’s what, a billion times more bandwidth?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Late 1900s⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I read CS papers from the late '80s/early '90s and it feels like unearthing cuneiform tablets. Lots of good ideas, just everything felt so raw and new.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Life goals⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He might have a connective tissue disorder? EDS in particular causes stretchy skin, though I’ve never seen the scalp do that.

  t. EDS patient. it’s pretty crippling and painful but I have some fun party tricks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Comrade Krasnov is just a follower of Leninist tought !⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And Dimitry Prigozhin was Putin’s chef! Before he founded PMC Wagner, helped invade Ukraine, led a failed coup attempt, and got blown up.

  Truly the soul of Russia is in its cooking. 🪆

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I kinda do know but I'm posting this as a joke.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy has a grand total of one (1) spambot, a scammer posing as “Nicole.” in a way, this is Lemmy World Heritage in the making.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nicole endgame⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  is there an AMA sublemmy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You better say "Thank You"!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  wait, why would you need to bypass guardrails for this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Latin⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Timba, his arms wide!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨history rhymes, or something⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  wasn’t the Red Guard also a student movement? it didn’t get deleted, but it’s definitely not looked back upon fondly. tbf most of what I know of it comes from Three Body Problem though, so I could be wrong.

  there’s also the Red Army Faction (Baader-Meinhoff gang) in Germany during the '70s which killed some people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a reader⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually read the entirety of HPMoR to my elderly mother. I tried to sell her on Friendship is Optimal but I think rationalist pony fanfic is a bit too ambitious a leap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's friend is Buddhist⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  oof, never thought I’d see the baseline for “normal” set to after covid.