14th_cylon
@14th_cylon@lemmy.zip
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 1 day ago:
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 1 day ago:
where nobody wants to live because it’s ugly and depressing and guaranteed, the poor end up having to live there, and with that comes crime and what not and you end up with ghetto style areas where even police is uneasy
you should not give lectures about something you know from bad tv show at best.
what a suprise, these communities look according to how you maintain them and people who live there are happy to have a place to live. and when it undergoes revitalization, it looks quite nice.
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 1 day ago:
in prague, it is 2 monthly median salaries per squared meter. there was a lot wrong about the fucking “communism”, but accessible housing was not one of them.
- Comment on What's the best free version of word? 3 days ago:
all words are free. i just used thirteen of them and paid nothing.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 2 weeks ago:
No serious political scientist claims democracy is a matter of ideology or “who feels represented.” There is broad cross-national agreement on procedural criteria: competitive elections, universal suffrage, freedom of association and expression, independent courts, civilian control of the military, and peaceful transfer of power. Chinese or Russian academics may reject these standards, but that doesn’t make them arbitrary—just inconvenient for regimes that fail to meet them. There’s no need for a supranational authority to decide this any more than there is one for physics; standards emerge from scholarly consensus and empirical comparison.
Second, pointing out abuses and contradictions inside democracies doesn’t negate their democratic character. What you describe in France, Greece, Germany, and Spain are are events happening within constitutional systems, not the absence of those systems. Courts overturn referenda because constitutions limit majority rule; executives misuse emergency powers; police and media manipulate narratives. That is democracy functioning badly, not democracy not existing.
The decisive distinction is whether these actions can be challenged, exposed, reversed, and punished. In Europe, governments lose elections, courts rule against executives, journalists investigate police misconduct, and opposition parties—leftist ones included—can recover and return. In Russia, journalists, opposition politicians, and anti‑corruption activists don’t lose court cases; they lose their freedom, their lives, or very famously, fall out of windows.
That is the difference between democracy and dictatorship, comrade.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 2 weeks ago:
Also, what’s a sea lion supposed to be
good news, i just checked and google is up today.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 2 weeks ago:
Putin has higher approval ratings than any western leader.
you are joking, right? a dictator who falsifies elections and statistics has good “approval ratings”, oh wow, we should abandon democracy immediately and opt in for a dictatorship, must be so sweet!
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 2 weeks ago:
I doubt political scientists in China agree with, say, German political scientists’ definition of democracy. What supranational organization will decide which country’s political scientists are correct?
china is free to form an alliance with anyone they want to, as long as that entity wishes same. and the democratic countries have the same right. you are either one of the <2 brain cells people, or a sea-lion, either way, i am done with you.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 2 weeks ago:
that would be necessary, not sufficient condition.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 2 weeks ago:
we have the whole field of expertise for that, we call it the political science. and no one with more than 2 brain cells thinks china or russia are democratic countries.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 2 weeks ago:
the policy shoud be “this is union of democratic countries”
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 2 weeks ago:
no, i am just being sarcastic towards stupid commies.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 2 weeks ago:
yes. as a geniune western citizen typing with my western democratic hands, i also support dissolution of nato.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
that’s surprise. the real red flag here is finishing the irl sentence with “lol”.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 3 weeks ago:
and I’ll bet you have smoke detectors and fire extinguishers around just in case
“smoke detectors everywhere” is not a norm everywhere in the world in a same way it is in usa.
“americans are not aware there is a world behind their borders” is already on a list in this thread, but thank you for practical presentation 😂
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 3 weeks ago:
but in some small handful of cases it may save their lives.
in some small number of cases you can get hit by a meteorite during that search, so be careful.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 3 weeks ago:
great, another american immigrant. we need to build a wall and make america pay for it.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 3 weeks ago:
i am not going to verify what you said, but regardless of if it is true, if your grandparents have the citizenship, you probably don’t need dna test to find that out…
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 3 weeks ago:
that is not exclusively american thing
- Comment on I should assume I'm not going tomorrow, right? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on What happened to lem.ee? 3 weeks ago:
yeah, and sometimes they say “your parents deserved to be murdered because they owned stuff”, so… 🤷♂️
- Comment on Could you be relatively healthy if you replaced traditional carb sources with skittles and multivitamins? 3 weeks ago:
check the other article i have strategically hidden as reply to myself.
- Comment on Could you be relatively healthy if you replaced traditional carb sources with skittles and multivitamins? 3 weeks ago:
there is one that is slightly more in favor. so take your pick i guess
…harvard.edu/…/should-i-take-a-daily-multivitamin
Most studies have not shown a definitive health benefit of a daily MVM supplement for men like you. However, a recent clinical trial, published online Jan. 18, 2024, by The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, suggests taking MVMs may help delay cognitive decline in older adults.
For the trial, 573 participants were given baseline cognitive and memory tests. Half were given one standard MVM daily, and the other half took a placebo. Both groups were unaware of which one they were given. The study participants were retested again after two years. The people who took the MVM scored slightly higher on the memory and cognitive tests than those who took the placebo.
but also says:
The grocery and drugstore shelves are full of other supplements, which are heavily promoted for all kinds of health benefits, most of which have no scientific evidence to support their use. It’s always best to check with the pharmacist or doctor before taking any individual supplement.
- Comment on Could you be relatively healthy if you replaced traditional carb sources with skittles and multivitamins? 3 weeks ago:
hopkinsmedicine.org/…/is-there-really-any-benefit…
significantly deficient in iron
if you are significantly deficient in anything, then take whatever your doctor recommends. but this idea people have “oh pop a pill a to get some vitamin c and others, you will be healthy” is just marketing.
- Comment on Could you be relatively healthy if you replaced traditional carb sources with skittles and multivitamins? 3 weeks ago:
wtf. multivitamins are largely a marketing scam, most of that shit will just go out of your body anyway, you are paying for enhanced urine. and skittles? food source? really?
- Comment on What happened to lem.ee? 3 weeks ago:
i am personally simple person. i see @hexbear.net, i block, no exceptions.
- Comment on What happened to lem.ee? 3 weeks ago:
the site received a considerable amount of “vile” content of one type or another
ok, i can definitely see problem with that.
…cnn.com/…/facebook-content-moderators-kenya-ptsd…
I’m not really sure why Lemm.ee (the 3rd-biggest Lemmy instance at the time) evidently received so much of that shit compared to others.
i remember his unwillingness to defederate with basically anyone, hard to say if that played a role.
but i agree it was very well ran instance. it is a shame it ended and i hope he is happy with his other endeavors.
- Comment on What happened to lem.ee? 3 weeks ago:
that’s not what i tried to insinuate, i don’t think it was enough money for an it professional to do that and i don’t see why anyone other than him would have access to it. but we are just speculating indeed.
- Comment on What happened to lem.ee? 3 weeks ago:
the thing is the bills were paid by users, and according to what he publicly said the money were not a problem and he had budget for months in advance, so it wasn’t about money.
the fact that he didn’t make the final announcement himself is something that i personally do consider quite strange, but we will never know, i guess.
- Comment on What happened to lem.ee? 3 weeks ago:
lemm.ee was one man show operated by one person, who was probably industry professional (some kind of system architect/admin), because his infrastructure was designed quite well and robust.
he eventually grew tired of it, because as the instance grew, it was impossible to maintain it as one man team and expanded on his admin and mod team.
after some more time, the admin team announced that it is still too much and they aren’t able to handle the amount of moderator and admin work needed, and we should go home because they are closing.
it was quite strange, because the sunaurus, the founder and head admin of the instance, was quite transparent about how everything works from the beginning and communicated with the users often and clearly - up until the end, where this “we are closing, go home” announcement was not made by him, but by some anonymous admin.
so my working theory is they killed and ate him, stole the servers and went home 🤷♂️.
