birdwing
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- Comment on To cosmic shreds, I say! 1 day ago:
You could remove the X chromosome so all of them now have Y, but that is lethal.
- Comment on To cosmic shreds, I say! 1 day ago:
Why not change the measure of the nuclear efficiency of fusion from hydrogen to helium, to be from 0.007 into 0.006?
- Comment on Is there a sublemmy where people suggest ideas for a sublemmy? specifically, a sublemmy to review fediverse instances. 1 week ago:
sidelemmies, bylemmies, is what i usually call them instead. officially they’re called communities.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
no, iirc that site just doesn’t have https . which is baffling, most modern sites do
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- Comment on 10 Careers Once Considered Stable Are Now Seeing Major Layoffs (Latest Data) 1 week ago:
Also agriculture if you’re in an area that’s been (formerly) too cold or dry for it.
- Comment on Should I donate sperm? 1 week ago:
This is the only real factor I’d say should be important. Heritable physical and mental diseases should be factored.
(Well, to you donating, that is. To people who want to use the donated, appearance like hair type/colour, eyes, height, or other stuff might be a thing).
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 1 week ago:
Likewise. I hate getting up early.
If it were me, I’d work 10-18, 4x a week instead.
- Comment on Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here? 1 week ago:
Not exactly, if Reddit is a single tree, then Lemmy is a forest of trees.
- Comment on Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here? 1 week ago:
… Albania?
- Comment on On an open source platform, I'm supposed to be able to change my username/display name, right ? 1 week ago:
Yup, Codeberg >>
Or Radicle, which is P2P
- Comment on Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here? 1 week ago:
I don’t think only investing into business and production is what would help. If those businesses get taken over by venture capitalists or go into stocks, then the motive shifts towards profit, rather than people.
It’d help more if those businesses were worker co-operatives, and their people worked together to establish community exchanges, and the workers use the profits of cooperatives to:
- save for crises, ensuring that even then, workers still can thrive.
- establish more businesses in different sectors, being all horizontally federated.
- grow funds to outcompete capitalist structures, to take them over and turn them into other worker-owned cooperatives, and so the ball keeps on rolling.
- train themselves to defend one another, and learn each other’s jobs. This in case scabs (strike-breakers) or cops arrive and arrest some workers.
Especially farms, mines, woodlands, – anything involving natural resources and land – would be crucial.
Sure, in this age of digitalisation, a lot happens online, too. But even then, at its root, for data centres you need land, water, and resources. For computers, you need minerals, from mines. For cables, you need boats of hardy materials. And for those labourers, you need farms and woodlands to supply them and their clothing.
- Comment on Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here? 1 week ago:
Why should we restrict ourselves to countries? Let us take inspiration from societies such as the Rojava (which do need help, in staving off the new repressive Syrian regimes), the Zapatistas, and Christiana. Those are great.
- Comment on Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here? 1 week ago:
Wasn’t there a list somewhere where you could see with which instances an instance was federated?
- Comment on Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here? 1 week ago:
I’d say even Reagan already was a very weird president. Before the Watergate affair with Nixon, trust in American presidents was generally high in non-socialist Europe, though imho they went radically overboard with their anticommunism, conflating anarchism and all liberationist movements with what they saw as red fascism.
After Reagan, the surface may have seemed similar, but beneath in the cogs of the American system, something started breaking the labourers of which we see the effects even now. Reagan instigated a new level of arguments for abolishing the state anywhere, such as COINTELPRO, Operation Cyclone, indebting the American labourer while stagnating wages, and so on, and radicalising the discourse step for step.
- Comment on Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here? 1 week ago:
It’s interesting to get a perspective from someone living in Africa. I sadly rarely hear from you lot there. What part of Africa, if I may ask, comrade?
If you ask me, the US is indeed a danger to Europe now that the south and midwest rapidly are couping the rest from an imperfect bourgeoise democracy - into a fascist dictatorship. But it wasn’t always that way, and this damage must be undone.
For there is a lot of good around in the world that we can find and when we look only for the bad, we become addled with inaction, with fear. And that doesn’t help the labour’s cause.
Most Lemmings are from Europe, North America, or New Zealand & Australia. More rarely will you find those from elsewhere. That, and Lemmy was primarily found on being a hub for Marxist-Leninists.
Though in more recent times more people that align with left-wing movements have joined here, primarily due to the Reddit API greed’s exodus. Many came here due to the decentral nature of the fediverse, which is inherently opposed to the oligarchic structures that enabled that API drama in the first place.
So naturally there’s a “bias” against capitalism, and since there aren’t many socialist larger powers left in the world, that gives a pro-CCP boost.
Me? I have my reservations about Marxist-Leninism. I would describe myself as an anarchist communist, or a council communist. In terms of where I align, I decline countries altogether. But for my own liberty to speak out, I’m not exactly a fan of the Usonian (since they repress personal liberties due to religious indoctrination) or Chinese government (due to their crackdown on class solidarity with queers). In both countries, a lot of people exist that have their own respectable views, but unfortunately, it is leadership that can be the root of repression and corruption.
Ultimately, I believe that socialism and communism are the better path, and that those are only possible through full liberation and emancipation from repression, including those of queers. I prefer a community exchange system over one where economic colonialism renews itself in perpetuity.
- Comment on Anon is a paramedic 2 weeks ago:
He who wants war, must be sent himself.
- Comment on Can't prove environmental issues if you don't have the data 2 weeks ago:
The ideal would be for him to choke on a hamburger. That’d be the most poetic.
- Comment on Cuba Libre 🇨🇺 2 weeks ago:
Don’t forget how the amount of doctors is restricted by law by Congress, determined by Congress.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
OP:
“I would be passing and balancing tenant rights so no landlord can pull sneaky shady bullshit on tenants renting from them.”
Also OP:
“Squatting would be illegal, on a federal level.”
Tell me again, how does it help to evict people from homes that went unused by the landlord part of the wealthy class?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Abolish most poll taxes, as they disproportionally affect the labourers.
Reorient the surveillance state, to dismantle all fascist and oligarch-owned groups. Prevent their re-establishment. Mass deradicalise groups. Mass release all prisoners who have been arrested on anti-labour right premises, and civilly commit the rest.
Prevent wealthy and thus corrupt individuals from leaving the country altogether, until they show full transparency over their net worth, and agree to proper taxation. If they do not comply, they will be imprisoned for life without parole, and must undergo therapy combatting their Napoleon complex fantasies. They and everyone else involved in their schemes must be trialed and face the consequences.
Reform the military and police to be wholly composed of anti-fascists in perpetuity. Disarm all who are far-right. Arm and properly train those who are anti-fascist. Dismantle the punitive system in favour of a rehabilitative one (call it “reform punishment” to get support from those that want revenge more).
From the funds restored back from those wealthy, establish an independent sovereign wealth fund à la Norwegian system, that only invests in what improves labour rights and social progress, transparency, and decentralisation.
Invest in the rust belts so that these areas also will return to a sense of normalcy.
Tax havens must share data and hand over criminals, or they will face a full embargo and further measures.
Establish incentives to make decentralised, unionised, and worker-owned cooperatives (DUWOCs) much more attractive than any other system. Establish multiple community exchange systems that cooperate with one another, replacing money.
Both of the above should be implemented everywhere, but especially at the base of the supply chain for food, shelter, water, and education, but also apply to the rest.
Dismantle the fossil industry in favour of solar, wind, water, and nuclear, and only keep a reserve in case wars occur with powers that control renewable natural resources. Dismantle the military-industrial complex in favour of those that are non-profit.
The fossil and military-industrial CEOs that refuse to cooperate will again, face the same punishments as the oligarchs. Those that cooperate and reduce their wealth, will face amnesty. Families of those CEOs and leaders that help in them being prosecuted, will face no punishment.
Mandate that all areas apply all the above. Establish direct recallability of administratives. Abolish whatever hierarchy is left and decentralise, and then step down.
- Comment on Nobody wants to work anymore... 2 weeks ago:
Followed by the implicit “… and I should be exempt from this, I need a $200k wage with $1 million hourly bonuses.”
Labour rights apply to everyone.
- Comment on Is it safe to use a non-gaming computer for light gaming? 2 weeks ago:
If the specs suit, anything suits.
- Comment on Modern times require modern solutions 3 weeks ago:
You know what, fuck it, this is credible.
- Comment on Can we possibly experiment with the DNS on our own, at a micro level ? 3 weeks ago:
Debian would be handier for servers, OpenSUSE is handier for sysadmin stuff, iirc.
- Comment on Liminal Space 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think it’s the number of cells inasmuch it’s the connectedness. A baby has as many, if not more than you, and yet they’re dumb. They’re learning.
I think it’s safer to go by when childhood amnesia disappears, and that’s when the pruning process of removing unnecessary connections and adding other ones, has sufficently advanced. To the point that it slows down, and memories can stay for much longer.
That’s generally around 3 to 5 years of age.
- Comment on power generator 4 weeks ago:
look into reactor
it’s boiling water - Comment on I see you MVP! 4 weeks ago:
To be fair, as far I recall, the kid didn’t do it out of malice. Just poor skill, got offered help for that after.
- Comment on Is there an "Avoid Amazon" community for people who want to support smaller online retailers? 4 weeks ago:
Counterpoints;
Sweden has a Nordic model, Norway has been moving away aplenty from oil (most of its vehicles drive electric now and energy production is largely renewables), Belgium’s wealth is no longer built upon that.
What countries in your perspective, would be ethical? And don’t say “none”, just say closest to ethical in that case.
- Comment on Is there an "Avoid Amazon" community for people who want to support smaller online retailers? 4 weeks ago:
Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Costa Rica, Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, Portugal, New Zealand, Slovenia, to name a few.
I’d at the very least exclude these;
- Israel
- US
- Russia
- North Korea
- China
- Iran
- Eritrea
- Turkey
- Literally all of Northern Africa & the broader Middle East for horrendous human rights, except for Cyprus
- Malaysia
- Nigeria
- Uganda
There’s probably a lot more, but yeah.