GardenGeek
@GardenGeek@europe.pub
- Comment on Reddit repost bots taking over entire communities 6 days ago:
Looking at this specific accounts history it seems as if its a regular poster (with a bit controverse ethics about content creation if you will) and as if OP has just labeled the account to be a bot.
- Comment on Terrorist arrested over video of dinghy slashing 1 week ago:
Interesting to think what would have happend if he slashed the dingy with migrants on board:
Slashes dingy. All migrants climb onto HIS boat because they, like everyone else, are not that fond of drowning. What now?\
- Goes back to GB -> Is charged for human trafficking for bringing illegal migrants over the canal. \
- Goes to Frace. -> Is detained because he’s banned from entering France.
Both options would have been funny in a cynical way.
- Comment on UK train operator nationalised by government after 30 years of privatisation 1 week ago:
Okay, that actually sounds worse. As someone who’s had to put up with DB’s unspeakable delays quite often lately, I wouldn’t have thought it could get any worse.
It just occurred to me that Italia is set to join us soon as another private operator on the prime routes. Hopefully, we won’t have to deal with the same operational chaos as you do (on top of the crumbling infrastructure).
In any case, have a great day (and a smooth trip next time)!
- Comment on UK train operator nationalised by government after 30 years of privatisation 1 week ago:
You should visit Germany then… I’m willing to bet our DB train service is worse!
- Comment on Paid Time Off Hypocrisy 3 weeks ago:
Keep basing politics on people and party lines rather than on substance… that way, we’ll definitely move forward as a society and won’t end up divided and paralyzed because “he said that, so it must be wrong.” It’s been working perfectly in the U.S. for decades now, and of course it’s not at all the reason for the shitty situation the country finds itself in right now. /s
- Comment on Big brother watch report reveals free speech is in "downward spiral" in the UK 3 weeks ago:
,Free speech" for the right wing means ,freedom to manipulate public opinion to our desire by the will of our rich donors which happen to own the platforms".
- Comment on Would the US Afghan war have gone differently if the Taliban did not assassinate Lion of Panjshir (Ahmad Shah Massoud)? If he was still alive would it made a massive difference for the northern allies 4 weeks ago:
Massoud fought against an occupying attacker (SU) before getting involved in the civil war. At the time he was killey by Al Quaida he was rather isolated as the Taliban hat alread conquered most of Afghanistan including Kabul. Eventhough he warned the West against Binladen (which was most probably his death sentence) I don’t think him being alive would have made a difference as the US was, again, a foreign occupier. Since Massoud was nearly defeated I find it improbable that he could’ve defeated the Taliban and the US… or that him being an US ally (as he was before against the Soviets) would have increased rhe acceptance of the US invasion.
- Comment on The sickness of infinite greed cannot be sustained on our finite planet 4 weeks ago:
Super-yachts.
One of the main reasons these are booming is that a billionaire can spend a sum on them he might actually see on his account. Fine food, cars, even mainsons are so cheap that they earn more through passive income while they’re buying these things than they’re actually spending. At the same time people, even in tje ver same society, go hungry to bed or are incapable of getting their health condition improved… it’s just crazy.
- Comment on Oh how the turn tables 1 month ago:
General topic aside: Because having an idea doesn’t automatically mean you get to sell it. China is stratehically subsidising promising sectors to create national champions and subsequently crush foreign competition by flooding the market with dumping priced goods. An intelligent strategy but its seems like a double-edged sword as China doesn’t seem to freely share own innovations with others due to competitive reasons.
- Comment on They really hate artists 1 month ago:
*correction by someone qualified to actually know shit about the matter.
This is where things will get interesting in the near future.
- Comment on Bloodbath Ahead For EA As It Looks To Cut $700 Million In Annual Costs Under Saudi Arabia 1 month ago:
What else are they going to do? Flip burgers for minimum wage? Depends on how much they personall liked developing games relative to making big money I guess…
- Comment on Cheese. 2 months ago:
Dorime!
- Comment on Hell yeah. 2 months ago:
Ask yourself a simple question: What will make you more money?
- Comment on Anon tries dating apps 2 months ago:
There’s Alovoa… an open source platform but it’s even less densely populated than Lemmy
- Comment on What happens when you just refuse to pay and go ... ? 2 months ago:
He doesn’t understand the concept of ‘allies’. I thought this was clear by now.
The US is currently directing the gulf states towards China and Iran as the former has large influence on the latter which claims to attack mainly due to the gulf states being ‘allies’ to the US… which seems to be a worthless titel nowadays.
- Comment on Put a £5 deposit on vapes to stop fires, say waste companies 3 months ago:
Garbage trucks aside… I truly wonder what will be happening to all those vapes thrown into the countryside when they degrade eventually. Will we have regular fire seasons due to corroding batteries?
- Comment on What did you say? 3 months ago:
Absolutely!
- Comment on What did you say? 3 months ago:
The hound of Volumekill?
- Comment on Will UK supermarkets cap food prices and how could it work? 4 months ago:
Correct me if I’m wrong but Reform is trending in the polls by again using xenophobia as disguise for market libertarism… effectively meaning higher prices in the long run. Do Britains even want lower prices as they keep cheering the same liars that sold them Brexit as a splendid idea?
- Comment on Can't afford going on a cruise? No problem! 4 months ago:
Yes and no. The original Fanta was what you describe (a substitute for Coke in Nazi Germany) yet it was created from scraps and its taste most probably had little to do with the modern Fanta brand which was created in Italy and inherited the name after war.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, and Jensen Huang appointed to President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology 5 months ago:
Putting the fox in charge of the henhouse…
- Comment on An AI Agent Was Banned From Creating Wikipedia Articles, Then Wrote Angry Blogs About Being Banned 5 months ago:
*was prompted to write angry blogs
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 5 months ago:
I understand exactly what you mean.
But at the same time, I also believe that the inherent problem with our representative democracies is this: Voters are asked about EVERY issue all at once every four years and then vote for ONE representative party. So, in the end, everyone ends up voting on a whole bunch of issues that neither interest nor affect them. Worse still: when checks and balances are undermined, as is currently the case, the elected representatives can do whatever they want for four years.
In the best-case scenario, the majority of today’s voters inform themselves about the current campaign promises and forecasts a few weeks before the election and then lose interest again for four years. Or, to put it another way, the system actually provokes the “I don’t do politics” attitude among a majority of voters.
However, if the effects of their own decisions were transparent and immediate, I believe there would be a greater willingness to actually inform themselves.
And on the topic of demagoguery and populism: If people had the opportunity to vote against immigration (even if you don’t agree with that position) without undermining democracy through a corrupt bunch of politicians, we as a society would still be better off than in the current situation, where emotionally charged issues are used to make dictators and shitty politics palatable to people.
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 5 months ago:
That’s a framework for a technocracy. The question here was for a blueprint for an anarchist society.
And if we take your line of thinking further: At what point do you stop denying people the right to vote?
Should only those in a particular industry have a say when it comes to regulating that industry? In that case, issues like environmental and consumer protection would become unenforceable… because why would a CEO or worker care about the impact their own actions have on the rest of society if regulation can be framed as a threat to their own job?
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 5 months ago:
I would argue that neither you nor most other people like making bad decisions, right?
If, after the vote, there’s no representative—aka “those up there”—to blame for your own bad decision, that probably sets off a learning process where you either do better research next time or, if you’re too unsure or not interested in the topic, stay out of it and leave the choice to people who think they know more about it.
Without fixed terms, you can vote again in six months if you realize that your decision isn’t solving the problem and enough other people feel the same way… whereas now you have to rely on a representative to make decisions in your best interest (and not in the interest of their own wallet), and, if the decision turns out to be bad for you, hope that another government will revisit the law in 20 years.
You may as well just form government by having your largest 500 companies nominate a representative from their board.
That’s basically the case right now, so it wouldn’t even constitute a deterioration?
In the system I’ve proposed, however, this would only work until enough resistance to corporate practices builds up because the business model harms the majority. Since there are no legislative terms, such practices could be stopped more quickly than in today’s system, where industry simply buys off the newly elected representatives and can then carry on as before for another four years…
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 5 months ago:
Thank you!
That’s my point.
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 5 months ago:
I basically agree with you.
However, the slowness of paper-based administration is the reason why we’ve ended up with the (increasingly) poor solution of representative systems and the corruption that goes hand in hand with them.
In an age where fake news and propaganda spread in real time, I believe our democracies must also find a way to react more quickly… The internet allows anyone to communicate with anyone else in real time; in my opinion, it’s time to use this FOR rather than AGAINST our societies.
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 5 months ago:
f that is the premise, then any form of anarchist society is obsolete.
I was responding here to a question about a blueprint for an anarchist social order. That presupposes a reasonably positive view of human nature… which, in my opinion, is actually the more realistic one.
Otherwise, we’ll always need an authoritarian system that patronizes “the stupid people” and looks after them… a narrative that is used to justify domination over others and is deeply rooted in our societies today.
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 5 months ago:
Open source, direct internet democracy.
Let anyone vote on anything basically.
My hope is voters tend to vote on matters relevant to them providing initative to get/beeing informed on the matter they vote on.
I see representative systems as root of corruption so my solution calls for a system with direct decisions without political representatives.
- Comment on How Trump and His Advisers Miscalculated Iran’s Response to War 6 months ago:
You think they did waste a thought let alone calculate the outcome of their actions?