perestroika

@perestroika@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Admin team update⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for all the work you’re doing (and continuing to do, even if behind the scenes).

  Burn out is a bad thing, don’t get burned out. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a bit late to this discussion, but I needed to get my first taste of political censorship on Lemmy first.

  My experience was with the “hexbear.net” instance (former Chapo’s Trap House subreddit) which is currently federated with “lemm.ee”.

  It shows up nicely in the feed, but if you go there to discuss, you get banned in a moment for stating commonly accepted facts because you’re “reactionary” - Wikipedia is also reactionary, as well as mainstream news - while users praising dictatorial regimes get upvoted and aren’t getting moderated.

  Complete echo chamber. At such servers, there’s also no obvious recourse to get a ban or deletion reversed.

  I would avoid federation with such places.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why people consistently vote against their own interests to benefit the rich?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  True.

  Hunger for power would exist, but a critical feature that currently exists - the means of returning to power - would be absent.

  Bribes would be a concern, so good pay and anti-corruption mechanicms would still be required.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why people consistently vote against their own interests to benefit the rich?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  • Because propaganda works. Rich sponsors fund politicians who promise them to look after their interests. Well-funded politicians run a better-financed campaign.

  • Because politicians are, nearly without exception, above middle class, if not outright rich. They won’t act too radically against their own class interests.

  The only solution I know comes from ancient Athens. Sortition. You hold a lottery to draw representatives. A few extremely stupid people will be drawn, but idiots are far better than sociopaths, and the current system gives undue representation to sociopaths (willing to climb over bodies if that gets them to power).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨incredible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No conclusive proof. It didn’t have a passthrough for one electrode of the two. It did have remains of acid inside and corrosion on the electrodes. One can speculate whether it was an experimental device, a faulty device or what exactly happened (one alchemist trying to replicate another’s secrets?).

  To add insult to the injury, it was lost or stolen during the war in 2003, so more analysis can’t be done until it gets re-discovered. :o

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨incredible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No problem, guys in ancient Baghdad already knew how to make electricity. :) A jug of wine or vinegar, one electrode of iron, another made of copper, voila… the Baghdad battery.