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- Comment on Stay on the path. 28 minutes ago:
It’s still incredible to me that there were democrats that insisted that Biden had possibly the best debate performance ever.
- Comment on On the prospect of an $80-$90 GTA 6, former PlayStation boss says 'it's an impossible equation' for big-budget studios to keep their prices down 1 hour ago:
Came here to say this. Stop trying the build the whole universe in a game.
- Comment on I don't even have a PieFed account ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 2 days ago:
Because it’s our money for the whole family, and we carry the scars of having had to ask for credit card limit increases to buy gas to get to work to pay the credit card.
- Comment on I don't even have a PieFed account ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 2 days ago:
I don’t really care that they’re running .ml. It’s fine if it bothers you enough to not donate to them, that’s your business. My SO is never going to agree to let me donate to Lemmy, so I’m going to see if I can eek out some time to learn the codebase and contribute that way.
- Comment on Please consider supporting Lemmy development 2 days ago:
Imo, it’s people just rationalizing not wanting to give $5 away. I mean, there’s nothing wrong with deciding you don’t want to donate, that’s your choice, but be honest with yourself. If they weren’t commies, people would be finding some other excuse to not donate.
- Comment on I don't even have a PieFed account ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 2 days ago:
Eh, if you want to contribute to Lemmy development, then contribute. If you don’t, the. don’t.
- Comment on Please consider supporting Lemmy development 3 days ago:
Tbh, of all the tankie triad, .ml is the chillest, and my own experience is that, unlike the Nazis, they generally don’t cause issues off server. Now, if you wander into Hexbear and spout some mainstream view, well, good luck, partner, but it’s their server. Besides, I sometimes ask myself what the CIA would do and try to do the opposite for the sake of all mankind. It doesn’t really bother me that they run .ml.
- Comment on Please consider supporting Lemmy development 3 days ago:
The devs also say that they would gladly accept any development help as well, if you’re either unwilling or unable to financially contribute.
- Comment on Please consider supporting Lemmy development 3 days ago:
AND it’s open source software. Nothing is stopping anyone from just forking Lemmy.
- Comment on Me when I zoom past traffic on my e-scooter 5 days ago:
…strongtowns.org/…/360004233911-Local-Conversatio…
You are not required to be a member to start a chapter, and from all that I’ve seen, they’re very supportive of you send an email asking for guidance. I would start by going to local city councils or board of supervisor meetings, put flyers up at the library and small coffee shops or anywhere else you can put up flyers, and start holding regular meetings at least once a month
- Comment on Me when I zoom past traffic on my e-scooter 5 days ago:
Yeah, do it! Speaking from personal experience, it can be a little scary at first, but it’s not even a tenth as bad as you think. It’s actually a surprisingly social experience.
- Comment on Me when I zoom past traffic on my e-scooter 5 days ago:
Ah. Well, the problem is that we’ve made building new housing units nearly impossible through decades of unforced errors at the local level in nearly all of our cities, as well as bullshit ass zoning. It’s not even remotely impossible to undo, but a lot of people don’t recognize it as the root of the problem. Again, check out Strong Towns, we’re working to walk these errors back and make our cities places that are built for people again.
- With regards to zoning, nobody in their right mind is asking to let DuPont put a rocket fuel factory next to an elementary school. Many zoning codes have really terrible and not evidence based practices codified, such as enforcing single family housing sprawl, ensuring that you MUST drive to go buy a loaf of bread, and requiring outrageous parking requirements often 2-3x over what’s needed in practice.
- Comment on Me when I zoom past traffic on my e-scooter 5 days ago:
Check out Strong Towns. They’re a policy advocacy group that’s focused on helping people influence policy at the local level to make their towns livable again. I’m a part of my local strong towns group, and they’re absolutely great. We’re getting the ball rolling, organizing with other local activist groups, meeting with local politicians to understand our local challenges better, and all while receiving a lot of support from the mother ship organization. Meanwhile, our town isn’t some metropolis, it’s only 90,000 people.
If that isn’t your thing, just start going to city council or county board of supervisor meetings and start making public comments there. It’s a good way to meet with other policy advocates in your community and start networking with them.
- Comment on Me when I zoom past traffic on my e-scooter 5 days ago:
Upvoted for Alan Fischer reference in the wild. His bits go so much harder than pretty much anyone else in urbanist youtube
- Comment on TRUCKIN' 6 days ago:
As a former paramedic, this profile pic makes my back hurt
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Quora-ass question right here
- Comment on Trump orders Corporation for Public Broadcasting to end federal funding for NPR and PBS 6 days ago:
Okay, so under normal circumstances, is this something the president is allowed to do, or is this something that should be congress’ decision? Because it feels like the latter.
This is just super disappointing. PBS has some really great programming.
- Comment on Me when I zoom past traffic on my e-scooter 6 days ago:
While, yes, it does, urban and suburban sprawl is far, far worse for trees. Go to your local Wal Mart super center and, not counting the garden center, tell me how many trees there are per acre in the parking lot. Now multiply that by every big box store and mile of stroad and highway.
- Comment on Me when I zoom past traffic on my e-scooter 6 days ago:
This is probably one of the top ten most incredibly based pictures ever. I love it. Thank you for brightening my day, OP
- Comment on What would this list look like for your generation? 1 week ago:
Pretty sure ROFLCopter and rickrolling was Gen Y
- Comment on Instead of Orange Man doing Tariffs would it not have been better for him to talk about shopping locally and so forth. And giving more tax breaks to companies that stay and sell in the US? 1 week ago:
There’s a thousand better ways to handle both tariffs and free trade. We fucked up the latter with NAFTA (and CAFTA), where the EU got it right. Bringing jobs home with tariffs isn’t something you just snap your fingers and do, shit takes a long time to re-align, it would’ve made a lot more sense to have it go through the legislature and say “hey, we’re starting out at a 10% tariff on this stuff we want to bring home, and we’re going to ratchet it up +2% every year until Congress doesn’t pass the law again.” Instead, we’ve got the most volatile president in history implementing tariffs by fiat:
10% 20% actually none actually 10% actually 125% for real this time. Yeah, in this situation, the best play is to just try and wait dumbass out, because there’s a non-zero chance he wakes up tomorrow and declares tariffs woke. - Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 1 week ago:
Yes, 100%, I don’t at all want to give the idea that no history was ever remembered, and I don’t want to sound like I’m shitting on oral history either. I just… really wish someone had written some stuff down. There’s so much that’s lost to time because of the pandemics that swept the post contact world and all of colonization that followed.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 1 week ago:
Well, staying in the same location? I’m in the US, so… I’d probably try to get writing invented. To my knowledge, besides some of the Central American empires, there’s no evidence or even claim of there having been any kind of writing or system for making information durable. I know there’s a lot of clay here, I’m pretty sure we could bake clay tablets to store down information. There’s also tule reeds here that were already being extensively used, and those could probably be made into a kind of paper as well. As to whether the people would accept that, I have no fucking idea at all; what we know of the California tribes suggests they were always semi-nomadic, but that’s all very well into the post-contact period and much of what we know was written down by the Spanish while being the biggest bastards they possibly could to the locals. I dunno how useful record-keeping would be to a nomadic people. It’s also entirely possible the people would be like “uh, yeah, we know how to write, dummy”, and it was just lost in the multiple waves of pandemics.
I think probably something that -might- be achievable is figuring out glass. I’m mostly sure that if the native Americans had glass, we would have seen some sign of it in the archeological record by now. I’m sure some smarty pants is going to come along and tell me “you can’t just throw sand in a kiln and make glass, you need a special kind of sand blah blah blah and here’s 99 reasons why that won’t work”. Yeah, you’re probably right, but I don’t know any better, so I’d still definitely try. I also remember reading that clear glass was a thing figured out near Venice when they started adding grass ash or some shit to the sand, so I’d definitely experiment with that, too. Glass is just dead useful -and- pretty, so I’m fairly confident I’d get some acceptance that way.
I would say metal smithing, but the only metal deposits nearby that I know of are mercury and gold. You can’t make nails and tools out of mercury and gold.
Also, maybe water wheels? To my knowledge, we have no record of native Americans using water wheels for work (I.e. grinding corn or acorns into flour). I think if I managed to put a basic water wheel together, I’d be pretty popular.
- Comment on Anon pitches the next big movie adaptation of a video game 1 week ago:
I’m with stupid.
- Comment on Anon pitches the next big movie adaptation of a video game 1 week ago:
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- Comment on Anon studies Buddhism 2 weeks ago:
I’d never heard the former, but I adore the latter. I also really enjoy the tale of the horse that came back.
- Comment on Anon studies Buddhism 2 weeks ago:
Ok
- Comment on Anon studies Buddhism 2 weeks ago:
The US. I grew up in the central and southern US and the shit is (or perhaps was) inescapable.
- Comment on Anon studies Buddhism 2 weeks ago:
The Spanish missions have entered the chat. They actually sent people back to Spain when they said “yo, maybe Jesus wouldn’t be cool with us enslaving and murdering the locals”.
- Comment on Anon studies Buddhism 2 weeks ago:
Tbh, my favorite Buddhist tale is that of the Chinese monk birdsnest, so called because he always hung out in a tree.
Now, Birdsnest was famous and highly regarded, and a governor heard of him and decided to seek him out. The governor travelled for days to reach birdsnest, and when he arrived, he asked “hey, birdsnest, what was it that all the Buddhas taught?” Basically, dude was asking for a one sentence summary of religion, like the famous tale of economic study resulting in the one sentence summary of “no such thing as a free lunch”.
Birdsnest answered “Don’t do bad things, only do good things.”
The governor scoffed, and said “my three year old nephew knows that?”
“Easy enough for the three year old to understand,” Birdsnest retorted, “but still very difficult for the sixty year old to do.”