I think there’s a missed chance to have mint and other “cooling” herbs on the outer rim

Ich bin ja neu im Instanz-Spiel, aber was ich so in den Konfigurationsdateien gesehen habe, graut es mir schon etwas vorm Hochdatum auf 20.x - meine da gelesen zu haben, dass sich Standards ändern sollen.

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Genuinely, though, it is hard to gauge at times which actions are:

• Genuinely malicious plans to increase his and his cronies’ wealth
• Confused, because Elon or Trump were in a specific mood that particular day
• Some actor behind the scenes manipulating them by taking advantage of their impulsivity
• The genuine incompetence of the newly appointed loyalists (or the algorithms/AI they use) within the new deep state
• Genuinely ideologically motivated stupidity, from Libertarians that drank their own cool-aid within the administration.

It is genuine chaos. But overall, the effects are pretty disastrous, no matter what exactly causes which actions.

The Wing Commander series in general was such a great showcasing of combining cutting-edge tech with well-designed presentation. I remember watching my bigger brother playing the games and the impressions just burning themselves into my brain.

Das geht doch irgendwie immer mehr in Richtung “Amerikanischer Verhältnisse”, so Schritt für Schritt. Natürlich sind Details anders, aber die Ära der Sozialstaaten und des sozialdemokratisch geprägten, westlichen Kapitalismus scheint auch hier langsam aber stetig zu Ende zu gehen. Wird ja auch noch spannend, wie die Haushalte künftiger Regierungen mit immer noch aktiver Schuldenbremse und Sondervermögen aussehen werden.

Noch deutlich in lebendiger Erinnerung wäre so etwas doch ein absoluter Tabubruch gewesen, auch nur vorzuschlagen. Wohlgemerkt geht es hier ja nicht nur um Fälle ohne Notwendigkeit (und selbst dort: Nur wenn diese nicht zu hart und oft abgestraft werden, erzeugt es keine Unsicherheiten, ob man sich in manchmal entscheidenden Sekunden traut, einen Krankenwagen zu rufen).

Always knew that crab was red!

While this is very funny, and definitely representative of a sort of ignorance/arrogance commonly found in ideologues - I recently learned that most people talking about the effect have, in fact, been Dunning-Krugering themselves.

Insightful video on the topic.

What most people expect the effect to look like:

What the actual results were:

You put it better than I myself had formulated it in my head yet, why I am weary of those rumours. I find similar arguments here in Europe, where our fascist movements, which are without a doubt supported by Russia, are then sometimes reduced to being some sort of wholly foreign influence, instead of admitting that Russia is stoking flames in embers that had always been part of us and the problems we face.

You know, personally, I don’t think the rumours of Trump being an active foreign agent instead of “just” a narcissist grifter are useful, because they can be used to argue that things weren’t already pretty borked before in the status quo… (and I think they are wrong, personally)

But I do have to admit - if I was a foreign agent wanting to destroy the US and its influence in the world, I would basically do exactly what he is doing.

I can’t be certain in this case, but the usual suspects are not being connected to as many servers (e.g. not scraping some because of robots.txt settings), delays in scraping the stats, or excluding some servers consciously because their stats are deemed a bit suspicious.

The one shown is from join-lemmy:

https://join-lemmy.org/instances

Also of interest for people that love statistics (which I do):

https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats

EDIT: As you can see, the Fediverse being what it is, it’s basically impossible to get an exact, definitive count, so the numbers will always be a bit fuzzy. But they clearly show trends

Ah, so was in der Art hatte ich mir gedacht - wobei ich schon in Sorge war, dass er die Tasse am Ende bei irgendeiner Konferenz in dem Bild als Beweis für irgendwie eine Art zentraler Antifa GmbH benutzen würde, die mit Staatsgeldern diese Tassen produziere. Mittlerweile kann man sich ja nicht mehr sicher sein.

He’s giving a full demonstration of just how untouchable he feels.

This is such a huge part of the psychology behind authoritarianism. It’s about harsh rules and repression, and the perverse enjoyment of the privileged few, that can be above the rules. It’s like a schoolyard bully, really, beating you up but also snitching on you to the teachers, and then enjoying the teachers not believing you. The hypocrisy is not a fault within authoritarianism, it’s an essential component, of how it functions ideologically.

Taking away their feeling of being untouchable, is a massive part of how to combat it. That requires, at this point, revolutionary change, because damn, the foundations of property are all in their favour.

To paraphrase Zizek: “You can’t change people, but you can change the system, so that people aren’t pished to do certain things.”

In general, people have historically always acted within a historical-material framework that influenced their actions and thoughts. Only changing the framework changes people’s actions down the line.

The thought, that it all depends on people being “better” is part of an ideological distortion, in service of the status quo. As is the thought, that you would have to change the people instead of the dynamics of production and property. Ideology presents the former as hope and the latter as impossible, when it is precisely the other way around.

As I’ve said elsewhere: This only means something, if they won’t just use the recession to buy up tangible assets from the dead capital they had accumulated. Whoever is going to be in the close circle at the top, will probably benefit a lot after all is said and done - unless it does indeed end up backfiring even for them. Things are chaotic now, we will see.

Nice! It would be lying to say it’s close to on par with YouTube - but there definitely is some good content on there by now. And it has YT beat on authenticity and humanity, for sure. Much less baiting, algorithm-weirdness and fame-chasing (sadly, still non-zero, but so much better in those regards).

As a small PSA to anyone reading this: You can also follow creators on PT with any type of Fediverse account, that can follow users (many have most of their followers on Mastodon).

Der Song wurde nach dem 01.01.2024 veröffentlicht.

Ah, schade, ich hatte schon gehofft, diesmal könnte der Fehler von vor 25 Jahren korrigiert werden, und die richtige Gruppe zu einem Wettbewerb geschickt werden.

Oh no! He’s going to build up the imperial navy!

(To anyone not speaking German, it’s been a meme for over a century now, that in 1902, a tax on sparkling wine was levied, explicitly to build up the German Imperial Navy, and it is still a tax to this very day)

I call shenanigans, that vampire is clearly in the sunlight in the last panel!