Yeah that’s a really weird concept. In Serbia you just get mail some time before elections that tell you where to go to vote, and you either go there where they have your name already and you just show them your ID, or you don’t go and then you didn’t vote.

Having multiple files increases the compile time, think of all the femtoseconds you can save by having everything in one place!

His actual favourite method is to just go “let’s say I’m right and you’re wrong, well then I’m right”

I’m not even kidding, someone once pointed out statistics that said that making abortion illegal doesn’t reduce the number of abortions, it just makes them more dangerous. And he actually responded with: “Let’s say you have 1000 abortions, and when you make it illegal, you have 100, but more dangerous. We would still be saving 900 lives, so it’s worth making it illegal”.

The beauty is that you can use that for literally everything, you create an imaginary world where you’re right, proclaim it real and voilà.

The guy is a pseudo-intellectual who became famous with your usual right wing stuff (society is collapsing, the wokes are destroying everything, we need to fight the neocultural marxists), and providing self-help tips for people to take responsibility for themselves etc.

That second part is important because when sufficiently pushed, a lot of his fans will say that they just like his self-help stuff because it helped them go through some periods, become better etc. But it’s rarely just that, most of his fans go on to watch his talks and take his words seriously since he earned some credance with them with the self-help tips.

And then this supposedly highly intelligent professor goes on to provide some stability to this insane world by saying things like (off the top of my head): Bill C-16 will make the state send people to prison for using the wrong pronouns, but he will resist and go on a hunger strike when that happens! Women and men cannot work together in the same teams! Women are hypocrites if they complain about sexual harassment while wearing makeup! Hitler’s views were guided by the crowds attending his speeches, he just adapted to what they wanted to hear! Climate change models are faulty apriori because you cannot model everything, etc etc.

Then, as others already mentioned, he went to Russia to get into an induced coma to break his addiction.

He’s presenting himself and being presented as a good father figure, an accomplished academic, a voice of reason in a world gone insane, whereas he is just plain nuts. And his base is primarily vulnerable young people who have nobody to turn to, and he uses that to make them into your everyday incels, misogynists and other right wing wierdos.

So you can see that when someone like that goes onto camera to cry for the 10th time, the initial reaction of others might not be sympathy.

Bombs were falling on civilian targets nowhere near Kosovo. Various bridges, schools, hospitals, a chemical plant in Pančevo that almost destroyed the entire city, the Chinese embassy, a bomb fragment fell literally in my family’s garden. Hundreds of civilians died, my grandma almost impaled on a table from a bomb shockwave and the glass shattered onto the cradle I was in (I was 1 year old at the time), but luckily my mom placed protection around me just in case. This was on the far north of Serbia.

To be clear, OP is a tankie who shouldn’t be given any attention or a platform (I checkes their post history), but the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999 was a campaign that caused untold suffering to countless civilians (be it in injuries, deaths, or just going through every day not knowing whether you and your loved ones will be alive tomorrow) that had absolutely nothing to do with Kosovo, something that left scars in society that are still felt. It was not simply “disturbing a genocide”. Not to mention that it was an attack launched without the approval of the UN.

There are a lot of disturbing videos available on reddit. The police chasing and beating the living hell out of people on the ground, the director of the police claiming on national television that the protesters didn’t allow an ambulance to pass, even though there is a video showing the ambulance passing through the crowd of protestors only to be stopped by the police, who then used the situation to commence a surprise charge at the protesters. And all this because we want… check this… elections. Something our overlord used to hold every 2 years, but now he’s scared.

Probably because they are.

The entire infrastructure of modern civilization rests on a single digit number of companies. How is this acceptable to anyone? Why is everyone just okay with this?

Biard did not think much of the Mi’kmaq, but reported that the feeling was mutual

Amazing. You go there to teach these heathen savages about the mercy of Christ, find that they practice the core virtues you want to teach them better than your own culture, and then you get irritated.

I always tell that to people hahahaha, through I’m from 1998.

But don’t we have to be alive until 2101? Don’t centuries start with a 1? That would make it 102 for you and 103 for me.

UND TRITT EIN

As a result, I have stopped my financial support for Lemmy development – despite FOSS, I simply cannot support people whose stated goal is apparently to replace one propaganda machine with another. That is the opposite of what is important to me.

Same. I donated when that post was pinned, and regreted my decision like 2 days later lol

With slrpnk potentially migrating to PieFed, and other instances like blahaj opening up a PieFed version, we might get to see another user migration.

Great article! I agree that the left needs to better present its vision to the world, both as a concrete political proposal, as well as in general popular culture, things like art and stories that show the future.

I’m not sure if this is a thing already, but maybe monthly events could be organized here for reading and discussing specific solarpunk novels, competitions on creating solarpunk art etc? It would be one way to strenghten a specific image of the community that could be used to manifest ourselves to the world.

Serbia!
With some luck, soon it might be free Serbia, since our dictator was never closer to going down

I was at a student project that just transitions to a being a normal job once you get your BSc, and there was one guy on our team who nobody knows how he got there, since there were objectively better students (in terms of grades and knowledge) who got rejected. He was beyond useless and always got other people to do his work for him.

Anyways, the company I worked at offered internships for students, and the main criteria for getting accepted was your average grade. I was present to witness that guy going on a call with someone who determines who gets the internship to vouch for his friend. His friend had an average grade far under 8 (which is honestly embarassing at our uni), but this dude said how his friend is very motivated, wants to work, the grade problem is only there because those are some subjects he doesn’t care about, and he personally stands behind him that he’ll be a grear intern.

Well it worked, that guy got the internship and other students who actually knew something got rejected because they didn’t have connections inside the company. I imagine that’s a story that gets repeated often. Higher mamagers don’t really know who’s doing what, so people who know how to confidently bullshit can talk themselves into and out of many situations and they often form connections with similar people.

It was actually quite an interesting discovery that Newton’s first law, the way it’s usually repeated, was written in Thomas Hobbes’ “Leviathan”, which was published when Newton was around 8 years old.

I forced myself through the first two seasons, and it turned out to be my favourite series, same happened to a friend. The show massively improves in season 3.

Yes! There are normal types that just grow straight up, but I really liked these braided ones. Makes me wonder how many cool plants you can end up with when you shape them during growth.

I always wanted to see far north and remote places like Svalbard and Greenland. Does the environment make people feel depressed or generally lethargic? Are Greenlanders more social or individualist and distanced? I imagine a strong community culture is in place to combat the feeling of isolation a lack of greenery and light might induce?

And how would you compare people from Greenland and Denmark?

I think the idea behind the graph was to make it look like blood flowing, but the execution was… not the best

Donated on Liberapay.

As others have said, this is financing software development, not a political campaign. I first learned of the fediverse when Reddit removed 3rd party apps, and I felt like my eyes were opened. This is what I want the internet to be, decentralized and running on open source software, and I’m sure I’m far from being alone in this, so thanks to the devs for that.

Also Jerboa is great!