Omamba Bowser

onion in general is hella dope, i typically add 2-3 onions to every meal

O.O today i learned

then it is leek that i adore, not spring onion

i think spring onion is just another word for leek?

hatsuke miku is a war criminal?!?

NANI

come to our matrix chat room where we discuss how to enable the fediverse for new users:

https://matrix.to/#%2F!HRTxgrqbAUWGBZTsRX%3Amatrix.org%3Fvia=catgirl.cloud&via=matrix.org&via=tchncs.de

Yes, it is possible. I think it will be something like this:

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where proprietary software will eventually be replaced by FOSS software. it just takes a while (Linux was released in 1991).

also, for social media, it’s not so much about the software used, more about who controls it, and hosting plays a significant part in this. the question is, how do we put up an organization large enough to actually sustain that many users?

who pays for image/short video upload for a billion people? small instances on the fediverse already cost real money. feddit.org has 1000 users and reportedly already costs $1000/month to host, IIRC (which seems expensive, even to me, anyways), and catbox.moe, which is a donation-funded service also costs around $1000 (says so on their website). that number would obviously increase sharply if there were more users. So: who pays for it?

Gegenargument: Die Bevölkerung kann sich nicht immer darauf verlassen, dass Deutschland durch seine starke Automobilindustrie einen Exportüberschuss und dadurch Wohlstand erlangt. Wenn nämlich ein Land einen Exportüberschuss hat, dann hat ein anderes Land ein Exportdefizit, und dieses leidet dann stattdessen.

Stattdessen darf die Wirtschaft nicht von diesem Nullsummenspiel abhängig sein, und muss lernen, auch ohne Weltmarktführerschaft glücklich zu sein.

trickle down is when i piss on thatcher’s grave

I have held this stance for many years (am not American though), and everytime I proposed it someone from the US told me “Nooo we’ve had that in the past and we fought a civil war in order to stay together!!! We can’t split!” and I think it’s like a broken marriage that was never easy to begin with that’s just being held together because the parties are too stubborn to say “ok well let’s split up”. It’s an unhealthy relationship.

Wait, is this satire? I only noticed 3/4 through the article.

I think you meant this as a comment to the post, not in response to me?

I guess crime exists due to two reasons:

• poverty exists. as long as poverty exists, people seek a way out.
• organized crime exists. it draws people in.

So, pacifying the country needs a two-sided approach. On the one side, you must show people how to live a good life without being reliant on crime for basic necessities. People must be able to support themselves without falling back on criminal organizations.

On the other hand, probably the bigger issue, is that these crime organizations have a lot of money, and demand for labour-force. that means that they actively recruit new people, and draw people in. organized crime mostly exists because there’s too much money being made on the black market by selling/trafficking drugs. So I guess that it would make sense to legalize drugs (at least to a certain extent), because every $1 spent legally when buying drugs is a $1 you take away from the black market, and therefore crime organizations.

without watching the video - google search is falling apart because there’s a lot of shit content, a lot of bad articles being written.

and there’s a lot of bad articles being written because there’s a lot of authors that just want to make money from advertising, without actually caring about the content. in other words, it’s advertising’s fault that the quality of content is dropping. and ironically, it’s mostly google’s fault that advertisement on the internet got so big as it is today.

maybe i should learn polish

IMO Debian is already pretty far middle-ground. The packages are new enough for my personal usage.

I wonder whether it was the right decision to not federate with Threads.

On the one hand, yes, they would have caused a lot of problematic content, but on the other hand, it would have meant a lot of new users, and that would have livened up the place a bit. I guess.

Maybe we could do a switch in the user profile for Lemmy where it says “show Thread posts in All posts”. Or something.

uuh, new users for the fediverse. looking forward to y’all ;-)

Can anyone enlighten me: What is the advantage of IRC over say Matrix, Email, etc…

You might also be interested in the Panopticon.