atro_city @ atro_city @fedia.io Posts 69Comments 1,827Joined 2 yr. ago
Lead the way. Do it yourselves. You can't demand others do it without doing it yourself.
Is the screensharing low latency?
I've had friend groups where nobody knows which job the other person had. Somebody could've been a CEO or a cleaner. It didn't matter. We went to the same concerts together, hung out in bars and the beach together, had deep political discussions and also shot the shit.
At no point did I think "wow, if this person hadn't told me they went skydiving, I'd never hang out with them". We happened to have the same sense of humor, watched some of the same shows, did similar activities, and were open to others vision of the world. I can't even remember their "achievements", just that they were nice people to be friends with.
You may require achievements and some mix of attributes you attach to those achievements in order to hang out with people. That's fine. Not everybody's the same.
Dangerous criminals have to be stopped!
Is it working better for the rest of the world?
There are countless alternatives and everybody has to find what that means for them. For example I have no real achievements to speak of. Sure, you could look at my paycheck and say "that person successful". You could look at where I live and say "you're successful". You could look at where I vacation and say "you're successful". But what does that mean? It might mean something to you because you attribute some kind of value to it, but I don't. My self-worth is attached to how I treat others (or how I don't), how I view the world, how I will leave it when I'm gone and the things I tried to do before ending up as fish or worm-chow.
If you feel like you have to live up to some kind of metric of success setup by other people, that's fine. I hope that makes you happy. It wouldn't make me happy, but I'm not you.
"De-radicalization is a noble, worthy line of research," she said. "But the existing evidence from that field of study suggests that prevention is easier and more effective than trying to pull these people out once they're already in." Potential strategies might include fostering better digital and media literacy, i.e., teaching kids to be cognizant of the content they're consuming online. Exposure time is another key issue.
The education system world-wide is quite bad. Yes, it's better than nothing, but still, its not good. Media and online literacy are part of the smallest subset of curriculums. As a whole, the education system fails at preparing most people for life. It's even bad at preparing people for a vocation, its seemingly intended goal.
With better education, traditional mindsets would be much less common. I mention this because in my opinion the major cause of being an involuntary celibate and considering that status a problem, is traditionalism. That attaches self-worth to achievements in life and tightly couples success with partnership and parenthood.
Better education creates more free thinkers and independent individuals who are not easily controlled or swayed by popular narrative. They are not immune to it, nobody is, but giving humans a toolset for critical reasoning can go a long way.
"I don't know who these people are, let me check one out"
P R E T E N T I O U S R E T E N T I O U S
Sure, that's it.
Behold, the USAian influence.
FBI agent playing a prank on you
But haven't you heard, nuclear power is evil. Also, why should we, the developed nations, let international companies tear up the place to obtain the natural resources? It's way cheaper to force some developing nations and their citizens to toil under horrible work conditions and bad pay. Bonus points: the view in our backyards stays beautiful and we can forget about the slave-like work others are forced to do. Out of sight, out of mind!
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Tax wealth, not income. Pretty simple. (Not in NL) I live on a street that is entirely owned by one family. All the houses.
There are places in the city centre that have been empty since forever because they're investments. It literally doesn't matter whether rent is paid because they're still making money just by banks allowing people to buy and sell shares of the building. The perceived value is more important than somebody living in it.
Things like that should be taxed so much that they are forced to sell. For example every month the place is empty or not rented, the tax rate doubles. If the place is declared as a third+ home, it should also be considered unrented.
Cannabis is not a weed? I think you're mistaken about that, friend. It literally grows like a weed in Asia.
A strong reaction for a simple comment. Did me discovering somebody you like offend you or something?
No need to feel insecure.
It seems like they have fans here, judging by the downvotes.
Definitely a cultural difference. Dua Lipa sounds alright. A few songs have now been added to the library. Cinema - haven't been in a while and most films I watch are somewhat randomly picked from whichever streaming site I'm on. Cumberbatch doesn't seem to be in the stuff I stumble upon. Football... yeah, can only name Maradona, Bellingham, Ronaldo, and Messi.
I just generally don't pay attention to names.
Make them pay 10% and then invest it in opensource. Right? .... right?
Pro, of course. I'll side with my fridge.
Should we start a European Citizen's Initiative for European digital sovereignty?
European Citizens' Initiative to "Stop Destroying Videogames" is missing ridiculously low thresholds.
Why does Australia still have 2 major political parties despite preferential voting?
Could wastewater plants simply heat up water past 500C to decompose all chemicals and output clean water?
The European Central Bank uses Microsoft Forms for their surveys of European citizens
What if this community organised a campaign to reach out to the top 500 or so youtube channels to join peertube?
