As an initial stopgap on the way to a socialist economic model, its got merit

the way i think of it is that ubi is a bandaid solution. it’s not perfect but you still need to apply it, otherwise you bleed out and die before you have a chance of reaching a proper hospital.

Anarchist

anarchism only works with the right kind of people, i’d say. which not everyone is.

By the way, what is this phenomenon on Lemmy? Let’s say people are reluctant to read and comment on old posts published just a couple of days or a week ago, but with new ones, it’s a completely different story. What kind of psychology is this? Or it seemed to me?

In the default lemmy feed (in browser view at least), posts only show if they’re younger than 3 days (72 hours). So older posts typically get ignored, so nobody wants to comment there because nobody will read these comments anyways.

i think the biggest problem with electron is that it doesn’t just use some system-provided browser library, instead every electron app ships its own browser environment, which takes up a lot of space each time and makes the whole system a whole lot less efficient. shared libraries exist for a reason.

Support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025.

Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer.

But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?

https://endof10.org/

VLC’s gonna be up there with ffmpeg and yt-dlp

“Owning your hardware” implies the bootloader is unlockable and relockable.

Same, it hurts my eyes if the text is too small. I have all my fonts set to 120% size minimum.

actual example from real life might be how the soviet russia defeated the nazi germans when the germans invaded.

they didn’t kill the german soldiers directly, instead they stalled them, cut off their food supply and then basically waited 3 weeks for the german soldiers to either freeze to death or starve to death.

the thing is that according to their view, what’s currently happening isn’t a “tyrannical government” but something they needed or something.

So we the people are giving them (allegedly) $1000 instead of the multiple thousands that they could have produced for the economy.

sigh. it’s not like that

The people are dissatisfied economically, and that’s why they voted for Trump.

So, what determines people’s income? Wages on the free labor market are determined through supply and demand.

When there’s a lot of supply of labor, i.e when there’s many people who could work in the country, high supply lowers prices. Prices for labor are also called wages. High number of people in the country --> lower wages. That’s where the “immigrants are taking our jobs” saying comes from. The point is not only that they’re taking jobs, but also that wages drop if there’s more supply in labor power.

(What these republican jackasses forget to mention is that this also affects the birth rate. A lower birth rate is good for the people because it means less supply of labor power --> higher wages in the future. Yet the republicans are consistently for a higher birth rate, which makes their whole point that they actually care about the economic situation of the people inconsistent.)

What these republican jackasses also forget to mention is that it’s not only about the supply of labor, but also the demand of labor. Higher demand means higher wages, and lower demand means lower wages.

Now, if you’ve ever built a house you will know that the vast majority of labor requirement goes into building the house, not maintaining it. The same is true for the economy. The economy grew rapidly in the last 200 years mostly because of technological inventions, which lead to a lot of real growth in the world and that created a large demand for human labor, which made wages rise high, which is why people could live comfortably in the 1960s on a single wage income per family.

The economy slowed down growth a lot in the last decades (+0.5% annually in 2019 compared to +3% in 1990) so that reduces the demand for human labor drastically. That’s why people earn less today than last century. If the republicans were honest, they’d recognize that fact, and they would respond by saying “ok, the free labor market doesn’t pay enough wages anymore to feed the people, so we need to help the people by giving them a universal basic income, financed by taxing the rich”. That would do significantly more to help the people than deporting immigrants, by the way, it would help at least 10x as much. That the republicans completely ignore this and don’t even speak about it shows that they are dishonest and do not have the people’s best interest at heart.

if companies actually did share 5 numbers with each piece of clothing (notice that that actually wouldn’t work since each piece of clothing is a bit different since they’re still largely hand-sown and measuring each piece of clothing is unpayably expensive) it would lead to a bureaucracy hell. businesses in europe already complain about too much bureaucracy, because they have to document a lot of things, and this would make the outcry a lot worse.

on top of that most customers wouldn’t actually bother reading a datasheet of 5 numbers and instead just try them on. so it’s not even a big advantage.

where it ends up making the clothes fit poorly

a.k.a makes the clothes fit anything but skin-tight because the pockets need space so the clothes have to be wider-cut

I suppose one of the many reasons why there are no consistent clothing sizes is because it’s so difficult to agree on a way to measure things. What parts do you measure? The lower leg thickness? the upper leg thickness? the waist circumference? The leg’s length? What if these numbers are all independent of each other and can’t be reduced to a single number?

universally understood across language barriers

but oh boy is so so soooooo much better than the one of most humans on earth

that’s mostly because the US wouldn’t stop bombing and overthrowing democratically elected governments in the rest of the world, tbh though

It’s not a function of space, but of time. Work load used to be significantly less in the medieval ages.

Modern work load is caused by progress and the high demand for human workforce that it brings with it.

lemmy has 30 K users by now worldwide btw, it started in late 2019 iirc. maybe we can get a million by 2030.

i think lemmy skews older because of the more complicated sign-up process and people being more tech-inclined around here and a bit more mature than the general public. and i love that, btw. less shallow “entertainment” and more memes and especially based arguments about things.

i wish there was a useable german instance for the general public.

discuss.tchncs.de is great but as the name says, rather for techy people

feddit.org is borderline unusable garbage between political shit-takes (constant bickering and non-constructive arguments) and generally a very non-open mood, it feels to me.