Technically it supports federation, similar to Lemmy. But there’s still only one instance. I don’t know if it’s due to the immaturity of software or something else. If someone want’s to try the code is there.
I think the presence of ActivityPub (basis of Lemmy) already attracted most people willing to bother with hosting an instance so the potential adopters are not very incentivized to experiment with another thing.
At least 2,297,000 people have been to Tijuana on the account of living there. I hope we have some of them here on Lemmy to confirm/deny what’s the current situation there.
Centralization of decision-making. It’s ironic actually. One of the main problems of capitalism that Marx described is the separation between labor and ownership. All the talk about “means of production”.
Communism actually makes it worse. In capitalism yes you have the owners who have all the control and reap all the benefits, but you have many capitalists competing, so the power is kinda distributed inside the capitalist class. The way communism was always implemented is through a communist party and state control of the economy.
You get an even smaller group of people controlling the means of production. It amplifies exactly the main problem of capitalism by creating a very hierarchical class society where the party leadership takes a role of what is almost “nobility”.
I don’t know how it could get any worse than now. Basically we’re all in echo chambers whichever platform you use. Including Lemmy.
Agreement with “consensus” of whatever bucket you’re placed into is rewarded, and disagreement is punished. Even if only by upvote/downvote. Switching platforms won’t change much.
Dad? What’s a dad? Jokes aside, I was educated by the internet … I wouldn’t really trust my parents with any of that information.
Go to the official UPS website (do not click that link, google it) and enter your tracking number.
If you don’t have a tracking number it means you didn’t order anything, and it’s certainly a scam.
It’s the reason why so many misleading statistics claim a much shorter lifespan in the past. If you survived childhood, and there wasn’t a plague around, or a war, you had good chances of reaching 60.
Kill’d by several accidents
When the universe is out to get you, but you survive the first accident
Has been used in advertising for a while. Like this classic:
If someone really does nothing, it’s really obvious. You don’t need statistical analysis to determine who it is, just ask their teammates. Developers don’t work in isolation. Actually, it’s a very collaborative job where you’re in constant interaction with other people. If someone doesn’t contribute their fair share, it’s going to be obvious very quickly.
The problem is often a lack of mechanism to act on it. Sure everyone might complain about a coworker, but once a person is hired they become just a number and management doesn’t typically care about individual performance, only that all the spots in the org chart are filled.
(I’m ignoring technical issues and assume everyone is self-hosting a fairly reliable model)
I can see it having a role in low-stakes decisions in a direct democracy. An AI representative capable of giving answers similar to yourself would dramatically increase participation. Right now referendums have issues with attracting enough voters.
For example in Switzerland where direct democracy is regularly practiced, turnout is usually 40-50%. Other countries where it’s not common have much lower turnouts.
The huge issue I see it the inability of AI to change opinions. It can represent you at the moment you trained it, but opinions evolve and people change their mind.
Nah, we’re living through the same in other countries too, maybe with some delay depending on the election time
Still, big cities seem to have a lower rate so I wonder if there’s something about the methodology that depends on population density
True it sucks and it happened to me as well. But I tend to change jobs every 2-3 years. Companies are wildly different about how much socializing is expected or desirable. Or if you’re placed in a team where you click with people.
Unfortunately it’s a lottery and you don’t know until you’ve been there for ~ 6 months.
Are you old enough to work? Finding a job where a good proportion of coworkers are extroverted can do wonders. If you’re an introvert you’ll feel uncomfortable at times, but the trick is not to reject their attempts to establish contact.
This is not the first time I’ve heard about weighted blankets. What do they serve for? Is it because some people prefer to be under a weight while sleeping, or is there some medical benefit?
Asking as someone who can only stand the lightest of covers.
At some point the growth can only follow fertility rates from 10-15 years before.
Basically none. Both are mainstream instances, not practicing any extreme moderation policy.
You might have confused lemmy.world with lemmy.ml which does have some communities with bad reputation.
There’s a huge difference between a tankie and a socialist:
The Antichrist story in the Bible was written abstractly enough that it can apply to many people. It’s a warning about a specific personality profile that is universal in history - a sweet-talking, extremely popular, but ultimately harmful leader.
Of course it’s all wrapped up in early Christian language and many metaphors, making it hard to parse for modern audiences. Depends of course on how literally you take the Bible - I’m on the side of those stories being hypothetical lessons rather than exact prophecy.