this is the turing test all over again: you can’t actually tell whether it’s handmade or made by a machine.

yeh

hot air balloons also have no stall speed.

done

there should obviously be indexes which tell you what stuff exists. stuff like amazon where you search for “desk” and it shows you the 10 desk providers that can be delivered to your location.

Yeah i have that.

My best advice is that it matters more where you’re going than where you’re coming from.

all advertisement is bad. best to avoid all of it. use the fediverse, don’t use commercial internet platforms.

yeah the UK is going downhill very quickly and it’s evident in how nervously they respond to that saying.

i indeed only found out about that rn

But you seem like a refreshingly normal person rather than one of the ideologically motivated internet cold warriors

hehe thanks, i try to be.

i mean yeah, literally, look at how the Iranian regime is allowed to post its anti-US propaganda lego movies on Twitter.

edit: nvm that was a bad take.

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The only way to do this is if meaningful alternatives exist first.

you can’t ban corporate-owned social media because the population would revolt. It’s already revolting when social media is about to be banned for teenagers. just ask anyone on lemmy about this.

the fediverse needs to become an acceptable alternative first, only after that can people move away from big corpo-owned networks.

believe it or not, that’s exactly what a wealth tax would do.

Take away the kids access to communicate with friends and what the fuck do they have left? It’s not like we have youth centers or shit any more. Barely had any when I was a kid;

well, i grew up in the countryside and we did have youth centers. i can guarantee you i made a wide circle around them, in the sense that i avoided them like the plague

it’s not the absence of youth centers that’s the problem, it’s the fact that i grew up in a very backwards rural countryside full of the exact type of shitheads that you would expect to find there. one person more annoying than the next, the excesses in alcohol consumption weren’t the worst part, it was how people looked at people who didn’t fit their definition of “normal”. really not a good place to be.

kein problem ;-)

i mean i agree that most people prefer to live in small groups. i was just pointing it out for reasons that i now forgot.

also, Johnny, it’s really weird to be called by name somehow.

because of WW2 and the experiences made there.

if euthanasia was legal, it would be immediately used against some kind of disadvantaged group, which is why it’s kept forbidden.

i would be a bit more careful when ascribing general character traits to all humans because frankly, humans can be extremely different depending who you’re interacting with.

yeah noether’s theorem isn’t perfect because it only discusses continuous symmetries. nevertheless, it still applies here.

the symmetries that are associated with the genome are rather broad, actually. for example, if a living organism moves both in time and in space, the genome stays the same, while the proteins in the body might change due to different gene expression (Regulation of gene expression). and therefore the metabolites produced change as well.

we need

• links from fediverse instances to other fediverse instances
• maybe tools like https://fediversemap.com/ to find fediverse instances that are physically close to you, to connect to people irl and organize irl events
• prefer to post content on already existing instances so you get better exposure