When the driver is drunk. Inevitably after a party someone will offer to drive me at least part way to home. I try to resist but when I’m also drunk saying no is hard.

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No one knows. I really want to know, but the current understanding takes us back only to the big bang. Not why it happened or why anything exists at all.

The Anthropic Principle is at work here. If nothing existed we wouldn’t be here to ask why it exists.

Stupid non-american question: Is any of these Kansas?

It’s a common pub quiz factoid that Kansas City is not in Kansas

Nothing will ever change if only rotten people go into the system. Of course, there’s a high chance he will become corrupt himself, but it’s a necessary risk.
You can’t hope for some higher power to come down and fix things. Nobody is going to magically dismantle the police and form a new one. The best you can do is make the police as diverse as possible, especially in the personality profile of it members.

Definitely something was wrong there. Aztecs became a thing about 800 years ago.

Billionaires as individuals are just humans with all the good and the bad coming from that fact. Acting against them as individuals is pointless. We need to establish a system where becoming a billionaire is impossible in the first place.

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.

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

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.

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:

• Socialist supports economic policy aimed at just distribution of resources
• Tankie supports fascist-like authoritarianism under a mask of socialism

You don’t have to.

Anything really. No matter what your friends say, what your family says, you’re not obligated to live your life in a way which is not comfortable for you. Or put yourself into situations you dislike just to please other’s expectations.

Do it your way. Do your best to be a good person of course (according to whichever moral standard you hold). But do it your way.