I’m hoping this doesn’t start a fight, I’m just curious what the political orientation is of this community. I grew up in a liberal (in the American sense) family, and I identify now as a socialist, though a lot of the liberalism I grew up in has stuck with me, like interest in LGBTQ and women’s rights, environmentalism,...
Tankie, though if I take the 2-axis politics test I wind up being in the bottom left corner (you have to give some pretty unhinged answers to get top left).
I started out as a techno-libertarian and then lib left, then socdem, then anarchist. There’s been life experiences that have changed my politics.
In Australia our conservatives run on the promise of nuclear power, but they’ve been in power for 20 of the last 26 years and haven’t ever attempted to implement it, they just use the promise to stymie the development of renewables.
Imo the time to try to use nuclear to suppress oil and gas was 50 years ago.
Assuming they are similar levels of drunk, one party didn’t get them into that situation specifically do that without the other one’s knowledge, and they’re both sloppily initiating drunken horny on each other, then sure. But really it would be worthwhile assessing the situation afterwards to see what actual harm/trauma has happened. I say this as someone who has drunkenly initiated things and its either violated a boundary or I’ve regretted it later.
I think the idea of having consent as this hard line, unforgiveable sin thing is probably not a good way of viewing consent. It’s kinda puritanical. (e.g. most jobs are non-consensual in a puritanical sense, I would not be doing most jobs I’ve had unless I needed cash for rent/food, but we also learn to forgive people who help us get jobs we wind up hating. Also consent isn’t just for sex)
The latest episode of the podcast Multiamory, which is focused on polyamory stuff but this episode was more general, actually has a broad discussion on this if you want to check it out. I disagree with a couple of points here and there, but whatever.
I mostly did 3 years ago and have kinda nixed most of the rest of my reddit habits once RiF went down. It does move a lot slower, I cannot spend all day browsing askreddit or whatever in a depressive funk. I do still sometimes go on as part of searches for things.
I have no idea how many people though. The number of people on hexbear (daily users) is way lower than r/chapotraphouse at its height, assuming a continuity of community. There would be some people (possibly even a majority) who spend a decent amount of time on both.
Ofc Mohammed is the most common name but thats a name common within the muslim community. I have noticed the name Sarah in every country, regardless of race or religion. Or it might be an abrahamic religion thing but thats most of the world atleast....
I’ve definitely turned into the paranoid nutcase within my friend group in recent years, I hate that everything is “smart” nowadays requiring an app/internet connection & account, just to do basic things that didn’t require any of that before....
Yeah… Yeah. I always feel kinda hopeless about this stuff because I’m not the sort of person that has the social clout to migrate my communities onto platforms.
Someone else that they trust a lot that they introduced you to to help you out of a jam.
I’ve seen the best friends one a couple of times and it completely destroys the dynamic obviously. One guy isolated himself and spent a year drunk and on /pol/ and the first conversation I had with him after that was about how the holocaust didn’t happen. Idek if cheating happened in that instance or if she just lined up his best friend really quickly.
Everyone new I meet seems to be polyamorous now but I just hear about less relationship drama generally.
We’ve all faced aome toxic traits in partners in some relationship. They’re supposed to be warning signs but its easy to misinterpret them, what’s yours?...
Yeah, it’s pretty normal and will become more normal as agricultural strain becomes worse in equatorial regions. I suspect it will depend on the immigration context of more livable countries, in which case you might have more community moving with you and you can struggle together in your new home.
It’s a Bethesda RPG in space. If you’re looking for No Man’s Sky, it isn’t that. If you’re looking for Elite Dangerous, it isn’t that. But it is a BSG RPG, just like I’ve been playing since Morrowind, and it really scratches that itch. I like the characters I’ve met, I’ve enjoyed exploring, and I’m starting...
I attend the local variant, and assuming the demographics square out (I think we get less techbros here but way more trad hippies), and probably the biggest problem will be sewage removal (which we did daily).
There were a lot of people very unprepared for a storm. Lots of sad looking tents.
I think most people tend to overprepare food and water requirements, though everyone is pretty smelly by the end of the event.
I think the main problem people will face is overflowing septic tanks and then 70k people looking for places to poop that aren’t the increasingly threatening portapotties. Like, day one you’re not going to be able tell if that’s mud or poop on the floor, and there’s definitely going to be urine mixed in even if it is mud. If you were storing your food or water on the ground, um… Good luck
Trash works a little differently, I think. Food trash people are comfortable with dealing with, mostly. I think a lot of the kitchy hippy crap that gets waterlogged will get discarded, as well as soiled clothing. People generally don’t want to take plastic bags with poop in them in their cars.
But also some people take the trash thing way less seriously than others, and if you do take all your own trash how willing are you to take another camp’s worth?
(Our local one has a clean up volunteer group that goes a few weeks after so that the land can be used as a barley field during other parts of the year, the fact that that’s necessary says that there’s a decent amount of clean up to do)
I am bad at coding and it is a skill that I do not think everyone can achieve to a professional level, thus telling people to “learn to code” is similar to telling them to “just hustle”, “hit the bricks and hand out resumes”, and other flippant stories that mean you stop having to think about poverty.
That said, I do believe the narrative actually was true for some people at some time. Maybe in the 90s and early 2000s if you were able to cobble together a computer from bits your university was throwing out and you had internet access, you could punch well above your weight. But that certainly was never true for everyone.
(I like to be optimistic about people’s ability to learn things, mostly hampered by access, time, and lack of interest, but I went to a boilermaker’s course recently to learn how to weld and none of those kids were going to learn how to code even if they were interested, whatever their other skills were.)
German energy giant RWE has begun dismantling a wind farm to make way for a further expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in the western region of North Rhine Westphalia....
Bleh, had an argument with someone about switching to signal or something other than FB messenger and he flat out refused on the basis that it would require him to have another app on his phone.
Three months later, he had signal installed on his phone. No idea what happened there, probably someone with more social clout than I had got him to install it. No mention of the prior argument.
Yeah, life support being off or at reduced power would mean carbon dioxide build up and it would probably get a bit sweaty, but you can survive for quite a long time in a sealed room, especially with how much spare space is in Star Trek rooms.
Unless life support includes something like “shields that keep all the air in” or something.
I agree with the theme of the post, but some of the examples need more work, possibly at the expense of being less quippy
If I had one and was unbothered by energy, probably around 18-21 C. As it stands, I’m planning on storing a couple of spray bottles full of water in the fridge and having a fan pointed at me at all times when summer comes around.
I’ve read and re-read this thread… Do you think Russia is currently communist? Like… Putin is a communist, the United Russia Party is communist etc etc. Is this actually your belief?
ITT: “If not for ticket scalpers, concerts wouldn’t happen! They’re providing a valuable service by hoovering up supply with their high capital and low morals, and then drip feeding it back to us at increased prices! Ticket scalpers, by buying all tickets at once, increase demand for bigger concerts, a net win for everyone!”
Anyway, yes, it won’t fix the whole systemic issue and calling it an “income tax” is silly (it can just be a tax), but if the way to get you over the line is getting landlords to pay extra for empty apartments/houses so be it.
I watch a fair amount of series, but I’m not a data hoarder. I see the value in 2GB episodes, but I watch most series on my laptop, my simple 1920x1080 tv or even my phone where that value doesn’t make a difference. If I want to have a theater experience, I’ll go to the theater....
Where do you fall politically?
I’m hoping this doesn’t start a fight, I’m just curious what the political orientation is of this community. I grew up in a liberal (in the American sense) family, and I identify now as a socialist, though a lot of the liberalism I grew up in has stuck with me, like interest in LGBTQ and women’s rights, environmentalism,...
Whats a stupid ritual in your life that makes you happy?
Having coffee, smth sweet and a followup cigarrete in the morning makes me happy to be awake. Or kiss goodbyes and hellos.
Just the basics (startrek.website)
Power Sources (lemmy.zip)
What do you like most about North Korea?
I’ll start! I like that DPRK has low per capita carbon emissions for an industrialized nation.
Its about to be summer in Australia and cannot deal with it already (lemmy.ml)
One of my favorite things in scifi is when later movies/shows have to try to write around old design chocies. (startrek.website)
So I have always gotten jokes. A friend told me his favorite and i just don't understand it. I did a web search and found variants but no explanation why it's funny or what it means. Can you help? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Cars have windows. Houses have windows. So it can’t be windows that makes the car go....
What's the most expensive lesson you've learned?
Can two drunk people consent to having sex with each other? (lemmy.zip)
why do clothes get more uncomfortable after every wash
they feel so ‘chemical-y’ and their texture goes from soft to uncomfy idfk?
And they'll likely only read parts of it (startrek.website)
How many people actually dropped Reddit for Lemmy?
It is possible to estimate?
What is the most universal name?
Ofc Mohammed is the most common name but thats a name common within the muslim community. I have noticed the name Sarah in every country, regardless of race or religion. Or it might be an abrahamic religion thing but thats most of the world atleast....
What's a current or growing trend only you seem to have concerns about?
I’ve definitely turned into the paranoid nutcase within my friend group in recent years, I hate that everything is “smart” nowadays requiring an app/internet connection & account, just to do basic things that didn’t require any of that before....
Star Citizen reaches $600 million raised but the game future is really worrying (gamerkick.com)
Who is the worst person you could cheat on you partner with?
I thought either a wedding planner or marriage councellor, someone who’s supposed to help you in your relationship. And obviously family members....
What is smth toxic in a relationship you should not like but did/do?
We’ve all faced aome toxic traits in partners in some relationship. They’re supposed to be warning signs but its easy to misinterpret them, what’s yours?...
Do you think bad weather is a good reason for moving?
Would you uproot your life, leaving behind your family, your job etc if you dont like the weather in a country....
15 hours in, I'm loving it!
It’s a Bethesda RPG in space. If you’re looking for No Man’s Sky, it isn’t that. If you’re looking for Elite Dangerous, it isn’t that. But it is a BSG RPG, just like I’ve been playing since Morrowind, and it really scratches that itch. I like the characters I’ve met, I’ve enjoyed exploring, and I’m starting...
Australia government to introduce bill barring 'wage theft' on Monday (www.reuters.com)
Burning Man revelers stranded in Nevada desert by rain and mud (www.reuters.com)
Raining Man - 70,000 trapped by mud at Burning Man 2023. Pray for the techbros (www.sfgate.com)
What are your programming hot takes?
I has come to my attention that some users have never heard of F-droid. F-droid is a free software app store for android (f-droid.org)
Germany begins dismantling wind farm for coal (euobserver.com)
German energy giant RWE has begun dismantling a wind farm to make way for a further expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in the western region of North Rhine Westphalia....
Meeting new roommates for college and I suggested Signal and this was someone's response. I hate Gen Z. (lemm.ee)
Can you drive a manual transmission?
And where are you from? And how old? Not “do you” but just if you know how....
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When engineering is done with your shit (startrek.website)
Three marines killed in US military aircraft crash off northern Australia coast during training exercise (www.theguardian.com)
What temperature do you keep your thermostat at?
Title. We keep ours at 75F, parents do 77F, and in laws 68F. It made me curious what everyone else keeps theirs at?
How do you even install a toilet in such a tight space? (feddit.uk)
Landlords should have to pay income tax on their rental properties regardless of whether they're rented out or not. (gothamist.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.crimedad.work/post/12162...
The Internet Is About to Get a Lot Worse (US focused) (buttondown.email)
Charlie Jane Anders discusses KOSA (the Kids Online Safety Act)....
200mb episodes are good enough!
I watch a fair amount of series, but I’m not a data hoarder. I see the value in 2GB episodes, but I watch most series on my laptop, my simple 1920x1080 tv or even my phone where that value doesn’t make a difference. If I want to have a theater experience, I’ll go to the theater....