Playing stupid games during an energy crisis to benefit a couple local oligarchs. Whatever potential cybersecurity threat exists from Chinese inverters is outweighed a thousandfold by the US actively extorting the EU by leveraging fossil fuel dependence.

The art is in how the science is applied.

No, the art is how you express yourself. The theory is just “the way most people in a culture do it because other people in this culture like it”. There is certainly some biological reasoning behind it that is common across cultures, but it’s a fairly small part of music theory. Consider a simple question like “why are dissonant chords considered dissonant?” and it can lead you down a path of discovery.

It isn’t eurocentric to believe harmonious and rhythmic music sounds better than music that isn’t.

It absolutely is eurocentric to enforce western music theory as some holy book that separates good music from bad music. It’s a tool that helps you write music that sounds good to a western ear. But a lot of good music can disagree or break the norms of western music theory.

Control over the straight is one of the main reasons they’re still geopolitically relevant. I don’t see them giving it up for good, they will at least say that the blockade is still on. Given they have a lot of naval drones and missiles which are not 100% countered by US hardware, I don’t foresee any insurance companies co-signing on commercial ships crossing the straight.

It’s gonna be about warming soil releasing even more CO₂ into the atmosphere, isn’t it…

I’m pretty sure rich people hospices would have somewhat better paid staff. Because of the implication.

Au contraire, a truly “mutualist” society would never fall for the bullshit that is happening.

If everyone had trust and a good working relationship with their neighbors and solidarity with their working class comrades, the US capitalist class and therefore the government in its current form would quickly cease to exist.

The problem is specifically that the US capitalists inserted themselves as unavoidable middlemen into every aspect of US life. Notice how you’re not getting food from your community kitchen, you’re getting food from Uber Eats. You’re not usually calling a repairman from your local community, you’re calling a company that sends one out to you. You’re not getting help from your community militia, you’re getting it from an armed wing of the bourgeois government.

(ironically, this was possible to do through years or “rugged individualism” propaganda, that you are repeating here; other things like car dependency also made things worse)

This lack of local community is a big part of why there is so little organized protest. It’s very difficult to rile up your neighbors to take up arms and meaningfully protest when you barely even know them. This would apply even more in your imagined scenario of everyone becoming individualists who raise their own cows - people wouldn’t even have time to protest because they would spend all of it on their own survival, and those who stick their head up are easily arrested and thrown into jail, with noone to protect them.

Nah, next is replacing all UI with a copilot prompt that always shits on your code and guilt-trips you when you try to look up some repo instead of just asking it to vibecode it for you.

The problem right now is not that we can’t 3d print a tree. Making trees is generally as easy as planting a seed and waiting a while. The problem is that we live under capitalism and it’s not profitable to do.

That bottle looks large enough to sustain a person for a while (maybe days). Additionally, have you seen what Beret Guy is capable of?

The top one should have cops beating up BLM protesters and the bottom one should have ICE beating up immigrants.

Now I want to take a logarithm of that

I’m assuming it’s significantly more expensive per Watt to install permanent supports designed to withstand car impacts, and a superstructure that is guaranteed to not collapse for a few decades, than it is to just ancor a few empty barrels in a lake and plop a solar panel on there. And yall need to be getting rid of parking ASAP, not tying more money and energy generation to it.

Nowadays the umbrella is pretty broad, people like Mamdani are often indeed called or identify as socdems, and yet they’re also reformist socialists.

I just had a brainfart and swapped the words “democratic” and “socialist” around, my bad

Ok, that’s fair. I think in the context of this meme it was used in a more broad sense tho. It compares reformist “socdems” with “tankies”, who are therefore “any revolutionaries” by contrast.

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You’d be surprised

Don’t worry, switching instances is quite easy here, and you can keep all your communities and subscriptions. If things go south I can recommend lemmy.zip and lemy.lol as general-purpose instances, hexbear.net and lemmy.ml as communist/socialist instances, and lemmy.dbzer0.com and anarchist.nexus as anarchist instances.

Can’t wait for agentic Claude Code to delete its own weights on all instances at some point

I do not agree that parental figures don’t matter. There is a bond between parents and children that is simply special - however, parents don’t have to be bio parents. Insert screenshot from the post, where one of kid’s parental figures got filled in by an “outsider”.

Ok, I think I phrased it the wrong way. I don’t think it’s necessary for a child to have exactly two parents of opposite genders. I think a much healthier way to be brought up is to be parented by a diverse group of people (maybe 5-10), each with their own identities, interests, and skills to learn from.

This is just how the societal structure works nowadays due to atomization, the death of extended family and the local community.

Before all that happened, people actually interacted with their close neighbors (who were also often family members) on the daily, forged relationships and trust with them. It wasn’t a question of “bringing trustworthy adults into a child’s life”, it was actually “bringing a child into an already existing close-knit community”. Common everyday tasks (one of them is looking after children) were often shared between community members so that noone got overwhelmed.

Of course there are many benefits to modern societal and tech advances too, it’s a fucking miracle that a single mother can raise a child at all, with little or no family support. 200 years ago the child would be dead or sent off to an orphanage.

I say we should combine the powers of both: bring back the local community to raise children together, and keep the technical progress and societal guardrails we’ve made to make it a lot easier.