why people aren’t gathering in mobs
Well, it happened about a hundred years after your time, but there’s this thing called the Gatling gun that got invented that really became a hard counter to angry mobs trying to storm things, and once that stopped being an option they just kinda stopped listening to us
I asked that question recently and got some helpful responses,
https://lemmy.world/post/30977919
tl;dr PieFed has different people behind it, a few more features, and is written in Python instead of Rust (I’m not a coder or an instance host, so don’t ask me what that distinction means, but I’ve anecdotally seen more people saying python is easier to work with than rust than the other way around),
PieFed communities federate with Lemmy communities, tho, so no matter which kind of instance you’re going through as a user you should be able to interact with all the communities (assuming your instance admins haven’t decided to defederate with the other instance for some reason)
This is a literary technique known as floor shadowing
[rips blunt] The dissonant design philosophies between the text and the image emphasize how technological progress guided by an uncaring market will gradually create greater psychological distance between people over time
Also, if we had imprisoned everyone involved and seized all their assets Donald Trump probably doesn’t win in 2016
I love the concept and these song choices, I’m too lazy to make my own playlist but here are a few things you might dig
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I have, but I also have a touch of dysgraphia, so my handwriting is serviceable but really slow (like, the 2d spatial relation skills of being able to keep the different bits of letters proportioned to each other takes active concentration for me), whereas I can use keyboard without thinking about it
Incidentally, the fact that cursive was a graded subject for me in elementary school that almost led to me getting held back a grade probably played a big part in who I grew up to be (i.e. someone who usually doesn’t like authority figures but does like misfits and outcasts)
You’re the only program that loads quickly enough on my pile of junk machine to write down my impulsive ADHD ideas before I forget them so I can forget to read them later
Dang it all, what is with all the intelligent comments here? I have been waiting all day for someone to make some stupid argument so I could go “heh, looks like you just took a side, hypocrite much” and then you go off and write something I can’t even jokingly disagree with
Life is easier when you don’t take sides
No it isn’t
And, like, is taking good media hosted on shitty sites and rehosting it on a better one supposed to be a bad thing?
the Fediverse really seems like it could be our response to these fuckers controlling the narrative on social media. It could be more than just an interesting decentralized social media platform. I really think this could be a key step in reclaiming our democracy.
Agreed, and I would add that finding ways to get nonprofit news organizations (e.g. ProPublica) and public media (e.g. NPR, PBS, etc.) to host and administer their own instances and to start directing their readers/listeners to those services would be a great way to advance this goal
Getting people to talk about the headline is going to be really difficult, like… Damn, I wish I had some kind of metaphor or idiom for this situation
Possibly, have you ever told someone to try unplugging it and then plugging it back it in?
I mean, jazz goes from like Kenny G to Sun Ra. There’s a type of jazz for every drug trip, I’d like to believe.
No argument there, but my question still stands. Why is poor (i.e. shopping at walmart) mom the paradigmatic example instead of rich dad? Just because our society likes to punch down doesn’t mean our memes have to.
Fair enough, but, like, 100 archers against 1000 people ends poorly for the archers if the people are willing to take some casualties, and a keep wall is only good so long as nobody inside decides to unlock a door or people outside can’t get a ladder set up somewhere for a few minutes
Yes, there have been successful revolutions since the 1850s, but they’re definitely a lot harder than they used to be, and I think they now really do require some sort of defection from the ruling classes or military over to the opposition in a way that you didn’t really need for, say, the French revolution, where an angry mob of peasant women could just force their way into the kings castle and tell him how things were gonna be going forward
I’m not saying it’s impossible, and I’m definitely not saying people should give up protesting all the bullshit going on right now, but I do think meta social contract between the rulers and the ruled has changed a lot since the 18th century because of technological progress