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  • tikitaki@kbin.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Why are folks so anti-capitalist?
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    1 year ago

    This is a decentralized platform meant to be a social media system without the corporate power inherent to all the others. The developers of Lemmy for example have essays on Maoist China being hosted on their Github.

    By its very nature, it’s going to attract people who are trying to get away from corporate influence. It’s essentially why I’m here and not on reddit. I don’t want a company profiting off of my content.

    There’s space for pro-capitalists as well though. I believe in the open market of ideas - listen to what people have to say and share your bit. Engage genuinely and you’ll learn something and maybe teach someone else something.

  • tikitaki@kbin.socialtoLinux@lemmy.ml•My little brother loves the dualboot setup I installed for him. He says "It's like iOS"
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    1 year ago

    I agree in certain circumstances. For example a file manager I don’t understand why people use in a terminal. When I need to do like batch deletions or something I can easily just write a couple terminal commands. Everything else I just use the default file manager. Either Finder on MacOS or the Gnome one on Linux.

    But stuff like vim, a terminal text editor, is simply more fluid and enjoyable than a GUI program. I’ve tried using vim plugins for various different GUI text editors like Sublime or VS Code but there’s nothing like a personalized vim install. It takes a little bit to get used to the commands, but once you do it’s like riding a bike. You just feel faster and muscle memory takes care of the rest. You don’t actively think about it

    same thing with for example package managers. it’s faster to just press my hotkey to open up terminal, type in “sudo dnf install <whatever>” and it’s installed. why do we need a GUI here? it doesn’t make anything faster. In fact, it just gets in the way.

    so some things GUIs don’t actually improve. Some they do. It’s a per case thing I think

  • tikitaki@kbin.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Is it true that a social media platform that allows anonymous downvotes has the potential to become a toxic environment?
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    1 year ago

    I think it has the tendency to create a snowball effect. You see a comment with -50 points you are already subconsciously looking at it trying to analyze why everyone hates it. It essentially primes you into disagreeing with it. Sometimes it’s obvious in the case of a troll or someone saying hate speech or something but other times it’s someone sharing a genuine opinion that’s relevant to the discussion but the snowball effect of the first few people downvoting it causes it to spiral downwards.

    By itself it isn’t a bad thing but when comments are ranked based on votes or downvoted comments past a certain threshold are hidden, it contributes to creating echo chambers.

    Personally, I think it’s like that Churchill quote. Democracy is trash and has a lot of problems. But still, it’s the best thing we’ve come up with so far. It’s got its issues but the transparent nature definitely helps if someone is consciously trying to read things with an open mind.

  • tikitaki@kbin.socialtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Distro suggestions?
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    1 year ago

    Fedora. I’d avoid Ubuntu and its derivatives like Pop! or Arch derivatives. I think Arch is fine, especially if you know what you’re doing, but Arch derivatives in my experience are much less stable than for example Ubuntu or Fedora.

    But seriously. Fedora. It’s the best. Ubuntu is actually fine too but Blue > Orange

  • tikitaki@kbin.socialtoNews@lemmy.world•‘Your heart races a bit’: US weather man threatened with death for mentioning climate crisis
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    1 year ago

    The point wasn’t the rare coal town but the perception that pervades the rural areas of this country. It doesn’t have to be coal towns - there are similar stories for all smallish cities across the Rust Belt for example. You’re focusing on a specific when really the point is that fascism grows only in poor economic situations.

    These people are legitimately suffering and they are turning to hate as a response. Trust me, you or me could have easily been in their shoes had we been in their position. But just like they have been swayed to hate, I think it’s possible to sway them to socialism as long as you call it something other than socialism.

    Zizek has talked about this before where Trump supporters in 2016 were a hair’s breadth away from being Bernie supporters. While a bit of a dramatic statement, there is some truth in this. When the economic situation is unstable, radicalism grows in both directions - left and right. Which is why around the same time period we saw an openly socialist candidate for president in the US receive about 6% of the general vote - while we also saw massive Nazi rallies in New York City.

    Everything is connected. We are fighting for the hearts and minds of the same people.

  • tikitaki@kbin.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What event did you miss that saved your life
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    1 year ago

    In fact it is sort of freaky how a little one minute change in your schedule could potentially change the lives of dozens or hundreds of people

    If we’re talking about future humans, we get into the exponential growth stage pretty quickly.

    You have 2 kids, and they each average 2 kids, and they each average 2 kids, etc, etc

    2, 4, 8, 16, etc - 2 ^ n where n is number of generations

    After 20 generations we’re already talking a million descendants. With a rough range of 20 years per generation we get 400 years.

    That number only blows up from there. In 30 generations we’re at a billion in 600 years.

    One minor decision whether to take a train or a bus or what have you can have wide ranging effects on potentially billions of humans far into the future. It’s a bit absurd thinking about it. Everything you do has potential to radically change the future. Of course, your family line could just as well die out with you.

    Now imagine how many descendants you have in your family tree going all the way back to the cavemen. Think of how many infinite little decisions led to the chances of your dad fucking your mom on that specific minute of that specific day. It’s effectively a 10 ^ -∞ chance of you being born. And yet you’re still here.

  • tikitaki@kbin.socialtoNews@lemmy.world•‘Your heart races a bit’: US weather man threatened with death for mentioning climate crisis
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    1 year ago

    I used to listen and try to understand when I lived in rural counties in the US. Now all I hear is…

    Durrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

    This patronizing attitude is part of the reason politicians like Trump has become popular. He talks to these people who the “civilized” part of the country is totally ignoring. You care about climate change, and so do I. But what if you live near a coal mine that has slowly been phased out? You see your town which your grandfather lived in slowly rots away. You see America as a failing country - you see stores closing. You see people moving away. People dying from opiate overdose. Unemployment and depression

    These people have real and legitimate grievances. Their government has failed them - which is why anti-establishment figures like Trump is such a lightning rod for their energy. Then we go and tell them that we need to make sacrifices for the climate. What are they supposed to think? What more do they have to give?

    Ignoring these people and pretending like they don’t matter or are totally irrational is going to help lead to fascism in this country. Any real revolutionary movement will have to incorporate the whole of America. We need these people on our side.