Capitalism is good at creating things, but terrible at maintaining their quality over time, because at the end of the day profits don't always go hand in hand with product quality

This is pretty standard in concerts, just shove your way through some people to go someplace better

The world is pretty fucked up, it always has been and so it will continue to be.
And none of it really matters either, it's all just a tiny flash of light in the darkness that will soon fade away to nothing.

However, here we are, living in a beautiful planet that was blessed with life, so many different plants and animals, sounds, smells and tastes, music and art, being able to talk with others, laugh, cry, love. We're only microscopic creatures that live on the tiniest spec of dust imaginable, but to our tiny eyes there is plenty of beauty to be found. And for as long as we are able to see that beauty, there is a point to it for us, we can try our best to enjoy what we have for the little time that we have it, before we finally become one with the universe.

Can't wait for the 'testicular examination' voting option to be added to Lemmy

I seriously hope that they won't be able to while they're warmongering in the east and keep on abusing the Greek borders to the west and claim that Greek lands belong to them. If they stop their bully behavior and play nice with their neighbors then I'll be glad to welcome them and keep history in the past.

I've convinced almost my entire friend group to switch over to Signal

It took a long time and some big fuckups by Messenger, but we even got a group chat going on Signal after all

They don't though, otherwise there would be no need for a justice system altogether. There are "people" out there that have wet dreams of lgbt people being incriminated and women having less rights than men, the rest of society should be protected from them instead of putting them in government positions.

I agree that AI is definitely very upcoming (already here actually), but I seriously fear it's going to be for the worse overall.
Every country should be putting down serious rules about AI while it's still early enough to prevent the problems.
The European Union is already at it, I hope they are bringing in many experts from different fields and try to enforce it all strictly.

Are they trying to cause a 2nd Chernobyl with their own country being literally next to Ukraine?

I certainly hope so, but one side (which I won't name because I think it's obvious enough) doesn't seem content with just living their lives, they want to force themselves on the lives of others as well so that the whole country will be just as shitty as they are and then they won't have to feel so bad about it.

I've moved completely to Arch and I don't think I'm going back. It supports every game I've wanted to play up until now except Fall Guys, worst case I'll set up a small Windows partition or VM for the couple of exceptions that I still want to play

I'm having (or am going to have) some pretty serious personal issues, so that's pretty bad.
But on the bright side, I had fun playing DnD on the weekend and I opened my first ever open source PR on Lemmy

Personally I think Cyberpunk was a flawed masterpiece, the whole world, characters, art and story (both main and sidequests) create something so beautiful and unique to me, and there were quite a few heart wrenching moments.

I also think it's great from a gameplay perspective, I'm a huge RPG fan and this was insanely fun to me, I'm definitely going to do at least one more playthrough once the expansion is out and I have time

People say that the devs are extreme left, though I haven't seen anything extreme first hand, simply being communist is a very valid opinion but I guess there's more to it. Besides politics, the project is very nice and promising, and I've had very useful feedback from the devs while trying to make a pull request for a new feature.

Thank you, I'm tired of everyone taking this too far. I'm also hardly against authoritarian regimes of any kind, left and right, but this is a generic use open source software we're talking about, not a political party. I support the platform and I appreciate all the devs for what they do, it's really good software and it makes me happy as a programmer myself to see social media code that isn't filled with bloat and spaghetti code or malicious anti privacy features

No idea about mechanical engineering, but Python is so easy to learn that you have a huge benefit over cost (in time) for it

It's definitely possible, but it would be a swiss army knife of an app that's way too hard to make compared to how confusing and messy the end result would probably be

I agree with your points generally, but I also understand the point of view of the general user. Reddit for most people is just a nice app to open while you're lying on your couch between activities and scrolling through some interesting/fun/wholesome stuff. The API changes are completely irrelevant to the average user who doesn't even know about third party apps. I remember a poll on r/polls about 3rd party apps and the people who use Reddit's app was like 95% (obviously r/polls is not scientific statistics but it still shows something).

What you're saying is especially more relevant on platforms like Youtube, where there's people actually having careers and their life's work at stake because of Youtube constantly taking a dump on their platform.

What I'm mostly here (kbin and Lemmy) for is because I believe in decentralization and an open source, free from capitalist milking, internet and I want to be a part of it and support its growth.

lmfao at the second one, the first one is actually pretty interesting if you do it on an actual plain pizza instead of a ready one

This is why critical thinking is such an essential skill. So many people out there are convinced about things with bullshit arguments, just because the person talking is charismatic/confident or popular and influential.

Note: Critically thinking doesn't mean denying everyone and everything and holding controversial beliefs in order to feel smarter than others, it often starts with admitting your very own mistakes first. Just like with other's arguments you should be applying the same checks to your own thinking and notice your own fallacies to correct them.

This is a little different than everything else here lmao, that's some scary shit

This aligns very well with my own philosophy about life, you couldn't have said it better!

I think this point has been overexaggerated a bit. Sure, the main devs might support the CCP and actively try to silence critisicm about it, but the software is open source and decentralised for exactly this purpose. Anyone can fork it and host it themselves, and users can use any other instance which allows free speech with practically no difference in user experience.

I think both Kbin and Lemmy are great software, I am using both hoping that at least one of the two ends up becoming popular

Often I think the Internet has done more damage than good in the world the way it has evolved to be, but creating good social circles about hobbies and stuff is definitely an amazing thing that helps many people out there. Hopefully we can turn the tide a bit with technology like the Fediverse and create a healthier part of the internet that isn't corrupted and ruined by capitalist greed

There's an amazing pizza I ate in Italy with tomato sauce, pieces of mozzarella, and a few pieces of basil (if I remember correctly), there's no cheese and it's eaten cold. I miss it so much it's one of the best things I've eaten ever

It used to be for me too, but I got used to the idea and I feel like it really takes a load off my mind now, not only on the browser but IDEs and any other application with tabs. If you don't remember why something is open, you probably don't need it that much

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Still haven't found much good content on Mastodon, but I'm really liking the platform and app

2000 Gen Z, I grew up with them as well during 2013

In Greece, many areas are almost completely uncovered by public transport.
And even in the peak hours there aren't enough vehicles, so they get so packed that people are basically hugging each other some times.
Also, public transport was a pretty common place to be harassed as a woman, but I think the situation has improved the past few years.

Despite that, the roads of the city center are so crappy that driving in that traffic is even worse than public transport, so I actually prefer it :P
I also enjoy seeing lots of different people and listening to some conversations now and then

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There's no reason to comment on a conversational post where the OP doesn't exist

I think we are immensely biased being human, and not being able to communicate that well with animals.
Other animals don't cease to surprise us, and there are so many species that have heightened or entirely different senses than we do.
I feel like there's so much we don't yet know about these things and that there are many things that are accepted with hand wavey reasoning

Either educate yourself or go to that quarantined Nazi instance with the other inbred racist fucks and sugarcoat the Holocaust together

I ordered a Napoletana in Rome thinking it would be a Naples style pizza but it apparently has anchovies, I almost gagged while eating it but it was still a good pizza

It really depends on the game and what phase I'm at currently. The games that I can dump hours upon hours on are usually RPGs or have some kind of RPG element to them. I used to spend an insane amount of time on competitive games, but I've grown to avoid them because of how toxic they get eventually, though I still have an itch for them now and then.

Adulthood really decreased my playing time, more than I expected. It's also harder for me to play for long periods without feeling unproductive and questioning what is the point of this..

I played it with some friends and was having a really good time for a while (we started when the game launched), but it didn't take long until we got tired of the same game loop over and over again without much else to do, I don't know if things have improved since then on that aspect

Both are so fucking good

Sadly the only mega project that might save us is getting rid of unchained capitalism

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