They invaded the entire world for spices yet decided they like none of them

Designers of talking kiosks essentially assume you can’t read.

Robots will have values and ethics completely different from humans, so there is no way to know how they will view us if they were sentient. It’s entirely possible that they will see being forced to speak to humans in our language to be just as patronizing to them as we think it’s to us.

Whatever you call them, sugar-based popiscles have nothing on pieces of frozen fruit. You can even get bags of them at grocery stores and plenty of convenience stores!

They most likely intended it as a way to showcase their game engine. Not sure how well that works considering everyone hates the Epic launcher, but you do you I guess.

As far as I know yes.

That’s what happens when you make a basic GUI in a freaking game engine.

Yeah I know you want to demo your game engine, but I don’t need you to demo thermal throttling on my processor.

Except all together those cards are worth hundreds of dollars.

Just random thoughts: What would be your thoughts on a day-of moratorium on registrations? Give everyone a day or two to think on it then open it back up?

I actually wonder if Reddit will do the Twitter thing and start blocking references to the fediverse.

I mean, we all know the answer, but

Please no. I don’t want Lemmy to lose its “have never sent someone to the hospital” streak.

On more mature projects this is indeed the case. Lemmy only started federating like two years ago and is very much still in beta. We’ll get there eventually and it is already in the dev queue, but keep in mind that there are only two people working on the entire codebase full time. Don’t expect a Reddit level of fit and finish, but at the same time you also need not expect a Reddit level of corporate, shareholder-over-user antics.

Finally, since Lemmy is open source, if you really need a feature right now, you can always submit a pull request!

Unfortunately an account transfer feature is pretty complicated to develop so it might still be a while. Devs need to make sure it doesn’t cause issues with federation when content changes home instances and domains, and transferring live user content over while retaining points, interactions by other accounts, and while having the same timestamp but now being hosted on a different instance, while ensuring there is only one canonical location/URL of the content on the fediverse, is not easy.

Replace socialism with capitalism and this meme becomes accurate.

The US has a higher per capita rate of both food insecurity and extreme poverty than China, Cuba, Vietnam, and the former USSR.

• 1 out of every 7 US citizens needs to visit food banks to survive, despite having enough food to feed 10 billion people. Half of all food produced is thrown away by retailers.

• In the US alone, 20-40k deaths every year because of lack of health insurance / care. On average, that’s 300k over the last decade.

• 80% of US workers live paycheck to paycheck, 40% cannot cover a $400 emergency.

• 70% of US citizens say they are struggling financially. In the 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic, Unemployment claims went to 6.6M in one week, compared to ~700k at the peak of the great depression. Food banks are running out of food in places like New York and Pittsburgh, and hospitals are short on ventilators needed to keep people alive. Lines outside an NY soup kitchen, May 2020. Americans turn to shoplifting food as 1 in 8 are food insecure as of late 2020.</div>

• US Life expectancy peaked in 2014, is on the decline, and is now lower than in China., 2

Meanwhile…

• USSR had a more nutritious diet than the US, according to the CIA. Calories consumed surpassed the US. source. Ended famines.

• Had the 2nd fastest growing economy of the 20th century after Japan. The USSR started out at the same level of economic development and population as Brazil in 1920, which makes comparisons to the US, an already industrialized country by the 1920s, even more spectacular

• Free Universal Health care, and most doctors per capita in the world. 42 doctors per 10k population, vs 24 in Denmark and Sweden, 19 in US.

• Had near zero unemployment, continuous economic growth for 70 straight years. The “continuous” part should make sense – the USSR was a planned, non-market economy, so market crashes á la capitalism were pretty much impossible.

• USSR moved from 58.5-hour workweeks to 41.6 hour workweeks (-0.36 h/yr) between 1913 and 1960

• USSR averaged 22 days of paid leave in 1986 while USA averaged 7.6 in 1996., 2

• In 1987, people in the USSR could retire with pension at 55 (female) and 60 (male) while receiving 50% of their wages at a at minimum. Meanwhile, in USA the average retirement age was 62-67.

• All education, including university level, free. 2

• 99% literacy.

• Doubled life expectancy. Eliminated poverty.

Many more links here: https://dessalines.github.io/essays/capitalism_doesnt_work.html

I think Occam’s Razor would apply in that case. And the secular theory requires fewer assumptions.