Actual human worth/value is measured in empathy for one another, which makes the US destitude in what matters.

well said. i had the exact same thought yesterday.

almost as if competition is what capitalism was always supposed to be about

we need

• links from fediverse instances to other fediverse instances
• maybe tools like https://fediversemap.com/ to find fediverse instances that are physically close to you, to connect to people irl and organize irl events
• prefer to post content on already existing instances so you get better exposure

i think search engines are … tricky

i always prefer lists and indexes over search engines because search engines feels a bit like voodoo magic to me, it has unpredictable outcomes. for example, sometimes you need just the right keyword for search engines to give you meaningful results, and otherwise it will just not return anything. and that is a lot like chatgpt … you ask it something and it might give you a meaningful response. or it might completely miss the point. when there’s an actual list of communities that is small and complete, then i can go through it manually to check where it might be.

everything is an echo chamber

can you name a single thing that’s not an echo chamber of some sorts?

the side bars for each community can effectively be a webring. i’m talking about these things here:

(example is the sidebar of the /c/selfhosted@lemmy.word community)

nice, not too bot-infested, privacy-respecting, free, distributed and federated platform

nice, mediocrely bot-infested, publicly readable, donation-funded, distributed and federated platform

ftfy

I think making your articles on the fediverse is better than building your blog website from scratch.

Instead of https://thisismywebsite.com/blog/
instead do https://mylemmyinstance.com/c/myblog

This way, it better integrates with fediverse mechanics such as follow, like, comment. Also people can discover your stuff through the “all” feed, even though unlikely, maybe one day we’ll get more interesting recommendation algorithms for the fediverse.

biological chemistry

fun fact: I have had a years-long interest into biochemistry since i was 12, and i want to study biology because of it, but i can’t; because i don’t have the time/money, because i need to get a job now to earn money, instead of spending another 6 years in school.

They don’t know that either.

I suspect the same thing is happening on Lemmy too. Scrapers just read all the content (literally anybody can read the threads as it’s an open forum) and feeding it into AI training. The main difference is that the Lemmy operators probably don’t get paid for it.

I also believe in free education, which includes research facilities.

It is my belief that every society benefits from free healthcare.

autistic girls exist, you know?

Spaceflight creates jobs.

You know what recently came to my mind…

Israel is basically a military outpost for the US in the middle east. it’s one large military base that is supposed to pressure arab countries into giving their oil to the US. It’s “either you sell your oil in US dollar (which we can conveniently print at will) or … you know, Israel is your neighbor, and they have a ton of arms”. It’s an extortion scheme.

This is why Israel is threatened by renewable energy. Because if the world is not dependent on oil, then Israel has no reason to exist, as the US won’t give them a lot of weapons anymore to conduct their extortion scheme. And then Israel would collapse.

all gold is inherently worthless and pure speculation. it shouldn’t even have $1 in value.

they can

when you eat fruit, the sugar can enter your bloodstream directly through the mucosa in your mouth, you don’t even need to swallow it. although the main part of the absorption happens in the colon still.

The thing is that cows can’t digest grass either. They have an extra stomach along their oesophagus which is basically just a pouch where the grass goes in first. There are a lot of bacteria and they can digest grass. Then these bacteria grow because they eat the grass.

Then the cow swallows these bacteria and digests those. That’s where a cow gets their calories from.

Like all western societies, australians have their own flavor of red hats

That has nothing to do with being a western society. I’m pretty sure that China, India and Somalia have it too. Maybe named differently, and with Chinese Supremacist instead of White Supremacist groups, but pretty similar. It’s just something that exists in each human society. It’s called Chauvinism btw.