After a bit of struggle, I got a Lemmy instance up and running just in time for an exodus to that part of the fediverse. Unfortunately lotide stopped federating with most Lemmy instances at the exact wrong moment.
Played with kbin and got to the 99% mark but just couldn't get federation running. Maybe another day.
Played with kbin and got to the 99% mark but just couldn't get federation running. Maybe another day.
I believe it's a direct embrace, extend, extinguish. I think that in order to produce the Google talk product they start off using xmpp, and once it was fully operational and people started using it, they cut off xmpp compatibility including federation.
Incidentally, Google chat sucks compared to previous offerings.
Incidentally, Google chat sucks compared to previous offerings.
Both facebooks messenger and Google talk had periods where they were xmpp compatible, and if you look at a lot of xmpp clients, they're basically stuck in that exact era.
These big companies are dangerous. One difference is that this time we know they're dangerous. Many of us specifically left their services because we viscerally understand they're dangerous.
These big companies are dangerous. One difference is that this time we know they're dangerous. Many of us specifically left their services because we viscerally understand they're dangerous.
Keep finding ways to let people borrow more money to buy homes and the prices will keep rising because people borrow more money to buy the house they want.
If the principal is lower, then you start getting some options. You can amortize over a shorter span of time, or you can pay extra, or you can save more for your down payment. If you're paying no interest on a million dollars of principal, your option is to pay until you're dead and pass the loan to your kids like in the UK.
If the principal is lower, then you start getting some options. You can amortize over a shorter span of time, or you can pay extra, or you can save more for your down payment. If you're paying no interest on a million dollars of principal, your option is to pay until you're dead and pass the loan to your kids like in the UK.
Reading through it, Notes from the Underground seems to predict both the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany as natural outcomes of the "rational" 19th century.
Two things in particular that he mentions in the chapter I just finished were:
1. That people aren't math equations where you can just explain to them how to live optimally and they'll do so, and
2. That people in rational and civilized ages are no longer bloodthirsty and in fact may be more bloodthirsty than in less civilized times.
It seems that both regimes failed to account for or were themselves an example of these issues. In the case of the soviet union, it turns out that just making everyone a cog in a machine will ultimately fail because people don't want to be optimal cogs in a machine. In the case of Nazi Germany, it turns out that the rational western world of the 19th and 20th century hid monstrous capacity for bloodshed right under the surface.
While it doesn't necessarily directly predict the two regimes, where they would occur, or the specifics of why, I find it interesting how closely these two themes in notes for the underground predict both regimes. While it isn't perfect, it's a long way from the way people claim nobody expected any of these outcomes could have come about. World War 1 was supposedly this huge shock to the "civilized" Europe and that was one of the shocks that led to the development of modernism. World War 2 was supposedly another huge shock, and that led to the development of postmodernism. Meanwhile, if people understood what the outcomes would be, I don't think anyone would have willingly chose the path of the soviet union.
Two things in particular that he mentions in the chapter I just finished were:
1. That people aren't math equations where you can just explain to them how to live optimally and they'll do so, and
2. That people in rational and civilized ages are no longer bloodthirsty and in fact may be more bloodthirsty than in less civilized times.
It seems that both regimes failed to account for or were themselves an example of these issues. In the case of the soviet union, it turns out that just making everyone a cog in a machine will ultimately fail because people don't want to be optimal cogs in a machine. In the case of Nazi Germany, it turns out that the rational western world of the 19th and 20th century hid monstrous capacity for bloodshed right under the surface.
While it doesn't necessarily directly predict the two regimes, where they would occur, or the specifics of why, I find it interesting how closely these two themes in notes for the underground predict both regimes. While it isn't perfect, it's a long way from the way people claim nobody expected any of these outcomes could have come about. World War 1 was supposedly this huge shock to the "civilized" Europe and that was one of the shocks that led to the development of modernism. World War 2 was supposedly another huge shock, and that led to the development of postmodernism. Meanwhile, if people understood what the outcomes would be, I don't think anyone would have willingly chose the path of the soviet union.
It was over about 1974 when American cars weren't allowed to be quintessentially American anymore. :(
That show was annoying because it was about Southern California, and a bunch of the crap they talked about has nothing to do with many other places.
"Save water!" If you're in the everglades or on the shores of Lake Michigan, there's no such thing as saving water. You're taking water out of the environment, using it briefly, then returning it to the environment. It's a renewable resource.
"Save power!" If you're living somewhere that's entirely fed by renewables like hydroelectric, there's no real need to save power. You're not burning coal to keep that light on, you're relying on some water flowing through a dam.
"Stop smog!" If you're not in a valley where pollution is kept in one spot, smog isn't really a thing. This is an L.A. problem, maybe a couple other cities, but it isn't a global problem.
"Don't cut down trees!" If you're in an area that mandates that trees be replaced after they're cut, then wood is a renewable resource. It's not a big deal cutting down new growth forest then replanting new trees, and in fact under some circumstances that could mean a negative carbon footprint (for people who care about that sort of thing) since you take wood and semi-permanently put it somewhere it's not going to degrade, and then start growing a new forest pulling new carbon out of the air in the same location. Not everywhere is old growth amazon rainforest.
Environmentalism need to be a local thing, because most environmental issues are local, not global.
anyway, that's my rant. Welcome to my TED talk.
"Save water!" If you're in the everglades or on the shores of Lake Michigan, there's no such thing as saving water. You're taking water out of the environment, using it briefly, then returning it to the environment. It's a renewable resource.
"Save power!" If you're living somewhere that's entirely fed by renewables like hydroelectric, there's no real need to save power. You're not burning coal to keep that light on, you're relying on some water flowing through a dam.
"Stop smog!" If you're not in a valley where pollution is kept in one spot, smog isn't really a thing. This is an L.A. problem, maybe a couple other cities, but it isn't a global problem.
"Don't cut down trees!" If you're in an area that mandates that trees be replaced after they're cut, then wood is a renewable resource. It's not a big deal cutting down new growth forest then replanting new trees, and in fact under some circumstances that could mean a negative carbon footprint (for people who care about that sort of thing) since you take wood and semi-permanently put it somewhere it's not going to degrade, and then start growing a new forest pulling new carbon out of the air in the same location. Not everywhere is old growth amazon rainforest.
Environmentalism need to be a local thing, because most environmental issues are local, not global.
anyway, that's my rant. Welcome to my TED talk.
History says what it says. More people ultimately means life becomes cheap. Just like it is right now.
It seems inevitable that we're going to see a massively depopulated world in just a few generations.
Some people see that as bad, but a depopulated world historically has been the sort of era that provides booms in human rights and worker's rights and wages.
The black death and the period after WWII were both eras where the normal guy on the street was better off than the era before the mass death, because suddenly there's a lot less people and still lots of work to be done.
The line won't go up, so the mega-rich won't see their lot improve as much, but most people aren't mega-rich.
Some people see that as bad, but a depopulated world historically has been the sort of era that provides booms in human rights and worker's rights and wages.
The black death and the period after WWII were both eras where the normal guy on the street was better off than the era before the mass death, because suddenly there's a lot less people and still lots of work to be done.
The line won't go up, so the mega-rich won't see their lot improve as much, but most people aren't mega-rich.
These people are stupid.
If you want to have more affordable housing, keep increasing central bank interest rates.
If you want to have more affordable housing, keep increasing central bank interest rates.
LifeProTip: Water is a renewable resource. When you shower in many places, the water is removed from the lake, goes over your body, is processed at the sewage treatment plant, then is returned to the same lake it came out of.
I run several fediverse websites and I don't have a Facebook.
Sports stadiums were never really in my future.
Sports stadiums were never really in my future.
One reason I sincerely wish lotide was a bit more advanced is it seems like the easiest of everything in the space to deploy by an order of magnitude.
I, for one, am happy to see people who couldn't keep a houseplant alive telling farmers what to grow and how.