[-] gxgx55@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't trust anything involving fucking Kim Dotcom lmao

[-] gxgx55@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Having a "remainder day" is weird, but it's hard to avoid. It really sucks that 365 doesn't divide nicely into much at all. 5 and 73 are the only non-trivial answers. five 73 day months? Can't even call it a month at that point.

I guess 13x28 + 1 does indeed make most sense...

[-] gxgx55@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

I find that most of those issues are nonexistent the way I am on reddit - just use old.reddit everywhere. Yes, even on mobile. I'm special, and not in a good way, but it works.

I fear the day old.reddit gets shut down, considering the amount of communities that don't have an (alive) analog on Lemmy, so for now I use both...

[-] gxgx55@lemmy.world 131 points 1 year ago

My problem with Lemmy is the lack of activity in niche communities. You're right that there needs to be a critical mass and arguably Lemmy has it, but only for the most mainstream, generic type of content. It doesn't have the mass to sustain any sort of niche, outside of maybe tech related topics because of the way the userbase is slanted.

I find myself going back there often because of that, but I hope that the userbase for generic content enough to sustain and grow, from where more active niche communities can spring up.

[-] gxgx55@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I am personally in favor of nuclear because I don't think we have solved the problems with renewables yet, our power grids are not ready to support a 100% renewable system and as of right now, electricity grids require some stable energy. Hydro can technically fill that role but that's restricted by geography, so in places where that is not an option, it's a choice of fossil fuels versus nuclear. In that context, nuclear is the lesser evil by far.

Unlike some of the other responses, I don't think we can't wait for energy storage solutions to be developed when we needed to be zero emissions, like, ten years ago. We need to use solutions that we know about RIGHT NOW, not years into the future.

[-] gxgx55@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Failing to account for greed for power some people have is in itself a fatal flaw, to be honest. Anyone who advocates for the exact same actions and glorifies the USSR knows what they are doing, they're hoping to come out on top after their desired revolution. Unfortunately, there are plenty of those kinds of people on this platform...

[-] gxgx55@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

"observable scientific and philosophical truths" cannot point to an existence of any sort of higher power, by the very definition of a higher power. All you can do is believe in a higher power, all religion is dogma.

[-] gxgx55@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Sure, but the meme refers to the communities on the internet that unironically go full tankie, praising Stalin and Mao.

Worst of all, tankies tend to inflitrate sane leftist spaces and slowly transform them. I've witnessed it many times, and that just makes me think that Marxists-Leninists are just the most dominant form of leftism on the internet, which is horrible.

[-] gxgx55@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

A lot of eastern Europeans actually miss/look back fondly on the USSR days…

Being from here, I can say that those are are people who either 1. Look back fondly just because they were young back then, and now they're old, or 2. Were connected enough to the party to be privileged.

Grandparents from one side of my family were the latter, and their political views nowadays are strongly pro-Russian these days, while everyone else(whose lives were improved after fall of USSR) is pro-Western. Funny how that works.

[-] gxgx55@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Reference to this meme:

[-] gxgx55@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

send "all the money"? That alone tells me you have no understanding of American aid to Ukraine, both in scale and in nature. It's neither "all" nor is it "money" - the Americans sent old military hardware for the most part, and the monetary value is barely a drop in the bucket compared just to their yearly military expenditure that they'd spend regardless. Actual monetary support is much more of a EU thing anyways.

But sure keep whining about centre-right policies of the USA and the EU, calling them "far-left". Actual far-left people tend to not supportive of sending aid to Ukraine.

[-] gxgx55@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

unfortunately those are problems of successful communities, at least public ones. The only real alternative is a dead community.

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