Worker congresses

There’s a good episode about how they destroyed new york’s neighborhoods and rebuilt it around the car: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bb1IijxVR7c

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No probs!

Lemmy has nothing in its code that blocks VPNs. Unfortunately a lot of instances use cloudflare and other man-in-the-middle services that do block VPNs.

I’d like that to be the case, but nearly every US city, no matter the size, is designed for cars. And the connections between cities prioritize highways, not rail. The US might be able to adopt electric cars, but it’ll never be able to create the kind of walkable, bike-friendly, public-transport focused cities, because that would entail pulling up a lot of cities and neighborhoods by the roots. Once that is built up, its nearly impossible to undo it, and your only choice is to add innefficient kludges on top.

This is why it’s so crucial to do what China and a lot of Asian countries did, and priorizite metro/rail first, and not build your cities around highways.

All of these groups rule. Good taste in music

Okay I’ve transferred the community to you now. Thx!

No probs. I do some torrent projects in my spare time, and torrents are wonderful for what they’ve done: which is solving the static data distribution problem. But they have limited uses outside that. A social network very much needs mutability, and a message based framework. All the items are not static, scores, votes, users, posts, communities, comments, messages, a feed… all these are changing items.

Torrents are made for static, unchanging data. They would not make a good basis for any communication platform, where mutability is necessary.

Also individual, tiny-torrents don’t scale up that well. Its an impressive torrent client that can handle more than a few thousand torrents. That’s about a single days worth of lemmy comments.

Reliance on domain names, database performance, storage, and probably a few other things are the main reasons why we can’t scale a typical fediverse server (like lemmy or mastodon), and have it run on a smartphone.

Isaac asimov’s review of 1984 is pretty spot on.

What’s so bad about George Orwell?

• He’s antisemitic, homophobic, and racist. Specifically, he snitched out Jews, Black people, Homosexuals, and communists to British Intelligence. His list, here, includes him writing:
  • 8 variations of “Jewish?” (Charlie Chaplin), “Polish Jew, (Tom Driberg)” “English Jew,” or “Jewess.”
  • Paul Robeson - “ROBESON, Paul (US Negro) …Very anti-white. [Henry] Wallace supporter.”
    • Paul Robeson wasn’t anti-white, just look at the welsh coal miners for whom Robeson Campaigned.
    • The testimony of Paul Robeson (one of the people Orwell snitched on), to HUAC (House of Unamerican activities committee) during the red scare.
  • Stephen Spender - “Sentimental sympathiser… Tendency towards homosexuality”
  • Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish nationalist poet, and anti-imperialist.
  • George Padmore, Trinidadian journalist and anti-imperialist campaigner.
• His books Animal Farm and 1984 are used widely as anti-communist propaganda in schools in the US and UK. So much so that his animated animal farm film was funded by the CIA. There’s a reason they teach George Orwell in schools and not Franz Fanon, Che, Huey P Newton, Malcolm X, Lenin, CLR James, etc.
• In 1941, illustrator Elias Gertrude approached Orwell, then an editor for the British Ministry of information, with an idea for a satirical cartoon film, portraying the Nazis as pig characters ruling a farm in a kind of dysfunctional fairy story. He told her that there was not much call for her idea, stole it, changed the name from A Fairy Story to Animal Farm, and changed the pig-nazis into Communists.
• Between 1952 and 1957, from three sites in West Germany, a CIA operation codenamed ‘Aedinosaur’ launched millions of ten-foot balloons carrying copies of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, and dropped them over Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia — whose airforces were ordered to shoot the balloons down..
• Orwell, anti-communist: A criticism of Orwell and his Work - By Isaac Asimov.
• Orwell - “I have never really disliked Hitler.”
• He attempted to rape one of his first courtships: “Previously the young couple had kissed, but now, during a late summer walk, he had wanted more. At only five feet to his six feet and four inches, Jacintha had shouted, screamed and kicked before running home with a torn skirt and bruised hip. It was “this” rather than any gradual parting of the ways that explains why Jacintha broke off all contact with her childhood friend, never to learn that he had transformed himself into George Orwell.”
• Redsails - On Orwell.
• Orwell worked as a British imperial cop in Burma for 5 years. His short story, Shooting an Elephant, uses ethnic slurs and denigrates burmese people.

I responded yes in the other thread.

US does US things.

Inevitable commenter: This is just like in China!

Nice, I’m gonna subscribe to her channel. I’ve had to think about UX design since I’ve been making a lot of android apps recently, so this could help a lot.

Neat video, you should make that a post to !technology@lemmy.ml if you haven’t already.

Basketball is canceled

They aren’t:

• What about social democracy / democratic socialism / the Nordic model? Isn’t Sweden socialist?
• On the unraveling of the Nordic welfare states: increasing inequality and forced austerity.
• Scandinavia’s covert role in western imperialism
• Why can’t you acheive socialism through voting in our current democracies?

I’d be fine with that. Best way would just be to report posts that do, so we can ask their creators to use the xcancel links, and remove them if they don’t.

I’ve used ranger, but I’m not as big a fan of it as broot.