Gorgritch_Umie_Killa

Earth Abides

Its mostly slow. Apocalypse genre, without the insanely selfish caricature of the personal relationships between people.

Only a communist deals in absolutes! … wait… thats not it…

Yeah, but they need to be sneakier as they steal away through the grocery store doors. Those doors are a funnel for awkward moments.

What i hate is when someone gets offended i don’t initially recognise them when they’ve got half their face covered.

Take the fucken glasses off and say hi properly you awkward ass bastards! I got shit to do, and i don’t need to feel bad for the next half hour because you made me squint to recognise who the fuck you are!

What matters for an economy, and therefore the value of its currency, is the value they create–simply put, how much resources they exploit and how efficiently

Yeah, thats the way it ought to be, its actually slightly different, and is very important in the context of what a country does to undermine it’s own currency, or even a companies director does to the value of their company.

Value is a question of perception. How much are people/investors willing to tolerate and still perceive the value in a good or service or currency.

Its the reason the massive quantitative easing ended up spreading so widely as a tool in the last 15 years. In the beginning it was assumed that the massive ‘money printing’ would lead to massive devaluations, which didn’t really happen as expected. Thats because the reaction in value percieptions in those currencies ended being more flexible than central bankers and economists initially feared.

The perception of value played a role in how long it took for people in the US to recognise the real estate bubble exploding in 07-08. It plays a role in really any bubble, and is why prices drastically plummet instead of taper. The value perception changes en masse, and bang, everybody runs for the door.

One more interesting example is the value perception comparison of essential workers in the COVID19 Pandemic compared to normal times.

What will they do!? Cross the Rubicon?!

So no Jewish peoples lived there before the State of Israel you reckon?.. hmm

Leaving the above aside, because its a dead end for both of us. The removal of any peoples, just like Israel is trying to do to the Palestinians now, won’t lead to a peaceful future.

Take it from a person whose a product of colonisations, invasions, and genocides. The marks aren’t erased by moving the opposing people on. History is always remembered, something Israel is going to learn the hard way.

The only options for the future are a form of historical pragmatism, or a continuing series of violent crimes against each other, with the turns of history favouring one population with more strength over the other at different times.

it should have never been made our problem

The cleaves between the faiths have exsisted there for thousands of years. Israel is a new power, but the participatory Abrahamic religions are not. Nor are most of the peoples there. Its best to remember European Jewish weren’t the only peoples to build up Israel.

I think you’ve gone too far with your comment.

What Geoff Vader runs the Death Star?

I’d imagine the jackpot would be waking up in the Dark Age of Technology.

Most soul crushing would have to be waking up as part of the Interex as they discover the Imperium.

A Modern Family reference. Nevermind, its a bit dated now i guess.

Is this Phil Dunphy?

Find the lesser posted contributors to your field/s of interest, read them, post them, share your thoughts.

This means you are actively using social media, actively considering different texts in subjects you already have an interest in, and actively using your brain to make considered contributions.

This is my go to. Take a look at my post history in aussie-enviro. I continually go out of my way to find environmental or conservation organisations themselves instead of waiting only for a news site like Guardian to do a write up themselves.

I’m finding my reading speed and attentiveness has improved, and i’ve better knowledge recall, especially on key details. Its of course fun as well.

Not freeriding, it was a comfortable relationship for the most part where the US got an outsized influence over another continents internal and external affairs. The US got plenty out of that deal.

But it is a mistake the US alligned world has made to rely so heavily on the USA for so much defence infrastructure.

For years i thought the holdout behaviour of the French from defence, agriculture, to even the internet was admirable and sensible policy. I could never understand why people guffawed at the French’ more independently minded policies.

I really hope USA’s trumpstain has driven the point home now that US aligned Nations need to be more independent from the USA in many aspects of their national interest.

Ah cool, cheers!

Good infographic, looks like its part of a bigger piece though, have you got the source?

Hi all!

I’m wondering if anyone knows of a lemmy tracking site that records community level stats in time series/graphs?

I’m thinking for things like,

• active users,
• subscribers,
• comments,
• posts.

I use, Lemmy Verse which has all the stats above at Community level, but its only the latest updated number, not presented in timeseries.

I also use fedidb which does have some timeseries graphs, but only at Server level.

Not really, because the very people who will be telling them this is an ‘onboarding instance, we eventually want you to choose another instance and move there’, will also be the ones telling them all about the possible instances the new comers can move to.

Maybe its a bit like an orientation at a university. They are specifically not the same as the courses students will eventually attend, the orientation (onboarding instance) has a different purpose to the course (home instance). You may meet people you’ll never see again, the guides role isn’t to be the course lecturers/administrators (analogous in this case to mods/admins) that you’ll interact with throughout your course.

There might be a little passing sadness if you get to the end of orientation if you’ve had a very enjoyable experience, but the student (user) has expected the end, they’ve known when and why its coming. And hopefully if they’ve enjoyed the experience on the onboarding instance that much, they are that much more excited for the next steps.

Yeah i agree, LW seems to be the defacto sandbox.

So the issue with LW is users history becomes a barrier to exit. An onboarding instance needs to make clear that it is an introductory instance for newcomers to discover and learn lemmy. That they are expected to move off the Instance within, for instance, a month or two.

If new users expectations are set to understand this, their investment in the profile itself will be lower.

You could disable themeing attributes like usernames and icons for users to make clear the transitory nature of their user profile. I’m not sure i’m fully there with that, but it could be a useful tactic. Replace usernames with a number for instance, or NewUser8000@onboardinginstanceY.com

1. Yeah, i shouldn’t have waded into the technical stuff, i knew i’d get it mixed up! My bad!

2. I would never dream of migrations like that. Theres lots of doubling of Communities on Lemmy. Its, for the most part, been quite a healthy thing to have multiple communities on the same or very similar topics.

Some haven’t worked and are dead while others thrive, it provides an outlet for disagreements with overzealous mods, sometimes the minute differences in the worldnews commujities really makes a difference in the types of posts on each of them.

The above aside, So the idea i’m suggesting is strictly onboarding topics on the Local. Meaning the Local for anyone who’s been around a while could find the Local quite boring, that in itself acts as a nudge for new users to move when theyre ready.

So no c/funny, or c/movies, communities, as you say others have got good communities going on those topics already.

The onboarding topics would include things like c/Choose a Home Instance, c/What is Fediverse, c/What is Lemmy, c/what the hell is Peertube, etc. Stuff like that, this is all of the top of my head so take the names for their vibe, not literally.

The ‘onboarding only instance’ matches your requirement of not being too political too quickly for newbies and avoids the questions of how far to go with whats defined as political. Because on the instance you will be deemed off topic if the comments aren’t in relation to the new users setting themselves up on Lemmy. However, it has the added bonus of new users being able to go into All to see the real deal, then fall back into Local of they need context for something they’ve seen.