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  • Sl00k@programming.devtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldWhat's Mastodon precious?
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    5 months ago

    Bluesky is apart of the Fediverse and the quicker ActivityPub sites accommodate that fact the quicker we’ll have an open internet.

    This pissing fight between ActivityPub sites and Bluesky is dumb and doesn’t further an open internet.

    Not directed at you but to a lot, go put time into making Mastodon compatible with atProto instead of bitching.


  • Sl00k@programming.devtoMemes@lemmy.mlThe Nordic Model
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    1 year ago

    It is unreasonable to assume a model outside of this will be attainabille within the next two centuries.

    Instead let’s focus on drawing back the exploitation within our own country this century then we can shift our perspective. We will never stop exploiting the poorest countries if we’re still exploiting our poorest citizens.


  • Ontop of this, that’s totally aside from safety, things just get done much much quicker due to less bureaucracy. Take any sort of rail system for instance, they’ve built ENTIRE rail systems (light and heavy) in the time it’s going to take Seattle to build 2 miles of lightrail.

    It’s both cheaper and faster, while I don’t know the safety statistics I certainly don’t see train derailments happening left and right.

    It turns out when you don’t cater to businesses and can relocate residents at their whim it has some advantages for better or worse depending on your perspective.








  • These loans are out right predatory. I was offered a 12% interest rate 7 years ago and have friends who’ve been offered 16%!!!

    Yes you can say just don’t sign it, but we’re 17 years old we can’t comprehend how much affect a 16% interest rate will have on you in 8 years and you’ve been told all your life college is the goto life path and you have to do this to get a “good job” and live a good life.

    I agree we should payback the money we loaned, but taking advantage of genz via predatory loans for wanting a higher education is downright criminal in itself.

    Adding onto this a lot of us will struggle to make these payments. I have 20k in loans and I haven’t paid a dime on EVER. Now I suddenly have a second car payment out of nowhere!


  • Really your only answers are going to be based in economics.

    A society can absolutely thrive with a 1:1 ratio, but not built around a capitalistic mindset. Quite frankly China’s probably the best person to have this problem and they ignore the whims of capitalism for their countries residents quite often.

    Possible non-economic considerations could be not having enough people to build a military and lack of cultural exportation. Both of which China doesn’t really have any problems with.