The lack of it is not a trend, but a consequence of a deliberate effort to keep it that way.

I want to believe capacity for empathy and sympathy (both for good and bad) are inherent to us all (with some exceptions), even if clouded or even manipulated by the lack of critical thinking, which I do consider a skill one has to train (and not related to being smart/intelligent or dumb/stupid).

I believe, if we all had enough critical thinking (I know I don’t fully have it, even if it has gotten better with time), we would have been working together for each other instead of fighting and fucking over each other for the benefit of people in positions of power.

So, hoping for an “empathy and critical thinking” trend isn’t going to save us the same way hoping for a “cancer suddenly disappears” trend won’t save someone with cancer. It is like this by design, not by coincidence, and we must do a deliberate effort to change it.

As suggestions I know of or have heard of:

• Bear in mind others might have gone through shit that made them the way they are right now (different culture, different conditions, trauma, indoctrination, etc.). To realize that no one is inherently evil, but the conditions we are given (our genes + our enviroment) shape us, has helped me stop hating others for their way of being, and instead wonder what led them to be like that. I never became more or less empathethic, I just changed my POV.

• Read and write more to train the brain to take information, process it, and send it in or out, more effectively. And be more mindful of what you do write. (It also helps train the brain against degenerative diseases. Won’t stop them, but might still slow them).

• Check facts on more than one source to avoid biases, left-out info, or straight up lies or manipulation. Don’t just read headlines and keep scrolling. Helps get a wider view of the world, know what goes on more precisely, and, like reading, trains the brain. (Also, bear in mind some articles are more about giving opinions or uncomplete information, than stating proven facts)

Ah, artificial scarcity, how else could capitalism work if not dumping food instead of giving it, or not making enough homes for everyone?

Eh, put it on the list of “shit pro-capitalists do or say”, along with “point at capitalism consequence and say that’d be a consequence of communism” or “communism is when toothbrush shared”

probably both

Around 47%. Used to be 87% (With the current options, that is)

FreeCAD, but basically because it was free and open source when I started learning (which wasn’t long ago anyways)

Another option is VMware Workstation/Fusion now that it is free again, or Virtual Box by Oracle.

Oh, it is again? Thanks for letting me know! Edit: nvm an account is needed, bleh

That is what I did for a while. A Debian VM with 2 CPUs MD 8Gb of ram to start playing around with Docker before getting a Pi.

Will try this out, then, thank you for the advice! Since I got my PC on ethernet, but still got a network card with WiFi that I don’t really use for anything, I could set it up so the Wifi card acts as part of the VM as a different computer in the network, instead of having to configure the same connection both for my PC and the VM, right?

Ah, so basically the same problem there is on Reddit with power-tripping mods that manage several subreddits.

At least it’s federated so being banned in one instance and its communities doesn’t keep you from joining or making similar communities in your own instance, or joining a different instance

Sooo… do I just do with known email providers (proton, tuta, the webmail my domain provider allows me to have)?

Seems like email is the biggest issue to self host lol

I stopped looking for maybe an hour? And now I’m seeing several posts about mass bannings, some peoole talkig abojt someone who is anti-anarchist/anti-marxist, some problem with the Lemmy devs… and I don’t know what’s going on at all lol

Ah, drama I’m not chronically online enough to understand.

Privilege. That’s the entire thing. Meritocracy is a lie.

Never met multiple exponents in a row at the same size and level without brackets/parenthesis, always saw them as _a^b^^c, or a^(b^(c)) , so I didn’t even think about that case.

I was taught to do

• Brackets
• Division and multiplication left to right
• Addition and subtraction left to right

There should be a fucking ISO for this shit tbh

Also the un-taboofication of it… see, the “left-handed epidemic”

So making sure all bugs are accounted for, and making suggestions/giving feedback to developers, thanks for the advice

Thank you! Got StreetComplete now and started contributing through it on my way home :b

Okay, wil lcheck for begginer contributions- I do use some apps from f-droid already, might donate once I do have spare cash flow, thanks for the advice :3

Thank you for the advice!

Okay, thank you for the advice! Definitely, if I’m gonna get into the codebase, I’m not gonna let AI do the work for me, if I wanted to I’d just straight up tell the maintainers to lol.