Works here 🤷

Lemmy has the Lemmy devs 😅

Yeah, sometimes. Depends on the audience obviously.

Why not “Solarpunk”? 👍

I just rechecked the strange reports I remembered, and in both cases we had a local user being remote moderator, so this seems like the most likely cause.

Yes, this specifically happens with remote communities, for local communities the instance admins see all the reports in Lemmy so that would be normal.

I am not 100% sure if this is related to other local users being moderators of remote communities, but it is the closest guess as the alternative would just random reports being forwarded to us instance admins with no relation to our instance at all.

It looks fine as in the default Piefed theme, yes. But they used to have a very nice custom theme.

Their theme broke with the update?

You really love rage baiting moderators, right?

Tl;dr: “you will get more conservative with age” 🤦

It is one thing to self-examine one’s own realistic agency in this world, but another thing to fall into a self-defeating mindset like that.

Well, there is also an aspect of cognitive dissonance involved that makes people ignore or reject certain notions if they feel helpless about them.

It is actually a feature as far as bureocracy and diplomacy is concerned. If a language is the non-native language for more or less everyone, no country has an advantage in negotiations due to rethorical skills and so on.

And besides, the only other real options would be French or German, and really no one wants that.

Currently in university or so, and there is a large countryside vs. city gap.

In my experience there has been a relatively recent massive improvement in English skills by the younger generation. Anyone 35+ is still very much behind though. As an elder Millenial myself, it actually caught me on a wrong foot carreerwise as being able to speak English well is no longer considered to be a selection criteria for many jobs, because so many can do it and it is assume a given.

I am sceptical of this… most likely the definition is slightly different between the countries and that causes most of the difference. Like for example one country might count car accidents that happen during working hours into it, while another one might not consider that a workplace accident.

You are kind of contradicting yourself. Either it is super specialized work that can’t be done part time by people that need it to be done for their other work (researchers, medical professioals etc.), or it is repetitive factory work a partimer like you could do.

I am well aware that this isn’t glamourous work, but so are many other necessary things. And in general Anarchists do not advocate against division of labour, but rather that you shouldn’t coerce people into slave like conditions to do certain jobs. I don’t think the latter is necessary at all for many factory jobs if you limit the hours people do them.

Hmm, I guess it depends on the price then. Thanks for the summary.

These type of questions are always based in the unrealistic assumption that an anarchist society would have to start from scratch and have none of the existing knowledge and production facilities.

So, no, it wouldn’t be a major issue in the short to medium term as keeping these facilities running is not all that complicated. Existing worker-owned cooperatives run on anarchists principles have long proven that they can handle complex supply-chain logistics.

You could argue that in the long run some of the existing infrastructure would not be kept up as current systems depend on various forms of exploitation, and for some industrial sectors like mining that could indeed become a problem, but pharmaceuticals are actually not all that complicated to produce with modern biotechnological means. And the research focus would probably shift towards production methods that are easier to replicate, something today’s pharmaceutical companies have little incentives to do as they don’t want to make it too easy for Indian generica producers to copy their products.

And last but not least, very few modern Anarchists advocate for a single hugely destructive “revolution”, knowing full well the risks that come with that and how historically such revolutions have always just replaced the oppressors but not altered the system of oppression significantly. The idea is rather a more gradual replacement of power structures bottom up starting with municipalities and so on.

That said, it is very likely that regardless of what Anarchists wish to do for a less destructive transition, a system collapse will happen due to the current inherent capitalist contradictions, climate change and the physical limits of our planet, and Anarchist will be left trying to pick up the shards, mutual aid style. So the question for you should be rather how you can prepare for this likely eventuality and not some imagined hypothetical scenario where Anarchists cause a world revolution.

I kinda wish they would make this more of an official Droidian flavor (again) 😑

In related news, the excellent Homeworld 1 &2 remaster is currently 90% off on Steam.