I understand concerns about fragmentation, but recently, I have been more and more in favour of “why not both” as an approach. Basically: One de-facto “central” community, and many local communities. Main reason being, that this will help the Fediverse grow without losing it’s “soul” so to speak. Where - hopefully eventually - there will be those central communities with a reddit-like experience for the topic, and then also local ones, where smaller communities around the topic, without the traps of large, “mainstream” communites, can form.

Basically: Resident enfranchisement. It’s weird, when people born in our country and having lived here their whole life can’t vote outside of local elections. My own father, for example, had a Dutch background, and was never allowed to vote in federal elections until his death. (Neither he nor I even spoke/speak a single phrase of Dutch)

Yes, things have gotten somewhat better and easier with applications for citizenship, but that there are hurdles like that to begin with, is a bit… weird.

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The investments are being placed through opaque structures known as special-purpose vehicles, which have the benefit of concealing the investors’ identities, to avoid the ire of US authorities and companies wary of Chinese capital during a nadir in relations between the two countries.

Asset managers behind the deals have told investors that the entities are specifically designed to avoid disclosure. The use of special-purpose vehicles in financing is commonplace and there is nothing illegal about the arrangements.

Still, it raises concerns about the potential for undue influence and conflicts of interest at a time when Musk has unprecedented involvement in US policy, politics and business.

Funnily enough, to me personally, there are more questions about what this means concerning Chinese politics and conflicts of interests in the future. The country is not without its own tensions, after all.

The inflow of Chinese capital into Musk’s business empire is primarily profit-driven and has little to do with technology transfer or influencing public policy, according to people involved in the transactions.

With a sluggish domestic economy, wealthy Chinese are looking abroad for investment opportunities.

To me, personally, it serves as a reminder that no amount of red flags waved or social-democratic laws saying “wealth is going to serve the interests of the working class” makes a country communist, only material realities can.

Besides that material interest, there is also cognitive dissonance because of ideological distortions. If you believe things were fine before Trump, you were already adept at closing your eyes to problems. Including very fundamental problems, which helped to put the clique of billionaire grifters and outright fascists into power.

Seit ich mir online in Diskussionen den Mund faserig geredet habe, gegen Menschen, die explizit verfassungsfeindlich fordern, dass Bürgergeld nicht Menschenwürde garantieren sollte, sondern ausschließlich gerade eben so das Überleben, bin ich mir ziemlich sicher, dass vom rechten Rand der SPD, über CDU und FDP bis zur AfD die entsprechenden Wählenden Menschen in Armut hassen und unbewusst (manchmal sogar offen und bewusst) am liebsten als Sklaven halten würden.

Don’t choose Germany, though, we (and a lot of nations, actually) still for some reason have citizenship-by-blood/heritage laws more or less straight out of the 19th century, not citizenship-by-birthplace laws.

Funnily enough, I had never gotten one on my old account which was >4 years old on .ml - but after I made this one on my own instance, in less than a day, I finally got one.

Sadly, as I’m not from the US, it would not really help me (in fact, make it harder). Funnily enough, Iceland was actually occupied by the US during World War II - which they did pre-emptively, worrying the Nazis may pull off another stunt like with Norway and endanger shipping from there if they don’t.

This is really cool! I think you’d also get a good reception over at [email protected]

God damn, if I had the money, I’d escape to Iceland. Has been a dream for a long time now, but it just gets more and more desirable.

It’s a simple choice, really, considering how many hours I managed to invest as a kid:

Genau genommen ist der Weg so weit ich weiß Fakten -> Erklärungsmodell <-> Experiment (Versuch der Falsifizierung) für neue Fakten. Da funktioniert streng genommen die (natur)wissenschaftliche Methode nicht ganz für Geisteswissenschaften und Politik, selbst bei Soziologie, denn “Experimente” sind gar nicht so leicht, Modelle wirken selbst auf die Fakten, die sie untersuchen, und Fakten sind in ständigem, dialektischem Wandel. Gerade im politischen ist zusätzlich die Gefahr sehr groß, anstatt analytisch zu arbeiten, machtpolitisch auszunutzen. Eine Studie, so sie einflussreich ist, ist nie nur beobachtend, sondern auch beeinflussend, wenn es um gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen geht. (Wenn man etwa beobachtet, dass Frauen öfter X machen und Männer öfter Y, das veröffentlicht, und es viel gelesen wird, beeinflusst diese an sich zuerst neutrale Beobachtung das Selbstbild der Lesenden und ihre Erwartungen innerhalb ihrer Lebensrealität).

Es gibt es schon ein Phänomen von STEM-Menschen, die gerne die Beherrschbarkeit, Berechenbarkeit und theoretische Ordnung der wissenschaftlichen Methode auf das chaotische System Menschheit, Geschichte und Politik anwenden würden. Zumeist, ohne echtes Verständnis für die Eigenheiten, denen man begegnet.

Und zudem kann es in der Tat auch entmündigend benutzt werden, was ein echtes Dilemma ist. Einerseits stimmt es, man sollte nicht einfach jeder Meinung denselben Wert geben, wenn es um Entscheidungen geht - zugleich muss aber ein echter Dialog stattfinden können, und der Mensch hinter der Meinung respektiert und mündig bleiben. Kann nicht behaupten, dass ich eine allgemeingültige Lösung habe, oder es eine gibt. Kann aber sagen, dass ich etwas ins Schwadronieren gekommen bin.

Ich glaube schlussendlich meintest du das auch so grob, ich glaube der Begriff “wissenschaftliche Methode” ist nur so ein Semantikding hier.

For me, as a kid in the 90s, the nostalgia candidate is U7 - which is the “lame” popular choice, I guess. III is definitely the best of the first “trilogy”, though, IMO.

It’s nice to see that the series is being rediscovered as the influential pioneer in PC game design that it was. Sadly, the great retrospective series by Majuular will probably not be on PeerTube any time soon.

Hmm, I wonder if that value for the UK ~2005 is just a statistical artefact, or if something culturally happened to temporarily create more homophobia in the late 90s/early2000s.

(Same but less pronounced US ~2010, but that looks more definitely like an artefact to me)

Literally viewing the world like a EU4 map painting player would

That’s understandable and fair enough - main reason I pointed it out was because your comment made it seem like the video was one of the watchtime bait ones, that only reveal the answer halfway through or even only at the end, potentially keeping even people interested from even trying to watch. Thankfully, its right at the beginning, and the rest is just details about development, context, gameplay and such.

Funnily enough, he reveals that quite early in the video, so you saved them maybe 5 minutes at best. EDIT: It’s actually at about the 1:15 mark

I see you talk about EU regulations in your instance. Is it hosted in the EU? If that’s the case, I’d love to join it! :D

Yupp, hosted in Finland over a German provider (Hetzner)

By now: Yeah, there are some nice creators on PeerTube. Overall, it feels a bit more like old YouTube, many more people just creating because they want to, instead of chasing fame, as well as bizarre and weird little videos here and there. One advantage of it: It has much better native embedding into Lemmy (at least on newer versions)!

Much like in other fedi-places, it’s work to curate your own feed instead of having algorithms feed you. I have ADHD, so usually, I have some video or something running on my second screen while working on other stuff, and whenever my attention is spent, I switch to there and scour the recent or trending feed (or new vids from subscribers) for something interesting to share and watch.

For anyone interested - I am always happy to plug [email protected] - we recently hit 200 subscribers and have been steadily growing. If you are looking for an instance to join, I am still tinkering with it, but mine is open to new applications for as long as the server resources allow.

I’m currently busy setting up my own Lemmy instance and PeerTube instance. Before the Fediverse, YT and Reddit were basically the only things I used, I was never a big fan of twitter-like social media. So those slot in nicely into those itches to scratch. (although there are still some creators I follow on YT, I have been watching it a lot less after getting serious with PeerTube)