We should reform the EU into a single state Dutch Protectorate to prevent this in the future

I know the video isn’t about that kind of conspiracy, but I find these similarities to esoteric lore fascinating:

Mercator said there is a Black Rock (rupes nigra) at the North Pole that is responsible for compasses pointing north, surrounded by 4 islands and with the water draining into the Earth like a funnel.

Also in the alchemical process of Magnum Opus or Great Work to create the Philosopher’s Stone, black rock could be the end product of nigredo. Many alchemists believed that as a first step in the pathway to the philosopher’s stone, all alchemical ingredients had to be cleansed and cooked extensively to a uniform black matter. This is also commonly represented by sol niger, the black sun.

That is commonly translated into political thought by homogenizing the whole world. There’s the Nazi, Skull&Bones interpetation, burn the whole world until one Volk is left and then there’s the peaceful panhumanist interpretation.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the name was actually chosen to represent the Nazi black sun, you know how elitists be.

Ah yes, graphene and carbon fibre, asbestos 2.0

You should get one of them lint removers, like ESLint

20m² for 700€ is an absolute steal, I’ve never seen any apartment that cheap before. Best I can get in my area for 700€ is a 5m² septict tank with 5 room mates.

I was wondering what the differences to Lemmy are, luckily they have this on their website:

Differences between Lemmy and PieFed:

Comments with -10 score are collapsed by default.

Communities are organized into topics. See https://piefed.social/topics.

Image-heavy communities can have a tiled/masonry view, like https://piefed.social/c/[email protected]

People who get downvoted a lot end up with a ‘low reputation’ indicator next to their name. You’ll know it when you see it.

Hide all posts based on keyword filters. Keyboard shortcuts.

Upvotes in meme communities do not add to reputation.

Better UI design (somewhat subjective!) Improved hotness ranking algorithm (subjective)

Voting is private.

Seems like a few nice QoL changes, but nothing substantial yet. We’ll have to see where it goes in the future.

Personally I’d rather see a sort of P2P Lemmy that gives much more tools for community sovreignty.

Much more automoderation tools, optional automatic deletion tools, custom scoring algorithms, a solid per-community user reputation system that mods can filter/rank posts by, powerful client side content filters (like ML sentiment or topic filters), etc. One that covers anything from private chats, to group chats, to discord-like communities, to fully private Lemmy-like communities to fully public Lemmy-like communities. All in a secure and private manner.

Like a one stop shop for communication, that heavily emphasizes community and user sovreignty, covering anything from ephemeral chats to archival public content. I find the current ActivityPub ecosystem sorely lacking in those regards. We have some of those features but more bolted on rather than baked in.

I wonder what would happen if you’d “outlaw landlords”, i.e. everyone has to own the place where you live.

For anyone who doesn’t want the hassle of mananging their own property, maintenance would probably shift to dedicated maintenance companies.

Which would probably benefit residents, since you can’t switch out a bad landlord without moving, but you can switch out a bad maintenance company without moving.

But it would also give more power to banks, since everyone would have to handle their own financing. This might not be an issue if the lack of landlords causes prices to decline. But for that you would need banks that are properly decentralized, with proper inter-bank competition and lack of political power. Smaller banks take on much more risk with bigger loans, so it drives prices down.

But in the current regime where artificially low interest rates incentivize banks to give out bigger and bigger loans to make the same profit, I doubt anything would materially change if we ban landlords. Since the upward pressure on prices wasn’t removed.

As long as the total interest over the life of the loan doesn’t change vs low interest rates, high interest rates are much more beneficial to the average person. Since it drives down prices and your loan is paid off in a much shorter amount of time.

This inflationary regime that bankers and corporations cooked up in the last 50 years is what really fucks average people. Unless you change that, I doubt you could have any real change.

Your recommended posts, all in one place

That’s crazy

The only flaw in this plan is that maximum dick pics is the only reason why they surveil everyone

only the finest US Imperialism

I don’t understand why they get so angry when you eat their shitty bread. Like, ugh omg, be thankful, I’m disposing of it.

now where is UwUen 2.5?

jokes aside qwen2:7b has been my go to model so far, very impressed with the Qwen team

we are legion, you can never block us all

people still say sussy baka? allegedly it started in Jan 2020, but it feels like that’s a 20 year old meme

what in the space elves on the moon kirkbride bs is this

oh the skid marks

they are clearly planted deliberately in a grid pattern, probably for erosion control

I am quite happy with Njalla, haven’t had any issues yet

reality is deeply unserious

ye olde AM radio torrent and chill