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Oh yeah, stuff outside the mainstream tends to attract more of a tech crowd. I suspect part of it is that it's not as polished and people have to look for it. I definitely find Lemmy community is pretty great as well. Most people are pretty helpful. Very refreshing compared to Reddit. :)
And it looks like it's a problem on the server end, but not clear what's causing it. The URL does look right, but it gives a 502 error in the browser as well. @dessalines@lemmy.ml might know? :)
👍 RSS is really underrated tech
That's not actually correct, it's not change in individual actions that needs to happen but systemic change. People act in the way that makes sense for them to act given the circumstances they're in on individual level. What needs to change is the economic system to move away from consumerism, production of disposable goods, planned obsolescence and so on. This can only happen when the economy is publicly owned and directed towards the goal of profitability as opposed to towards creating as much profit as possible for people who own the companies.
oh you actually can follow people via RSS already, e.g: https://lemmy.ml/feeds/u/yogthos.xml?sort=New
the web is unusable without it
Believing that capitalism lifts people out of poverty.
I live in a western authoritarian regime where the government works in the interest of a small capital owning class. And I crave living in a country where the working class holds power. I guess boots aren't gonna lick themselves though, so capitalists are lucky to have people like you around.
You live in an authoritarian regime bud. No good news to find about it though.
The main disconnect is that regular people living in USSR did not feel oppressed, and most people were generally happy with their lives. I find there is a fixation on maximizing freedom of speech in the west, but the reality is that it's not something vast majority of people thinks about day to day. Even in he west, most people aren't even able to articulate what communism or capitalism actually is. In fact, I would argue that when a country is in a situation where politics becomes the dominant topic most people think about that's a sign that things aren't going great.
Everybody in USSR had their needs met, work wasn't exploitative, and people didn't work that hard, there was lots of vacation, and guaranteed retirement. Nobody worried about losing their job and ending up on the street or not being able to retire in dignity. It's really hard to convey how much stress that removes from people's lives. Crime was extremely low, elderly people would go to the parks in the evenings, the idea of being mugged seemed completely outlandish. Kids could go anywhere unsupervised and parents never worried about it.
There was a lot more opportunity for self actualization in USSR because you didn't have to get a career that was profitable to exploit. For example, you wanted to become an artist or a scientist and pursue some obscure topic then you could do that without having to think about whether it could be monetized or not.
City planning was excellent compared to anything I've seen in the west. Everything was broken up into self sufficient microdistricts that had parks, schools, hospitals, and stores within walking distance. You didn't need a car to get around, and public transit was excellent.
The main downsides that I remember were around lack of commodities. My family still had a black and white TV in the 80s and a rotary phone. This would be the main complaint most people had.
This was the main motivation for trying the western system. Most people knew that people in the west had nice things like fast cars, fancy clothes, gadgets and so on. Since nobody actually had any understanding of what capitalism was like, they just assumed that they would get to keep all the good aspects of USSR and get all the cool stuff west had on top of that. By the time people realized what a horror this was it was too late to turn things around.
Modern day Russia largely resembles what we see in the west. I think Russia has regressed in terms of human rights, it now has oligarchs running things, there is homelessness, and life expectancy has dropped significantly. It's exactly same dynamic we see in the west where a small minority lives off the exploitation of the majority. However, even despite all that capitalists still haven't manged to dismantle all of the legacy of USSR. This thread on Reddit shows that the worker rights situation in Russia today is still far ahead of what we see in US.
Except it's not actually alternative exploitation. I can see why westerners can't imagine relations between countries that aren't exploitative given the history of the west though.
Yeah, looks like that's how it works. They store up potential energy when the panels work, and then release it as needed. This solves the storage problem associated with solar.