PugJesus
@PugJesus@lemmy.world
Alt of PugJesus for ensuring Fediverse compatibility and shit
- Comment on What's a good instance to be on at the moment? 6 days ago:
.world
Sh.itjust.works
Sopuli.xyz
Lemmy.cafe
- Comment on Were people happier in the past? 1 week ago:
The most powerful kings of ages prior would trade everything to have what you have right now.
One of my favorite stories is of Charlemagne, first Holy Roman Emperor, seeking to revive learning and education at his court (and, by extension, reviving elite learning in effectively all of continental Western Europe).
Thus, one of the most powerful men in the world at the time, learned to write, and only imperfectly even with repeated and dedicated practice, in his fucking 40s or 50s.
We are immensely blessed to live in the modern day, even with all of its very serious and real curses.
- Comment on Were people happier in the past? 1 week ago:
It’s doubtful. Perhaps not as miserable as one might initially suspect from material circumstances, considering that mankind has an immense ability to mentally adjust to our current environment, but the past is filled with material miseries that are hard to simply ‘adjust’ to.
When you read about children died in the first few years since they were born, and their aristocratic parents mourning those lost children for all of their life, it’s hard to imagine that losing five or six children that way is a net gain in happiness, or that it’s something one just ‘adjusts’ to. Perhaps you reach a point where it doesn’t ruin you, but where it’s marginal? No.
Hunger, malnutrition, disease, childhood mortality, broken families, banditry, lawlessness, state oppression that makes modern authoritarian states look merely ‘average’, endemic warfare, fear of the divine, repressive local community cultures…
Modern society is pretty structurally fucked. But past society was even more structurally fucked, and materially fucked in addition.
- Comment on Cutie patootie 1 month ago:
They’re such adorable little genetic dead-ends!
- Comment on Cutie patootie 1 month ago:
[Pug noise]
- Comment on The fediverse has a bullying problem 2 months ago:
Something changed culturally between Usenet and the things that came after.
Me, who only started into online communities in the early 2000s:
- Comment on The fediverse has a bullying problem 2 months ago:
But the extent to which the fediverse seems to like to do this stuff just seems really extreme to me, and a lot of times what it’s based on is just weird petty bullying nonsense.
Not saying that it isn’t a problem, but as someone who’s been Around™ online, this is pretty par-for-the-course stuff.
Ah, to remember the glory days of Livejournal and Tumblr… and don’t get me started back in the days when every fandom had a dozen sites which all hated each other for vague and extremely personal reasons.
- Comment on PieFed supports auto merging threads so you see all the comments in one post 2 months ago:
Nice feature!
- Comment on Actually, it’s about Ethics in Transgenderism 3 months ago:
Everyone involved in this, author included, seems to be batshit insane except for Eris?
- Comment on Actually, it’s about Ethics in Transgenderism 3 months ago:
I’m about halfway through.
I didn’t realize Mastodon was big enough for so much fucking drama.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
In the long run, whitelisting may become the norm for federation instead of blacklisting.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
I was just offered 500$ to be someone’s friend. Of course, I refused - my friendship is worth much more than that!
But it’s… concerning that we’ve got this sudden spike in spam.
- Comment on Can we please make a viable (federated!) amazon alternative? I have an idea! 3 months ago:
Crypto doesn’t really solve any of the problems that a payment processor wouldn’t also solve, unfortunately.
- Comment on Can we please make a viable (federated!) amazon alternative? I have an idea! 3 months ago:
Real life. The offline world. Grassvile.
- Comment on Can we please make a viable (federated!) amazon alternative? I have an idea! 3 months ago:
I know that Federation is exciting, but all these ideas for federated services are really missing the reason why the Fediverse’s current bits are successful - because they have low moral hazard.
When you get into economics and meatspace relationships, moral hazard skyrockets.
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- Comment on You Can Post Your Way Out of Fascism if You Own the Means of Posting 4 months ago:
I wouldn’t place any high value on what we’re doing here. At best, you should view this as bitching about the news at the local college-kid frequented coffeeshop. Yes, there is an element of raising awareness and discussion - it’s not useless, but ultimately, it’s not going to play a major role in getting us out of this shitshow. We’re discussing matters because it brings us some relief to do so, first and foremost.
- Comment on Only 22 countries have never been invaded by Britain 4 months ago:
The Brit fears the Mongolian
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 4 months ago:
- Comment on I know 2026 will suck already, so I am rooting for 2027 to be rad as fuck! 4 months ago:
There are a ton of different year calendars. The BCE/AD calendar is very much a Western/Western-derived thing, stemming from a Catholic Christian estimation. It’s convenient, because it got widespread, but it’s only one system of many.
Many ancient systems judged the date by the regnal year of the ruler, ie “Third year of the rule of Agum the Third”. It’s much less convenient for figuring out when something happened than systems that continuously count from a single starting year, but exact chronologies were less important for most people.
- Comment on Looks like Lemmy is climbing up to the 2023 exodus days numbers again 4 months ago:
Persistence hunting corporate dominance, I can dig it
Someone fetch me my spear
- Comment on Looks like Lemmy is climbing up to the 2023 exodus days numbers again 4 months ago:
I’ve probably posted more here in just the last couple months than my entire decade+ years old Reddit account LMAO
Same. On topics on than Romeposting™ I’d love to go back to being a lurker and only an occasional contributor. I imagine it’ll be a while before that day comes, though.
- Comment on Looks like Lemmy is climbing up to the 2023 exodus days numbers again 4 months ago:
- Comment on Looks like Lemmy is climbing up to the 2023 exodus days numbers again 4 months ago:
Slow and steady wins the race.
- Comment on How active is Lemmy now? 5 months ago:
Please do so, it’s terribly lonely being the only poster some weeks DX
- Comment on Rainbolt never misses 5 months ago:
The continuous US states are 8,080,460 square kilometres.
Europe is 10,186,000 square kilometres.
In what world is that “not far off”?
- Comment on Rainbolt never misses 5 months ago:
We have vacation days?
- Comment on Rainbolt never misses 5 months ago:
“all of Europe could fit inside the 48 continental states alone” - are you sure about that, fam?
Not far off.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 6 months ago:
It might be. Only time, and the actions of Americans themselves, will tell.
It’s the biggest crisis in my lifetime. But we have survived other crisises, some-fucking-how, so maybe we’ll luck our way out of this one too.
God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America.
- Otto Von Bismarck
- Comment on Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe 7 months ago:
Local manufacturing is politically advantageous and may employ some people at the same time, but that’s where benefits end.
There are legitimate strategic concerns with sourcing things long-term from potentially hostile states.
Europe should absolutely take advantage of current Chinese production to improve their own green energy efforts, but looking into local production is not just a ‘for-show’ move. As sanctions on Russia show, dependence on markets that can potentially turn hostile can be very damaging.
