uuldika

@uuldika@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are most people here left-wing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a few ways to handle, but for example:

  • Roads: large towns and cities would mostly handle their own road maintenance. Roads connecting towns would probably be joint ventures. Projects would be funded and contracted by the towns and financed by town income tax. Rural areas would be underfunded, but that’s partly intentional - dense population centers are more sustainable.

  • Environmental regulations: handled at the level of impact. for example, water quality standards for a river bind everyone who accesses the river. restrictions (e.g. standards for heavy metal levels) would be passed by minority vote - if 40% want a standard, that’s enough. carbon credits would be administered at the Federal or World levels, by a combination of central government and treaties.

  • Education: probably pretty devolved, mostly a choice by municipalities in what they offer/teach. there’d likely be standardized tests that most places agree on for transferability (e.g. how the SAT works today.) religious schools could exist in religious communities, or you could have a Montessori program in your secular socialist Kibbutz.

  • Slavery: illegal at the Federal/World level. same with indentured servitude and coercive contracts. one of the most important functions of the central government is to protect the civil liberties of individuals.

  So the principles are mostly:

  • Externalities are handled at the level of their impact.
  • More power locally, less power centrally. City governments are more like micro-nations bound by a sort of EU.
  • Cities largely have a lot of direct democracy with some representatives. Critically, city governments wield lots of power over the businesses that operate in the city. This is critical to check corporate power.
  • Federal government exists as a backstop to safeguard fundamental rights and for truly national concerns.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are most people here left-wing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a left libertarian. I embrace decentralization, collectivism, freedom from corporate and central government tyranny, and want to maximize individual liberty and progressive values as we ideally move towards a society like the Culture series by Ian M. Banks.

  I’m not Anarchist because it’s too chaotic and unrealistic, and I’m not ML because I don’t like State authoritarianism and central planning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Listening to some old albums while reviewing my retirement savings⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been denied all the best ultra sex 😞

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're cooked, I'm hooked⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  once in a lifetime recession

  slightly bit-crushed Mr. Incredible

  once in a lifetime pandemic

  monochrome nightmare fuel Mr. Incredible

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Based on a true story⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  America: third world country, first world prices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Based on a true story⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s extremely rare to find such a cheap used car. my partner spent $8k on one that lasted a year. also, you might be surprised to learn that driving isn’t optional in most of the US - it’s literally impossible to live without a car. I live in a suburb. it’s several miles of dangerous roads to get to a grocery store. there is no nearby public transit. even large cities like LA were completely designed around cars. zoning and urban planning here completely screwed us.

  yes, it sucks, yes I’m aware, yes I’d love to live in a walkable European city with commuter rail and cafes on the street corner, no I don’t have a choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We are so cooked⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  weeds are to gardens like my house is to HOAs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨long⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  is this… somehow… real?

  could you make this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Late 1900s⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  and I was just looking at a 100Tbps backhaul the other day… that’s what, a billion times more bandwidth?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Late 1900s⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I read CS papers from the late '80s/early '90s and it feels like unearthing cuneiform tablets. Lots of good ideas, just everything felt so raw and new.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Life goals⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He might have a connective tissue disorder? EDS in particular causes stretchy skin, though I’ve never seen the scalp do that.

  t. EDS patient. it’s pretty crippling and painful but I have some fun party tricks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I kinda do know but I'm posting this as a joke.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy has a grand total of one (1) spambot, a scammer posing as “Nicole.” in a way, this is Lemmy World Heritage in the making.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Origin of Student Debt: Reagan Adviser Warned Free College Would Create a Dangerous "Educated Proletariat”⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  things I dislike Reagan for:

  • ignoring HIV because he was okay with it just killing the gays (until straight people started getting it.)
  • trickle-down economics (how we got the billionaire oligarchy)
  • Iran-Contra.
  • firing the striking air traffic controllers.
  • doubling down on the War on Drugs.

  things Reagan was kinda based for:

  • actually wanting to eliminate nuclear weapons. everyone remembers SDI as a ridiculously expensive boondoggle (which it would have been tbf) or as a trap to get USSR to spend itself into bankruptcy (it wasn’t imo, since the Russians realized they could build MIRVs), but I honestly think Reagan sincerely wanted a missile shield to have a missile shield. apparently he was hawkish on nuclear war until he watched The Day After, which terrified him and left him depressed for weeks and completely changed his thinking on nukes. he got so close to bilateral disarmament at the Reikjavik summit, but it fell apart because of his insistence on pursuing SDI.

  • not being a raging egotistical jerk like Trump. he was respectful towards Carter and Mondale. he even respected the Soviet Premiers he met with, despite his anti-Communism. he had actual principles and ideals, even if I disagree with some of them.

  when the USSR collapsed, Bush ignored Russia’s pleas to help it restructure and rebuild, to secure its nuclear weapons stockpiles, to integrate its economy. so we ended up with a country with starving nuclear weapons designers trying to grow potatoes in their back yards, and a Mafia takeover, and massive distrust and antipathy towards the West. I think Reagan would have actually lent them a helping hand, and Putin wouldn’t have happened.