so who is this for?

for myself, for example. i want to see more diverse content.

it depends on how strong the coffee is. if you use 1 grain of instant coffee for 0.5 L of water, then yes, it hydrates you more than it dehydrates you.

omg that was a hilarious read. painful, but insightful.

speak for yourself. chatgpt helped me program a medium-complexity task yesterday within ~3 hours which would have taken me about 1-2 weeks otherwise, i fear. especially, it’s really convenient because when you just don’t know some technical term, you can just describe what you mean and it will give you the correct keyword, while googling for that kind of information is difficult since you don’t even know where to start.

i’m happy for you :)

on a more serious note, i tend to go on dinner with my family sometimes too, about once per week if we both have time (mostly with my dad because he works close to where i live, so it aligns well), and i think that it’s good that i don’t just live my life in total social isolation, but these occasional randomly-meet-with-other-people-for-no-reason is really nice.

that was a fantastic read and i agree 100%

never go for the tourist attractions. they’re a scam, put up by travelling agencies to lure people into spending money. it’s not worth it.

human contacts are where it’s at. if you have a friend there, that’s fantastic. i’m also considering going to congresses and events and the likes, just to meet people.

and yes, do learn the language, the culture, the habits, etc; because not learning them is rude, it shows that you have no interest in their culture, and then why do you even go there?

1. block all news

2. post stuff about things that you care about? gardening? horses? wildlife photography?

just block all “US politics” communities and downvote every single post that mentions trump (or the democratic alternative candidate) that appears outside of those comms.

i think we need better federation with mastodon. at least, mastodon users should be able to see lemmy content and interact with it. (i can understand that the reverse, i.e. seeing mastodon content from lemmy is technically challenging)

that would give more exposure and interaction.

also not federating with mastodon would mean to break the promise of the fediverse, that it’s all (somewhat) compatible.

web-scraping is. however, ai companies pretending to be yet another instance and getting the data through federation does not cause much of a slow-down, since that’s what happens with other instances already anyways.

cheap products of slave labor mass-market and economies of scale

one’s gotta say that the decline of the empire is happening fast, but so is everything else. you might wanna check what the ratio of decline to general technical progress is. is it more or less than previous empires?

The old and the rich are the same. People over 55 own 52% of the US

… while making up how many % of the population?

yeah, people are gonna invest in the thing that brings more money after X amount of time. if company A sinks after X+1 time, that’s not an issue as you will have jumped ship by then.

I think that people would only start to plan long-term if the short-term profitability goes to zero. I.e. if short-term progresses stop happening.

With no real incentive to educate out side of a desire to just be educated I could see a strong dystopian future where those generations have less and less skills to critically judge information …

the twist is: it doesn’t matter if large parts of the population aren’t able to make meaningful decisions, if you don’t allow them to make decisions in the first place … that’s the plan here, dismantle democracy and give all control to the hands of a few.

There are no laws against the masters organizing

there is: anti-monopoly laws, anti-cartel laws etc

what is that song? does anyone have good french music recommendations?

you sure they cost 600 dollars?

https://www.cytron.io/p-raspberry-pi-3-model-b-plus?currency=USD&src=raspberrypi

has 1 GB RAM:

for satellites add RTGs to the list

oy mate sure is