MaybeItWorks

joined 1 year ago

There’s definitely a lot of truth to “A man is only as good as his conditions allow him to be.” However, that’s not really a good excuse to emigrate to another country and not respect the cultural norms of where moving to.

Let’s be cautious in assuming that all paywalls protect labor.

[–] MaybeItWorks@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ehhh, there’s a lot of liability in picking a choosing who can attend. Ripe for a discrimination lawsuit.

I’d actually hazard a guess that on average, parents are older these days. I don’t think the issue is really young parents, it’s that parents don’t discipline now. They just shove a screen in front of their kid instead of having a meaningful conversation. Parents now were raised with somewhat instant gratification and it’s even worse with their kids.

[–] MaybeItWorks@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How does that solve the problem with unruly children? It just puts them in a new school with more liability than when they were just teachers.

[–] MaybeItWorks@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good thing we learned from that.

[–] MaybeItWorks@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m assuming that if it is driven by tech, there will be offices for the major companies there. The developers will make it appealing for major tech firms to invest somehow.

I’ve been informed that I misunderstood the question and we can offer to contribute whatever we would like regardless of our qualifications. If that’s the case, I would propose antibiotics.

[–] MaybeItWorks@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess I misunderstood the question as being what we we’re capable of personally contributing.

If it’s just hypotheticals, I would contribute antibiotics and how to make those.

[–] MaybeItWorks@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ok, I’ll bite.

Why are you qualified to contribute this chapter of a book to kickstart society? I’m totally open, maybe you are a constitutional scholar and I’m way out of line. I would like to understand why you believe that this is your chapter to write.

[–] MaybeItWorks@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yo dawg, I actually agree with you that this is the problem. It’s why I responded to OP that it’s absurd to suggest that they have the skillset to meaningfully contribute to the topic. America’s founding fathers basically dedicated their lives to democracy. The wrote books on books on books and yet here we are.

I said this in a comment elsewhere, but democracy and human behavior are always going to be at odds. If someone could write a chapter in a book to help a new society properly understand and fight for democracy, it would be done by now.

I think OP is just arrogant to even respond that he/she is qualified to contribute such a thing. It’s some main character syndrome bullshit if I’ve ever seen it on here.

[–] MaybeItWorks@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’m not sure your comment contributed much either. Just comes across incredibly arrogant to me.

The follies of democracy are mostly due to human behavior. It’s a complex topic and the idea that YOU can distill it into something meaningful is laughable to me. America’s founding fathers spent most of their lives dedicated to this and look where we are now.

It’s cool, you all can downvote me for being realistic. I thought this was an exercise in actual skills one could contribute, not pipe dreams. At some point, humans have to reconcile with human behavior not being congruent with democracy, but sure, you’ll write a chapter and society will figure it out.

Come on, y’all have to be more in touch with reality than this, right?

 

Hello! I’m newer to Lemmy and trying to figure out all the communities. I found a page where I can browse communities (https://browse.feddit.de/), but the subscriber numbers on that site are totally different than what I see when I search for the community in Wefwef.

For example, this community shows a subscriber count of over 17k on the site above, but when I search in Wefwef, I see a much smaller subscriber count. Why is it different? Is Wefwef only counting subscribers on my instance?

Thanks for any information?

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