[-] SouthernOcean@sh.itjust.works -2 points 8 months ago

Uh huh. Riiight.

I’ve been on the internet for 30 years, including BBSes and IRC, so I actually have a pretty good idea what it looked like before censorship.

This is bullshit propaganda and if you’re swallowing it all, I’m sorry.

[-] SouthernOcean@sh.itjust.works -2 points 8 months ago

Actually, there is high value in posting where their upvotes matter a lot. That’s why Russia hijacked r/conspiracy - because they didn’t have the numbers to overwhelm some of the bigger subreddits.

A new medium like Lemmy is easy to hijack. And clearly it’s happening. I read a very broad cross section of news, and a lot of the stuff that’s getting upvoted here is simply lame anti—west propaganda.

[-] SouthernOcean@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago

My point is that rich kids get funded partly because they are rich and have connections, but also because people tell them they can do it.

Almost all investors will accept emails with pitches. You can build a pitch on nights and weekends while holding down a full time job.

I am just trying to encourage people to realize it’s more possible than they think because I wish people had told me that.

[-] SouthernOcean@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

You can do it on your evenings and weekends. I realize people think I’m being elitist, but that was the point of my post - way more people could do it than think they can.

And failure is not the huge disaster in startups that people think. Even successful entrepreneurs have failures. Also, even running a failed startup elevates you to management if you go work at a big company.

[-] SouthernOcean@sh.itjust.works 51 points 10 months ago

As a parent, I actually support this idea. And it’s partly because kids are simply not always “controllable,” by any human, in a confined space after many hours.

Before I was a parent, I thought the right discipline would solve everything, but airplanes in particular are brutal environments, with very little space to move and limited options to distract them. Even screens, which are close to a silver bullet, don’t always work. Travel is exhausting and challenging for kids, and kids were never evolved well to handle being locked in a seat for hours, let alone dealing with pressure and time zone changes.

So please, until we have adults only zones, have a little patience. There are certainly bad parents, but I guarantee that most of them want their kid to be quiet even more than you do.

[-] SouthernOcean@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

Should be a counterpart for women as well.

[-] SouthernOcean@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

They actually say that exact thing about democrats because of gun control.

[-] SouthernOcean@sh.itjust.works 21 points 10 months ago

People are making a mistake about viewing Republicans as a block. The way conservatives work is that a single issue is enough to get them to vote for the party.

If that single issue is being against abortion, then the GOP stance gets their support. But if their concerns are gun control or immigration control, they will overlook the disagreement on abortion rights because it probably doesn’t affect them directly.

[-] SouthernOcean@sh.itjust.works 31 points 10 months ago

Exactly. Economic development follows universities.

People don’t even understand history.

[-] SouthernOcean@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I have been outraged over Syria, but the solutions are far less clear. What solution are you proposing there?

[-] SouthernOcean@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Great writer. Tragic stories.

I have a friend who is a female pilot. The amount of bullshit she has to put up with from loser copilots who think they are god’s gift just because they got through a crappy flight school is unreal. She has held back her own career just to fly solo so she doesn’t have to deal with the nasty comments and stories. Again, tragic.

[-] SouthernOcean@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Renewable energy seemed good.

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