https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldYfQT35_38 (just listen to the first two minutes if you’re lazy)

Lemmy is inherently democratic. If you don’t like a muni, or an instance, you go to another one. Without centralization dictatorship is impossible.

That’s more like voluntarism than democracy.

Online? Dictatorship. Let the guidelines be clear and the conversations civil and on topic. If my speech isn’t wanted in a particular community I can find another, or make another where I’m the dictator.

I like StackOverflow’s democratic moderation. It also scales better than centralised moderation.

The squabbling process moves the law toward meeting the needs of more people.

Are there data on this?

You’re making a causal claim (if squabbling, then more needs met) and that’s either empirically true or not.

Misinformed.

The founding fathers of the USA never mentioned democracy in the constitution nor declaration of independence.

In their writings, they only ever used the word as a pejorative: https://founders.archives.gov/?q=democracy&s=1111211111&sa=&r=1&sr=

“we are not so absurd as to “design a Democracy,” of which the Governor is pleased to accuse us”

“You would have torn up the Foundations and demolished the whole Fabrick of the Government, and have suffered Democracy… to have arisen in its Place.”

Are those the founding fathers you’re talking about?

Lemmings

Is there a film called Lemmings? Seems a safe bet there is one.

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Fun fact: folk etymologies are always lies.

I’ve also heard that ‘gringo’ derives from people telling green-clad soldiers to go away (green, go)

I’ve heard that ‘fuck’ is an acronym for ‘fornication under consent of the king’

All nonsense of course.

I’m originally from Sabah in northern Borneo, Malaysia

Hey I’ve been there. Hello.

Certain topics (mostly household things), I’ll think in Irish.

Or sports… it’s easier for me to think “tá an cailis déanta aige” than “he fouled the player” because my sporting life has generally been through Irish.

AIDS

good answer

No. My uncle has.

@[email protected] pulled out his actual visit as a trump card

Have you been?

That’s what I thought yeah; juzt wondering if it was like Yugoslavia

Was North Korea 3rd world?

Interesting use of the word “he” around 0:32

It’s weird the way they always talk about the state as though it was exactly one person.

People live their lives, they don’t live abstractions on paper. People sleep, wake, do things.

Scores are stable over time. This can be determined by statistics. It’s called test-retest reliability.

I don’t know.