The far right are a bunch of crooks and Russian agents. It's not that they think we can progress as a society without spending money on research. It's that they're being paid to make sure western society collapses.
Wilders, Le Pen, Farage, whatever the knobheads in the AfD are called. They've all been found to receive funding from Russia. It's not that they're dumb enough to think this is a good idea, they're just evil enough to profit from it.
I wasn't aware of this - good to know.
What's great about using it (while it lasts) is that it boosts content to a lot of instances across the fediverse, so you don't need to be incredibly well connected in order to have reach. Otherwise, if you post microblog posts from Mbin, you risk yelling into a very tiny void.
It'll be interesting to see how native group support in Mastodon is going to play out.
I think it's likely we will see big platforms (newspapers etc) want to federate their content directly using activitypub. It sounds like a messy task, but if you can specialize in offering clutter-free activitypub support for existing platforms I'm sure there's money to be made.
Steps are being taken in the right direction. The US has also been making progress, which I'm sure will continue if America doesn't give up on itself next month.
That said, it's not nearly enough. As long as the focus is on innovation and growth rather than sustainability, and consumers don't really give a fuck, it's going to be difficult to see any change.
But I'm very happy with my Fairphone, and my next laptop will no doubt be a framework. Baby steps.
One good option is to look for relevant groups in a.gup.pe - such as !technology@a.gup.pe. These groups are geared towards Microblog content, and give good reach on sites like Mastodon.
You can add pretty much anything before a.gup.pe, but some groups have many followers on Mastodon and some have none.
Lemmy and Mbin treat Microblog content very differently. Mbin is more similar to Mastodon in this regard, Lemmy tries to force-fit everything into the thread format. It's not very intuitive for new users - sorry about that! :)
And you keep herr/frau, so technically it would be Frau Professorin Doctor Jones.
Generally when opening an email you condense it, and simply refer to the person as "Sehr geehrte Frau Professorin Jones" - Very honoured ms. professor Jones. They're very humble.
I get that this is surprising to many, but it's possible to have news stories covering women without instinctively turning it into a discussion about their appearances.
I find it weird that nobody mentioned this. If you don't have back problems and you're tired of shoe horns breaking, in addition to reconsidering your technique, get a short metal one.
Sounds like you've had too much internet.
Either that, or you have a fascination for human suffering. Which you might want to see a therapist about if you can afford it.
In either case, signing off and doing something you enjoy offline might be a good idea. I'd take to the mountains, but that's just me.
I think SassyRamen was referring to bad karma specifically. You both hate Putin. And for good reasons, though none of those reasons are depicted in this post.
They're not stupid, but they're not particularly clever either. They're just mediocre people pumped up by our adveseries to believe they can be something important and special.
Of course, Geert Wilders believes he's brilliant. Just like Trump. They are never going to accept to themselves that their reason for being there is that their grandiose thoughts about themselves are only matched by their mediocracy, which is the exact set of traits that makes them so easy to take advantage of.
I agree it's dangerous to dismiss them as stupid, but it would be a mistake to assume they're particularly clever. They're just dangerously mediocre.