https://open.spotify.com/track/4VJrTc5QPr13zgkwxaTjjN?si=H0u4nXFDQSqVxBjC2RUPog

And the people in the houses

All went to the university

Where they were put in boxes

And they came out all the same

And there’s doctors and lawyers

And business executives

And they’re all made out of ticky tacky

And they all look just the same

Only the silly parts of the UK. Some give education for free like a sensible place that gives a shit about its citizens.

Let the people who installed/created it maintain it or let a bunch of new folk do it, which is likely to work best?

The abroad part isn’t the issue. We’re a global village with the Internet now, after all. It’s the outsourcing part that’s the issue.

Am I reading correctly? Are you saying you cook pancakes in your rice cooker?

How do you do that?

They’ve done a lot of exploration, though. I worked on some of the kit that went there. It came back pretty beat up, so it’s rough out there, but there’s plenty of oil.

New oil extractions were halted in the North Sea for a while, not extracting it doesn’t mean much. It just means it’s not been deemed profitable enough yet.

Oil.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_the_Falkland_Islands#Petroleum_exploration_and_reserves

A red day, ere the sun rises!

https://youtu.be/7lwJOxN_gXc?si=_VIg1ShZtpOaa0JC

What was the Creek incident? Google hasn’t really helped

Paper isn’t always secure!

https://soranews24.com/2024/04/26/japanese-city-loses-residents-personal-data-which-was-on-paper-being-transported-on-a-windy-day/

https://open.spotify.com/track/4KM77RUl2IKdXGhtOBbKIS

"You load 16 tons, what do you get?

Another day older and deeper in debt

St Peter, don’t you call me 'cause I can’t go

I owe my soul to the company store. "

The company store is slowly making its way back in vogue

Why even use precious metals at all? What is wrong with big stick?

To be fair, what do you expect people to talk about?

5-12 comments covers most topics for a given article/meme. Any more than that, and it starts to just become a repeat of what someone else said.

Do you want to read 10 copies of “lol that meme is so me!”

I always thought it was wild that your average thread on Reddit could garner thousands upon thousands of comments, with the vast majority of them being repeats of something someone already said.

Then factor in that those same comments are in the next thread, and the next one. That’s not engagement, that’s insane!

The comments here are far more sparse, but they still cover all your bases. You still get the interesting info dump from some expert or hyperfocused individual who’s done a bunch of reading, you still get a humorous pun or joke, and you still get the “well, actually, this is wrong because…” just, now, it’s like 1 of each type instead of a thousand people all trying to crack the same joke in one thread.

Edit: to clarify, I mean 5-12 top level comments

“just”? Oh, well, when you put it like that.

Welcome to the Internet. There’s Western propaganda here, too. We got all kinds.

Lemmy isn’t Reddit. It’s not owned by one entity. You’re not in a bubble that a corporation is going to keep you safe in. Anybody anywhere can create a Lemmy instance. They may be Chinese, they may be European, they may be Russian, it doesn’t matter. What matters is using your critical thinking to sort the wheat from the chaff. Join and federate with those you think are good and block those you think are bad.

Practice critical thinking and encourage your friends and family to do the same when they’re looking at information online. There’s free courses out there that can help with that kind of thing if you’re unsure.

But really, that’s your only defense because every company wants your attention, every government wants you on their side, and everyone is trying to manipulate you with propaganda somehow. Lemmy is no better or worse than Reddit, Facebook, or Twitter in that regard. That’s just the Internet.

I present to you, flying cars: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/technology-57660603

That site is advert popup hell! Wow

Calling what a Republic? Rome? There’s no other country implied in this meme, but I bet I know exactly which country you’re talking about…

To be fair, Ukraine is part of a defense agreement too. A shame one of the signatories is the aggressor…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum

Sadly his battery life is crap though. Doesn’t even last an evening before needing charged again

I want to get mad at your apathy, but really, it just makes me sad.

Of course it won’t be the end. In the same way climate disaster isn’t the end of the world, but it is the end of the world as we know it.

A fascist takeover of many of the most powerful countries in the world wouldn’t mean the end for all, but it does mean the end for whoever is deemed “other”. In the case of 1930s/40s Germany, that was political opponents, Jews, disabled, and LGBT people.

Today and in the future, who knows what arbitrary definition of a person will be chosen to make people “other”. It could be anything from traditional hate categories like race or sexuality to something new like length of hair.

I don’t know what kind of person you are but you clearly feel confident that you won’t be one of the ones on the receiving end of violence and the fact you think that’s okay because it’s not happening to you is so… depressing. If you don’t have a moral compass for the sake of others, at least try and have one for the sake of yourself because as fascism rears its head, whatever demographic you fall into may be next at the receiving end of the violence.

First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me