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cabbage, 7 days ago

If by Eastern Europe you mean Belarus and Hungary, maybe.

cabbage, 7 days ago

Israeli politics have been fucked for a long time. Netanyahu has always been a dangerous extremist, and the fact that people repeatedly voted for him speaks volumes for the political culture.

cabbage, 7 days ago

In Germany? You'll be fine, they're very aware of the threat of antisemitism but it's not any worse than elsewhere.

Now, whether German culture is enjoyable is another question.

cabbage, 7 days ago

I'd consider Bolzano. You'd get by with German, and you get to live in a beautiful part of the arguably most beautiful country of Europe.

cabbage, 9 days ago

I think, like so many other realities of American politics, it needs to be understood as a sad reflection of America itself.

RFK Jr. caters to a specific branch of the mentally ill, but in a country with severe social problems and unavailable mental health care services this is not such a tiny niche. COVID sent a lot of people over the edge, and an anti-vaccine candidate in it's wake is bound to do well.

Combine this with the fact that conspiratorially minded Americans are obsessed with the Kennedys, and you have yourself a candidate who appeals strongly to a non-negligible part of the population.

cabbage, 9 days ago

You'll never be anything less than what you are, but that's a strength. Just speaking two languages well already puts you at an advantage. The experiences you have of seeing the cultures in relation to each other also gives you an edge.

Sometimes it's nice to be able to just blend in, but life is all about learning and gathering experiences and impressions, and you have a head start. It might not always be easy, but you'll learn to appreciate it.

And as long as Poland is in the EU I'd much rather have a Polish passport than an English one.

cabbage, 25 days ago

Progressive tax is normal in most functional countries, it's not rocket science.

Basically you define X as a base sum that needs to be controlled for inflation. Minimum wage can be 2X, whereas 100% taxation might be reached at an income of 300X. In this scenario, nobody could earn more than 150 times minimum wage, and manipulating the calculation of X to make the rich richer would also benefit everyone else.

A bigger challenge is that billionaire scum tend not to have income, only loans, so they don't pay tax at all. But that's also easily fixed if there's political will.

cabbage, 29 days ago

King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King.

It's just exploding with creativity and craftsmanship throughout the album. The opening tune (21st Century Schizoid Man) was unlike anything anyone had ever heard at the time it was released, and there's honestly still not much like it out there. And the transition to Moonchild after it is equally mind-blowing just for the contrast alone. The title track remains one of the most incredible things I've heard.

Zappa also has a lot of good candidates for this list. I'm soft for Freak Out, where the madness started, but some might argue something like Joe's Garage is a better example.

cabbage, 29 days ago

When you play it louder the silences hit so much harder. What an experience.

cabbage, 29 days ago

Shoes. You don't end up saving money and it's not worth the pain. I tried for years back when I couldn't afford a thing and concluded that there's simply no such thing as cheap good shoes.

cabbage, 29 days ago

The most (only?) surprising thing about this is that Omar has an adult daughter - I thought she was famous for being so incredibly young herself.

Almost as if "young" doesn't really mean anything, and is just used to silence and discredit people (women) one disagrees with.

Almost.

cabbage, 1 month ago

Open source culture remains the biggest problem with open source software, sadly.

cabbage, 29 days ago

But at the receiving end you'll have a talented backend developer who has created something impressive, and who instead of being recognised and motivated for her work just receives a bunch of shit about the UX being awful. Which is not great either.

It's a tricky thing to get right.

cabbage, 1 month ago

It's an experimental feature. If you post on Beehaw it shows a reminder that Beehaw has a stricter code of conduct than most instances, and remind you to be nice.

PieFed is also developed specifically to be unappealing to tankies and fascists, which I think is generally wise, but of course certain measures might be more successful than others. :)

cabbage, 1 month ago

Yeah, I absolutely agree lemmy.ml has no business hosting a large worldnews community without proper warning.

cabbage, 1 month ago

An idea that has been spinning in my head a bit is to allow people to subscribe to different levels of moderation. Basically allowing users to choose a "curated", "moderate", or "liberal" experience.

Curated: Whitelist of servers rather than blacklist. Well-moderated instances only.

Moderate: Blacklist rather than whitelist, but blocking annoying instances like Lemmygrad and Hexbear. Aiming at a wide yet enjoyable experience.

Liberal: Blacklist, but only blocking instances that allow (or are incapable of handling) content that goes against the content policy.

It's probably more difficult to implement than what it's worth. What I like about it however is that it would make the whole process of content curation much more transparent. Right now it's often not so clear to people signing up to an instance what kind of moderation policy they will be signing up for. At least this would allow the user some agency even after sign-up.

cabbage, 29 days ago

• [x] Fascist
• [x] Perverted
• [x] Dystopian
• [x] McCarthyism
• [x] Disinformation
• [x] Propaganda

Not bad for a three-sentence comment!

cabbage, 1 month ago

Absolutely. There's a small handful of sites full of insufferable stalinists. Thank god I didn't discover Lemmy when I was 14, I might have been swallowed right up.

Just block those instances, your experience will be better immediately. And don't hesitate to block individual users, even if they're not breaking any rules or anything. Finding something to be annoying is plenty of reason not to want it as part of your internet experience.

cabbage, 1 month ago

Unlimited supply!

cabbage, 1 month ago

I think Hank Williams III with the Grand Ole Opry Ain't so Grand deserves a shout-out. Basically a song about how the institution that chewed up and then expelled his grandfather can eat shit.

cabbage, 1 month ago

Well, perfect is a strong word...