PonyOfWar

Is that really the point in that moment though? They didn’t invite you so you could teach them how to cook, but to spend time with you and have friendly conversations. Saying that would really only serve to ruin the day for them, and possibly for yourself as well depending on how they’ll react.

As for the location, since after the collapse, hungry crowds will rob villages and farms that they can reach or know about, I will have to build a house from scratch somewhere a hundred kilometers from cities and civilization

I actually think places like villages are your best bet. An organized rural community of a few hundred people will be much better off than a single person or household living alone in the wilderness. You can share the work required and you’ll have a safety net in case anything goes wrong, like if you’ve been injured for example. You can also organize defence by putting up guards etc.

If I had a nickel every time a new user comes to asklemmy assuming it’s some kind of generative AI support forum… I’d probably have at least 10 nickels from those that I’ve seen? Which is honestly very strange. Do LLMs recommend Lemmy for that or something?

Anyway, it says it right there. Can’t declare the same variable twice, so delete or rename one of them.

Unless there’s a concrete reason to do that, I don’t see why they would. Python isn’t outdated, it’s actively supported and one of the most widely used programming languages in the world. It has arguably never been more relevant than it is now, due to its use in ML development. Just because it’s technically older doesn’t mean that it’s worse. That’s just not how programming languages work.

For probably >50% of artists I listen to, I never could have discovered them in record stores, either because they never had widely available physical releases at all, or only in their home countries. And my friends have pretty different musical tastes from myself.

Recently went through my parents’ old vinyl record collection though, after fixing up their record player from the 70s. There’s definitely something special about discovering music through physical media, looking at the album art, reading the booklets etc.

There’s definitely truth to that and I’m currently building up a local library of music to put on my dedicated music player.

On the other hand, I do like the ease of discovery with streaming. I didn’t listen to a lot of music in the pre-streaming days, because the only easy way to discover artists was by listening to the radio, which was mostly music I didn’t love. I have to admit that I only found much of the music I now like thanks to streaming.

I’ve always found it fun how in Germanic (and Romance) languages, we still honor the old gods when it comes to the days of the week. Like wednesday being “Wodan’s/Odin’s day” and thursday being “Thor’s day”. I wonder how many devout christians realize this.

I also think the etymology of the German word “Buchstaben” (letter, as in a,b,c) is pretty interesting. It literally means “beech rod” and goes back all the way to Germanic tribespeople carving runes into rods made from beechwood.

Steam Deck OLED has been pretty great. Also the HTC Vive VR headset, back in 2016.

All of that is not new though. Hantavirus has always been around. The common strains have <1% death rates. Andes strain is more deadly and looks to possibly have human to human transmission within a short time window, but there is no indication that it can spread quickly enough to cause a new pandemic. It has also been known since 1995. So as of now, I wouldn’t panic, even though the situation can certainly bring some traumatic memories back.

Have advanced plastic surgery to become an identical doppelganger of a specific North-Sentinelese. Abduct the original person, then show up on the island pretending to have suffered a traumatic head injury, so you can’t talk or understand them.

Nowadays, it’s expected and often necessary for both people in a relationship to work full-time and have a career if they want to maintain a decent living standard. No time or money for having kids.

Okay, I didn’t really want to get into it, but since you seem to take Riverside’s statement as fact, let me put the actual facts straight: It definitely can’t be said that the party “supports Israel”. Their official position is to stop all arms sales to Israel, sanction them and to officially recognize Palestine as an independent state. They actively participate in protests for Gaza etc, as you can read about here. The statement that Riverside referred to was a response to party members going “too far” with their criticism in the minds of the leadership, by denying Israel their right to exist. Criticism of Israel in Germany is often more careful and muted than elsewhere. Surely, you can see why that’s the case in the country that murdered 6 million Jews. They have a fine line to walk.

It’s definitely a topic you can have a discussion about. But bringing it up in this thread only served to derail the discussion. And the way they phrased it to make the party appear like they’re supporting the genocide was just plain manipulative.

So instead of staying on-topic (the claim that Western socialist parties never praise China’s achievements), you’re somehow trying to deflect the topic to Israel when disproven. Then instead of judging China’s foreign policy on its own merit, you go all “what about” and with false, outdated information as well. And that’s supposed to be the “honest conversation” you were talking about? Yeah no. It’s exactly what I described in my initial post. My blocklist grows by 1 today.

But they exclusively criticise said countries, no praise for their achievements.

No, that’s entirely untrue. They (Die Linke in Germany FYI) have frequently praised China’s economic system and social progress, while still criticizing its authoritarianism and aggressive foreign policy.

Of course those people exist. Heck, I consider myself a socialist and the socialist party in my country has no issues whatsoever criticizing countries like China or North Korea. But those kind of nuanced opinions aren’t really the ones you’ll find over and over again on the frontpage of ml.

Of the users you named, I only know Cowbee, as Lemmygrad is defederated anyway. He’s definitely very knowledgable about communist theory and he’s capable of having an actual discussion, yes. Not even close to one of the worst users over there. But from my discussions with him, he’s quite obsessed with theory over practice and is perfectly willing to defend the IMO indefensible regime of North Korea.

Yeah, Wikipedia definitely has the best shot out of those 3.

Definitely. Humanity won’t be around forever, and I really don’t think any of those sites will even be around for the rest of human history. I’d say 50/50 for any of them still being up in 100 years.

In my experience the attitude of many of the more prolific users there is something like “America and the West are doing evil things, so their enemies must be the good guys”. Atrocities by Western-aligned states are readily accepted as facts, but those committed by countries on “their” side never happened and are merely Western propaganda. They’ll cite North Korea’s constitution to “prove” that it’s a free and democratic country, but when you point out reports showing that the reality on the ground is quite different from what’s written in the constitution, that’s of course just Western propaganda and the people who fled the country are being paid to spread lies. That dismissive attitude makes it impossible to have a serious discussion with them.

That said, I now have a solid blocklist of their “worst offenders” and found that there are plenty of people with way more balanced opinions as well.

I see. Then I misunderstood, as “read-only” usually refers to something you can’t interact with (in IT at least). Not sure why it would only show you text posts. Might be that your instance is somewhat overloaded and larger content like images and video takes longer to federate?

Read-only feed usually means that you are banned on that community or instance. Can’t see anything in your modlog though. Is it only on a specific community or a different account? Looks like you could post here after all.