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  • I don’t think there are any" rant" communities?

    Lemmy needs that kind of large general topic community to redirect users to smaller niches communities.

    I too also wouldn’t want to mod it, but I think it’d be great for herding up angry lemmy users sharing the same frustrations, so they could be redirected or start new communities for the particular topic.

    The reason is that everyone enjoy reading and writing rants about something, so the rant community will automatically grow many subscribers coming in from all kinds of searches.

    For example, a user ranting about “womens pants without pockets” would get much more engagement than someone just creating and posting about a community for womens pants. The rant comment section would also already often include the potential users for a new community.

    The general discussion doesn’t really cut it, because it’s too nice and polite and weird angry rants don’t really fit in there.

    The thing is that (also in real life) when someone needs something bad enough, they’ll get angry, and that anger can be channeled into something useful, because they’re willing to collaborate with others who can help them or who at least supports them.


  • putting it within the context of a particular life choice adds a layer of focus to the conversation.

    It won’t create a very interesting debate though, because OP already excluded most people who followed through on the opposing view in the question itself.

    This extra layer of focus really functions as a filter, which can only result in a hall of mirrors.

    It’s perfectly fine if OP just wanted to confirm an existing bias and need arguments for that, but it’s absolutely not a very interesting conversation.


  • bstix@feddit.dktoScience Memes@mander.xyzPlease be patient.
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    The whole thing is an abstraction. The nucleus isn’t actually tiny ball shaped things mashed together, but rather cloudy stuff which would probably not be identical if we could actually see them. The quarks that make up protons and neutrons are considered elementary particles and identical, but they don’t move around much unless energy is used to split them.

    The electron however is an elementary particle that moves outside of the nucleus and can move from one atom to another. So the hypothesis is that if we could follow one electron from the big bang to the end of the universe, and this electron could move both forwards and backwards in time, it would potentially be enough with just one.

    It probably doesn’t hold up very well, but it’s an interesting thought experiment.






  • “Ding ding ding!” When someone agrees with something you wrote, but wants to make sure that you know that they already knew and claim ownership of the statement that you wrote. Condesending asshole. I did not arrive at your opinion late.

    “Meanwhile” in cooking recipes. Just no. I am following a recipe in stepwise order. You do not get to tell me what I should have already done in the previous step.




  • I hope that lesson was taught last time. Those that didn’t learn it then are unlikely to learn it if he should win again.

    I believe that there were many people who voted for Trump in 2016 because of the reasons you mention. I get it. Sometimes it’s necessary to destroy something to build something new. Give the world a kick in the balls instead of keeping patching the broken status quo.

    Trump is just not the guy to do it. While he did destroy a lot of shit last time, he didn’t actually clear the ground for a new building.

    You know what would be more disruptive than watching an old geezer shit on the carpet a second time? You know what would piss off a lot of people?

    Electing a woman as president.





  • I acknowledge that it’s a wild take, and I want to stir up shit.

    However, in Denmark m, we do not benefit from a domestic production at all, because it’s mostly shipped out of the country for feeding livestock elsewhere.

    Most of the food available to me is from Ukraine or Spain. I do not have the option to eat donestically produced foods, yet 60+ of the land around me is used for farming.

    I absolutely apploud the few farmers who do have local distribution, but those only account for very few percentages of our land.



  • No, it’s not a bad thing.

    Denmark being at 60% is horrible. It is land used by less than 0.1% of the population.

    They don’t even contribute to the GDP. Tthe entire business model relies heavily on EU susidies and couldn’t exist without it. Always moaning about the weather, pricing and competition, fixing the papers to always show a net loss, yet still driving massive luxury cars because apparently Mercedes is the only brand that can drive on the paved roads between the fields.

    However, politically, these thousand people who own or rent all the farm land have way too much power, because they have somehow managed to convince everyone living in the vicinity of this manure desert called agriculture that they somehow also benefit from the success of the business, even if they don’t.

    Fuck farming. It’s a dirty industry.