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  • As a dev who is in the middle of making a project myself, this is nightmarish for me to read.

    Yes, I know this is not the topic, or how you meant it, but it profoundly affected me in my own way.

    Like absolutely blows my mind. It reminds me that any solo projects I do are probably doomed to fail later due to them not being useful at all, or unknown. Or if they are used, then I will get overwhelmed probably, and quit. The only things that seem safe is a teamwork collaboration… and I suck at that.

    Right, I am off to learn a new trade, carpentry… perhaps






  • I agree that zoning can really improve things.

    Which can be helped by changes in local government. But today there is little involvement in city and town government.

    Probably this lack of participation is because most people of the USA moved and changed careers multiple times in the last two generations. A greater percentage did this than in the first Industrial Revolution.

    And it happened while changes in family structures and long distance communication changed. A perfect recipe for lack of civic involvement .




  • Something I talked about earlier in political discussions was that the Usa has a problem of neighborhoods not being as social as they used to be.

    Fewer bars, ymca, gatherings. Neighbors stay inside more. Children do not play in the street so much. Very few adults walk in the streets ( compared to Europe). Religious attendance is down .

    That makes grassroots and revolutionary fever hard except on the internet. And the internet is showing it sort of sucks doing that, getting people outdoors, regardless of their creed, religious or political beliefs.

    All that show up are usually elites , and some people in cities.

    If you look at any modern revolution, there are healthy neighborhood dynamics driving it allowing a parallel bottom up growth

    In the USA, People will probably have heated comments on social media, except in some small areas of cities, with only a few casualties






  • actually@lemmy.worldtoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldGoddammit Texas!
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    So… I’m in Texas , been here a long time.

    most ballot counts in the primaries and general are counted by secret software and hardware run by ultra conservative families the last 20 plus years. Recounts are not allowed and exit polls not used anymore because of unpredictability.

    Nobody cares, no political party wants to change : not a topic in forums anywhere, even in conspiracy minded chat rooms, and it’s been this way forever ( since before 2000).

    There is a ton of crazy that is ignored .

    I’ve seen how the system works, I’ve been at the county chair level. Nobody will criticize it . There is a quiet culture of people knowing it’s invalid but decide to leave it be.


  • It keeps happening in history: people using horror suffered in the past to give cover to their own crimes. Attacking others in the name of their own holy dead.

    Sharing stories or pictures of a previous genocide to make others overlook a current genocide. Accusing others of being enemies to their religion and ethnicity when voices raise in protest.

    Over a hundred times in the world, in the last few thousand years. It’s just particularly galling to me to see this, now, in my name.


  • It’s designed to be anti-infuencer

    When my own feed, free of the algorithm, did not have content of interest. Because I or others took turns shouting into the void. Then I would go on the explore /front page where there was definitely an algorithm of influencers, many who had follower counts of thousands, talking about the same stuff. Many seemed to be upper middle class Americans .

    I soon hated them, but many were broadcast to other instances’ front page too. Between them and lack of interaction from people I wanted to hear from, I left