Agree it’s fun to think about even if not practical. If anything reminds me of how my own memory works, where it’s more like a description of what I saw than an image.

Yeah why are there any comments taking this seriously? Not that it couldn’t be true, but the linked site talks about prayer being the reason the satellites are going down, and how non human entities are attacking us.

Yeah, I guess it is kind of an old phrase. Basically something a more conventional or conservative person might say about something that’s impractical/naive/overly idealistic. You can imagine like a 60s American dad saying it about tie dye kids

Was looking for this comment, thanks

I’m a fan of the concept. Two notes:

While the name has noble intentions, it’s a horrible choice in terms of conveying “this is a respectable institution and you should hire this person.” Obtaining the knowledge should be enough, but we all know part of why we choose the educational institutions we do is to help get a job, and some schools are viewed more favorably than others. “University of the People” sounds hippy dippy and fake.

Second, if you like this model you might consider looking at Western Governor’s University. It’s regionally accredited (ie. the kind you want), online, and the name seems like it would be more appealing at first glance to employers.

Can’t say I have much of an opinion at all, but seeing this post is reminding me of that documentary where the guy was commissioning videos of young dude wrestlers tickling each other, and he played it off like it wasn’t, but of course it was for sex reasons

You’re right that lemmy primarily needs content, and it doesn’t have to be just credentialed experts. It will grow in appeal the more there are real communities discussing whatever their subject of interest is.

Realizing we’re talking about an imaginary world here, but in some cases probably appropriate not to discuss sensitive matters when you don’t know who is within earshot of the communicator

I think this is closer to the real answer than the comments about “so and so will still complain.” That said, does anyone know if there is any companies making open source machines? Cause if not, there’s our primary reason why elections don’t use them.

Electronic voting could use open source software, but so can a machine that scans a marked ballot. The best practice is to have voters mark a physical ballot, then have them put it in a machine (running open source software) that scans and tabulates the results. If there’s a question about the integrity of the results, we can go back and count physical ballots.

@rockslice addressed this in another comment - you use signing certificates to verify it’s the correct code, which is a widely accepted method.