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  • Because religion evolved to thrive in us.

    It’s like a parasite, and our mind is the host. It competes with other mind-parasites like other religions, or even scientific ideas. They compete for explanatory niches, for feeling relevant and important, and maybe most of all for attention.

    Religions evolved traits which support their survival. Because all the other variants which didn’t have these beneficial traits went extinct.

    Like religions who have the idea of being super-important, and that it’s necessary to spread your belief to others, are ‘somehow’ more spread out than religions who don’t convey that need.

    This thread is a nice collection of traits and techniques which religions have collected to support their survival.

    This perspective is based on what Dawkins called memetics. It’s funny that this idea is reciprocally just another mind-parasite, which attempted to replicate in this comment.


  • An (intuitively) working search would be a great step ahead. It should find and show things if they exist, and only show no results if they do not. That a plethora of external tools exist to meet these basic needs shows both how much this is needed, and how much it is broken.

    I also feel I have more luck finding communities if searching for ‘all’, instead of ‘communities’. Don’t make me add cryptic chars to my search to make it work. Do that for me in the background if necessary.

    It’s been long since I’ve been using it, but iirc, it’s impossible or painful to search for a specific community in your subscribed list.





  • I find the plateau quite puzzling (lemmy.world, but the total looks very similar):

    There was quite a steep increase, and then it suddenly stopped.

    I would rather expect it to slow down, than to stop that abruptly.

    We’re looking at a fairly large group of people making a decision to create an account on Lemmy. There are plenty of reasons to expect it to be fuzzy. Even if they all responded to one particular event in time, some would have done so immediately, others the next day, few more even later.





  • In any case, performance is just one factor. For a FOSS project to be successful long term it needs contributions from other developers and with the massive pool of Python developers there are, hopefully I’ll be getting some help soon. Also along those lines I have deliberately chosen:

    to code as simply and stupidly as possible, to make it accessible to most skill levels.
    No complicated frameworks, fancy algorithms, or esoteric design patterns. Model View Controller, baby.
    No frontend build process or tool chain (vanilla JS only. No npm).
    Few third party dependencies, only Redis and Postgresql. Mostly.
    

    All this makes setting up an initial development environment, finding the bit you want to change and testing it out fairly quick and easy.

    Sounds very wise to make it as accessible as possible. And you basically get super maintainable code as a side product!


  • Spzi@lemm.eetoPolitical Humor@lemmy.mlIt's old, but still true
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    10 months ago

    I’m still voting for Democrats down the ballot in November

    So you like bootlicking and when people spit in your mouth.

    Statements like these are a testament to how much american culture has deteriorated. The hatred and lack of thought with which both sides talk to each other.

    When we analyze it, we first encounter a projection (“so you <something they did not say>”), followed by profanity. The factual content is zero or false. It’s a purely rhetoric figure, constructed from fallacies (like a strawman), made to be ugly, to poison the conversation.

    Sorry for being harsh, nothing personal. I believe you wrote what you said because you care about the outcome, and your country. I tried to point out how I think this specific tone might be counterproductive for these intents.



  • Oh, that’s not what I meant to describe. There are differences in ecological impact of various foods and production methods, obviously. Choosing the smaller options helps to do less harm, to “save the planet”.

    I meant to point out that we moved from pre-industrial methods to modern methods because they make more sense in economic terms, in capitalism. And that just going back might lead to unwanted consequences like lots of people with much less access to meat.



  • this is always used as an argument for new technologies instead of returning to lower tech, pre-industrial solutions that are already well established and known to be safer

    Maybe because it’s about economical efficiency. The old ways were abandoned in favor of new methods, because the new approach was cheaper / yielded higher profits.

    Yes, we could produce meat like we did in pre-industrial times, but that would mean higher prices or lower volume. Either way, it would mean less people could afford to eat meat. Like in pre-industrial times.


  • That’s like post #10 I see from random users proposing we should somehow run ads or whatever to finance big instances.

    I haven’t seen a single statement going in that direction from big instances themselves. None of those posts referred to anything.

    Is it just overconcerned people worrying about things which are not their problem? I assume people who can run a big instance would notice if they are getting into financial troubles. As long as they don’t speak up, I would conclude we don’t have to worry. The current model (whatever it is) seems to work well enough. Did they ask for advice, do they need advice?

    Maybe it’s that people are so used to being forced to see ads and pay half their wage for insulin that they cannot imagine nice things exist.

    I think we should try to keep it nice, and not revert to capitalist enshittification prematurely, without any necessity.

    We currently have more than 1000 instances on Lemmy. Maybe some do run ads, who knows. You can join them if you like, or host your own.

    Show the problem exists which you try to solve. Point to instances who struggle financially, who consider running ads, something like that.




  • Vegans have more to do with morals than vegetarians. Vegans may refrain from using animal based products like leather, which can be completely unrelated to health. A vegetarian diet is just that, a diet without meat. Can be for health or moral reasons, unspecified.

    Many things are tasty, many of which don’t have the detrimental implications of animal products, especially meat.


  • Which might be seen as a positive by some people (not me).

    It encourages social interaction. Every answered question becomes a valid option to ask again just a short time later. And to answer again.

    It also takes the burden to search from those who have questions. Just keep the chat flowing.

    Maybe it’s a bit like asking people on the street for directions, instead of using your phone. Less efficient and accurate, but you might get a smile in the process.