You have put very well in words what i have been feeling for a long time.

“Theory of Baseless Forms” is a phrase i must remember. “I am deeply saddened that people around here are no longer in contact with their essence and have fallen into believing this game is the only real thing around…”

Yes, exactly, the world used to be a magical place, guided by magical principles, but nowadays everything is rationalized, superficial, and driven by the law of mass action (also called “economies of scale”).

There is no myth in the modern world, no story told except that of capitalism and endless greed, and the soul of people seems to be silent.

I would also point out that “greed” is the problem, not “egoism”.

Egoism is a healthy attitude to take care of yourself.

Greed is the unhealthy attitude to do so at other’s expense.

There was a soviet joke:

A refugee from the sovjet union was not surprised to learn that most of what his government had told him about his country way lies - it wasn’t that great.

However, he was shocked to learn that they were telling the truth about other countries.

Yep, lemmy definitely has a problem with too much politics.

I propose that no post should include the head or face of any politician. Seeing a politician typically ruins your day. Best to either keep politics abstract (memes) or not do that at all.

and anuses are vaginas, as long as you treat them as one.

oppression leads to depression

Also, if you’re wrong, jail.

At least that’s the threat.

I always thought about it more in a metaphorical way.

“Alchemists are trying to produce gold (valuable materials) out of less valuable materials.”

I don’t think so.

Primarily because there’s not economic benefit in it for the ruling class.

Also, we’ve made the experience of the war in the middle east around 2000 where the USA couldn’t even occupy a farmer’s state for more than a couple years.

I don’t think anybody realistically thinks they can take over another (big) country in this time.

also known as philosophy

May i suggest a technique for remembering the password?

write it down

but instead of writing down the password, write down questions that only you can reasonably answer. For example:

• what was the name of the first girl i kissed?
• where did i go to on summer camp?
• which special event happened there?

and the answer would be: “mary beach rodeo” or idk what. this way, you construct a password out of multiple words that each are an answer to a simple question.

Only encrypt the home partition, for the root partition it just unnecessarily slows down the system.

Also, I think, there could be different approaches instead of encryption. AFAIK, android doesn’t use encryption underneath, but uses a semi-closed bootloader (which means, if you install a different OS, all user data gets wiped). I’m currently investigating the feasibility of such an approach in the long term.

this is why you start the sentence with “no, you may not”.

a lot of humans do that, too. cut you off early and pretend they didn’t hear the second part, stuff like that. happened to me a lot. caused me to rearrange word-order a lot.

The one true way to resolve this issue (IMO) is to pass a digital bill of rights, regulating these social media corporations, and forcing them to make their products safe for all ages.

Nope it doesn’t work that way, it’s much more complicated than that.

“regulating these social media corporations” how? how exactly are you gonna regulate them?

no matter what you do, somebody complains. put good filters in to only show good news sites, and people complain it’s not “free speech”. Make free speech, and you get hate content.

also, “safe for all ages” is bullshit, it would require digital age verification, like PornHub in Florida. Check out how that went.

FYI, the EU commission is proposing basically mass surveillance too.

Link is german. hope you can find a translator.

striking a good recommendation algorithm is impossible.

no matter what you do, somebody will complain. if you filter “good” news sources, some complain about it not being “free” enough. If you allow everybody to say what they say, you’re gonna end up with a lot of hate speech.

TikTok for me has been this refreshing different media which wasn’t mostly about politics, but about private artists creating whatever they do.

I’m out of the loop.

What exactly did Snowden show us?

thank you, that actually makes sense to me

understand the rules and do any side quest that i encounter