https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldYfQT35_38 (just listen to the first two minutes if you’re lazy)

Lemmy is inherently democratic. If you don’t like a muni, or an instance, you go to another one. Without centralization dictatorship is impossible.

That’s more like voluntarism than democracy.

Online? Dictatorship. Let the guidelines be clear and the conversations civil and on topic. If my speech isn’t wanted in a particular community I can find another, or make another where I’m the dictator.

I like StackOverflow’s democratic moderation. It also scales better than centralised moderation.

The squabbling process moves the law toward meeting the needs of more people.

Are there data on this?

You’re making a causal claim (if squabbling, then more needs met) and that’s either empirically true or not.

Misinformed.

The founding fathers of the USA never mentioned democracy in the constitution nor declaration of independence.

In their writings, they only ever used the word as a pejorative: https://founders.archives.gov/?q=democracy&s=1111211111&sa=&r=1&sr=

“we are not so absurd as to “design a Democracy,” of which the Governor is pleased to accuse us”

“You would have torn up the Foundations and demolished the whole Fabrick of the Government, and have suffered Democracy… to have arisen in its Place.”

Are those the founding fathers you’re talking about?

Lemmings

Is there a film called Lemmings? Seems a safe bet there is one.

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Fun fact: folk etymologies are always lies.

I’ve also heard that ‘gringo’ derives from people telling green-clad soldiers to go away (green, go)

I’ve heard that ‘fuck’ is an acronym for ‘fornication under consent of the king’

All nonsense of course.

I’m originally from Sabah in northern Borneo, Malaysia

Hey I’ve been there. Hello.

Certain topics (mostly household things), I’ll think in Irish.

Or sports… it’s easier for me to think “tá an cailis déanta aige” than “he fouled the player” because my sporting life has generally been through Irish.

AIDS

People live their lives, they don’t live abstractions on paper. People sleep, wake, do things.

Scores are stable over time. This can be determined by statistics. It’s called test-retest reliability.

We’ve both made our points. You have a great day.

It’s only the dogmatic book-worship type of materialism that says absolutely nothing can be accomplished by effort.

The more you study Chinese, the more Chinese you’ll know. Common sense.

My lama always says “There’s no right time to let your mind do what it wants” i.e. be focused 24 hours a day.

But it sounds like you’re guilting yourself, which is not conducive to focus.

So you spend like 11 hours a day being focused?

You don’t get points for hobbying the hardest

Yes you do. In this case, he would have better Chinese.

Do you work/study full-time as well as this?

I don’t know.