Was there an alternative? No. Why not.. Guess who stopped it?
This liberal stand of calling people lazy or weak to not resist things that kills them self or the environment is a argument what puts the blame on the people instead of the one making sure everything stays in there interest.
And yeah 'democracy' the term the US used to invade countless of countries in the name of freedom, peace and democracy. What were the wars really about the last 20 to maybe 50 years? About private interest of oil.
The US democracy is nothing more then big industries calling the shots. Spreading so much propaganda people don't know what to believe any more.
50 years ago presidents were already shouting that they were going to cut back on fossil fuels. What happend there?
If the US really was a democracy you would have had free healthcare by now. It's nothing more then a smoke screen.
And by now with the help of social media propaganda has become more of a psychological weapon. They know exactly what triggers specific individuals and how to steer them.
If we keep trying to fool our self with this believe that people should just be come magically immune to propaganda and advertisement we are pretty domed.
I'm shocked how people who are correctly formulating this as an attempt to frame black people a criminals and to scare white people are down voted! Open your eyes people! And if you care about your fellow humans, please report it
Wow looks really nice.
Was looking for something like it or maybe build it my self but then with the matrix protocol and profiles.
But still need to dig in to it, don't know if it would be possible with matrix.
Any thoughts about how to maybe integrate blog comments software like Talkyard (or any of the others) with Matrix?
I'm going to build Mattermost and Slack integrations — primarily to send notifications to chat channels, when something happens at Talkyard.
Maybe there could be a notification to a Matrix channel, once a new blog post reply appears. And in the distant future, maybe it'd make sense to moderate comments, and reply, via /slash commands in a Matrix client?
* * *
If actually storing blog comments — maybe even the blog post itself?, in Matrix somehow, then, I'm thinking it'd be good if the Matrix protocol & storage format, worked with relpies & nested replies. So there could be HackerNews like tree-style discussions
I wonder if it supports that already maybe
B.t.w. if you find time to dig into that, and if you want to & remember, feel free to message me once you know how you'd do, to build something based on Matrix,
I'd be interested in ... in the very distant future ... two-way-sync between a Matrix "database" and a Talkyard database
> I have noticed that most millenials seem to have completely forgotten the concept of "starter home" and assume that as soon as you turn 25 you should be entitled to a 4 bedroom house with a pool, huge yard, wonderful neighborhood, three-car garage, etc
I don't know where you live but I almost find this insulting.
I'm from Amsterdam my self and friends of my are being forced out the city because of the high rent prices.
I'm 32 year now and because of some shitty new rent laws that says every tenant needs to have an individual rent contract which our landlord refuses to give I'm also being pushed out of my home. I tried to find something for my self just anything would do, but I'm kinda skewed because I just earn above social housing and here in Amsterdam there is not really a market anymore for middle incomes. So yeah I'm being pushed to either live in a room or move out of the city. But I also couldn't find a room in time so now I'm going back to my parent. So yeah your comment kinda hits a nerve for me.
As I mentioned in my comment, there clearly are actual real estate issues in some metros, and Amsterdam may be one of them. But your situation is often conflated with the issue I am describing in my comment.
I live in DFW, and there is an abundance of middle income places to rent and even buy. The problem, as described in my previous comment, is that those middle income places are in older buildings, or have older appliances, or aren't within walking distance to the hip nightclub area, or have a 10 minute longer commute, and thus my fellow millennials seem to deem them unacceptable places to live. These are the same people who have complained to me that their high-rise condo downtown across the street from the nicest steakhouse in the city is driving them into debt, or have complained that they're depressed that they will never be able to afford a home while linking me a Zillow page of a $1.5m newly renovated house in the premiere neighborhood in Dallas.
Housing in the Netherlands is really awful, in the '90 the boomers have build smaller apartments for their parents to move in and actually profit in an illicit way 2x of their real estate gains of sometimes 6x. No boomer is living smaller to make room for the next generation. I think the best way to combat current shortage in housing is putting up a limit on m2 that an individual could claim. 300m2 for a single person in a metro area while being on a pension is not sustainable in current conditions.
Not sustainable for whom? If their pension covers the taxes and they can support themselves so they are not a burden on social services or something else what do you care?
No country for old men indeed.
BTW, I'm mentioning social services because here we do have some complain how hard life is with their meagre pension... all the while living in a 3 room flat in the middle of the city. I find those people unreasonable and I believe if they would sell / rent that property and downsize they would have a much better quality of living.
So, someone who worked their entire life and paid off their house should be forced out of that house and made to move in retirement because...you'd rather be able to live there with a roommate?
They did that to their parents, and on top of that advantage they systematically didn't build enough houses for the projected population growth.
I think it is reasonable to ask if you set up a whole generation for failure yourself. Millennial choices are severely handicapt considering how we inherit the world versus how the boomer in the 90ties got it.
It depends on what you value and what your drives are. But to give you a bit more tangible advice. When you are asking your self "Is it time to leave?" a couple of days in a row, it's probably time to leave. And don't fear leaving, the amount of growth and experience it brings you is mostly already worth it.
Thanks for all the nice resources and good question.
I think a good place to look is also at Elinor Ostrom 8 design principles to deal with the tragedy of the common and David Sloan Wilson's multilevel selection theory [1]. They call is polycentric governance but it has a lot of related ideas.
[1]: https://evonomics.com/tragedy-of-the-commons-elinor-ostrom
And yeah 'democracy' the term the US used to invade countless of countries in the name of freedom, peace and democracy. What were the wars really about the last 20 to maybe 50 years? About private interest of oil.
The US democracy is nothing more then big industries calling the shots. Spreading so much propaganda people don't know what to believe any more.
50 years ago presidents were already shouting that they were going to cut back on fossil fuels. What happend there? If the US really was a democracy you would have had free healthcare by now. It's nothing more then a smoke screen.
And by now with the help of social media propaganda has become more of a psychological weapon. They know exactly what triggers specific individuals and how to steer them. If we keep trying to fool our self with this believe that people should just be come magically immune to propaganda and advertisement we are pretty domed.