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[–] farcaster@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Being in favor of mixed economies, with stock markets, venture capital firms, but also universal healthcare and protection for unions. Being against American style basically unregulated firearm ownership (which seems quite popular on both the far left and far right, yet maybe not so much in the middle). And I feel free to criticize the actions of parties or politicians across the political spectrum, not just those on one side. I understand many people, especially the political left which I sympathize more with, are very angry these days. Justifiably. So am I. But being accused of being dishonest just for having a different point of view is annoying.

[–] farcaster@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (7 children)

On the other hand, the kneejerk of labeling every even remotely centrist viewpoint as inherently dishonest is pretty annoying. My own views lean SocDem and I've found voicing any opinion which is neither solidly left-wing or solidly right-wing, especially if it does not align with very American-centric views of the political spectrum, often elicits unpleasant reactions. Nuance is hard, I guess.

[–] farcaster@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

Modern medicine is pretty incredible and those doctors did good. I'm glad they're being recognized for it. Reading this story really was uplifting.

[–] farcaster@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As far as I can tell this was intended to be a Venera probe, possibly it would have been Venera 9, but because it failed in earth orbit it was classified as "Kosmos".

[–] farcaster@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah, that's a more nuanced take than mine. I sadly doubt this country will actually do anything to improve pay equality however, which I would agree lies at the root of the unpopularity of those jobs.

[–] farcaster@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It's a Venera probe! The probe missions of the Soviet space program were remarkable. What a technological feat to get these machines all the way to Venus (of all places) and send data and pictures back, in the 1970s!

[–] farcaster@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You mean like the White House and Congress?

[–] farcaster@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (10 children)

Americans mostly don't even want to do the manual labor jobs which have always been available in the US, like residential construction or picking crops. And the oligarchs want to both reduce immigration and re-industrialize? It's going to be comically unpopular.

[–] farcaster@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I tried it and it works great. It's exciting and encouraging how much progress Peertube has been making lately.

[–] farcaster@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I'm sure it's a very real and concerning problem that Americans watch too many foreign movies in theaters.

[–] farcaster@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

KDE has almost perfect fractional scaling, that was the real chadfeature for me.

[–] farcaster@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

~$10/mo currently but since I recently switched to Linux, and it's working very well for me, I feel like upping it a little.

I've long considered donating to Mozilla since Firefox is by far my most used open source software. But they don't seem to lack money. So, huh.

 

I saw a few videos shared on PeerTube recently, and created an account on an instance. However, unlike Mastodon and Lemmy I'm struggling to discover channels to subscribe to. When I use the search functions on my instance, most results are either interesting channels which haven't been updated in years, or random foreign language TV shows and episodes.

Just for example, if I'm trying to find videos on "Gaming" on one of the largest instances, the most recent video is over 1 year ago: https://tilvids.com/search?categoryOneOf=7

Is discoverability on PeerTube bad, or are there barely any active channels?

Edit: BTW one very active creator on PeerTube is https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos and his videos are excellent. But can there really only be a handful of active creators to follow on the whole platform?

 

It was just signed. "10% on all imports from China and 25% on imports from Mexico and Canada — America’s largest trading partners — except for a 10% rate on Canadian oil."

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