This gem of raw unpolished catchiness
El test de la Bravo y la Superpop

Currently no car and relieved I don’t need one any more. Before that - Suzuki Vitara. As far as new cars went in 2019, it was the best choice for a small AWD SUV.

It’s the slowest part of the year. Most people are on holidays including myself. Even better by connecting weekends and public holidays I’ll have a 16 day holiday while spending only 6 days.

May 5, 2019. The last chance to avoid a series of mistakes that ruined my life. Yes I put way too much thought into this.

It has the benefit of putting something in your mouth, and preserving the smoking ritual. Which is as important for many smokers as nicotine.
It’s not without reason that it became so popular in the few years since it went mainstream.

It’s very human to want interaction with other humans, we’re a social species.

In the case of social media the protocol is a little different than in 1-1 interactions. Everyone broadcasts their thoughts, and reacts to the thoughts of others, also in the form of a broadcast. It’s no more or less valid than other communications contexts. And not new either, technology just made it more efficient and available to everyone.

Democracies definitely.

In dictatorships you will have proportionally more money and power, but your options are limited. The only way forward is sucking up to the dictator, and if there’s ever a change your life is in danger. Also regular people hate you so you need security every time you go out.

In democracies you have freedom of movement, personal safety and many options how to exercise your influence without being in constant fear.

Caveat: I’m considering my own criteria of “quality of life”. For many elites dominating over others is the goal, and they willing to sacrifice personal safety and potentially own life in order to get it.

This one is especially harmless

the last recorded instance of an MP taking snuff was in 1989, when 1.5 ounces (43 g) was taken at a cost of 99p

On a dedicated chair set aside just for that

1. Try to find out my name, and then read the wikipedia article and recent news
2. Fake a stroke or a seizure and be taken to the hospital
3. Pretend I have brain damage and remember only foggy details

Wow, good writing. A bit over the top though, a real racist idiot wouldn’t be so extremely offensively stupid.

Weakness, definitely. The range of “permitted” ideas is way too narrow.
I tend to agree with most common political stances on Lemmy, but still I feel I’m self-censoring occasionally.

Many instances intentionally want an echo chamber. Posts and comments are often deleted even if they’re not abusive, if they are ideologically opposed.

When the driver is drunk. Inevitably after a party someone will offer to drive me at least part way to home. I try to resist but when I’m also drunk saying no is hard.

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No one knows. I really want to know, but the current understanding takes us back only to the big bang. Not why it happened or why anything exists at all.

The Anthropic Principle is at work here. If nothing existed we wouldn’t be here to ask why it exists.

Definitely something was wrong there. Aztecs became a thing about 800 years ago.

Billionaires as individuals are just humans with all the good and the bad coming from that fact. Acting against them as individuals is pointless. We need to establish a system where becoming a billionaire is impossible in the first place.

At least 2,297,000 people have been to Tijuana on the account of living there. I hope we have some of them here on Lemmy to confirm/deny what’s the current situation there.

Centralization of decision-making. It’s ironic actually. One of the main problems of capitalism that Marx described is the separation between labor and ownership. All the talk about “means of production”.

Communism actually makes it worse. In capitalism yes you have the owners who have all the control and reap all the benefits, but you have many capitalists competing, so the power is kinda distributed inside the capitalist class. The way communism was always implemented is through a communist party and state control of the economy.

You get an even smaller group of people controlling the means of production. It amplifies exactly the main problem of capitalism by creating a very hierarchical class society where the party leadership takes a role of what is almost “nobility”.

I don’t know how it could get any worse than now. Basically we’re all in echo chambers whichever platform you use. Including Lemmy.

Agreement with “consensus” of whatever bucket you’re placed into is rewarded, and disagreement is punished. Even if only by upvote/downvote. Switching platforms won’t change much.