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Wow, it really is a thing and not just a meme:

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That has been my impression of present dynamics and historical data, too - boom-bust-cycles of either some other platform fucking up or there being curiosity from some synergetic effect, then the initial wave breaking over time - but usually also leaving behind at least more (genuinely active) users than before the wave. For Lemmy, one can definitely see some reduction in activity, I think - not dramatically, but I do think it's noticeable if you spend a lot of time here. E.g. unlike during the last Exodus, I see more of "the same users" than before. There's still enough content, it does not feel dead by a long shot, and who knows when the next wave may hit.

That wave-like character makes it hard to estimate organic growth too, at times. The mass influx of users dying off over weeks will give shrinking numbers there, even if some users from organic growth who are more likely to stay and be active than "mass exodus users" may still join there. Also, users moving in between MBin/PieFed/Lemmy will fudge numbers, but they are essentially in the same ecosystem.

Ah, I know what you are getting at, traditional Chinese medicine was indeed seen as a tool that could be applied without having to immediately import know how from abroad, and it did indeed create a basic, professional network of care that wasn't there in that way before. I was more thinking of how practices like Feng Shui or the broad umbrella of "traditional Chinese folk religion" and associated beliefs were treated during the cultural revolution, which got some form of "rehabilitation" afterwards, often in a newly interpreted/sanctioned way.

Okay, I really don't have the energy or health capacity for getting into an argument, so I hate myself for doing this, but since no one else speaks up:

No, Nazis did not target Roma in the same way as Jewish people. While both were seen as "rootless" and "parasitic", Jews were seen as evil, behind every misfortune, infiltrators, conspirators, actively behind every great crime in history. Eliminating Jews symbollically and materially was absolutely central to Nazi ideology, eliminating Roma was not.

This was also not an invention by the Nazis, but has had a long tradition in Europe (e.g. the myth of Jews killing Jesus making them a force of genuine evil in the eyes of many Christian thinkers) and, yes, also the Arab world, where it really took off with the rise of nationalism, similarily to how it was in Europe.

The claim of the second comment, of "but what about Roma [or Poles, or Slavs more broadly]" is used all too frequently to distract from the totality of extermination that was planned and carried out. Not "just" colonialist genocide, not "just" eliminating "unworthy life", but a genuine belief in eradicating evil, that characterised the Holocaust, targeting Jews specifically, as the "architects of evil."

And the claim that now, Jewish people have simply moved into the "Übermensch" category, as in the second comment shown, is precisely prescribing those attributes to them - as a people that now plots to destroy other ethnicities for being unworthy. That is way beyond criticising the genocide in Palestine as a colonial-paranoid genocide. Without knowing more of the context, its hard to say how heated things got, and what your underlying idea was, but you did cross lines here. It is possible to oppose genocide and settler violence without crossing those lines.

Oh, woah, that link got mangled somehow - should be fixed now

But did he manage 3 days without going?

There are definitely similarities, but China has its own fascinating history there, with a lot of traditional beliefs resurfacing as weird, sanctioned versions of themselves after the cultural revolution had mostly suppressed them. I think on average, the administration in China will probably have less "true believers" and more "stuff like this is necessary to maintain societal peace and harmony" opportunists.

But that is mostly speculation on my part and hard to gauge without looking into peoples' heads.

Sort of, they also had weird currents of esoteric nonsense, like "Welteislehre" for example. Or Himmlers expeditions to Tibet to find the origins of the master race and evidence of supetnatural abilities. They believed themselves to be secular and anticlerical, but they had their own cult with superstitions.

And they absolutely hated some scientists, relativity was a thorn in their eyes, for example, as "Jewish Science".

Psychopaths, sycophants and grifters vying for power were all very prevalent at German universities and research labs at that time. While Engineering still kind of worked - as it was needed for the war machinery and larger industry - even there, with it being "politically neutral", there was a brain drain - because education allowing for creative thinking was curtailed more broadly, and many talented minds were killed or displaced or even just disfavoured in favour of more nepotistic choices.

And the myth of "German engineering" being fundamentally way above allied engineering during the war still holds in some circles, when mostly it was about different priorities (like - reliability instead of complex engineering, or the proximity fuse instead of rocketry, or radar instead of jet engines), and even in the spaces where Germans had a leg up on their enemies, it was not a fundamental advantage, but a gap that was being bridged even before German scientists were recruited after the war.

Wie ist unsere Demokratie nur mit Merz & Co so vor die Hunde gegangen?

Das Potential steckte schon immer im System. Mit der AfD hat das schon lange als latent rechtsextrem erfasste Drittel der Bevölkerung eine Organisationsplattform bekommen, mit "Hauptsache Engagement und Clicks"-Struktur der Profitbenötigenden Medien hat sich das wahrgenommene Weltbild verschoben und selbst Menschen mit anderem Weltbild werden ausgepowert und ermüdet, mit stärkerer Kapitalkonsolidierung sind Abstiegsängste im Mittelstand größer und auch realer geworden, zugleich haben auch die Ärmsten immer weniger Geld zu Verfügung - bzw das Geld alleine erfüllt auch weniger die Bedürfnisse, und mit Menschen wie Musk, russischen Oligarchen, und auch einigen unserer hausgemachten reichen "Förderer" von entsprechenden Medien und Gruppen mischen auch einflussreiche Einzelinteressen vermehrt mit.

Man sollte auch nie vergessen, dass so ein Verfall auch immer sehr schleichend und mit Absurditäten einher geht. Rom hatte sich etwa noch viele Generationen nach Ende der Machtstellung des Senats als "Republik" verstanden. Ich sehe schon als eine (nicht die einzige) mögliche Zukunftsversion, eine Welt in der de-fakto faschistische Regimes im Westen sich als "Verteidiger von Demokratie und Menschenrecht" und als "Immerhin sind wir eine Demokratie" präsentieren. Ich zumindest sehe schon ein Aufweichen von wirklich demokratischen und Menschenrechts-garantierenden Strukturen, während der Kampfbegriff "Demokratie" in meiner Empfindung als Symbol immer mehr verwendet wird.

Das ist sicher auch interessant für !lemmylz@discuss.tchncs.de und !eltern@feddit.org - vor allem ja nicht nur eine schnelle Idee sondern schon ausgearbeitet!

Indeed, it seems like it is picking up speed, an not losing quality either while doing so. I guess some organising stuff has been figured out behind the scenes.

I had taken a break to let chapters accumulate to read all at once after 375 - excited to see that new chapter releases have been picking up and I have a bit of a backlog to enjoy already!

EDIT: And as always, months of waiting only gave minutes of reading greedily 😅

Ich dachte für eine zu lange Zahl an Momenten, dass "Hui" ein echter Name für einen neuen Strömungsdienst ist.

Yeah, I can't argue with numbers - although when I searched for more of those numbers (because there was no report linked in the article), I am at least somewhat sceptical as of now. Mostly because all the outlets I have seen report on it are... well, not really neutral. This site, too, has a weird amount of AI images and praise of Trump (e.g. like in this article).

So, I had a bit of a look around, and as expected - if only one side reports something, there is usually at least something missing:

For example:
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/expert-reports-say-argentinas-poverty-rate-has-fallen-to-368.phtml

Meanwhile the ODSA (Observatorio de la Deuda Social Argentina) poverty watchdog of the UCA Catholic University voiced that although the projected indices had reached similar levels to the previous year for the third quarter of 2024, the consumer capacity of households was reduced by the higher costs of basic services such as electricity, water, gas and transport, among others.

Unlike the line traced by the total shopping-basket, the measurement of multidimensional poverty does not only focus on family earnings but also the lack of access to basic sources of welfare in from one to six dimensions.

"The current panorama shows an aggravation of the situation in this sense - multidimensional poverty (measured as income plus one lack) increased inter-annually from 39.8 to 41.6 percent and within that figure structural poverty (three wants or more) also rose from 22.4 to 23.9 percent," they alerted.

This is a massive reduction, but it is a reduction from a massive surge:

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentinas-poverty-hit-barrios-food-emergency-takes-hold-2024-10-01/

So - seems like there is at least some cherry-picking and reporting early projections as fully manifested facts going on here, but the recovery itself is still good news for the people actually living there, of course. I'd like to wait for more fully-fledged analysis reported by different outlets than this. How likely is this to be sustainable? How many additional factors will be at play? Even if Milei's reforms turn out to be a miracle of a new way to "do austerity right" - I will only believe that if there is better analysis than this, because Libertarian-adjacent outlets praising this, sometimes with misrepresenting data, like, e.g. this graph I came across:

(Milei came to power at the end of 2023, as a reminder, so the graph is coloured in a deliberately misleading way)

Those kind of reporting sadly does not spark confidence for me.

Thank you for the answer! I just came back home to all the answers, yours strikes me as the best summary of the situation. I had signed the petition myself a while ago, but after that, never looked into further coverage, so all this whizzed right past me. Seems like, no matter if he genuinely misunderstood it or maliciously misrepresented it - he handled the situation pretty horribly overall. Explains the hate I have been seeing.

Also, one can lead to the other. If you catch the right fish with a scam, they may just unwittingly give you a way in to an institution. Only the latter would make the news, though.

One large problem there: All the people that are "stupid" in the way you describe think exactly the same way you do here. It's why I think arrogance and the inability to stand being humiliated by deferring to other people's expertise, as well as a feeling of being privileged to be above the needs of other people, as well as a paranoid fear of others intruding on your space is the more pressing problem.

I have lived with and worked with people with actual learning disabilities, thanks to my own different disability, and "stupidity" is not the problem, it's okay to be stupid. It's not okay to demand the whole world submit to your emotional wellbeing and feelings of superiority and privilege.

I had been wondering when the first big campaign-style mod for the game would hit, stoked to hear more! As a side note: I get why, but I'm still kind of sad that projects like this seem to use Discord as their main space.

Oh, just a casual stroll of the "show only adult" section on Nexus Mods for BG3 can show you what people will come up with, if "normal nudity" is already in the game.