The politburo that would be responsible for the democratic centralism in this case is the same group of people that decided to hold a second vote on federating with these cretins after the first was an overwhelming NO.
The same people who, like three days into federation, decided to make their drama with other lemmy admins the focal point of attention.
Sorry, but I think they've lost the plot here.
Is it appropriate to keep drama here?
Absolutely no idea and not my call anyway but I hope we can push it all to -one- place so I can swiftly and immediately block it
remember when we had a vote on federation with them and it was like 75% "absolutely the fuck not"
and then they had another vote and it came out like 6 people ahead in favor and they were like "well the people have spoken, all system go"
well now here we are
whew
You should really read the diaries and historical accounts of the settlers, their thoughts on the native population and their goals for colonization. Get it straight from the source
My cracker ass grandfather on my dads side was saying to my mom "your people are savages" in like... 1998 and that's not some random slur he just decided to make up on his own
Tickets alone can go up to $2,750 "plus taxes and fees" and essentially the only way to get there and survive is to bring some kind of RV / camping vehicle set up plus a week of full provisions per person. It's exclusively attended by two groups: people of means and super dedicated wookies who make it their goal of the year (and probably sell drugs on site and shit tbh, not that there's anything wrong with that) to get there.
Ppl will really go for "X, formerly Twitter" faster than they will just accept somebody's pronouns
School shootings aren't a inevitability. They are a product of a diseased society.
100% agree.
I don't think "smaller class sizes" is really gonna get quite there. I gotta be honest.
Even if we assumed that solved the 90% of student-on-student violence (idk, pulled that number completely out of my ass) there are still school shooters who are visitors. And that's what this post is about, specifically - making visitors basically go through security. There are a million things you don't want in schools besides weapons for students to use on each other. I don't see the problem with this one idea, very specifically.
Stimulants are really bad on the mental health side. "Faces of meth" is basically a story of what refusing to eat, refusing to take care of basic hygiene, and refusing to brush your teeth for years will do to you. That's not totally unique to stimulants, but they definitely have a way of having that effect.
Fact is, if you forced someone to withdraw from stimulants - or they're just ready to do it - if you locked them in a padded room with basic nutrition they'd be super tired and pissed off for a week and then go about their lives.... even with those lingering thoughts that always stick around after the end of any addiction.
I might well catch some heat for this because I understand that millions of people use Adderall as a legitimate treatment for their ADHD. But if you go into any kind of high pressure professional environment, there are another 20 people who use it specifically for "performance enhancement". They joke about it. And they're total addicts, almost as bad as anyone else. But because they take care of the basic functions of life (probably due to being housed, having access to income, healthcare, etc).... Really the worst thing you'll ever notice about them is they're super skinny and talk too much.
On society, yeah, I think it's fair to say how widespread it is.
I mean, we know that medically, with pure products and access, basically the only risk to opiods is a deadly overdose. It's all the other issues around it that cause such a problem. You have to buy it illegally, so it has contaminants. It's so expensive, so addicts go and rob and steal and kill to get the money for it.
Am I endorsing opioid addiction? Absolutely not. But not only is alcohol one of essentially only two classes of drugs where the withdrawal itself can literally kill you - you might wanna die during other withdrawals, you might become malnourished, you might have a mental health crisis, but alcohol will cause you to go into deadly seizures. It's also one of the few (of a slightly wider group, to include smoking) where it will actively wreck and destroy your body to a permanent end along the way.
I think there's an extremely solid argument to be made it's the worst drug on the planet IF you take out things like impurities and contamination (fentanyl, krokodil, etc)
Pound for pound, on the harm it does to the body, to mental health, to society.... it's really not even close. Fent zombies leaned over on the street smoking off tin foil might be more visible and more off-putting, but that's only because most people will never see a DUI car crash death or its aftermath in person. Most people smoking that shit on a street corner don't have a car to go hop into and kill a family later that night.
I feel rather uniquely qualified to speak on this topic and most of the studies back me up on that.
Awful, awful drug. I don't hate drinkers, the same way I don't hate smokers. I know many people just go drink a little wine and have a nice night and nothing changes about their life. But all the data suggests they're two of the worst things out there.
I really don't know how you can even make the first step towards preventing school shootings without making it like some kind of prison. I gotta be honest, "visitors have to pass security" doesn't really strike me as all that bad.
There's a million other problems with schools becoming policed, school to prison, the mistreatment and outright abuse of special education / neurodivergent, etc, children... But "having security", in the sense of a checkpoint and all that, in this world, doesn't sound all that bad to me.
Jon Peddie Research (JPR) shows that AMD gained overall GPU market share in Q2 2023, while rivals Intel and NVIDIA declined. AMD's GPU share increased 1.2% year-over-year to 26.9% in Q2.
So it sucks for 3/4 of people lol. AMD is big enough that anyone who can't be bothered to make both run well should be blocked from all the marketplaces and starved for money. They clearly don't deserve it.