In fairness, people were much more communal than society is now. And there’s a bunch of stuff that we did for most of human history that is no longer the norm. Even something simple as a “phone” no longer means what it used to.

I think you’re gonna have to take the L that a “school” by default is not at home in the modern world.

Public school are schools run/funded by the public (the government)

Private schools are run/funded by private businesses.

These are schools.

No one refers to your home schooling as a “school”. We refer to what you’re doing as home schooling.

Sorry bud.

Awwww yeaaah. Welcome friend, stay a while

This is fair, however, not ubiquitous and all their servers are expected to place nice with others.

Thank god email is federated, and not locked down to a particular company

It’s very common, but in Australia at least, not ubiquitous.

And obviously businesses mostly do not

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Heh, well done

strangled on all sides by public sidewalks

Walkable cities? Immersion ruined

I’m gonna be generous and assume the original commenter meant “Aboriginals on average have significantly worse outcomes compared to non-aboriginal Australians due to historical persecution”

This is why I think it’s heinous presidential pardons were ever allowed to be on the books. Must have reminded the founders of the kingly powers they sought to replace?

How did no one ever consider that you can do as many crimes as you want, so long as the president will pardon you?

Like???

Really dumb, if you ask me.

This is why I’m glad we don’t directly elect our head of government in Australia.

People bitch “oh we’ve had 5 prime minister’s in 5 years!”. Better that than a president that can only be stopped by 2/3rds of the senate.

That and Australian cabinet members (who are the executives of the various departments), who can be removed by the prime minister, at least are somewhat covered by the fact the prime minister only has this power while a simple majority of the parliament allows it.

I’m not claiming we’ve got democracy figured out over here, and suffer from a lot of the same shit as the US because of capitalism and corruption.

But hell, US-style elected constitutional monarchy is wild.

And we’re still under an actual monarchy lol

Journalists have ruined the word slam over the last couple of years

Thank you for voicing this opinion. The fact so much of the fediverse is just public just makes it impossible to sell for real identity social media.

Really curious why the community in the fediverse hardly talks about it.

I’m really holding out hope for someone to pickup Futo Circles or something else that’s an e2ee replacement for Facebook / Instagram.

I don’t work in software, I’m a chemical (aka process) engineer.

Some project managers are superfluous if they don’t have a background being an engineer of some discipline themselves, but the vast majority I’ve worked with are excellent because they have a working knowledge of everything required to progress each stage of the project, and deal with most of the client interactions.

Being able to say: “we’ve done x, but we still need y, z and aa to progress” and then the project manager organising this getting done together with the other discipline leads is a godsend, letting you focus on doing the actual calculations/design/nitty-gritty details. And the fact they manage the annoying role of dealing with clients and the disagreements around that is also great.

This is working as a consultant, but I imagine if you replace clients with higher ups, I’d imagine the same still applies.

Perhaps things are very different in software, but I do think there is some use for them.

But I’ve never had one check up every 15 mins, more like once a day, and only if something is very time sensitive. Otherwise it’s once a week, or by email as required.

Oh, seems I’m wrong, well that’s a bit incongruent if you ask me. Since the force of gravity from earlier isn’t that much lower in low earth orbit :/

I think in both cases (modern China, and the USSR), there is a genuine feeling/desire towards the ideals.

In both cases though, it is co-opted for propaganda purposes, and falls pretty flat when inequality is off the charts.

Which is a shame, if you have socialist beliefs

I wish them the best though, and hope they figure things out to bring outcomes more in line with the ideals.

I believe microgravity refers things like walking on the moon. Where the moon’s pull on you is far less than than if you were on earth

Can’t say I’m terribly creative, the only community I mod I just copied when migrating from Reddit:

https://lemmy.world/c/engineeringmemes

So in terms of inventing one from scratch, I dunno haha

For names (suggestions/spitballing) a play on words with the political compass?

• DueLeft
• NegativeX

I appreciate this so much, thank you for filling those blanks

Um acshually gravity in the international space station is not that much lower than on the surface of earth, just that they are weightless in orbit.

It’s hard finding people with this opinion, sadly. I’m with you on this one comrade