I'm also not convinced that the per capita crime *rate* is that much higher in most downtowns. The raw numbers are higher yes, but there are also way more people. Unless you go to a skid row or red light district type place, but, once again, the existence of those places is a sign of the failure of capitalism and the government to protect people, NOT side effect of living close together.

Humans aren't betta fish. We're not going to start instinctively killing each other if we get too close.

Suburbanite carbrains: "High density is dangerous! More people means more crime! You could be murdered right outside your tiny apartment!"

Correlation-causation fallacy. More people close together does not cause crime. Poverty causes crime. High density areas reveal a more accurate cross section of society, including the lower class which are much less stable, have fewer good opportunities, and thus more likely to turn to crime.

High density living is not what's dangerous here. Capitalism is.

@yogthos Wow Musk is so devout, he even programmed in a Jesus Take the Wheel mode!

I think the funniest thing to that's happened this year was that literally within a week or so of the #Ukraine invasion, when the West hadn't even taken a breath after saying "nooo #Russia can't invade another country! It's not right! It doesn't matter if it was caused by NATO encroaching into Ukraine or not!" a major Australian news outlet wrote an op-ed on how #Australia "must be ready to" invade the Solomon Islands because they agreed to a military alliance with #China. Zero self awareness.

@yogthos Iceland:

Remember at the height of #covid19 lockdown, where the #medical staff were hit by far the worst, Western governments bent over backwards making it known how medical workers were heroes that were literally, not figuratively, keeping the country from collapsing, complete with multimillion dollar nation wide media campaigns and flyovers with jets at the largest hospitals.

But paying medical workers more as they risk their life and sanity to save lives? Now you're just being entitled!

#capitalism

@shrugdealer The #US has more people in prison than #China, despite having a 4x lower population. Who's more #authoritarian?

@yogthos bigger brain move (that I've heard actually being used): get them to actually code a bit of your project. Make them sign an NDA and an agreement that the code they write for the interview will be owned by you.

@softinio when you can't live in Norway in YAML.

@flatmountain @neauoire I know that some eco-friendly CLT buildings have windows that show the timber frame, often with a blurb about how wood is a carbon sink and renewable as long as it's taken from sustainably managed forests, while concrete actually releases carbon when it's made.

@flatmountain @neauoire Another example: My university also chose to make the buildings responsible for its energy efficient district heating/cooling system see-through, so you can see the equipment and there are infographics on the glass walls on how it works and why it's more sustainable than every building having its own HVAC.

@NekoSock @eff IMO, any organization that claims to support Libre software NEEDS to be on Libre social media platforms, fediverse or otherwise.

I love how people on #reddit will repost, without permission from the creator, videos from #tiktok to Reddit, and then immediately complain that tiktokers are "infecting" Reddit with their videos.

I also love how the fact that Tiktok automatically puts the creator's username in the corners of the video is considered "spam" on many subreddits, usually the ones consisting of 99% ripped videos. "How dare you put your name on something you made that we're trying to repost without credit!"

"According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way that a bee should be able to fly. [...]"

This quote actually summarises a fundamental misunderstanding the general public has about #science, where they think it is trying to SET the rules of the world, or that scientific knowledge is immutable.

Science, by design, acknowledges the limitations of its current models, and constantly strives to modify its models to fit the observed data. That's actually why science is such a powerful tool.

@clacke @yogthos - For the rest, I'd like to see your citations. I have provided mine in the GitHub link I sent you, so feel free to peruse that in the meantime.

@clacke @yogthos so why were the Hong Kong protests triggered by an extradition bill written by the Hong Kong autonomous government, which would give said government more flexibility to extradite criminals to other countries without locking them into an extradition treaty first? Sounds like something that would give them even more autonomy.

This video has some issues, but its analysis of the Hong Kong situation is good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-nl0Hklwvg

#capitalism #politics #uspol

The reason that the West must accuse #China of doing horrible things (like genociding a whole race of people) is because it's a trump card in discourse. Whenever someone brings up any of China's achievements, they can simply point to their accusation and say "at what cost". This gives them free reign to cast China as the villain no matter what happens, and absolves themselves of any pressures to emulate any good that China is doing, because in the narrative they created, China can never be good.

@yogthos @SeanAloysiusOBrien

@yogthos @SeanAloysiusOBrien Here's the thing, I actually don't want Western businesses to expand into China. Let them shrivel up and die.