If I like, agree, or find a post informative then I’ll always give it a positive vote. Otherwise I’ll just comment to add my two cents.

Sometimes I like people’s responses to the content shared more so than the content itself, so I’ll give those a positive vote instead.

Governments really aren’t in this whole “staying afloat” business either, that’s a corporate perspective as well.

Governments make the rules entirely, so they can be indebted to their citizens, their corporations, and even other governments and be totally fine.

They realistically need to have some sort of pathway to be chipping at their debts, but many can go into much deeper debt to churn out social programs that add value back to their economies in the long term.

For instance a country could go into debt so all their citizens could have free access to schooling and college, and it would be net positive for that country because the those citizens could contribute more towards the economy than they could without that free education.

Another example is paying for bullet trains, nuclear power plants, solar energy panels, etc. are all worth the investment and worth going into debt for since they add so much value back to economies and open up new jobs.

The one caveat I’ll give is in the cases where countries are literally printing more currency rather than borrowing. Countries need to be borrowing money, even from themselves. They can’t just print more to pay it off, without that money being backed by labor.

In small cases it’s fine or healthy to print more money, but it’s a horrible move to just print more money to pay off all your debts if you want to still be able to trade with other countries in the future.

So you got your taste, touch, smell, sight, hearing, and thermoception? Assuming we’re treating it differently from touch.

Huh that’s neat!

It makes sense that it is the touch sensing the heat, but it’s not like a physical touch against an object so that’s the only reason I thought it could be treated differently for the purpose of this shower thought.

The image board style works well for forums, ala 4chan, but the issue with some of those is mainly the lack of any moderation. I feel like there could be a Fediverse version of image board forums that work really well.

Namely, they should not have anonymous posting/commenting and should have active moderation.

Imo, image boards were pretty peak for memes and generating original content, when there was any semblance of moderation.

How did you come to your understanding of anarchy if I may ask?

I’ve heard of specific cases of organization without leadership such as in the case of co-op companies but I’ve not heard it in the framework of anarchy really.

Personally, I feel there are some unique challenges with not having an organized government with representatives. I feel that a good system relies on having an educated populace to make decisions effectively; this is a current issue even in representative governments, like the US, since in many countries voters aren’t required to be educated to be making decisions.

Another issue is creating incentives to work and to strive for higher achievement. Big architectural projects may require people pooling resources even from those that would not personally benefit, as an example. Some people choose to do what they do because they feel properly rewarded for the effort, I think having a minimum bar of care for everyone makes sense, but the people contributing more may want more in return if you’re going to try to sell them on your idea.

I’m not certain how you would classify that either. When I hear the word anarchy I think more ‘Wild West’ or ‘outlaw country’.

I’m pessimistic about good coming from anarchy in the long-run. To me it sounds like disorganized bands of communities. Without some sort of organizing or structure then I feel it makes it much more difficult to deal with natural disasters, famines, or antagonists.

I feel that in the case of Turkey I don’t know enough about the specifics of your country to comment on ways it could be improved politically to bring about good governance. I feel it’s still possible in my country, but from what I have heard Turkey leans more conservatively.

You’re describing Direct Democracy vs Representative Democracy. Direct Democracy is what we also saw in places like Athens or ancient Greece, where all of the individuals came together and voted collectively on making decisions.

Representative Democracy is what we have in the US today with elected officials.

Direct Democracy is a lot more difficult to implement unless countries become smaller imo, although in the digital age it could be made more possible. Plus there’s the matter of maintaining a militia, although maybe we just expand the current version of the UN’s military budget in that case.

I feel that under Direct Democracy you would still have the issue of bigots outnumbering you in certain areas but not so in others.

The issue with the US’ representative system is that we artificially capped the amount of seats for the House of Representatives and even the Senate so that land has more power than people. If the House was uncapped Federally, and the even the Senate, then people living in Blue/densely populated states would have more fair representation.

I think your list looks solid! The only questions I have are about listing coffee and tea on the avoid list? There are some studies that show that coffee at least helps with longevity. Tea is not as conclusive as far as I’m seeing, but if the caffeine is part of what’s beneficial from coffee then it would make sense that tea also brings health benefits.

On another note, frozen vegetables can sometimes be better for you than fresh veggies since they are frozen immediately and stay more nutritious for longer because of it. You’re spot on about local and in-season vegetables being some of your best bet, especially if you care about other things like the climate.

I think it could be worth doing a class on the text of the Quran at some point. I’m aware of some small things such as a deeper focus on the rituals of prayer and worship, but I’m not aware of the specifics of the text.

They really should be, those writings attributed to Paul really go off base from what Jesus was teaching.

Adam was made XY sex. Adam then chose to be male. Sorry for the confusion there.

And it’s been woke the whole time! Lol

That makes a lot of sense; I’m curious now what are some of the big differences between the Orthodox and Catholic versions of the Bible. I agree that the Bible can be viewed as a living document. Personally I believe more books could have been added on over the past 2,000 years.

That makes sense as well. Take the King James Version for example which removed references of criticism about the monarchy and papal authority. Although surprisingly was still centered on presenting the Bible without a religious or political lean one way or another.

Even the Bible has been slightly altered by man though. For instance, a few of the books written in Paul’s name we know now were actually written by some of people under him from within the early church.

So the sections written about women not holding authority within the church may have been put in there to centralize power and make the church have a patriarchal structure.

There’s also the different translations of the Bible which can affect the meaning for some of the text. For instance the Adam and Eve story. Adam means earth in Hebrew, it was not a name. So the person we know as Adam, was created male and then personally chose to identify as male, rather than being given his gender by God. The same for Eve as well being the first woman, although IIRC Eve was her name. Still she chose to identity as the first woman.

[+3]! I must have come across a few of your before.

I think equitable help makes sense as a parent, also fostering a mindset with your kids to not take much more than what’s needed. Post-18 I plan to help pay towards their car insurance, phone bill, and living expenses as long as they are at home. Once they move out, I’ll still help with what I can until they tell me otherwise.

I’m not optimistic I’ll be able to financially provide as much help as I would want to give. Also I’m not optimistic that a young person will be able to afford their own home easily 20+ years from now. Unless there’s more public housing or a sudden increase in the amount of houses being built, I expect real estate to keep going up but wages to stagnant, without intervention at least.

It took me awhile to even realize how it worked, but it tracks the total number of comments or posts that I’ve liked from another person. You’re number for me shows as [+1]!

At first I thought it was an instance based like system lol. Incidentally I feel that would have been a cool serparate thing to track for how popular posts are based on the likes of other people from your shared instance.

I’m not sure if it’s an app specific thing, Lemmy specific, or what, but this is one of the built in features on the Voyager app for me at least.

[+2] next to you!

[+3]! Thank you for the laugh

I guess it depends on how you define ghosting and the expectations you want to set with some people. For instance, I recently didn’t notice someone sent me a message a few weeks prior, so when I noticed it I responded right away.

If it’s family I doubt there’s a big expectation to always reply over text. If it’s close friends, sometimes people are just not in the right space to give a good reply so they might not have an answer. If it’s someone you barely know, I think it can be a bit hurtful to building a bond with them.

I regularly have ghosted people for weeks or months though as I’ve gotten older, but that’s more because I’m overwhelmed more. Idk if people want to talk I’m always open for a call, but texting isn’t my focus these days.