Have you heard of the westboro Baptist church? Or the evangelical Protestants?

Not in America

Can’t wait for school lunch debt to become non dischargeable in bankruptcy

Utah is a little weird in that they aren’t so Mich maga as much as they are Mormon, they have progressive politics when it just so happens to suit the church’s needs

That’s why you gotta order them wet so there’s more.vermouth in there. I prefer them dirty as well (splash of olive brine)

I honestly think of that single board computers should be more common part of education. That’s what the Raspberry Pi was originally envisioned as, a very cheap thing you could equip a whole classroom with to teach them coding, inspired by the BBC micro or whatever it was called that they had back in the '80s. A good way to get people over that fear is to give them something small they basically can’t break and even if they do mess it up they can easily restored and they probably didn’t lose much of value anyways.

Computers were definitely way less popular, and if you are an office worker you not only had the Baseline level of Education of an office worker but you probably received Technical training, and there was probably an IT department who could help. You might have also only know in just the things you specifically need for your job

You’re not really wrong, but at the same time having technical knowledge is essential to getting us out of the tech dystopia big corporations have us trapped in, and a lot more computer knowledge would not only help people be more productive but it would help them make better choices about the stuff they use. One would assume that as computer technology only becomes more essential to our lives that interest in the technical side would follow, and it doesn’t seem to have been the case as much as we are expecting. I mean your average Generation Z person understands that you have to connect your computer to the internet to use the web browser and they’re capable of turning the device on but there doesn’t seem to be an easy on-ramp from the basic knowledge of how to operate the thing to more advanced topics. I wouldn’t even say I’m all that good and I did half a computer science degree

I feel like a lot more people be comfortable using the terminal if the text displayed when it was first opened gave you a list of commands to try. There is a very steep initial learning curve immediately which discourages experimentation, and I think that with a little bit of effort you could get a lot of people over that hump and then they could enjoy terminal Bliss.

Pushing those attitudes on children is sexual abuse

I feel like the way Society is built makes it impossible to have a family and have fun in your life, and careers are basically dead. We have to figure out how to make it work because I’m certainly in no hurry to make raising kids the only thing I do with the rest of my life

Someone should compile a directory of every forum out there, and share a widely and updated every 3 months. Having some creation to say that this one is a good car for him that one’s good for this Etc it help people if the process. Go sift through the net and find the best stuff and Elevate it for people

I agree with this. Have like 50 or 20 and have the mod screen be part of the experiment, and once they hit a certain threshold number of users they are removed to help encourage diversity

If communities get big enough people will sign up because a particular instance is a community where they want to be and then they can discover federation on their own time.the problem is that we’re still small enough that there’s only barely enough to see in the first place and instances are thus far mostly interchangeable.

Corpo social media has the no mod feeling. They only really moderate to avoid lawsuits and things like harassment are rampant

Reddit was great back in 2012 when I first joined, and it slowly got worse over the years as my patients gradually dwindled down the third time I was banned I didn’t go back. I’m glad that Lemmy is busy enough I can come daily now and not run out of new posts to see.

The electoral college was an 18th century compromise to slave states. The US constitution is showing it’s age and the whole system is broken now

Yeah it’s really not fit for purpose, I have every server I’m in muted

I kind of don’t ever want a family or a career because it seems like you lose out on the ability to do anything fun

Xenforo seems decent but it’s proprietary