It’s not “again” for anything you’ve written in this comment thread.

And you specifically suggested that these numbers can’t be extrapolated, i.e. that they are not a trend. If it’s indeed a trend for Lemmy to have 200% yoy growth then yeah, I’d think that’d be pretty successful.

Successful or not, it isn’t back to baseline

Lemmy was at 15k MAU, went up to over 125k and now is 1/3 of that.

So it increased by 200%

Gen X is just slightly less ancient boomers with occasional tattoos tbh

Yes, I agree, but

• they’re not all as nice as that one
• the US is especially bad
• Norwegians who aren’t in prison have a way higher quality of life
• not being able to leave is still a pretty big deal

Norwegian prisons are famously relatively humane compared to most other countries

Probably not

People from Berlin call themselves Berliners, nobody thinks they mean the donut.

If you use arch (btw) it still does

Cars’ buttons need to be used while preferably not looking at them, that’s a pretty different situation to a smartphone

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How many men were killed by women in the same time period?

not everyone who is obeying the rules to the letter is your friend

100%, but everyone who disobeys this rule has taken it on themselves to decide which identities are valid and which aren’t, and that’s a dangerous precedent

Will you develop medicine for free?

Medicine development is almost completely done in Universities with tax money, pharma company budgets are almost completely marketing. So yes, we already do that

That doesn’t sound like a positive outcome…

absurd take, literally everyone cares about standards of living, it is almost tautological

Could you give some examples of where this has worked in the past?

They just said “the economy” because they don’t want to admit it’s racism

Division of labour is not capitalism, trying to do everything by yourself is not anti capitalist (and in fact that extreme individualist fantasy has more to do with capitalism than anything else)

This reminds me of the (probably apocryphal) Mozart quote where a student asked him to teach them how to write a symphony, and was told “start with something more simple and short, for one instrument”. The student complained “but you have been writing symphonies since you were a child!”. The reply: “yes, but I didn’t have to ask how”.

The application of this idea here is that for someone to know the requirements for their system to the degree that they can really be sure that the most typical suggestions are not sufficient for them, they probably have to understand how the kernel handles swap and RAM to an extent that they don’t really need to ask this question.

People are very ready to assume that their system is way out of the ordinary, but it probably isn’t.