Uff, das war erstmal genug Internet für heute...
Wie kann ein Kind ein Jahr lang nicht in der Schule sein und keine Behörde wird alarmiert? Liegt das am unterschiedlichen Recht in Frankreich, wo Kinder auch zuhause geschult werden dürfen? Aber muss sowas nicht trotzdem irgendwie behördlich abgesegnet sein??
Not necessarily. I don't consume any social media that algorithmically serve me content, but my sleep schedule is still utterly fucked up. I can easily do an offline puzzle for hours instead of going to sleep for example
I guess most people are definitely negatively affected by manipulative algorithms. But I think what is discussed in the article is contributing even more strongly to our society-wide sleep deprivation. That is, spending the vast majority of our time inside.
The whole series is really fun! (But it's unfortunately not very long). You can find it on dropout tv and it is called wtf 101.
I don't think it is real. It seems to be the oversimplified and overexaggerated story of what is really happening. The guardian says that the US Forest Service will move headquarters from Washington DC to Salt Lake City:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/31/us-forest-service-washington-dc-salt-lake-city
This seems to cause many of its research facilities to (temporarily?) close:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/climate/forest-service-research-stations.html
Eww... yet another state with imperialist and fascist history that has done many genocides (none of which it has ever acknowledged). And you are proud of that?
In times of authoritarian and fascist uprising, I think we should be careful what ideas we spread. The telling of a "German" or "Russian" people that are "natural" ethnicities is not far from right wing ideology. Why would you even use "Germans" and "Germanic people" synonymously? That's anachronistic and they don't really have anything to do with each other. Some Germanic people also lived where Ukraine is now btw.
It isn't even clear if "Germanic peoples" existed as a distinct group of people:
Different academic disciplines have their own definitions of what makes someone or something "Germanic".[3] Some scholars call for the term's total abandonment as a modern construct, since lumping "Germanic peoples" together implies a common group identity for which there is little evidence.[4] Other scholars have defended the term's continued use and argue that a common Germanic language allows one to speak of "Germanic peoples", regardless of whether these ancient and medieval peoples saw themselves as having a common identity.
Oh, and the Nazis did synonymize both Germans and Germanic peoples as well:
The publishing of Tacitus's Germania by humanist scholars in the 1400s greatly influenced the emerging idea of "Germanic peoples". Later scholars of the Romantic period, such as Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, developed several theories about the nature of the Germanic peoples that were highly influenced by romantic nationalism. For those scholars, the "Germanic" and modern "German" were identical. Ideas about the early Germans were also highly influential among members of the nationalist and racist völkisch movement and later co-opted by the Nazis. During the second half of the 20th century, the controversial misuse of ancient Germanic history and archaeology was discredited and has since resulted in a backlash against many aspects of earlier scholarship.
To synonymize "Russians" with "Slavic people" is also wrong, as Slavic people where a diverse group of very different people living in different regions of the world. We also don't know where the early Slavic people lived exactly.
That anecdote doesn't make any sense though. Like who are "the Russians" and why didn't they have prior knowledge of other ethnic groups before? And "the Germans" is a very recent group of people that isn't ethnic at all.
Hm, I think there is a clearer ethical distinction between vegetarians and vegans. But this doesn't necessarily translate towards the participation in our capitalist system.
For example, I'm a long-time vegan but due to my financially very limited resources I mostly buy cheap conventional food, even vegan meat substitutes from actual meat companies (they are way cheaper). In contrast, a friend of mine is living vegetarian, but she works on an organic farm. So she works towards a more sustainable agriculture while also consuming nearly only organic products.
Eating eggs -> financially supporting a system where male chicks get either immediately killed after birth or more rarely are later killed for their meat. Also it is supporting a system where chickens are bred to produce as many eggs as fast as possible, which means a life of torture to them
Drinking milk -> financially supporting a system where cows are continuously impregnated against their will and where their offspring is immediately taken from them and killed for their meat (I think this is done yearly). Also it is supporting a system where cows are bred to produce as much milk as fast as possible, which means a life of torture to them
There are certainly many more atrocities happening, but I'm trying not to think too often of that stuff
Vegetarians aren't real anyways because they still support mass murder of animals! (partly /s)
Well, one could argue that it is the other way around. We consider most mushrooms as feasibly edible when it is easy enough to distinguish them from non-edible ones. There are thousands of mushroom species out there that are probably edible but that are just not worth anyone's time. And we also focus more on certain groups of mushrooms that contain a higher percentage of edible ones, like boletes (and also champignons).
Fand ich inhaltlich nicht so gut. Irgendwie hab ich nichts neues erfahren, aber vielleicht bin ich als Standard-Lemmy-Userin auch schon zu tief im Thema drin? Und bei Mastodon hat Aja irgendwie nur darüber geredet, dass es mehr Moderator:innen als bei bluesky geben würde. Ich hatte das Gefühl, die kennt das fediverse gar nicht wirklich, obwohl sie ja die digitale Souveränität voranbringen möchte. Auch open source und so hat eigentlich komplett gefehlt und beide regen sich stattdessen drüber auf, dass Mastodon ihnen zu unübersichtlich ist... Am Ende hatte ich das Gefühl, dass es mehr Schein als Sein war. Die Forderungen nach staatlichen Subventionen von digitaler Souveränität sind super, aber weitergedacht wurde das auch nicht.