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  • Eh, it’s already fairly obvious using both systems side by side across the internet.

    Though I suppose in actual work you’re correct. I use 3 decimal places for metres on drawings a lot, because I like it to be easy to read the mm.

    It being 1,000 m or 1.000 m is of course a huge difference haha

    A boy can dream 🥹


  • But commas and dots don’t form part of the metric system?

    Ihr könnt gerne umwechseln wenn ihr wollt :3

    My main argument for the English/Chinese/Indian system (I have no idea where this system originated), is that in many languages (including German), commas function as pauses and full stops (period, by the Americans) as a stronger separator between thoughts, so it makes more sense to seperate digits with commas (in my opinion)

    It’s all ultimately arbitrary, and I don’t really care which we pick.



  • I just hurts my soul that it’s inconsistent.

    By population decimal point wins?

    I don’t really care which, but my heart craves standardisation*

    (*where it makes sense. I don’t think language based differences in how many digits between separators needs to be world-wide. Eg. In East Asia you separate in groups of 4 digits, not 3 because of language)





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    Which government? Makes a big difference since some other better than others.

    I’m not saying OOP definitely had no legitimate reason to change the sign, but without knowing, we can’t assume they did either.

    The fact they made no mention of it, leads me to suspect it was mostly for their personal convenience.

    Also, government = inefficient is some neo-lib propaganda I can’t tolerate. Any organisation can be inefficient (so, so, so many examples of this in the private sector), and governments can and must be set up to be well-run. The alternative is the privatised neo-lib hellscape we (countries in general) continue to not fix.





  • Just the most convenient link as an overview. As far as I can tell the page itself is fairly neutral (other than the criticism section).

    Though, happy to hear your perspective of how Stalin’s and Mao’s versions of Marxism–Leninism was democratic.

    From many people’s perspective, it definitely was not. And there is no socialism without democratic control by the workers (all of them), in my view anyway.


  • What account? I don’t see it in any of your modlogs

    After checking, either mod logs have changed since it happened to me (it was a decent while ago), or I have fabricated a memory. Perhaps I saw this as a reason when looking through the mod logs of a specific community once. In any case, yeah, it doesn’t exist in my modlogs.

    They are pretty heavy with the censorship if you’re pro palestine from what I’ve found.

    Haven’t noticed this, yet, though could be because how heavily it’s censored. I mostly engage with that topic on aussie.zone, so this may be why I haven’t noticed.

    As a anarchist I have plenty of reservations about both the USSR and China. In terms of internet communities I personally find ML spaces much less annoying than social democrat dominated spaces.

    Fair enough, though MLs (the ones I’ve argued with) seem to defend practically everything about them, which is frustrating.


  • The people who seem to have problems with lemmy.ml:

    • Normies/liberals (not me) who don’t like the large number of tankies on the instance (“tankie” is a FAIR description of “Marxist-Leninists” in my opinion) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism–Leninism
    • Socialists (me included) who don’t like MLs because we believe in socialism democratically controlled by the workers - something MLs seem to pretend to want, but then hold up the USSR and China as examples, which is hilarious at even a cursory glance
    • Right wingers, who are afraid of the words “communist” and “socialist”.

    Lemmy.World censors a bit, when it comes to calls for violence against rich people (though seem to have chilled recently), which is a bit annoying, but I’ve had multiple comments removed as “reactionary” from .ml.

    .ml mods (not all) seem to be very sensitive and very comment removal and ban happy

    I’ve seen many normal sounding users on lemmy.ml, but the reputation is not undeserved because there are many MLs on there also.




  • Funnily enough, this is my even more preferred solution haha

    I am for public transport centric cities, where you can safely walk across streets, and cities are designed for people, not cars.

    I am 100% for everything you’ve said, including socialism.

    It’s just I’m also living in the world as it currently is, and if we’re gonna have car-centric hell holes, I at least want to make breaking the rules have consequences, so car centrism is A BIT safer. Income based fines to boot.

    Most certainly is a band-aid, though. Do agree.

    But I just get pissed when dickheads think speeding isn’t a bit deal, or red-light cameras are just for revenue raising, as if driving a massive hunk of metal is a serious responsibility, not to be taken lightly.




  • Sounds like a police/privacy problem, not the idea of having cameras at all.

    Police should need a warrant to access the videos.

    The software should not log licence plates of every single car that comes past.

    The software should be open source and developed by the public sector.

    I agree what’s in place in the US is a privacy nightmare, but the idea of having cameras in general isn’t fundamentally bad.

    Skill issue USA, git gud.