We used to kinda have that back in Yugoslavia. There was this national agency called Narodna Tehnika (it translates to technical resources for the people… more or less). It was mostly meant for kids to learn the basics of how things are produced and made, but it also had some production facilities with some larger scale machines at disposal to the people (lathes, engravers, welding appliances, etc.). They were free for use, you just had to schedule a time when you’d like to use them (time share concept basically).

I had this idea proposed to our local community. Every parking zone should have 1 car floor pit that can be used by anyone that is a paying customer of that zone (mostly locals in mind, but anyone that has paid to park there, can use the pit). You could do simple fixes there, like oil changes or maybe just check for leaks. You park your car there, bring your own tools, that was it. Their main concern was bad drivers and them failing to park the car correctly above the pit (not drop one of the weels in the pit), which is a valid point, but this could’ve been avoided with some intelligent engineering of the pit (sensors that will tell you that you’re not approaching the pit from the right angle and you might drop the car in the pit). It was shot down as being too complicated to put into practice.

I just hate how capitalism works. If it’s easy and has a lot of benefits, implement it. If it’s a bit more complicated, drop the idea 😒.

What about social labor, we used to have that back in Yugoslavia, it was a nice way to meet people, plus the food was good and it was also paid in some cases (not much, but enough to cover expenses as a student - education was free back then, so don’t compare to how much uni is worth now in the US).

That’s easy, fixing what was f*cked up for at least 150 years, that’s the hard part.

I’m for reasonable gun control. Waiting periods, no fully automatic weapons.

Reasonable, agrred.

And the US is on the decline from being a superpower now. I don’t need or want America to be the world police. The world should have more partnerships, treaties, and such, and less superpowers dominating the landscape.

Agreed, but not what most US citizens like to hear… cuz like it or not, that will also impact economical power, which will translate into less for everyone. Not necessarily poor, but the upper middle class will be dropped to lower middle… and they’re still a large percentage of the population.

I don’t think we should be grooming children for leadership, I think leaders will emerge naturally as people grow and develop. We should be giving children resources to be their best selves with free education, housing, and food. People can elect those who feel best represent them and their interests. I’m a moral relativist, mores and values shift constantly and it is hard to predict what would be best with future technologies and societies.

Mhm, agree on this as well. But, I believe that if we are to survive as a species, leaders need to appointed, not elected. The only logical answer that came to mind as how can this peron be trusted is to be “programmed” from child with values that reflect the current social order and moral values.

Still, we’ll see, I may be wrong about this, but the current system doesn’t work well either. It’s easilly corruptable.

Why Mexico, they also killed native americans (as far as I know).

You do realize that if all this is implemented, this will make the US more like Sweeden, i.e. the US will no longer be a superpower.

What about gun control?

EDIT: I like how you approach the issue though, well though of. Just have some other questions.

And what are your thoughts on leadership grooming of children… if the child has the right potential of course. This idea goes back to how tribes chose and educated their leaders (shamans). Basicaly, you embed emotinal connection to the people when they’re still young. That and other things as well (moral values, deep seeded sense or right and wrong, empathy, etc.).

As in not exist any more as a federation? The states should exist, just not within a federation?

If I have to work for free, that’s hardly a reform.

Meeh, so what 🤷.

I can tell you the exact reasons why 1 in particular is no more. There were mistakes, but also 3rd party factors at play… I’d say it was about 50/50 regarding the mistakes and 3rd party foul play.

No real threat now. Plus, Chernobyl was an inside job.

In that case, we should also judge how communism and socialism was put into practice.

I was actually thinking it was Jerboa’s fault, holding the comments in cache, lol 😂. Cuz I know I posted some stuff in some of the threads, but now they’re gone 😂.

Hmmm… my posts from Jerboa didn’t seem to make it to this instance… I made a few of them over the past few hours.

I’m using the alpha release now, 0.34, let’s see how it works.

This ☝️. Seems like there’s a lot of snowflake users on beehaw 😒.

Yes, but that beats the whole essence of the “everyone’s connected and can connect to anyone” fediverse selling point.

The solution is simple. You don’t like a community? Block it. You don’t like a user? Block him/her. Defederating is not the solution and beats the whole point of having a fediverse.

I’m currently juggling with 5 accounts because of this very reason. I had another reason to do so on reddit (multiple personalities, lol), but if you ask me, this reason is just stupid 😒.

IDK, I’m not a dev. I do code, but not that advanced. I work in IT, electronics and telecommunications engineer by degree.

It might be load related, but as I said, I haven’t looked at code and server specs, charts, etc.

Sorry for editing my post so many times, it was a long time ago, memories fade, takes time to remeber certain things.

It’s kinda frustrating that no one outside of the ex Yu states believes us when we say “things were a lot better back then”. People just think we’re brainwashed. Every family, regardless of status, could afford basic luxuries, like being able to go on a vacation at least once a year (I can’t afford that right now, I save up for 2 years to go on 1 vacation every 2 years), had 1 car per household (more than enough considering that most people lived in apartments near to where they worked, like maybe 3 to 7km away, public transport took care of these go to work/get back home trips), food was far from scarce, most people had decent meals, not to mention healthier and cheaper meals, almost everything was locally produced, so no VAT, no imported stuff, plus it was really cheap to buy vegetables and fruits, almost no preprocessed products whatsoever in the markets (maybe things like salami and sausages, but that was about it), and even those were fairly cheap (also locally produced).

Some did have more than others, but this was not by much. Wealthier families that were a part of the communist party and had some higher roles in society (polititian or maybe a CEO of a factory, stuff like that) had like 2 cars per household and maybe a house, not an apartment. They also most definitely had enough money to go on 2 vacations per year, but that was about it. Those were the wealthiest people in the country.

My granma was a housewife that lived off the salary of her dead husband (he died while working), had 4 kids, managed to get all of them through uni, aford a car and a large apartment for all 6 members of the family (she remaried). This was all provided by the state, because her first husband died on the job, so it was considered an honor that her husband died while helping the state grow.

I try and explain this, people say I’m lying 🤦.

Macedonia, one of the Ex Yugoslavian republics.

I try and explain this to most westerners, they don’t believe me, say I’m lying 🤷.

If you were a blood donor back then, everything regarding health care was free. Weelchairs, orthopedics, operations, drugs, everything. You just went in a pharmacy, show your blood donor badge and just hand over your perscriptions, they give you the drugs, no charge.

I know, it’s hard to believe, but it really was like that.

In general, the healthcare system in the US is just nuts. Most of you never lived in a socialist/communist country where the government really did take care of your health. Everything was free back then (regarding healthcare). I remember I had to have my tonsils removed when I was young, my mother’s health care paid for 90% of the costs. The other 10% were covered by her being a blood donor, so basically, we paid nothing. 4 days at the hospital, plus the operation, all paid for by the state.