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  • sanity_is_maddening@piefed.socialtoFediverse@piefed.social•Federated Multiplayer Gaming?English
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    10 days ago

    Well, I’ve never found a case or a context where decentralisation and the subsequent federation are not the best option for stability and longevity.

    The basic principle to any sustainable and stable model requires sovereignty.

    Otherwise it’s all a ticking bomb that goes out when the imposed setting displeases too many without them having control over their decisions and context, in which rebellion becomes the necessity to end that cycle.

    Without decentralization, it’s all a never-ending succession of predictable cycles.

    And this is true in literally everything. When power consolidates, it’s all a matter of time until a shift in paradigm is required. Because rule is imposed disregarding context. Which is illogical but also inevitable in a centralised construct. This is not necessary when sovereignty is paramount and the individuals can make decisions that fit the context in which they reside.

    So, this is isn’t any different.

    And your idea is perfectly adequate to solve the current problem in online gaming.

  • sanity_is_maddening@piefed.socialtoNews@lemmy.world•Former youth pastor arrested after allegedly sexually abusing at least 6 teensEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Oh, I know and I agree.

    But it’s still ridiculous and awful to see these children, their children nonetheless become victims of abuse while they pretend it’s not happening.

    Because if there’s any single one thing I am supposed to share with these mindless people is an aversion to the abuse of children. And if that were me and my community I would burn that institution to the ground until I found every trace of this.

    If they kept their end of the watch as they claim others should I would at least respect their zeal as true. This way I got nothing for them. Absolutely nothing.

    But I still don’t want that to happen to those kids. This shouldn’t happen. Period. Pointing out their hypocrisy and calling for their outrage to start by “cleaning their own house” works. I’ve seen it first hand. They don’t like it when they know you’re right even according to their narrow view of the world. If we just uphold them to the standard they believe they have, they don’t have an out.

    And less kids end up like this as a result.

  • sanity_is_maddening@piefed.socialtoNews@lemmy.world•Pete Buttigieg Says Trans Athletes in Women’s Sports Raise “Serious Fairness Issues”English
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    24 days ago

    Just have all athletes measured in an index of height, weight, muscle mass and bone density, and redistribute them in even categories disregarding sex entirely as a categorization. For the first time we would have fair sports. Sports were never really fair, and anyone who understands just the simple notions of physics has always pointed this out. They just don’t like it when nerds prove jocks don’t understand the very games they play. And that’s all sports trully are in the end. Games.

    The part that boggles me is how this takes so much space in the broad conversation when competitive sports are truly an inconsequential part of existence. None of that affects life outside of it. None whatsoever. And I’m sure even athletes want this situation actually solved, instead of just dumbing it even more.

    And by the way I’m speaking of sports, not exercise. For some reason, people conflate the two.

    Exercise is essential.

    Sports are not. They can be fun. But people surely know how to ruin the fun out of it.

    I’m looking forward to moving on to the next important issue. Which to them is probably going to be if there should be male vs female acting categories in award shows. No, there’s no reason for it. But caring about award shows is even dumber than that dumb distinction in them. The Arts would be better off without them. Competitions in Arts is as silly as it sounds.

  • sanity_is_maddening@piefed.socialtoFuck Cars@lemmy.world•Chicago author says the city must stop building new apartments if there is no parking. Finding space to park cars is more important than housing.English
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    1 month ago

    I can’t speak for every place on earth, but where I live in the south of Portugal, that is very much the problem. And affordable long term rent has been destroyed in all of Europe by Airbnb and similar initiatives. And no, this is not a scapegoat theory. All you have to do is access housing registrations and match against citizenship registered to addresses in the same area and then you start to see the problem. There’s a lot more houses than people that have their permanent address registered to the same area. So then the problem can’t be housing in itself. When one starts to look closer we start to notice a lot of titles to the same people and the same last names as we all would expect. The house to person ratio is quite disproportionate in its distribution. I can tell you that this has been exposed time and time again over time, but since 2008 that it has indeed gotten worse and more so exponentially every year since then.

    The problem in just simply building more housing is that the same thing will happen to those new homes. They’ll just be absorbed into this same phenomenon of asset flipping and market speculation in which even rent, not just owning property reaches prices beyond what locals can afford with long term rent even becoming entirely unavailable due to Airbnb and other initiatives alike.

    That’s why the governments have to intervene. Especially at a local level. But if a rewiring of the general population doesn’t occur, it will just be lobbied back to the same as before. As it has happened. Because what is simply enforced is not learned. And this is what you are referring to when you speak to the public aversion to government intervention. If not understood and learned, what is then witnessed is the same rope pull of do and undo between governmental administrations, that wears off and alienates the public.

    But yes, sometimes the problem in itself can be an increase of population density that exploded beyond the local availability of houses. And then new housing development is required or people will have to choose (more like forced without an option) to relocate.

    That is why I said “the problem is not a lack of housing in itself necessarily”. In which I meant it as not always the source of the problem. I didn’t say the lack of housing in itself is NEVER the problem.

    There are many contributors to this issue.

    Environmental changes and war are also intertwined as they both lead to resource depletion, and become part of the same feedback loop that plays a part in the whole of the Metacrisis. In which both will cause mass migrations. And mass migrations will always cause a disparity between demand and availability in housing, which leads to more inflation and more conflicts over resources, which in turn leads to more mass migrations and on and on and on… This is “systems thinking” and the general public has not caught up to the descent we’re in yet. Or is in denial and refusing to engage in the face of its enormity.

    Most problems that are detected by most people are real and feeding into one another. What I said is true and what you said is true and anyone who doubts that is possible is not engaging with the complexity of the world as it is.

  • sanity_is_maddening@piefed.socialtoFuck Cars@lemmy.world•Chicago author says the city must stop building new apartments if there is no parking. Finding space to park cars is more important than housing.English
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    1 month ago

    What?? Pretty soon you’re gonna be suggesting that there are better ways to transport people around than cars and that we could build better public transportation infrastructure with the tax payers money so that the same tax payers can afford mobility for a lot less while saving time in getting around and polluting a lot less the atmosphere that allows them to breath!

    What’s this? Do you want to make sense? We wouldn’t want to start making sense now, would we?

    …

    Jokes aside now, when it comes to housing, the problem is not a lack of housing in itself necessarily. The crucial part of the problem resides in property hoarding by the wealthy and upper middle-class as long term investments in the form of assets to flip, all while they still obtain revenue in renting them to the highest bidder. Airbnb and similar initiatives destroyed affordable rent all around the world. This to say, that a lot of people in the unprivileged categories didn’t also mind screwing their peers to get ahead. This is what the capitalist system does. It re-enforces sociopathic behaviour in people through them valuing the monetary tokens more than the lives of those around them and the very world in which they have to inhabit. This is what Elizabeth Magie tried to explain the world when she created “The Landlord’s Game”. It has been explained and demonstrated as a predicted model for a very long time. And we all lose in the end. Always.

    Saying that the government needs to interfere and create measures to prevent the furthering of this crisis is incomplete without acknowledgement of the required rewiring of the general public to stave off the centuries old social conditioning of appealing to the worst in human condition.

    The default setting of a common citizen is not to contribute to a life shared by all that live around them and in turn benefit from the same efforts from others. It is instead to try and survive them all and and not needing the slightest from them. Which is never true, never possible but nevertheless the reason why we are always in this mess. And the reason why we all lose, and even those who lose the least, they still have to inhabit a world that would be better if this wasn’t true.

    Individuality also explains the housing crisis in the sense that more and more people have the desire to live alone. And therefore more houses are required. Which in a world like the one we have, that desire is perfectly understandable but in itself also a reinforcement of the loop that causes it.

    It’s a mess.