suff

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11 mo. ago

You should include prison and work camp inmates in your disparity considerations. A non-economically forced, neglectable income in context of exponential aggregation should weigh a lot right there.

Also, how capitalist was that Marshall Plan exactly?

2mo ago

How the Taylor Swift Eras Tour makes money

suff @piefed.social 2mo ago

Sub-account "Merch cost"

2mo ago

What good do luxury apartments do that no one can afford? (crosspost from !leftymemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com)

suff @piefed.social 2mo ago

Having read Luhmann (systems theory) and being grown up in post-GDR East-Germany I'd say: Capitalist democracies (power) delegate most resource management to a different functional system (finance). Transparency is strongly regulated, can be fought for through a third separate functional system (law) and can be observed though a fourth functional system (mass media).

In GDR, all these delegated systems strongly depended on the centralized planning. So to make one possible conclusion: to fix that transparency issue to a certain degree, you could delegate resource plannig to a decentralized, self-managed system.

I understand, that some present decentralized, self-managed systems are Monopoly games, also considered capitalisms. But this doesn't hold true for all. Most are just very decentralized and just almost self-managed systems. Law fights monopolies. Lawmakers dampen extreme aggregation and extreme poverty.

Approaches to transparent Socialisms should not only include transparency as a starting condition but also the constant structural reproduction of it from within. From scratch, it is hard to come up with completely different functional systems (not power-finance-law-media) that harmonize better than what we have. (game theory) Luhmann said, we have to fix it step by step until we come to a better, different system. Marx also knew that wanted workers to become self-aware, solidary and tough enough to accomplish adjustments against the rich. You see, this democracy already looks totally socialist when compared to the 1920s.

Cheaper rents (though flats overflow) would solve a lot of Germany present day problems like

lack of flats
vanished income disparity between minimum wage and basic income (in some cases, it doesn't pay off to work because rents for receivers of basic incomes are paid 100% but not for low income workers while rents explode)

It has to be done using public investment (tending or subsidies). We don't have that yet. Workers should fight for THAT and NOT for lashing basic income receivers harder.

2mo ago

What good do luxury apartments do that no one can afford? (crosspost from !leftymemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com)

That architecture's principle is older than WW1 and had been invented for british colonies. I'd call that early capitalism.

2mo ago

What good do luxury apartments do that no one can afford? (crosspost from !leftymemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com)

how do you think the homelessness problem would be solved from a socialist/communist perspective?

Socialism is (supposed to be) a solution to homelessness, regardless from which perspective. But homelessness is not the only problem societies develop, honestly. For example, GDR had huge fairness issues as the planners of resource distribution completely lacked transparency of checks and balances.

Above architecture was at least never meant to be for their leader and his staff (six degrees of separation) but for workers (everybody but them regardless of performance).

2mo ago

What good do luxury apartments do that no one can afford? (crosspost from !leftymemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com)

I think a lot of people living in such architecture have mental conditions.Also, some people earn enough now to make room for homeless ones and live somewhere else but they have mental conditions now.

2mo ago

How the Taylor Swift Eras Tour makes money

suff @piefed.social 2mo ago

RawGraphs.io

SankeyMATIC

2mo ago

How the Taylor Swift Eras Tour makes money

suff @piefed.social 2mo ago

Had the same thought. But how would you then include the total revenue?

2mo ago

German PieFed UI translation

suff @piefed.social 2mo ago

Isn't that "anglicization"?

2mo ago

German PieFed UI translation

We should clarify when we say "user" and when "account".

My take is: while "users" refer to the humans who use PieFed, accounts are the entity used to authorize users. Users cannot be banned technically, but accounts can.

all strings about authentication, blocking and privileges, etc. should talk about accounts, not users
there's nothing but user accounts, so drop the "user" in and keep just "accounts"
because users never use their real name, we shouldn't talk about user names but about "account names" or "identifiers"
"account" is independent from it's user's name, gender and most further traits
other subjects are problematic, too: "Moderator added", "Replier blocked", "Block author", "Number of known subscribers", "Manually aprove followers"

Options:

we could generalize the User/Account differentiation for all problematic subjects: "Mod account added", "Replying account blocked", "Number of known suscribing accounts", "Manually aprove following accounts"

"account" repeats a lot, maybe that's an opportunity for finding a rephrasing that is unique for PieFed? "Fedi"?

we can drop the subject where possible and instead focus on the passive predicate: "Moderation reinforced", "Source of reply blocked", "Number of known subscriptions", "Manually aprove follows"

to avoid military tone, maybe use more humorous exaggerations?

how can we maintain a friendly, close sound while attempting these linguist acrobats?

Talk to "you" where ever possible.
Mention "your peers" or "your equals" more often.

Benutzer, _Benutzende, _Nutzende, Nutzys, Mitglieder, Leute, _{Meine Kerle}

Don't risk too much. Normies are welcome, too.
How about an additional language next to de_DE: de_Gendered

3mo ago

Falsche Gesundheitsversprechen mit Vitamin D

In den Büchern gibt es andere Peaks:

Range	Corpus
1929..1959	Spanish
1930..1952	Italian
1933..1946	English
1933..1956	German
1933..1959	Russian
1939..1950	French
2010..	Chinese
2010..2012	all except French and Italian

Frühe populärwiss. Veröffentlichungen in 2010..2012 speziell zu Vitamin D:

YYYY	Autor	TItel
2010	Michael F. Holick Ph.D., M.D.	The Vitamin D Solution
2011	Dr. med Jörg Spitz	Superhormon Vitamin D: So aktivieren Sie Ihren Schutzschild

3mo ago

Falsche Gesundheitsversprechen mit Vitamin D

suff @piefed.social 3mo ago

Auf Google Trends nachvollziehbar:

YYYY-MM	Global Peak
2004-12	Pakistan
2007-01	Katar
2010-05	Libanon
2020-05	V. Arab. Emir., USA, Kuwait
2020-07	Indien
2020-10	Schweiz, Kroatien
2020-11	Ungarn, Schweden, Bosnien u.H., Serbien,
2020-12	Dänemark
2021-01	V. Königr. GB., USA, Irland, Kanada
2021-02	Slowakei
2021-03	Singapur
2021-04	Philippinen
2021-05	Nepal
2025-02	Norwegen
2025-07	Australien
2025-08	Neuseeland
2025-11	Österreich
(Auszug)

3mo ago

Falsche Gesundheitsversprechen mit Vitamin D

suff @piefed.social 3mo ago

Chlorbleiche ist aggressiver. Über Vit D lassen sich leichter Halbwahrheiten in offiziellen Quellen nachlesen.

3mo ago

Falsche Gesundheitsversprechen mit Vitamin D

Gibt es schon Theorien, warum der Hype entstanden ist?

Ist das einfach nur ein wenig bekanntes Vitamin gewesen, das wie Schlangenöl Resonanz gefunden hat oder steckt da Astroturf dahinter?

(Der nächste Zyklus/Peak ist im Februar zu erwarten.)

3mo ago

Falsche Gesundheitsversprechen mit Vitamin D

Wenn ich 10µg mit Gänsefett wegspüle, hilft es auch nichts. Will damit sagen, mir fehlt bei Ernährungsthemen ganz oft der Kontext in dem die isolierten Bestandteile wirken sollen.

3mo ago

Edeka-Betreiber sauer: "Zerstörungswut von Weltverbesserern"

Geld und Klima-,Natur- und Tierschutz passen einfach nicht zusammen.

3mo ago

Edeka-Betreiber sauer: "Zerstörungswut von Weltverbesserern"