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  • I believe I have read read somewhere depression (or suicide I am not sure) is more common in summer. Which to me seems counter intuitive until I found out the main cause for this might be loneliness. So lonely people seeing other people getting together.

    Would you say in your case depression worsens due longer nights or holiday season in December?

  • Whats a current obstacle or challenge in your life you'd like to share and have people brainstorm for solutions?
  • I would like to force my Luba 2 robotic mower to mow steeper terrain (almost 45 degrees). The main problem is wheel slipperiness. Current ideas:

    • some kind of net in that area for better grip
    • making wheels rougher (eg with nails).
    • rope that would constantly pull it uphill to counter force of gravity.
  • Why do some people defend the billionaires and capitalism?
  • (I am contemplating whether your are just trolling me and I should stop participating in this debate. But lets assume you really did not understood my point.)

    1. You typed in google something like "EU failing privacy/democracy/freedom" and posted top results. And all those cases are real, but are cherry picked. Therefore I responded with a classical argument about why smoking is "not bad for your health". https://www.logicalfallacies.org/anecdotal.html
    2. Your results did not include any actual indexes or aggregation of the data.

    Please check this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_freedom_indices especially "list of scores by country" where you also have some historic entries.

    To help you with some conclusions:

    1. EU countries are by far most free and private. Yes of course with their own issues but still way better than any other country.
    2. China is awful regarding this topic.

    So why I had a problem with your response: I strongly believe you already knew the above two facts. You just decided to ignore them and presented me with some problems eu has so you can win the argument. So... I do not like you tried to "win argument" with a logical fallacy which is counterproductive for the debate. And when we just throw random arguments so opposing point of view comes out as bad, everyone comes out a little more radical in their view and noone changes their opinion. And I spent some time writing those comments (not with research but by forming thoughts and sentences in my second language). By turning the debate to this "Facebook like arguing" you destroyed my effort to participate in this community.

    Also in response to your latest accusation: I specifically told you I have a healthy relationship with freedom, and "they hate us for our freedom" does not belong in this category.

  • Is majority of lemmy communism supporters?
  • Another question. Why does this post have so many down votes? I have some ideas but I am not sure which is the real reason:

    1. Asking about generalization could be considered unpopular.
    2. Are communists down voting me?
    3. Badly written post. (I mean English is not my first language and I do believe lemmy needs more content and I am trying to go out of my comfort zone and be more active user)
    4. This topic is just unpopular?
  • Is majority of lemmy communism supporters?

    In other thread I got vibe that majority of Lemmy users support communism and CCP. Is support for Russia/Putin? Or have I just stumble in a post dominated by those people.

    I also read a phrase "lemmy.ml" user. Is lemmy.ml instance considered communist?

    I understand there will be more left leaning users in Lemmy compared to Reddit. But I expected moderate left and not radical communist left.

    What is your opinion on that?

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    Why do some people defend the billionaires and capitalism?
  • Yes I have seen you in other comments. And we both know what is the actual state and level of freedom, poverty, and capitalism and corruption in China. Maybe organize a protest in China.

    I know you like their system, but for some reason you fail to see issues with their system.

  • Why do some people defend the billionaires and capitalism?
  • This is simply not true. And whole EU is doing this more or less effectively. But your government has to be very very careful since this sure can happen.

    In recent years we have seen degradation of this leash. But EU commission started keeping up with global monopolies.

    I believe also in USA they are making some antitrust changes after a few decades of sleeping.

  • Why do some people defend the billionaires and capitalism?
  • About defending capitalism (and not billionaires - who more often than not abuse this system). Some of us lived in other systems. And we understand any other system is way way way way worse.

    There are however a lot of problems with capitalism and should be held on a very short leash. Or else monopoly happens. The most effective actions to keep capitalism at bay: strong anti-trust laws, strong worker protection (this includes a lot of stuff), wealth tax.

    And be aware there are many flavours of calitalism. Most commonly people in USA are the most extreme where you have really "long leash". And people see such capitalism as failing and want to replace whole system.

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