Whatever man, they’re all examples of successful nonviolent revolutions. Successful in the sense that they overthrew the previous regimes and what came after was probably better than what would have come after if they achieved the same thing violently.

I’m just a guy trying to make sense of the world and share the fragments of what I’ve managed to piece together and you come in here throwing around insults and making aspersions. Not cool.

Is the CIA in the room with us right now?

https://lithuania.lt/news/life-and-work-in-lithuania/the-baltic-way-how-holding-hands-changed-history/

On August 23, 1989, a momentous event unfolded that would forever leave its mark on history. Two million people joined hands, creating an unbroken human chain that spanned over 600 kilometres, linking the capital cities of Vilnius in Lithuania, Tallinn in Estonia, and Riga in Latvia. This awe-inspiring display of unity and determination became famously known as “The Baltic Way.” It was a peaceful protest against the illegal Soviet occupation and also one of the earliest and longest unbroken human chains in history.

The Baltic Way was more than just a physical connection; it was a profound political demonstration for freedom.

Remarkably, within just six months of this transformative protest, on March 11, 1990, Lithuania declared its independence, becoming the first of the Soviet Republics to do so.

check this out!

Completely useless…

Yes

Violent revolutions have a huge risk of producing prolonged violence, authoritarianism, or other disastrous outcomes, even if they succeed in overthrowing the old regime.

On the other hand here are some successful non-violent revolutions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_revolution

Nonviolent revolutions generally produce better institutional outcomes than violent ones (it’s science).

Also watch out for selection bias - we tend to remember revolutions that became enormous historical events. Check out this table of pitiful forgotten revolutions and note how many “Suppression of the rebellion” there are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_peasant_revolts

How about trying some of these:

https://www.aeinstein.org/198-methods-of-nonviolent-action

…before getting violent.

I guess not :(

Quote-boost might be the way to go!

You shouldn’t need to - your instance admins should ban them.

Upvote for YES, Downvote for NO.

https://redirect.piefed.social/ takes you to your nearest PieFed instance.

Like this: https://piefed.social/c/playground@piefed.social/p/2274257/mastodon-embed-example

Could be…

Or, maybe just create a new link post which links to the Mastodon post. Then PieFed will embed the mastodon post in the UI and it’ll be fully functional with all it’s replies, playable video, photo galleries, etc.

Thanks for experimenting with this.

The Mastodon integration is under active development at the moment - there will be a major release bringing lots of improvements in the next few days. So far there’s nothing new that addresses cross-posting but I’m sure it will need attention soon.

It’s probably going to be a bit janky because Lemmy and PieFed share posts using markdown whereas Mastodon only gives us HTML. So unless I think of something better we’ll be converting their HTML into Markdown, which is going to be very messy.

This is your second post about this and you got the same response last time.

Try a third post, maybe it’ll go differently next time.

They should switch BECAUSE they’re addicted to the algorithm :D

Maybe start a discussion about how being addicted to Instagram isn’t a great use of time and recommend Pixelfed as a less addictive alternative.

Keep it really simple. Don’t talk about federation or how it works under the hood. Just say something like “hey I see you like Instagram - try Pixelfed I think you’ll like it. It’s in the app store”.

Don’t get them to try to find the perfect pixelfed instance, just use the default main one. They can move later if it clicks for them.

An admin can fix that for you. Talk with Jerry.

I don’t know of any other IDE maker that has the depth and quality of language support that JetBrains offers.

Honestly, throwing your toys over a modal commit dialog seems a bit misguided when switching to any other IDE is going to involve coping with much bigger changes.

You have the option of using an old version if the newer ones aren’t to your style. I’m still on the 2023 version of PyCharm, for instance. And the 2020 version of PhpStorm, haha

Seven (7) heart attacks?? Jeez

Thanks for sharing your perspective, I enjoyed reading it.

It comes down to values. Each political position is really just an intellectual rationalization for a set of values.

When you find a political philosophy that makes sense, it’ll be because the values embedded in it align with yours. (Not because it really is objectively true or correct, although it may seem that way).

Conversely when you see a politician saying the dumbest shit you’ve ever heard, they probably have different values than yours.

If you don’t know what’s important in life, you’ll get politically pulled this way and that without settling anywhere for long. Values become clearer with experience.