https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldYfQT35_38 (just listen to the first two minutes if you’re lazy)

Lemmy is inherently democratic. If you don’t like a muni, or an instance, you go to another one. Without centralization dictatorship is impossible.

That’s more like voluntarism than democracy.

Online? Dictatorship. Let the guidelines be clear and the conversations civil and on topic. If my speech isn’t wanted in a particular community I can find another, or make another where I’m the dictator.

I like StackOverflow’s democratic moderation. It also scales better than centralised moderation.

The squabbling process moves the law toward meeting the needs of more people.

Are there data on this?

You’re making a causal claim (if squabbling, then more needs met) and that’s either empirically true or not.

Misinformed.

The founding fathers of the USA never mentioned democracy in the constitution nor declaration of independence.

In their writings, they only ever used the word as a pejorative: https://founders.archives.gov/?q=democracy&s=1111211111&sa=&r=1&sr=

“we are not so absurd as to “design a Democracy,” of which the Governor is pleased to accuse us”

“You would have torn up the Foundations and demolished the whole Fabrick of the Government, and have suffered Democracy… to have arisen in its Place.”

Are those the founding fathers you’re talking about?

Lemmings

Is there a film called Lemmings? Seems a safe bet there is one.

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Fun fact: folk etymologies are always lies.

I’ve also heard that ‘gringo’ derives from people telling green-clad soldiers to go away (green, go)

I’ve heard that ‘fuck’ is an acronym for ‘fornication under consent of the king’

All nonsense of course.

I’m originally from Sabah in northern Borneo, Malaysia

Hey I’ve been there. Hello.

Certain topics (mostly household things), I’ll think in Irish.

Or sports… it’s easier for me to think “tá an cailis déanta aige” than “he fouled the player” because my sporting life has generally been through Irish.

Was North Korea 3rd world?

Scores are stable over time. This can be determined by statistics. It’s called test-retest reliability.

I don’t know.

Worse solution

chaos

Maybe the real Mandela effect is we were all tricked into thinking there are people out there believing Nelson Mandela died before leading the ANC, being president, winning the Nobel, and ending apartheid.

But then how could he have been released to huge fanfare and shaken up politics?

Do these people believe Narendra Modi died in 2009? It just doesn’t fit major world events.

Some people think more in formal systems, some people think more in lived experience.

Nobody thought Mandela died in prison. He was one of the most high-profile people in the world in the 1990s, constantly in the papers after his release from prison. How could you believe he died in prison?

How else would you say it?

I’ve only heard /niʃ/

Do some people say /nit͡ʃ/ ?