No, but a lot of what Lucas wrote the Star Wars universe isn’t defensible.

And tell me you like to blame employees for your decisions without saying that you like to blame employees for your decisions.

I didn’t just provide one example, though. There are cycles of war and peace in Europe that got mapped out to the globe as European nations became the dominant powers. There are eras of wars where various great and lesser powers participate in more destructive wars because the international order has broken down and isn’t there to restrain belligerents. There are also times when costly wars don’t end with a lasting “peace”, but an armistice before fighting resumes.

We seem to be at a point where the post World War II international order is breaking down. When that happens historically, there is usually a big war and destruction on the order of magnitude of World Wars I and II.

Still less than the dead of World War II

It has still been a relatively peaceful time in human history post fall of the Soviet Union even when you include Iraqi and Afghani deaths as a proportion to the world’s population. Wars still happened in that relative time of peace, but those conflicts were relatively contained to not create a new great power war.

Great powers haven’t entered in open conflict on the scale of World War II, which was chosen as a bench mark.

I’m going to look at it more in terms of how long a European peace lasted.

The Napoleonic wars ended with the Concert of Europe, a peace that was able to last until World War I and depended on a balance of power that lasted for almost a century.

An equivalent system was set up after World War II with a peace anchored by the Allied Powers, decolonization, and the US-Soviet rivalry. That system has lasted for about 80 years and is showing significant strain.

I don’t know how long this system will last, but it doesn’t seem like it will last for much longer. Trump’s election seems to be hastening that end.

It depends on the form of employee ownership as to whether it works out for the employees.

In trucking, the industry uses the owner-operator model as a way to push costs onto employees and skirt labor laws. On paper, the truckers are their own bosses. In reality, they are effectively employees of logistics companies where the logistics companies can pay their employees less than minimum wage and push maintenance costs onto their employees.

In this case, ownership is used as a tool of oppression.

Biden definitely tried to solve the problem. However, immigration was being drummed up as a big issue and it was one of the few issues attracting people to vote Republican, mainly due to fearmongering.

And an oversimplified account of immigration was used to paint a “bOtH sIdEs” argument to get people who would vote Democrat to not vote.

Biden was a very liberal president, but immigration was probably one of the more conservative things his administration did.

Yeah.

A main discussion around the election was that people said they wouldn’t vote for Biden due to his support of the Palestinian genocide. A counterargument to it was that Trump was going to be a better Israeli ally than Trump, so it isn’t like the situation would improve with either candidate on this issue.

Trump has paused billions in federal spending, but he is making sure Israel gets its aid.

That’s some ceasefire.

Looks like Israel isn’t abiding by the ceasefire.

Honestly, I’m ok with it it. It created a game more focused on story.

Yeah. It would be nice if features you discussed were able to be implemented on Lemmy. However, as you described it and I’ve been told outright by the devs, adding flexibility to how modding works is not in the plans.

You brought up Slashdot for comparison purposes.

I just remembered the voting and moderation generally worked quite well. Of course that might just be the different culture of the internet at the time.

If you want to map how Slashdot works as a model to Lemmy, Slashdot would be its own instance defederated from the rest of Lemmy with heavy restrictions on posting and the use of individual communities being more of a filter for content.

The site and the content of its site were designed to be seen by everyone as a uniform audience. Communities and instances on Lemmy are fundamentally not designed that way. Even then, Slashdot made sure that older accounts were the ones to enforce rules via up voting and down voting, preventing an Eternal September. Lemmy is not designed to do that.

https://slashdot.org/faq/metamod.shtml

The first round of moderation seems tied to up votes and down votes, you just needed to provide a reason why instead of just clicking a button.

The second round of moderation was tied to how people voted in the first round.

So, most of the public facing moderation activities were really focused on up voting and down voting, with some of the down voting triggering other mod action.

As I recall, a lot of that was in up votes and down votes, with Slashdot only giving out a limited amount per person per day and capping the max at +/- 5.

I don’t think it would work for a Reddit clone. There would also need to be a way to provide a way to validate users who should vote on a sub, since you wouldn’t want someone to make a million accounts to drown out the rest of the users in a sub.

I agree with the idea you provided, but that isn’t how moderation is implemented into the codebase.

Moderators don’t “own” the communities they host. They’re just taking responsibility for the space.

The problem is that, as encoded, moderators do “lease” the space from admins. There isn’t a system built into Lemmy where qualified users can demote moderators. Hell, the Lemmy devs implemented Reddit’s ranking based on time seniority.

The only difference between Reddit and Lemmy is that Lemmy admins aren’t held to the policy of relative non interference that Reddit holds itself to.