sudoreboot

It's worth considering the environmental impact of spending a whole plastic bag (even if small) for what often amounts to rabbit-sized poop in case you have a smaller dog. I'm one of those owners that make contextual judgements about when to pick up and when to leave it or flick it into a nearby bush with a stick. I'm not picking up poop off-trail in the forest. Also generally not alongside car roads (talk about pollution).

I know owning pets is not environmentally sound, so all I can do is mitigate.

No, only comments made after they refederate

If this is a reference, I'm not getting it.

While I agree with this assessment, I don't think dictatorship (or authoritarianism more generally) is a solution to this problem. I don't know what the solution is, but I can speculate about various properties a solution might have, and one of them is that citizens/members of a community should be encouraged to participate in domain-specific politics that they know and care about without requiring them to form opinions about things they don't know much about.

We are all ignorant about things we don't spend time trying to understand and we should learn to respect that fact. This applies to leaders as well; no dictator or small group of people -- no matter how many advisors they have -- could possibly make informed decisions pertaining to all aspects of running a society. Glorifying or worshipping a leader or a party is madness we're all prone to as we seek simple answers that are consistent with our preconceived notions of how the world works.

Nice! I would say I am as well but I paused it maybe 30 min ago to ponder something that was said.

I would love this as well. I want to add also some more foundational/philosophical oriented topics like foundational physics and mathematics, and philosophy of science (or natural philosophy as Sean Carroll likes to call it).

As far as I thought I knew, you can't follow mastodon accounts from Lemmy. Is my understanding incorrect?

You may need to shift your expectations of the federation model. It's not trying to solve the problem of needing separate accounts on separate sites (that's what we need portable identities for and I hope we see that in the near future). It's trying to solve the problem of enabling self-governing communities and preventing platform lock-in.

I just want to add that I have another anecdote of this (not getting a response) happening to my partner. Don't know if it's a technical issue or they're overburdened.