If “[doing] an insurrection on the capitol” is your measure of radicalisation (and I agree that's a good one), then the lawlessness, violence and vandalism for months in Portland, Oregon and in Seattle, Washington, and similar incidents in other US cities, surely is an indication of radicalisation in a significant part of the left, and of complacency of many others on the left who failed to condemn those radicals unequivocally from day one.
Political representation is very important, no doubt. But I think representations in fiction, bias in the news, influence in higher education, etc are very powerful, too.
I personally see approximately the same risk of “abolish[ing] human and civil rights” from both extremes of the political spectrum. It's not like progressives aren't trying to subvert certain rights, too.
By left radicalisation I mean things such as:
* Opposing #freespeech; eg the ACLU used to defend the rights of literal nazis to speak and assemble (that's what “free speech” means), but today it's busy labelling “nazi” everything they don't like. Lots of individual and institutional examples there, though.
* Trying to tear down institutions; eg calls to “defund the police”.
* Attacks on due process and presumption of innocence; eg in the context of racist or sexist accusations.
* Cancellations and smear campaigns.
* Racism, xenophobia, sexism (against groups seen as privileged or oppressors).
* Hostility towards science; eg in the context of trans rights.
* Cultural relativism and embrace of inherited or collective guilt; eg fixation on past injustices in free societies instead of current ones in oppressive regimes.
I think you're right about the Democratic party of the USA not being really all that left-wing by other countries' standards. However, to me, that strip illustrates something much larger: it's the radicalisation of much of the left in many countries (not just the US) and in many areas of life.
> _“Left/progressive people are not really represented in the US.”_
If you're referring to the US _Congress_, then sure: millions of Americans are to the left of the most leftist of representatives and senators.
But discussing representation _in general_, I'd say that “left/progressive people” are _overrepresented_ in the US: in [the media](https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/ratings), in art, in culture, and [in education](https://2cnzc91figkyqqeq8390pgd1-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Abrams-Fig-1.jpg).
Los practicantes del #AltruismoEficaz llegamos a donde estamos partiendo de intuiciones muy básicas, casi universales, y siguiendo unos pocos argumentos lógicos bastante simples.
Si te suena lo de «altruismo eficaz» pero no lo tienes muy claro, o si no lo habías oído en tu vida, **Pablo Melchor** de la _Fundación Ayuda Efectiva_ lo resume todo muy bien [en este artículo](https://www.sumapositiva.com/p/donar).
Living long isn't everything (you also want to prosper — wink 
), but it's quite important. This is how you do it:
* Look after family relationships and social connections
* Take care of plants…
* …and eat mostly plants, lots of legumes, whole grains, soy
* No tobacco, no alcohol
* Constant moderate exercise
* Be outside in the sun
* Live where women aren't discriminated
* Live somewhere remote
* Have a religion (oops)
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#QOTO is now back up and migrated to bigger servers. There shouldnt be any more issues moving forward.
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This inrush of new users is pretty sweet. We are getting around 150 new users a day right now and have been for like a week.
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@tripu Friendica (fediverse):
Make posts as big as you want
Basic font styling + markdown support Inline media for posts
RSS support (you can follow any RSS source)
Modern interface (we even have a custom theme at social.trom.tf)
Supports Mastodon's API so any Mastodon app works with Friendica
Home and Global feeds chronologically
Contact group support
Private messages
Email integration
Calendar
and more...
I think I would happily pay for a subscription to #Twitter if Twitter:
* had no #ads
* showed a strictly chronological timeline of what you're following (and only that)
* offered #RSS (of accounts, hashtags)
* let us edit past tweets
* …while always preserving a history of changes and deleted tweets
* were better at flagging NSFW, and let us customise visibility of those tweets
But I'd rather pay the same money for the 
#Fediverse and 
#Mastodon to:
* improve and evolve
* become simpler to use
* promote themselves so that they become way more popular
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I went on a wonderful #motorbiking #route this morning. It was just 89 km and 2~3h, but the weather was perfect for a #ride, and the views of the snowy peaks in Guadarrama north of Madrid city were stunning.
@NicholasLaney@nebbia.fail
Again: a lift consumes _energy_. If you want to express how much energy it consumes per unit of time (eg, in one hour), you're measuring _power_. Watts (and Kilowatts, and horsepower) are a already units of power, and so “KW/h” doesn't make sense, afaict.
An analogy:
A person running a race covers distance, (ie, _length_; unit: metre). If you want to express how much distance it covers per unit of time (eg, in one hour), you're measuring _speed_. For that you would use use m/s, Km/h, knots, or some other unit of speed. But it would make no sense to say that someone runs at such-and-such “knots/h”, or that it runs such-and-such “m/s in an hour”.
@NicholasLaney@nebbia.fail
What does it mean to consume a certain minimum of power per some _specific_ period of time?
If it's roughly the power needed to lift very little weight, an idle lift consumes even less than that, and the busiest of lifts sits idle at least some time (wouldn't that be the minimum? the power needed to keep the lights on?)
Also: how's that a minimum _per hour_? If it's the power needed when idling, wouldn't that measure be identical _per day_? Or _per year_? The time dimension is irrelevant here. It should be _W_, _horsepower_, or any other unit of _power_.
Analogy with a smartphone again: if the minimum power consumed by some phone is what it needs to stay idle with its screen off (maybe in “flight mode” too), _that would be it_: you wouldn't express that in _KW/h_ or in _mW/h_ — because that's the minimum also _per week_, or _per year_.
The unit for “energy consumption for [period of time]” should be an _energy_ unit, like _joule_ or _kcal_. Or even _KW·h_.
So you could say any of this:
* “The lift consumes 10 J every hour”
* “The lift consumes 25.6 KW·h per hour”
* “The lift consumes 0.3 J / h”
* “The lift consumes 981 KW·h / h”
But not: “the lift consumes 400 KW / h”.
Right?
Physicists, help me understand this:
If they're referring to _power_, the unit should be _KW_, right?
And if they're referring to _energy_ consumed (in some interval of time), then it should be _KW⋅h_ (not _KW/h_). Right?
(And if so: the quantity is meaningless unless you specify _the interval of time_. eg: _“400 KW·h on an average day”_. No? I mean, my smartphone also consumes 400 KW·h… if I use it for long enough!)
> _“I don't find #languages easy but I have a hunger to #learn. When you can speak another language you go from being a person in an adult's body pointing at things like a child to being able to communicate with people like an adult again. There's a political basis for me to learning other languages, because if we don't come together in the world then the world's not going to make it.”_
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@tripu Sorry about that! We're working on a fix for this, and we're going to remove the limits for collections.
In addition, we'll have 3 new layout options that will be available so you have greater control over the presentation of collections.
Hope you'll stick around to experience these planned improvements!
