Just bringing back the 90’s rules would make the game a lot better since it would bring back better defense.

Drat! You got me!

The problem for Hasbro is that, right now, the company doesn’t have that much in non WotC moneymakers and hasn’t had it for years. There have been attempts by activist investors to push for having WotC demerged from Hasbro so WotC isn’t subsidizing the rest of Hasbro. The across-the-board cuts were Hasbro leadership trying to placate investors, but they cut muscle and bone from WotC for some reason instead.

Part of the reason why I’m arguing against economic terms is because it doesn’t really give context into the power dynamics in how an instance is run. At the core of most instances on Lemmy, a head admin dictates the rules of their instance and it is take it or leave it for everyone else that wants to participate.

Think of it like this, if the head admin wanted to make a decision against all other admins and mods, what would happen? Likely, which has happened previously to other instances on Lemmy, the head admin wins out and everyone else either conforms or has to leave. Labor doesn’t become ownership.

Unless an instance has a corporate structure which distributes power, it is an autocracy by definition.

Some instances let others work as mods, or even with some admin privileges. However, at the end of the day, each instance is beholden to the head admin unless they were set up differently. The only instance I can think of with an organizational structure beyond autocracy is beehaw.

You’re also trying to insert economic descriptions to a political system without economics.

Autocratic city-states.

No.

From what I’ve seen, especially since COVID, is that society has changed beyond their understanding and now a lot of things are strange and scary. Worse, a lot of the skills they should have learned to understand the present day weren’t learned for various reasons, so getting over the hump of understanding is now a lot higher than previous.

Anger is a common reaction to fear and confusion.

There is astroturfing, but there is also a lot of propaganda and story curation around the protests.

Two reasons:

First, both Koreas accept that there are two different countries through various political actions. That equivalent doesn’t exist for the Chinas; both nations officially don’t recognize each other’s legitimacy and don’t treat each other as independent nations.

Second, the UN Veto only goes to one country. The USA kept the PRC from being declared the legitimate Chinese government. So, the world is used to viewing the issue of one China, it continues to do so.

Yes

You also had people trying to get around bans by creating new accounts, since new accounts are free. A way to prevent brigading was to institute a minimum age and karma score to participate.

Eh. When I do markups at work, I still do them by hand. I find myself more critical with a pen instead of a mouse.

They didn’t pss pss pss responsibly.

A lot of voting systems changed after the 2000 election. States should have adopted the paper ballot with optional scanning, but a lot of states didn’t for various reasons.

It depends if there is any regulation on manure treatment. If there isn’t any regulation, it is possible that spreading the pollution around may allow for the local environment to absorb and process it better.

If there was actual regulations on runoff, larger facilities would likely produce less pollution per unit of meat.

Trump self identifies as Sith.

Because it isn’t controlled by Russia.

There are a couple of parks near me that are good for that.

Some cops are fat, yeah. Also, a lot of cops aren’t. The ones sent to beat the shit out of protestors aren’t the fat ones.