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Do you recognise any usernames on Lemmy? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 5 months ago by Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Although Lemmy's userbase is quite large,it still is small enough that I do often see the same people in comment sections. It feels though, that I should recognise more names, because I can only remember around 5 individual ones.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

I squirt my way out of the water using my body like a jet and then soar on my fins!

https://phys.org/news/2013-02-bird-plane-squid.html

[-] nikaaa@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

From the link:

A species of oceanic squid can fly more than 30 metres (100 feet) through the air at speeds faster than Usain Bolt if it wants to escape predators, Japanese researchers said Friday.

So, what's chasing you?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Other squid.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2101735-deep-sea-squid-cannibals-battle-it-out-in-a-fight-to-the-death/

[-] nikaaa@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

From the link:

It’s a squid-eat-squid world down there.

Sounds pretty capitalistic to me.

Do you have a minute to talk about socialism?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Look, I'm all for the squid to control the means of propulsion, but it's hard convincing others...

[-] nikaaa@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I'm introducing the theory of an "r-factor" that measures how capitalistic a country is.

r = 0 means pure socialism. Everybody gets the same amount of universal basic income, and earns nothing when they work hard.

r = 1 means pure capitalism. there is no social support programs, and what you earn depends entirely on your labour/wages.

in-between them, there's a linear interpolation.

(i invented that "r-factor" as a thought experiment yesterday, and now i like it.)

i'm for r = 0.5 btw.

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