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The poorest are already not travelling, sure, but making travelling even more expensive is going to stop a whole lot more people from doing it.

And it's not that flying prices "can't be touched", it's that touching them should come along with creating alternatives, but that mostly doesn't happen in my experience. In Portugal, gas taxes have increased over the years and a carbon tax has been added on top of the already existing ones to incentivize other means of transportation. The promise, years ago, was that this would also help the state fund public transport. That mostly hasn't happened. New transport infrastructure is mostly only built around the couple of cities where transports were already fairly good and the rest of the country just gets continually shafted. Just last week some study popped up on the news that there's more people in Portugal simply not going anywhere on their vacation.

With the rise of accommodation costs in Portugal, driven by everyone from richer countries in Europe seeing us as their big beach, and with how expensive transports are, it's often cheaper to fly to other European cities and then use their transport infrastructure than picking a local destination. When I want to travel, I book in advance, take the cheapest flight and backpack only so I don't pay any added taxes. I do it out of season and to places where accommodation is cheap. This is very common for people my age, at least in my social group. If flight prices in Europe get much more expensive, I'm sure it won't affect many but the absolute poorest in France or Germany, where the minimum salary is what a top 15% earner in Portugal makes, but a lot of portuguese people will certainly travel much less.

Again, though I understand the emergency of fighting the climate crisis, a bunch of climate measures coming out of Europe often feel like the rich countries shafting us - and shafting the poorer overall - without coming up with any alternative. It feels like European legislators - and even europeans in general - think that the whole of Europe is France or the Netherlands or other countries where if you ban flights entirely or come up with yet another mandatory tax that make gas absurdly expensive people can just get on one of the cheap trains going by every 10 minutes - but that's not a fair representation of all - or even most - of Europe.

Yeah, it's not even niche topics, it's almost everything outside of technology. Almost all of the creative communities I used to follow on Reddit have practically no associated activity on the Fediverse. None of the photography communities have really picked up on Lemmy/Kbin either.

There's some photographers over on Pixelfed but finding content or accounts to follow is pretty bad. I follow maybe a handful of people whose photos I like to look at, and the only mechanism to find good noteworthy accounts is the trending section - which I check daily but it's mostly the same handful of people everyday. Scrolling to the public feed or trying to follow generic photography hashtags mostly nets me memes, porn and random pics which aren't photography at all.

I stopped going to Reddit as much, came over here, after a few weeks I'm not using this as much anymore either, so I'm mostly trying to do more useful things with the time. Though I'm sad that I've lost a few communities in the way.

But people are definitely less productive working from home

How so? I personally think it's a somewhat personal matter, but people who are less productive are home seem to be people who can't focus in general. I am far more productive working from home, mostly because I don't get distracted by others. I have colleagues who spend hours bantering only to then stay in the company until later to compensate for the banter - I'd rather get my work done so I can end my day on time and go home do the fun stuff. But I do have colleagues who say they get distracted easily when working at home and they'd rather work at the office.

Overall though, my company used to be very against working from home, but after the period of mandatory work from home, management admitted overall productivity had increased. They still insist people should come to the office every now and then to maintain the "friendly" environment the company is supposed to have, though, which is fair I guess.

But people are definitely less productive working from home

How so? I personally think it's a very personal matter. I am far more productive working from home, mostly because I don't get distracted by colleagues who spend hours bantering only to then stay in the company until later to compensate for the banter - I'd rather get my work done so I can end my day on time and go home do the fun stuff. But I do have colleagues who say they get distracted easily when working at home and they'd rather work at the office.

Overall though, my company used to be very against working from home, but after the period of mandatory work from home, management admitted overall productivity had increased. They still insist people should come to the office every now and then to maintain the "friendly" environment the company is supposed to have, though, which is fair I guess.

I typically only buy games on discount some years after they've launched. I'll sometimes make an exception for indie games that come out which seem like exactly my kind of game. And I made an exception for Battlebit as well - I bought it immediately after I saw the first person playing it because it seemed like ultra fun, and I've probably already played more of it than all Battlefield games combined over the years.

Nice one, I'm always on the lookout for more accounts to follow on Pixelfed.

Ask the hundreds of millions of corpses in Indonesia, Brazil, Guatemala, Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Libya, Iraq, Syria, Grenada, Iran, etc, etc. if they think liberalism ‘won’t actually try to kill them’ if they have an opinion that isn’t aligned with capitalist interests.

Yeah, sorry, I'm gonna pass. Like I told the guy above, I'm sure whatever definition of Liberalism you use fits whatever point you're trying to make, but unless you have a specific point to make, I'm not going through all of these countries' histories in search of how "liberalism" has led to hundreds of millions of corpses. Especially because I see Brazil in that list and I'm familiar enough with its history to bet your definition of "liberalism" is actually fascism, so I'd rather not bite.

’Tankie’ is literally the word your sect uses to describe Marxist Leninists

I don't use tankie to describe marxist leninists. I've made that very clear in my comment above. Like the person above, you seem to be trying to mix concepts in order to attack points I haven't made. I also wonder what sect you think I'm a part of. I'd ask you to at least pretend you're arguing in good faith and, if you truly want to argue, argue against the points I've made, not the strawman you've made up in your mind. Thought that would probably mean veering off the pre-approved script.

Such as? By the way worker’s rights and socialism cannot be attained simply by voting

The communist party in my country is very fond of aligning with the new far right party when it comes to women's right - which aren't an issue according to the communist leader, as only workers' rights are a true issue - and minority rights in general. It was a bit surprising to some when they decided to walk that path, but I guess we should've known.

As for workers' rights, a combination of voting, strikes and protests have worked fairly well for my country's history. A lot of unions in the past 20 or so years have steered away from the communist party, given their alleged attempts at suppression, and have become independent. The communist party has been continually losing votes as it clings to fringe topics such as the defense of dictatorships and often attacks unions which try to act in a democratic manner and pick leaders among the workers, instead of accepting the outside leaders the Party had decreed.

But what would you propose as an alternative to voting and protesting? Terrorism?

Examples?

I don't know if you've accidentally only cropped part of what you intended to. Do I really need to show you examples of the far right trying to sell the idea that everyone to the left aligns with dictatorships? You can just look up any interview of any far right leader in europe and you'll probably find your example. Thought I'm confused why you need examples of that.

What is your opinion on people "screeching" about the Holocaust, given it happened so long ago?

EDIT: No answer. I'm assuming the user is as in favour of erasing memories of the Holocaust as he is of erasing memories of the genocides commited by Stalin and his supporters.

Almost the entirety of the political spectrum of most democratic countries sits as far away from Trump as it does from tankies. Let's stop pretending that if I oppose people who pretend that no genocides happened under Stalin I'm suddenly pro-Trump. There's an entire political spectrum between those two.

Nice pic, and another community for my collection