Honestly that would explain the similarities between religious superstitions and the things people have admitted to believing as a child on ask Reddit.

We need enough people to agree on both a vehicle and a direction.

• There are a lot of people dissatisfied with the current government(s) but don't agree how to create change; be it through the current system, major modifications to the current system, or even more severe changes.

• There are a lot of people who don't want wide spread poverty/suffering, but don't agree on how that problem should be dealt with; be it through universal income, massive public projects, or wealth taxation and better competition regulations.

IMO we need a new digital/decentralized/open-source/transparent 'social media platform' that can replace the current easily manipulated electoral systems.

We need ideas & policies to be independently actionable from the partisan politics that afaic specifically exist to mitigate change and maintain the influence of money in policy.

This is the resource I got them from.

Lots of interesting history; including a couple photos of the internment camps Canadians confined Japanese immigrants to during WW2.

https://nikkeimuseum.org/www/collections_detail.php?col_id=F838

I got a cat at 18 for the same reason I don't want kids lmao. I like kids. I also like dogs. But I like leaving the house for more than 8 hours more and for that you need a cat.

Yup. They just got their satire lessons from the same place as Babylon Bee.

Its worth noting that they had completed "15 to 20 contracts previously" and that they had negotiated previous contracts via text message. This process became the norm during the pandemic.

In other words it's within this context that made it agreement... not that thumbs ups can universally be used to agree to contracts.

Glad to see the reddit tradition of just commenting without reading any of the source material is going strong /s

But for real my dude. You got a problem with chemicals in your meat? How bout those crazy steroids and antibiotics they pump your chickens/cows full of so that they don't die of disease before maturation/slaughter? What about all the chemicals in the low quality feed they give the animals? Or the processing to increase shelf life?

The beauty of this technology is that it avoids all those problems as well as their chemical solutions. It uses mitosis, aka the same naturally occurring process all cells use, to grow meat in an isolated environment that disease cannot thrive. Meanwhile we can use genetic modification to improve the quality of the protein. The end result will be healthier, more sustainable and have a significantly longer shelf life.

And this technology is only going to improve.

French Revolution: May 5, 1789 – Nov 9, 1799

Invention of 'Internet': 1969

Turning off the internet/social-media will only throw gas on the fire grease on the guillotine me thinks.

Than there's the element of sites going down. Redundant conversations serve as a form of backup.

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Dunno lol

But one way or another the fedverse is going to be funded by its users/instance-admins.

I think the awards got out of hand on reddit... but having 1-5 on lemmy would be a fun way to incentivize donations.

Plus I do think the sort by gilded was useful in combination with viewing just the comments of a sub/com.

How so?

The technicalities are above my head but I don't see how/why.

1. Couldn't other instances somehow prevent those awards from displaying on theirs?

2. Doesn't make sense to do by someone paying to host an instance.

3. Wouldn't everyone have to create users on that specific instance to do it?

That being said, sorting by awards was kinda useful. Except do away with reddits ridiculously specific ones. Keep it to stuff like Gold, Helpful, Hilarious.

Yup. This is clearly exampled in the generally negative attitude towards reddit awards aka their only real revenue stream afaik.

"If you run a company based on the goodwill of millions of volunteer users, contributors, and moderators, one of your top priorities should probably be to focus on making them happy."

^Mother fucker^.... *Digs out wallet

The admins/mods/community have been pretty united in rejecting toxicity. Any maga/racist posters are usually downvoted to hell such that the only positively ranked posts in their communities are antithetical to maga/trump/racism.

I suspect (/hope lol) a lot of them will just use the reddit official app.

Awards on lemmy would be a great way to subsidize server costs.

Holy fuck this is an old picture lol

Fully agree with George!

I used to do security at some shelters and the local Ministry for Social Development offices (Welfare office). Through those experiences I learned that there is a big, big difference between calling someone homeless/addict or saying "experiencing homelessness/addiction"

The title says it the correct way, the opening paragraph does not. That being said, "unhoused" doesn't colloquially imply homeless and could be misconstrued as people being evicted. Regardless, after reading the article I don't think the author intended to degrade people with their wording.

Anecdotally, I think we do a disservice to the people directly suffering from homelessness/addiction/mental health by misdirecting our frustrations towards the journalists increasing awareness of the problem.

Similarly, I think we do disservice to a lot of victimized and marginalized people by continually 'improving' the language surrounding specific issues and subsequently attacking people -who are engaging the topic in good faith- for not adopting the prescribed nomenclature fast enough.

Yo so I like/agree with your post but NGL the title is off putting. I ran your post through GPT and it spit this out.

"Unveiling the Power of Federated Universes: Rethinking Digital Autonomy"

LMAO I read the title was fully expecting to read about a rapper turned actor's account of seeing the northern lights while riding Virgin Galactic.

Yea I think bot posting and rehosting content from reddit has served its purpose but come July should be dialed down significantly.

Even if it isn't reddit content, bot posting should be restricted. There are niche examples where it's beneficial. Eg, Daily Stock Tickers, Geolocal weather, or weekly Q&A threads, but those are clearly different than just content aggregation.

Comment bots also provide value. I agree grammar/etc bots are annoying but as long as people can easily block/delete their comments its okay. Prequel memes chat bots were hilarious and if a community wants them they should be allowed.

People are what makes internet forums fun. Keeping lemmy.world a space for human interactions is important.

I question that to though. I was in my teens when they came out. Maybe it was because the church community I was in generally like Star Wars... but I seriously have never met a single person who "hated" them.

I don't doubt some people did. But I just think its a huge false equivalency to compare the criticisms of the sequels to those people.

Neither is being biased a sin. It's when your bias allows you to ignore facts that people stop taking you seriously.

Saying you'd denounce a genocide you deny is happening isn't accomplishing what you think it is.

People don't equate "tankies" with "fascists" because you advocate some sort of marxist-inspired system of governance... it's because denying the suffering of others when it's politically convenient is absolutely the opening strategy of the fascist playbook.

Also, "Disown China"??? Nothing wrong with liking other countries but the way you guys talk about them is off putting and doesn't come across as informed or even remotely unbiased.

I no longer forget to put on sunscreen its become so common in the Canadian west. Probably seen this 2-3 dozen times between Cali smoke and the general western provincial fire season.

I actually blocked the defaults... but reddit only lets you block 100 subreddits so I used RES to filter out the rest I didn't like. (Mostly crypto bs).

IMO these kind of communities grow in tandem with the greater community. All we can do is upvote questions and wait for Lemmy Explain to become a known entity.

That's not really how this kind of community works though. I think you are in the minority as far as your engagement style cuz I personally never subbed to ELI5/etc despite commenting regularly.

The way I engaged ELI5/NSQ/OOL/ETC was via all/rising. If a question came up that interested me or I knew the answer to than I'd engage. From there if there wasn't already lots of comments or a top answer I might give my 2 cents.

Communities like this function more like a staple in that people know they're the correct place to ask certain types of questions. In the short term what we need is people to upvote questions (and for lemmy.world to successfully update so we get some proper sorting options) so they get visibility and as answers flow in people will ask more questions.

The way I differentiate is:

No Stupid Questions - For questions that might be embarrassing to ask or possibly common knowledge.

ELI5/Lemmy Explain - For complex questions that require simplified answers

Out Of The Loop - For questions about viral topics that anyone could be uninformed on.

Actually yes even.

Up in Canada we also get AQIs in the 300s-400s due to smoke from Cali, or just the general fire season.

LA /= all of West Coast.

Dude's a walking spoiler but damn can he act!

East Coast is finally getting a taste of what West Coast summers have been like for the past decade(s).

I wonder if we'd be taking climate change more seriously if it was the other way around; considering there's 10x as many people on the eastern states/provinces.

I can't find the video but basically GPT can only predict the next word it wants to say, or something like that... so things like making a joke with a funny punchline is almost impossible because GPT doesn't consider what the punchline will be until after the setup has be generated.

This inability to plan ahead results in failure of extremely simple tasks like, shortening a sentence to exactly 10 words

The original video I saw was doing something with lists I think. But yea this inability to think even 2 words ahead imbues some serious limitations.

Does anyone know anything about cortisol and running fasted when you wake up? I've been reading online that running when your cortisol levels are high in the AM 'can be bad for your muscles'. My goal is weight loss not performance so I'm wondering if it's really a concern.

(I'm not so worried I think my muscles will vaporize lol)

I'm told the newest version 0.18 has more sort options but they haven't been able to successfully update lemmy.world

Banana's, cherries, olive oil, plums