unitedkingdom United Kingdom Tony Blair says junk food should be made too expensive for the poor to afford through new sugar and salt taxes to tackle obesity
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    The rich at this rate

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  • ukraine Ukraine Upgraded Russian fuel truck armor, with absolutely no weak points
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  • czarrie czarrie 1 year ago 100%

    Bit of a blind spot there

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  • theonion The Onion The Onion's original post-9/11 issue
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  • czarrie czarrie 1 year ago 100%

    That last article at the bottom mentioning Osama and Saddam, I believe we call that "dramatic irony"

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  • news News Mark Zuckerberg shuts door on cage fight, saying Elon Musk ‘isn’t serious’
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    When Musk gets kicked out of art school, we'd better be ready

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  • technology Technology SoftBank is suing portfolio company IRL after it admitted 95% of its users were fake. VCs are stressing the need for ‘uncomfortable’ due diligence
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  • czarrie czarrie 1 year ago 100%

    Yeah, they make Link Amps

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  • technology Technology Student project consumes 17% of energy of traditional desalination plants
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  • czarrie czarrie 1 year ago 100%

    Typically people will prefer the option that gives them a $50 water bill over a $200 one.

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  • 4chan 4chan Anon makes movies
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  • czarrie czarrie 1 year ago 85%

    I followed some digging from the Vice article from 2021...basically dude was a domestic abuser, wife got a judgement against him in a divorce but basically the same day he shot himself. Messed up all around.

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  • czarrie czarrie 1 year ago 100%

    Good!

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  • czarrie czarrie 1 year ago 95%

    This one is so reposted in my Star Trek groups that they ban you if you post it. Just a heads up if you're just now getting into Star Trek stuff...

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy Looking for suggestions for a place to move in the US as a remote employee
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  • czarrie czarrie 1 year ago 100%

    If you're trying to find work if the remote gig fails, good friggin luck

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  • memes Memes I’ll take it
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  • czarrie czarrie 1 year ago 100%

    Oh this worked out really well when you have lemmynsfw posts in your feed ..

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  • asklemmy Ask Lemmy How difficult was it for you to abandon a social media website for a fediverse alternative?
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  • czarrie czarrie 1 year ago 100%

    Gotta have a place to leave lists of their IRC servers

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  • antiquememesroadshow Antique Memes Roadshow Lemmy has a severe calcium deficiency!
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  • czarrie czarrie 1 year ago 100%

    thank Mr. Skeletal

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  • lemmyshitpost Lemmy Shitpost TIL that before the Reddit refugees got here, Lemmy was just called Mmy
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  • czarrie czarrie 1 year ago 94%

    Shut up and take my gold.

    Wait.

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  • mildlyinfuriating Mildly Infuriating Everything has LEDs now and they drive me nuts
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  • czarrie czarrie 1 year ago 100%

    It'll never work.

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  • asklemmy Ask Lemmy What's a company secret you can share now that you no longer work there?
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  • czarrie czarrie 1 year ago 100%

    Gravity Falls?

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  • nostupidquestions No Stupid Questions How many nukes would it take to disrupt a hurricane?
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  • czarrie czarrie 1 year ago 86%

    One. One nuke could potentially disrupt it...but it's not really advised for a few reasons:

    • If the conditions are still there that built up the storm, you've basically just nuked some wet air - if the pressure gradient remains and the waters are still warm, it very much could simply reform immediately
    • Dumping large amounts of energy into an active system might just turn it a different direction, unpredictably; you might steer a storm right into Miami that was just going to hit some empty marshes
    • Dumping large amounts of radioactive materials into a storm heading towards you might just end up making a giant somewhat radioactive hurricane, which is not great
    • Puerto Rico does not appreciate you dropping nukes just offshore
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  • fediverse Fediverse PSA: Lemmy votes can be manipulated
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  • czarrie czarrie 1 year ago 98%

    The nice things about the Federated universe is that, yes, you can bulk create user accounts on your own instance - and that server can then be defederated by other servers when it becomes obvious that it's going to create problems.

    It's not a perfect fix and as this post demonstrated, is only really effective after a problem has been identified. At least in terms of vote manipulation from across servers, it could act if it, say, detects that 99% of new upvotes are coming from a server created yesterday with 1 post, it could at least flag it for a human to review.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy What operating system do you use on your main computer?
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  • czarrie czarrie 1 year ago 100%

    Currently Arch with KDE, switched recently from Gnome. Probably gonna swap to something a little more basic for the desktop environment, it's pretty but in the words of Peter Griffin, "It insists on itself"

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy Reddit Refugees on Lemmy, how are you guys liking lemmy so far?
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    I get more responses here than I ever did at Reddit. Like you can engaged in a conversation, not just try to figure out the stupidest thing to say to get the most votes and making sure you post at like, 4am for maximum exposure

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  • memes Memes Reddit was a slog too at first
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  • czarrie czarrie 1 year ago 100%

    That's the problem, even if technically the platform is the worst option, it is a pain to try and relocate a community.

    I had to do it with like 70 people from Google Hangouts to another service a few years back and it was crazy how hard just getting everyone into a basic service is. Any new or weird quirk will absolutely chase people back - especially if the original service is still working

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy Atheists/agnostics of Lemmy, do you believe in the existence of souls?
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  • czarrie czarrie 1 year ago 100%

    A soul is at best a description of the electrical and quantum interactions that take place in our brain, a personified phenotype of the sum of these things occurring in our head (and to a degree our eyes, mouth, ears, and skin).

    I don't believe in the soul in the traditional sense as it implies that there is one version of me -- is my soul my 9yo self, my 20-something alcoholic self, the self as of this moment, or my Alzheimer's-ridden self when I die? If it's supposed to be a "perfect" version of me when I pass, then it's kind of funny, because my spirit is, in a sense, a version of me that I've never actually met and wouldn't recognize.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy What are the cybersecurity weaknesses of the Fediverse?
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    I suspect what will happen with the Federated universe as a whole is what happened to Linux - companies will start using the products, contribute to them, and it becomes this weird corporate/open source hybrid as the main devs, however good, simply won't have the same level of resources as say FAANG to throw at these problems

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy What are the cybersecurity weaknesses of the Fediverse?
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  • czarrie czarrie 1 year ago 100%

    Yeah, having big companies run everything was terrible but at least you had like, a team of peeps whose job it was to make sure that the whole company didn't implode due to a breach (because they would at a minimum be out of work or worse never get a job in the field).

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  • lemmyworld Lemmy.World Announcements Lemmy.world status update 2023-07-04
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  • czarrie czarrie 1 year ago 99%

    I'm just excited to be back in the Wild West again -- all of the big players had bumps, at least this one is working to fix them.

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  • showerthoughts Showerthoughts Now no one will ever see all those super long !remindme bot posts set for 5, 10 or 15 years on Reddit
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    Unrelated but someone needs to port Bobby B bot over here

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  • lemmyshitpost Lemmy Shitpost I know Lemmy is about to take off because the porn is quickly moving from drawn henti and furry images to gonewild onlyfan contributors. I call it the QOTP Index (Quality Of The Porn). Reddit is done.
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    Oh good, can't wait for my feed on here to be absolutely slammed with porn bots. We made it, boys.

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  • lemmyshitpost Lemmy Shitpost Why won’t people just leave Elon and u/spez alone, they’re just having a little fun with their companies that they bought with hard earned money /s
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    I just want to know where they got those extra-long bootstraps

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  • lemmyshitpost Lemmy Shitpost [AMA] Hi, I’m /u/spez, CEO of Reddit, coming to you to talk about my recent acquisition of Lemmy and some upcoming changes. Ask me anything!
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    Thank you for your question about Rampart. Unfortunately we have no news to share about Rampart.

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    [AMA] Hi, I’m /u/spez, CEO of Reddit, coming to you to talk about my recent acquisition of Lemmy and some upcoming changes. Ask me anything!

    Thanks for joining me today! I'm here at the Reddit corporate parking lot, spot 269 (nice!), and ~~being assisted today by Victoria~~ all by myself because friends only tie down your ambitions. Founded in 1978 as a men's discount shoe store on the west side of Philadelphia (born and raised), Reddit has, despite our best efforts, experienced an unprecedented explosion in popularity in the past decade. As of this morning, we are now home to over 16.5 million subscribers, of which a good 11% are associated with human beings, creating over 13 original posts each and every week! As a business, our primary goal has been maintaining this platform at the expense of our users. As a result, we recently made the decision to acquire one of our upcoming competitors, Lemmy. This sale finalized as of Sunday, July 2nd, for a price that will not be disclosed because our VCs might be reading this. Effectively immediately, we have enacted a few new featifits (a benefit and a feature combined) that will ~~hopefully pay for the new sous chef~~ will benefeat the Lemmy community. These include: - A newly revamped federation system that will allow Reddit posts to be viewed on Lemmy. This will be limited to one randomly selected subreddits every month, as chosen by myself, and I've been pretty much into cat girls this year, so they'll probably be cat girl-related - A unique new post sorting algorithm that compliments the above, boosting all posts that do, possibly may, or will feature cat girls after I have edited them - 500 Spezbux that can be redeemed for Speztokens at any point - An unshakable sense of dread about the future course of technology - Full length ads for Carl Jr's that will be sent directly to your inbox each hour and can be viewed for additional Spezgild - New scents And much much more! Also, as is tradition for this AMA, we will not be answering any questions at this time, but please, feel free to waste your time and ask anyway!

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    circlejerk circlejerk [AMA] Hi, I'm /u/spez, CEO of Reddit, coming to you to talk about my recent acquisition of Lemmy and some upcoming changes. Ask me anything!
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    Please keep all questions related to "Rampart". Thanks!

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    circlejerk czarrie 1 year ago 100%
    [AMA] Hi, I'm /u/spez, CEO of Reddit, coming to you to talk about my recent acquisition of Lemmy and some upcoming changes. Ask me anything!

    Thanks for joining me today! I'm here at the Reddit corporate parking lot, spot 269 (nice!), and ~~being assisted today by Victoria~~ all by myself because friends only tie down your ambitions. Founded in 1978 as a men's discount shoe store on the west side of Philadelphia (born and raised), Reddit has, despite our best efforts, experienced an unprecedented explosion in popularity in the past decade. As of this morning, we are now home to over 16.5 million subscribers, of which a good 11% are associated with human beings, creating over 13 original posts each and every week! As a business, our primary has been maintaining this platform at the expense of our users. As a result, we recently made the decision to acquire one of our upcoming competitors, Lemmy. This sale finalized as of Sunday, July 2nd, for a price that will not be disclosed because our VCs might be reading this. Effectively immediately, we have enacted a few new featifits (a benefit and a feature combined) that will ~~hopefully pay for the new sous chef~~ will benefeat the Lemmy community. These include: - A newly revamped federation system that will allow Reddit posts to be viewed on Lemmy. This will be limited to one randomly selected subreddits every month, as chosen by myself, and I've been pretty much into cat girls this year, so they'll probably be cat girl-related - A unique new post sorting algorithm that compliments the above, boosting all posts that do, possibly may, or will feature cat girls after I have edited them - 500 Spezbux that can be redeemed for Speztokens at any token - An unshakable sense of dread about the future course of technology - Full length ads for Carl Jr's that will be sent directly to your inbox each hour and can be viewed for additional Spezgild - New scents And much much more! Also, as is tradition for this AMA, we will not be answering any questions at this time, but please, feel free to waste your time and ask anyway! 😉

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    lemmyshitpost Lemmy Shitpost If this picture of a post makes it to the front page I will shit on it
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    Are you shitting on the picture or the post itself? How do you plan to get up there? If you're standing on it, how can you be sure it will land on the post and on the ground?

    So many questions.

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    lemmyshitpost Lemmy Shitpost Yesterday's user activity
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  • czarrie czarrie 1 year ago 100%

    I'm now your friend too. Sorry.

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  • showerthoughts Showerthoughts Lemmy is so good right now for no particular reason
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  • czarrie czarrie 1 year ago 100%

    Yeah, the absence of a slew of editorialized content, obviously being pushed by larger groups, is kinda nice. Like I think I've interacted with more people on here in the past 24 than I would in a week over there

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  • showerthoughts Showerthoughts Lemmy is so good right now for no particular reason
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  • czarrie czarrie 1 year ago 100%

    Don't forget the free ice cream when you signed up this week.

    ...you guys did get the free ice cream, right? It was on the sign up page and everything?

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  • cat cats Say hello to Pips
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    Bonjour, pips!

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  • nostupidquestions No Stupid Questions Reddit refugee, what are the Lemmy "jolly rancher" legends?
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  • czarrie czarrie 1 year ago 100%

    Some say he's still not pooping to this day

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  • nostupidquestions No Stupid Questions What was so special about the Apollo app?
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  • czarrie czarrie 1 year ago 83%

    I can't speak for Apollo but I used RIF and old.Reddit

    I work with a bunch of techies with various opinions on this; he said I like "an app that looks like it was from 10 years ago", which was meant to be an insult, but I think is actually the point: it was text-first, list view, "get out of your way" to enjoy the content.

    I don't like advertising pretending to be content.

    I don't like the integrations that pushed paid crap like their version of Bitcoin.

    And I am here because even though Reddit is still active, it's clear that the ship is being sailed solely by momentum at this point and the company is, well, only going up be able to do so much until they can't pay what little staff they have. The way the mods and app developers were treated this month was the lowest of the low and sealed my decision.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy What was ruined by rich people?
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  • czarrie czarrie 1 year ago 100%

    frantically gestures at everything

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  • fediverse Fediverse Lemmy active users grew by an astounding 1600% in June
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  • czarrie czarrie 1 year ago 100%

    I'm in the same boat, but coming from RIF. Tried to use Mastodon before but wasn't huge on the interface. I'm pleasantly surprised so far, I'm using Connect for Lemmy with reverse list view and it's ...not terribly dissimilar.

    That said, it's obviously still new, and slow. I'm going to see where this goes.

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