Well said. As someone who is going to vote for Biden to keep Trump out of office, I harbor no ill will towards leftists who choose to reject the whole charade. One way or another, we need to bring down the system, and I don't see any evidence that voting for centrist democrats is likely to incrementally move us towards a better system.
On the contrary, it seems more likely to me that Trump would potentially accelerate the evolution of society by fucking everything up so badly that we would have no alternative but to make radical changes.
However, given that I am unable to be certain of the future outcome of each timeline, I believe that voting for Biden minimizes the risk of a worst case scenario. But again, I don't approve of shaming leftists for abstaining, because the reality is that both parties are colluding to maintain the status quo, and ultimately if Trump wins the election its not the voters who will be to blame, but the Democratic party for failing to produce a credible challenger.
Thank you for sharing that; I also consider myself a radical moderate. In the context of a decadent and degenerate society, the term makes a great deal of sense.
First click the link. Then manually type 12ft.io/ in the URL bar, before the https://
I'm honestly not sure how it works because it doesn't work when you share the link, but if you type it manually it does. Works on all sorts of sites too, but some sites have already opted out. Honestly the Firefox reader view that the other guy posted is even easier and more useful, assuming you use Firefox.
Every lemmy post and comment should have this button that I circled, assuming you're using the web interface. If you click that, it shows the actual formatting of the post or comment so you can see how it was done. Like this
You're the one making a lot of assumptions based on what was originally a shower thought. It's a nice thought but it's completely and utterly incorrect in reality.
My kids are real life examples demonstrating that huge investment, while good for the individuals, does not reduce the cost or burden of them to society later in their life.
This isn't an assumption, it's a data point that contradicts your hypothetical theory.
The fundamental flaw in your thinking is your assumption that treating mental illness and disabilities will result in the person becoming a productive member of society. This is occasionally true, but much more commonly, the treatment serves to alleviate the more severe symptoms of the condition, without actually curing or fixing the condition.
Healthcare is primarily about minimizing the damage and suffering caused by various physical and mental ailments. It can't magically transform people into something they're not.
From what I can tell, !coolguides has a fairly rigid set of rules, with a specific distinction made between guides and infographics. That's great, I like when moderators take an active role in curating the content of their communities.
But I would guess that !coolguides is possibly a response to those rules. Basically if your post got removed from the lemmy.ca community because it was technically an infographic, you could post it to sopuli.xyz community instead.
That's my understanding of the ecosystem, without having spoken to any of the people involved.
Yeah I feel you, at least the Orioles team is super stacked rn though (speaking as a Yankees fan 🫠). !yankees is equally dead.
My current thought process is that if we can get a decently active generalized baseball community going, it could provide a stepping stone to increasing the activity in the team-specific communities. I'm trying to be active on !mlb and !baseball as much as possible.
There is already a latent population of sports fans on Lemmy, but it's sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy that the communities aren't active so people assume there must be no other fans.
My other thought on this topic is that although I do miss the active fan discussion and game threads, the subreddits for essentially all of my teams were indisputably toxic cesspools. The whining, armchair GMing, scapegoating, and just completely idiotic takes were out of this world. So it'd be nice to have activity, but too much activity can also degrade the quality of discussion to the level of Twitter and just create a very toxic environment where fans are constantly arguing and complaining.
Hi! Recently exiled reddit user, here. I'm curious what other alternatives to reddit there are, besides Lemmy, and Raddle, of course. Also, imho, Phuks is a good alternative, there's no hate-speech (that I'm aware of) and people are pretty respectful. Anyways, let's hear your suggestions! Thank you!
I've explored a few platforms within the Fediverse, but most of them seem to be inspired by and mimic existing mainstream social media platforms like Twitter, Reddit, and Facebook. While this familiarity can be comforting, I can't help but wonder if there are any truly innovative and original platforms out there that offer a...
Indeed, that's an excellent point. Additionally, the fediverse is already an innovation in and of itself.
Yeah most fediverse projects mimic Twitter, reddit, etc. But they all add the key innovation of federation. Just by conforming to ActivityPub, each fediverse project features a key innovation in its respective niche.
I think part of the reason this doesn't seem as impactful as it could is because federation is still very rudimentary. We are only scratching the surface of the potential that federation theoretically provides. It's a feature/innovation that becomes more useful the larger the network grows, and the fediverse isn't large enough yet for that to become apparent.
Yeah I was thinking this. I hardly expect the smugglers are setting up meetings with Apple executives and selling them blood minerals. The most important part of their business is knowing how to safely sell the contraband, they obviously have discreet channels where a few well placed bribes can get the minerals into the supply chain with nobody being the wiser.
You have to catch the smugglers/miners to stop the blood minerals. Even if it were possible for Apple to root them out, they'd just keep selling to other companies.
Akshually, Michigan-Huron is a single lake, hydrologically speaking of course, which has 1.5 times the surface area of Lake Superior.
But Superior still manages to contain 1.5 times the water volume in just 66% of the surface area, comprising 10% of the surface fresh water on planet earth. That's one deep boi. Aptly named I must say
I’ve been wondering, since I’m on lemmy.world, whether there is a way to see which instances were defederated and I had no way of knowing even existed from here....
Ever since Lemmy went to 0.19, there has been occasional time delay in federating content from larger servers. Sometimes federation between lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works does not happen instantly. But since you said you got the message in your inbox, that would indicate that it did already federate. I don't use Connect, it could be something with the app.
Also the other guy gave you the instance list for sh.itjust.works. http://lemmy.world/instances is probably what you're looking for.
But this website is probably the easiest way to do a quick check.
That's strange, I would at least try using a different app or web-ui to make sure it's not Connect.
Yeah there's a lot of instances on that list but most Lemmy instances are extremely small. Among the decently sized, active servers, it's mainly just lemmygrad, hexbear, and beehaw that they're not federated with.
The Blake and Mortimer series was created by Edgar Pierre “E.P.” Jacobs, with a significant style & spirit flowing directly from his work for Hergé from ~1944-1947. [more] B&M is in fact Jacobs’ signature series, representing by far most of his overall BD work....
Wow! Really wonderful artwork selections you have included here.
Jacobs tended not to go in for the amount of slapstick and humor that Hergé did, instead aiming for more serious, tense and spellbinding plotting, heavier on exposition & dialogue.
That sounds appealing to me. Thank you for making me aware of this series!
I can confirm that we did ban the lemmit repost bot a while back. Many users were complaining about the volume of bot posts and lack of comments and found the whole thing confusing.
I will talk to the other admins and see if we can figure out some kind of middle ground, because I do see the value of being able to access a mirror of BORU from Lemmy.
Thank you. I just try to treat people fairly and communicate clearly, and let everything else fall into place from there. I really, really, appreciate when our users express satisfaction with our moderation, because the first few months were kinda rocky at times and I often felt like I was taking criticism from multiple angles. Ever since we brought in kersploosh and IEGS as admins, we have had a lot more positive feedback about our moderation. We make a good team.
I’ll be sure to let you know if we figure something out on this topic.
It’s definitely a good idea. I’m not sure how high it is in priority when we still need to work on basic federation mechanics, but eventually I think it makes a lot of sense.
Amazon is phasing out its checkout-less grocery stores with “Just Walk Out” technology, first reported by The Information Tuesday. The company’s senior vice president of grocery stores says they’re moving away from Just Walk Out, which relied on cameras and sensors to track what people were leaving the store with.
And I am calling Amazon’s “just walk out” service also a con because it was touted as automatic, even if also being mostly human labour.
That’s not what a con is. A con is a deliberate scam. Amazon’s automated checkout simply didn’t function as effectively as intended. They presumably lost money on the venture because the automation was unreliable. Nothing about this situation was a deliberate attempt to pay over 1,000 employees to check an automated system’s work.
The Mechanical Turk is an interesting story and I’m glad you linked it, but it’s not all that similar.
We have 4 new open calls for funding for projects that contribute to an open, trustworthy, human-centered internet. Projects must be free and open source and papers published as open access....
Do you think that the fediverse has something to gain with the enshitfication of discord? Are there voice chat programs in the fediverse that can benefit from it?
The title pretty much says it all. I’ve always struggled to connect with others, but the farther I find myself outside of societal norms, the harder it gets.
That’s a tough situation. I guess I would just advise trying to find other groups who will accept you for who you are. You’re not alone, but you might have to work much harder to seek out people who are able to understand what you’re going through.
Lemmy is a good substitute sometimes but you really need IRL support as well.
I feel like I always read it as transmorgifier though. Sounds more sci fi. I wonder if the r/g transposition was intentional by Watterson because it’s Calvin writing it.
As an avowed agnostic since the 3rd grade, you’re not wrong.
My fundamental problem with atheism is that I don’t believe it’s possible to answer the question of why is there something rather than nothing without acquiescing to the possibility of a higher power.
That being said, my qualms with organized religion are much more severe, so I rarely have reason to bicker with atheists about technicalities.
“Coincidence” would seem to be a much more likely reason
How so? How do you define “coincidence” in this context?
Even if “coincidence” is more likely, that doesn’t rule out the possibility of a higher power.
Atheism is the assertion that there is no God, agnosticism is the acknowledgement that we can’t actually prove such an assertion. As an agnostic, I dont necessarily believe that a higher power is likely to exist, I simply know that I am unable to definitively prove otherwise.
If you claim to be an atheist, you should be able to logically demonstrate that a higher power cannot possibly exist. Go ahead.
Fair enough. I guess my understanding of the terminology may be obsolete.
But I’m unsure how you can be gnostic about the Judeo-Christian God existing. Doesn’t that require the exact same amount of faith as actual Christians, just in the opposite direction? I’m not comfortable with claiming certainty of anything in the absence of any logical framework, and thus I do not identify as an atheist.
Why wouldn’t it? We have no frame of reference to make a value judgment about what a higher power should or would be like. We simply have no way of knowing.
Our extremely advanced collection of scientific knowledge doesn’t even attempt to explain anything prior to the big bang. The models simply don’t apply.
In the 20th century, many made similar arguments regarding quantum mechanics. Einstein famously remarked “God doesn’t play dice”, because he didn’t see how uncertainty could be a fundamental aspect of physics. Everything we knew about physics up until that point involved definitive calculations which provided a determinate result. Turns out he was wrong.
I try to avoid hubris, and in this situation it’s pretty easy for me to recognize and avoid. My question for you is, what is your incentive to make such a definitive claim in the absence of certainty? My suspicion is it has something to do with OPs original claim that atheists choose to believe that God doesn’t exist due to emotional reasons, rather than rational ones.
What makes you assume that a higher power would adhere to your moral code?
You don’t actually know, but because certain possibilities make you emotionally uncomfortable, you choose to reject them. It’s totally fine for you to choose to believe whatever you like. But from a purely rational perspective, you cannot prove your assertion; it’s based on faith.
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How to Post a Link in a Lemmy Post to Another Lemmy Post
Sorry if the title is confusing let me explain:...
What's it called when an inventor's invention backfires on them?
Is there a name for this specific concept? Where somebody invents something (to do them good) but then that thing turns around and backfires on them?
Which drugs have you used?
If everyone had access to healthcare the net benefit of treating the mental illness and other disabilities holding them back would easily cover the cost of the healthcare itself.
A community for posting Cool Guides
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Reddit if full of bots: thread reposted exactly the same, comment by comment, 10 months later ( files.catbox.moe )
For the threads with the older one on the left: https://lemmy.world/post/14859950...
Besides lemmy, what's another good reddit alternative?
Hi! Recently exiled reddit user, here. I'm curious what other alternatives to reddit there are, besides Lemmy, and Raddle, of course. Also, imho, Phuks is a good alternative, there's no hate-speech (that I'm aware of) and people are pretty respectful. Anyways, let's hear your suggestions! Thank you!
What's the most eccentric use of Occam's Razor you've ever witnessed?
Is anybody being positive on Lemmy?
Reviving [email protected]
!interestingasfuck, because it's always nice to see something interesting while you browse Lemmy
Are there any innovative platforms in the Fediverse?
I've explored a few platforms within the Fediverse, but most of them seem to be inspired by and mimic existing mainstream social media platforms like Twitter, Reddit, and Facebook. While this familiarity can be comforting, I can't help but wonder if there are any truly innovative and original platforms out there that offer a...
Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths ( www.theverge.com )
Congo questions Apple over knowledge of conflict minerals in its supply chain ( abcnews.go.com )
How can water be so self-absorbed? ( lemmy.world )
Is there a way to see which communities or instances have been defederated from the one you're on?
I’ve been wondering, since I’m on lemmy.world, whether there is a way to see which instances were defederated and I had no way of knowing even existed from here....
We should count in base four
We have basic words for the numbers zero to three, so why not use them to count?...
**Blake and Mortimer in Egypt** ( i.imgur.com )
The Blake and Mortimer series was created by Edgar Pierre “E.P.” Jacobs, with a significant style & spirit flowing directly from his work for Hergé from ~1944-1947. [more] B&M is in fact Jacobs’ signature series, representing by far most of his overall BD work....
Update to not being able to view lemmit.online from sh.itjust.works
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Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores ( gizmodo.com )
Amazon is phasing out its checkout-less grocery stores with “Just Walk Out” technology, first reported by The Information Tuesday. The company’s senior vice president of grocery stores says they’re moving away from Just Walk Out, which relied on cameras and sensors to track what people were leaving the store with.
4 new open calls for funding for projects that contribute to an open, trustworthy, human-centered internet. ( nlnet.nl )
We have 4 new open calls for funding for projects that contribute to an open, trustworthy, human-centered internet. Projects must be free and open source and papers published as open access....
With discord planning to show ads, how can the fediverse/lemmy benefit from another proprietary program making itself worse? (Like it was with reddit)
Do you think that the fediverse has something to gain with the enshitfication of discord? Are there voice chat programs in the fediverse that can benefit from it?
How do you navigate loneliness when striving to break free from societal norms?
The title pretty much says it all. I’ve always struggled to connect with others, but the farther I find myself outside of societal norms, the harder it gets.
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Have you ever been in an argument where you absolutely objectively proved you were correct?