I left reddit completely when they started taking over subreddits if the mods refused to stop their protest. I think subreddits are created by the mods, maintained by the mods, and simply hosted by reddit. In a moral sense (but not in a legal sense) the subreddits belong to the mods and I couldn’t support reddit’s new policy by participating in it.
Lemmy is way worse than reddit, simply because it’s so small. I used to participate primarily in subreddits for obscure video games, blogs I liked, and other niche interests. None of that is here yet. Even my guilty pleasure, AITA, isn’t here yet. But the only way to change that is by participating here myself, and in the meanwhile I spend a lot less time just browsing random stuff which is a win for my productivity.
the local culture of Reddit encourages braindeadness, disingenuousness, entitlement, and circlejerking
I feel like I see more of that here, at least because there are no active replacements yet for the niche subreddits I used to participate in which were actually moderated to remove low-effort comments. I would never have posted in /r/politics if I wanted to discuss a controversial topic, but here I feel like that’s the only option.
A guy who used to work at a nuclear reactor was telling me how water is very effective at absorbing radiation, so radioactive waste can be kept at the bottom of a deep pool and the level of radiation at the surface will be completely safe.
I asked him “Does that mean I could swim in one of those pools?”
Maine is a state where almost half the households have guns. I don’t think opponents of the second amendment are going to find a lot of support there even after yesterday’s mass shooting.
Isn’t that a national poll, as opposed to a poll of Maine residents? I’m talking specifically about Maine, not about the USA as a whole.
Or “oppose the second amendment”, as you propagandistically say, because you dont have facts on your side.
Generally people who quibble about the term “well-regulated militia” do specifically oppose the second amendment. But the constitution of Maine doesn’t have that ambiguity:
Every citizen has a right to keep and bear arms and this right shall never be questioned.
People advocating for gun control aren’t necessarily opponents of the 2nd amendment, but people talking about well-regulated militias usually are. What’s the point of bringing up that strange phrase unless you don’t think that the 2nd amendment’s right to bear arms applies to everyone regardless of membership in some sort of militia?
That’s not an unreasonable reading of the text, but if you’re going to look at the Constitution that way, you’ll see that it doesn’t talk about abortion or gay marriage either. I’m in favor of abortion rights and gay marriage, and that’s why I don’t start “but the Constitution doesn’t literally say…” arguments with conservatives.
For context, they managed to successfully accomplish an impossible task (defeating a Lich with it’s minions) to save their tribe’s armoury and magical item stash. So their master, an Ancient Red Dragon, will give them an item from his own collection
Look at any photograph or work of art. If you could duplicate exactly the first tiny dot of color, and then the next and the next, you would end with a perfect copy of the whole, indistinguishable from the original in every way, including the so-called “moral value” of the art itself. Nothing can transcend its smallest elements. CEO Nwabudike Morgan, “The Ethics of Greed”
The asymmetry you’re talking about is the presumption of innocence, and I would prefer not to “reform” that. Trump isn’t guilty of leading a coup until he’s convicted of leading a coup with every t crossed and every i dotted.
The Mercedes looks tolerable, although it wouldn’t be the car I would choose for that price. The Audi is downright hideous. I would rather pay half as much to get both a Miata for when I want to have fun and a truck for when I need the cargo space.
Bettersten Wade’s search for her adult son ended when she discovered that an officer had run him over — and without telling her, authorities buried him in a pauper’s field.
I only have the information in the article, but from that it seems like the investigator originally assigned to the case was lazy, incompetent, or perhaps biased against this family because of their history with the police. That last thing seems like it is (or should be) illegal but the first two aren’t, and the investigator is retired so it’s too late for him to be penalized by the department (although I suspect that they wouldn’t have). Other than that, the behavior of the police appears to have been appropriate - any driver could have hit a man crossing a six-lane highway at night, it isn’t the coroner’s job to track down a dead person’s next of kin, and the new investigator assigned to the case appears to have been diligent.
IMO the behavior of the first investigator justifies an internal investigation and I would be quite cynical about the impartiality of that investigation, but I don’t see strong evidence that a crime took place.
Hitting a man crossing a six lane highway in the dark is not automatically vehicular homicide. Sometimes the pedestrian is at fault when a car hits a pedestrian, and this appears to be one of those times. It isn’t literally impossible that the driver was drunk or going twice the speed limit and the cops covered it up, but assuming that something like that happened without any evidence is unreasonable even when the driver was a cop.
I’d still rather have a gas stove. IMO the improved experience of cooking with gas justifies the small increase in exposure to air pollution. My general principle is that I drive a car despite how dangerous that is, so I should be willing to take other risks as long as they’re lower than the risk from driving.
(Resistive electric stoves are terrible. Inductive ones are much better. I can see why someone might like them more than gas, but I don’t.)
I do consider it a small increase, but I suppose that’s subjective and depends a lot on a person’s risk tolerance. Maybe mine is higher than yours.
As for induction stoves: they work quite well. If I was cooking simply because I needed cooked food and for no other reason, I would have no objection to them (and perhaps a preference for them). However, I feel that there’s something deeply satisfying about cooking over a fire and I want that satisfaction when I cook.
I think you have to accept risks of that magnitude unless you’re willing to micromanage other people’s lives (and to have your own life micromanaged). If you’re not going to tolerate people who use gas stoves, will you tolerate people who take twenty minute showers? People who heat their houses to 75° in the winter? People who have big lawns?
There’s a point past which protecting the environment doesn’t justify intrusive restrictions of people’s behavior, and IMO banning gas stoves is well beyond that point.
On the contrary, if you keep trying then eventually you’ll roll a 20 no matter how low your CHA is. That’s good enough in circumstances where you do get to keep trying and you only need to succeed once. Sokka would keep trying while Zuko would refuse to risk looking like a fool.
Eh, my friend actually did that. I assumed that she had some sort of awful family she was running from, but actually they’re nice and she visits them on holidays. She just wanted to be in the big city so much that she was willing to rent a single room in a bad neighborhood and constantly look for odd jobs rather than live out in the countryside with her parents.
Wasn’t the boat on some sort of infiltration mission behind Ukrainian lines? If that’s the case, a patrolling drone could have attacked it while remaining nowhere near the range of any Russian air defenses.
Despite anxiety over Texas’ growth and billboards in California trying to persuade residents to stay put, many still chose to switch states, often picking Austin and the larger Central Texas region as their next home....
With people like Abbott in charge, that’s no longer going to be a viable option.
How so? Isn’t the average tech worker’s salary sufficient to pay for personal remedies to most statewide conservative laws? For example, someone earning six figures would have no trouble quickly and quietly traveling to another state for an abortion.
I don’t know anyone in Austin but I do have liberal tech worker friends in DeSantis’s Florida and while they’re opposed to his policies, they aren’t personally affected by those policies in any serious way.
Those are good points. I suppose issues involving children are the biggest concerns. I tend not to think about them much because I don’t have children, but my friends in Florida do. They seem content with the quality of their local schools but I can see how school quality could vary wildly.
The article simply labels people and organizations “far right” without specifying what “far right” means in this context or what exactly most of those people and organizations have said or done which is supposedly “far right”. It might as well just be a list of names labeled “bad guys”. I expected better reporting from the Guardian.
A human being is a process of computation. Ending the computation is death. Pausing the computation is, well, simply pausing the computation. It has no profound significance.
(This is also my answer to the “teleporter problem.” As long as the computation continues, a change in the substrate on which it takes place also has no profound significance.)
Creating and destroying perfectly identical copies of the information that corresponds to a person neither creates nor destroys people unless the very last copy of that information is destroyed, in which case the person is killed.
Small divergences aren’t a big deal. For example, if a person spends an hour under the effect of an anesthetic (or alcohol) which prevents the formation of new long-term memories, this person isn’t dying when he goes to sleep and wakes up without any memories of that last hour.
Larger divergences are a big deal - losing a year of memories is pretty bad, losing a decade is even worse, and having one’s mind returned to the blank slate of an infant is very close to the same thing as dying.
So what I’m saying is that the two copies start out as the same person and then gradually become different people.
I agree that the copies will diverge almost instantly; I’m just saying that small amounts of divergence aren’t a big deal. That’s what I’m trying to illustrate with my example of the person who loses an hour of memories. I think this is exactly equivalent to making a copy, having that copy exist for an hour, and then destroying it. An hour of memories does make the copy different from the original, but the loss of the copy is just the loss of that hour, not of a complete human being (and we naturally quickly forget much more than that - I already can’t remember what I did every hour yesterday).
I admit I don’t feel like it’s exactly equivalent, but I think that’s an illusion caused by my moral intuitions developing in a wold where destroying a copy always means destroying the only copy.
Yes, with the caveat that the combination of weather and local adaptations is more important than weather alone. For example, the heat is worse in Florida than it is in New York City, but in Florida you can drive everywhere in an air-conditioned car and experience the heat for only a minute or two each day while in NYC you’ll probably have to either walk or wait for mass transit long enough to become miserable even though the weather isn’t as hot.
It seems that unless you can live somewhere with perfect weather like parts of the west coast of the US, you’re probably best off looking for the most car-friendly place to live and avoiding the weather entirely.
Is the purpose of this device to remotely mine areas where enemies currently aren’t, or to attempt to drop mines directly on enemies? The former task seems suited to a reusable drone.
You’re right, but I can hear the guy say “противопехотная мина” at the same time there’s a closeup of the mine and the TM-62M label is visible. I’m not sure what the significance of that is.
Idea! A programming language where text formatting has syntactic meaning! Variable declarations must be italicized! Function calls underlined! And every line justified, of course.
Question to the ones that fully left Reddit
How has it been for you? Do you get FOMO feeling sometimes?...
Free disposal? (startrek.website)
Sure Doesn't feel like one. (lemmy.ml)
Me to my players tonight, they deserve it (ttrpg.network)
For context, they managed to successfully accomplish an impossible task (defeating a Lich with it’s minions) to save their tribe’s armoury and magical item stash. So their master, an Ancient Red Dragon, will give them an item from his own collection
That Voyager is one clean burning starship though, I’ll tell you what. (lemmy.world)
Jack Smith Asks Court To Jail Trump If He Keeps Yapping About Witnesses (www.huffpost.com)
Really? (telegra.ph)
The average car purchased in 2023 emits higher levels of carbon dioxide (CO₂) than its 2013 equivalent. This is due to the large proportion of SUVs in the mix, which tend to be bigger and heavier. (english.elpais.com)
A mother reported her son missing in March. Police kept the truth from her for months. (www.nbcnews.com)
Bettersten Wade’s search for her adult son ended when she discovered that an officer had run him over — and without telling her, authorities buried him in a pauper’s field.
Be aware (lemmy.world)
report abuse (lemmy.ml)
ATACMS fragmentation damage to a Ka-52 helicopter (files.catbox.moe)
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don't know, don't care (feddit.de)
It'll go great with our party's purple tiefling (startrek.website)
"My first girlfriend turned into the moon" (ttrpg.network)
The real, true hero of the show
The Mind Goblins got the Barbarian (files.catbox.moe)
Anon notices the "grass is always greener" trope in movies (sh.itjust.works)
Commission by Michael C. Hayes (pbs.twimg.com)
source...
"Ukraine's Bayraktar fleet returns to the skies" (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Tech workers now doubting decision to move from California to Texas (www.chron.com)
Despite anxiety over Texas’ growth and billboards in California trying to persuade residents to stay put, many still chose to switch states, often picking Austin and the larger Central Texas region as their next home....
Revealed: US pro-birth conference’s links to far-right eugenicists (www.theguardian.com)
Natal conference, to be held in Austin in December, promoted on far-right podcast circuit and set to host self-described eugenicists...
Does Consciousness Disappear in Dreamless Sleep? (lemmy.world)
Art by smbc-comics...
Single race party (diyrpg.org)
When one of your party members starts acting weird. (comicpress.socksandpuppets.com)
This comic is part of an ongoing story that might make more sense with full context....
Do you think bad weather is a good reason for moving?
Would you uproot your life, leaving behind your family, your job etc if you dont like the weather in a country....
A drone carrying an anti-tank mine. (streamable.com)
Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
In honor of the M1 Abrams being delivered to Ukraine later this month... (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Ideas for programming rizz? (i.imgur.com)
Sam Once Again (i.imgur.io)
Wargs are scary, yo. 😱 (ttrpg.network)
Runecairn is a hack of Cairn a rules, light, dungeons, and dragons variant....