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Why wasn't NYC's Central Park concept copied by other cities?

I’m talking about a massive park in the absolute heart of the city. Located such that is naturally surrounded by city high rises. *People are giving examples of parks that are way off in the boonies. I’m trying to say located centrally, heart of the city, you know where the high rises are. Yes I understand nyc has more, the...

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St. Louis’s Forest Park is bigger still at 5.3 km^2

Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple (www.theverge.com)

Samsung has released a new video in support of Google’s #GetTheMessage campaign which calls for Apple to adopt RCS or “Rich Communication Services,” the cross-platform protocol pitched as a successor to SMS that adopts many of the features found in modern messaging apps… like Apple’s own iMessage.

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Above commenter was saying that you’re not allowed to use any other app besides the default messages app to send SMS on an iPhone, so a third party can’t just come in with an SMS app that also implements RCS so everyone can be happy

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Man, this must just be a right of passage for working as a SWE or MLE at this point. I’ve heard this pitch from coworkers/managers more than once.

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I have gone through some trauma therapy that has helped where no talk therapy has been able to. There are lots of studies showing the effectiveness too. Look up EMDR or brain spotting.

I really just have to push back on the “doing nothing at all” or “talking to a rubber duck” piece because I’d been trying that for years and trauma flashbacks don’t seem just go away on their own.

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I still somewhat take issue with that characterization though. It doesn’t just “work for me and that’s okay,” it works period. It has been clinically shown to work for other people too. I only say this because spreading misinformation about it being “pseudoscience” and ineffective only serves to continue some people’s pain and never find an effective treatment for them, and I believe that’s potentially dangerous.

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Buddy, I’m not telling you it will work for you. I’m talking about on the whole we have scientific evidence to prove that it is effective. I’m literally only responding to your claim that “therapy is pseudoscience.” No need to get so defensive.

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It’s mostly for things that don’t warrant a post but your friends might still think are interesting. I’m big on live music so it makes it easy for me to see a snippets of shows people go to or even to figure out if friends happen to be at the same show, but that’s just my personal example.

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Anything in particular help you shift away from that?

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So, knowing this, what can we conclude from these graphs? It looks like posts and comments are going up but active users are going down. Does this mean that the posters are posting more individually? Enough to offset the drop in active users?

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Anyone from Germany care to comment on why this is? Y’all seem to have such a large presence on here compared to others

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I will probably get downvoted for saying it, but this post and the response here reminds me a lot of things you’d see on r/conservative in that people take an isolated hateful incident and extrapolate to say that this is the start of a civil war and we need to mount an equally forceful response. Yes this is a tragedy, unhinged, and terroristic behavior, but, as someone from a deeply red state who has some ultra-conservative family, 0 of them are even remotely close to wanting to fight and die over pride flags.

I only say this because the sentiment that “there is no other way out of this but civil war” is not anywhere close to true, in my mind, and only serves to stop coherent discussion.

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Not sure why this got downvoted. Things “just working” have a lot of upsides too: saving time, better accessibility, etc.

X, formerly Twitter, slowed down access to Threads, The New York Times, Bluesky and more (techcrunch.com)

X, formerly known as Twitter, was throttling traffic to websites that the social network’s owner Elon Musk publicly dislikes. The platform slowed down the speed it takes when accessing links to a handful of websites, including The New York Times, Instagram, Facebook, Bluesky, Threads, Reuters and Substack. The platform appears...

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What law does this violate?

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Has anything remotely like this ever been litigated before? All I can find is that Unfair Trade Practice usually deals with “misrepresentation, false advertising or representation of a good or service, tied selling, false free prize or gift offers, deceptive pricing, and noncompliance with manufacturing standards,” none of which cover throttling access to other sites from your own. I agree that this is shitty and everyone should get off Twitter, but to say it’s illegal seems like a bit of a stretch.

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They aren’t removing content for a legit reason

They aren’t actually removing content at all. They’re just adding a 5 second delay to websites they don’t like. I still think it would be an uphill battle to try to prove that this causes “substantial injury to consumers” or that it “cannot reasonably be avoided by consumers” since they could still go to the website on their own.

I don’t really think the “promises free speech” argument would fly either because that would open the door to sue over anyone moderating anything at all, leaving aside that the term “free speech” as it was used by Musk is subjective and was never defined by the platform. There was even a time where they just outright disallowed posting any link to other competitors and that was never challenged in court. The statutes do have catch-alls but that doesn’t mean there is no standard by which you have to measure up against to prove that it fits one of those categories.

Bad faith? Yes. Illegal? It’s definitely not clear cut, and it seems like the answer is probably not.

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internet service providers

This is the key here, though. Twitter isn’t an ISP, they’re just making it more annoying when navigating from their site to elsewhere.

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I am a huge suf head, so you can imagine my excitement!

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This is a real tough one considering how large his body of work is. Carrie & Lowell was the album that really got me into him, and I think it’s a good one to start with. Illinois is another immaculate album by him, imo. My fav song may just be Impossible Soul because it’s 25 minutes long and is essentially an entire EP at the end of an album haha.

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Correct. ASPD isn’t diagnosed until the child is 18. They usually will diagnose them with “conduct disorder” as a minor instead.

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Maybe one day I’ll get there too, but not today

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I still don’t really get who gets the money from this special membership? I understand people subscribe to YouTube and twitch personalities because they want to support the creator and they get most of the money, but what incentive does anyone have to buy this community membership here? Is it really just the special avatars/badges/whatever?

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I would like to hear this story

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I believe the dev said they used ionic in this instance

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On top of that, the Lemmy user base consists mainly of left wing people and tech power users currently. Not a bad thing for me, but it does make me wonder about how effective it will be at attracting a larger user base; I personally think Lemmy needs to simplify/streamline/modernize its default UI/UX and sign up process to something more people are familiar with, but I’ve gotten a lot of pushback when I bring that up

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Still not sure what this is supposed to do based on the site? It’s some kind of all-in-one fediverse thing? Doesn’t help that they reference a ton of federated services that I’ve never heard of in the website

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Always a momentous occasion when a father shows a son his first cone. I know I have fond memories of my first cone.

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Well it makes sense when referring to the company because they own a bunch of popular brands like Instagram, WhatsApp, etc. Twitter just has Twitter so it doesn’t matter as much.

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To continue the analogy, if nobody understands how to purchase from your store or even what the store is, you’re not going to stay in business. That’s why I think Lemmy needs to bring the UI/UX up to industry design standards and simplify a LOT.

The abundance of controls and information is nice for power users, but it scares away the newbies who already think Lemmy is too complicated. Go to any other major social media site and check out how they bury/simplify/remove choices from users to not overload them. Don’t get me wrong, I think the UIs that provide all that info should definitely exist (think RES) but should not be the default.

The other thing is the sign up process: join-lemmy.org is what people have be telling folks to look at if they want to join, and it immediately gets into the nitty gritty of tech specs and servers and other things that the average Joe doesn’t know about and may get intimidated by.

This has been my nearly universal feedback when telling non-techie people about Lemmy. I know I may get pilloried for saying it since there is a lot of hate for big social media companies on here, but a lot of what they do works and I think we can copy some of that without losing the magic of federated social media & opposition to big corporations.

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Leviathan is the most annoying one for me, so it’s a good one to be spooned on! Gratz!

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Snapchat web client doesn’t work on Firefox :( that’s the only one I’ve run into

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Not sure if you’ve used it for a bit, but Thunder allows you to edit comments now

Edit: edited from Thunder

Those with parents who hold opposite political views than you, how do you go about disagreeing?

To be more specific, my parents raised my siblings and me to “respect” them, saying "yes sir, and “no ma’am” to everything they said. Spankings, all of that. Typical super conservative evangelical parents. Before I learned better, I was that way too. I went to college and since then have embraced the left more and...

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Which means they’ll be easy to beat in political debate! /s

Why is my Lemmy experience feeling so lame? **UPDATE**

I’ve subscribed to a plethora of communities that really interest me and actually have posts and discussions in them, but I have to go to the specific community to see this. My “Subscribed” feed only contains a few of the same posts that I’ve seen for weeks in Hot, the same posts from even longer ago in “Active”,...

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It does seem like the threshold for “active” should be just going to the site with a logged in account, or at least voting on anything

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That actually is what he calls one of his kids per a friend at SpaceX who sees him with said child

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Just wanted to say that I upvoted to be especially nice to you for being nice, Janet. Have a good day!

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This is what I see as the true value of these “protest” messages above just “more user engagement” since it seems like more eyes on negative press does more damage than the plus of “a few more users interacted with our site for a few days”

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Actually, Trump was explicitly found NOT liable for rape, but for “sexual abuse” in the E Jean Carroll case. This was a question that was asked of the jury, and they said that they had not proven that he raped her.

That said, I fully believe he did rape her and do agree with your assertion that it is still likely that he’s a rapist. However, it is still factually inaccurate to say he’s a “convicted rapist” or even that he was found liable for rape because those have specific legal meanings.

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Is this not affecting lemmy.ml? I haven’t heard anything about them yet

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Can confirm. The hardcore cavers I know will look at you funny if you say spelunking.

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Also trying to use a site to stream media on a smart TV sucks so bad

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the fact that even when Trump is performatively “arrested” there’s never handcuffs of a mugshot.

What do you think the point of handcuffs and a mugshot are? He wasn’t at risk of being violent or arrested for a violent crime. Mugshots are for record keeping and identity purposes, but there is no need for that when the suspect is one of the most photographed people on the entire planet. Handcuffs and mugshots are not some weird way to humiliate people.

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This does happen fairly often at Yellowstone, so it’s not widely reported when it does. It actually happened very close to me when I was there last year because a bison was laying very near a popular walkway near old faithful, but people still didn’t stop walking by it 🙃

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AFAIK there is no case currently. They only threatened legal action.

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At the time LW and SJW had few barriers to signing up, so they had a higher rate of spam coming in and the beehaw team said they couldn’t keep up with moderating it. No idea if this is still the case, but they remain federated.

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I thought about that while typing it but I thought it was kinda funny so decided to leave it haha

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