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Cubes, to asklemmy in Why wasn't NYC's Central Park concept copied by other cities?

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

Cubes, to technology in Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple

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

Cubes, to programmer_humor in Stop doing Computer Science

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.

Cubes, to showerthoughts in I wish humans could get firmware upgrades

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.

Cubes, to showerthoughts in I wish humans could get firmware upgrades

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.

Cubes, to fediverse in Trying to find a website that shows the threadiverse active user number over a long period of time

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?

Cubes, to fediverse in Looks like the stories feature for Pixelfed is currently rolling out on the flagship instance

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.

Cubes, to asklemmy in What is the best way to make more friends as an adult?

Anything in particular help you shift away from that?

Cubes, to showerthoughts in I wish humans could get firmware upgrades

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.

Cubes, to fediverse in Dethroning lemmy.ml, lemm.ee rises as the second most active instance

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

Cubes, to news in Shop owner shot, killed over rainbow flag outside clothing store near Lake Arrowhead

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.

Cubes, to asklemmy in Do you think millennials who grew up with the early Internet and home computers will be as bad with future technology as boomers are with current technology?

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

Cubes, to news in X, formerly Twitter, slowed down access to Threads, The New York Times, Bluesky and more

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.

Cubes, to news in X, formerly Twitter, slowed down access to Threads, The New York Times, Bluesky and more

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.

Cubes, to news in X, formerly Twitter, slowed down access to Threads, The New York Times, Bluesky and more

What law does this violate?

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