I’ll probably block it, but if they bring a large number of users and communities, that comes with content more people want to see.
I’m ambivalent about decisions to defederate because both have merits. Cut them out completely to protect the community, or let the users choose who and what they want to block for themselves. I guess with that in mind, I’m fine with the “wait and see” approach for now.
Who can say? I am of a similar mind, I’m not holding out hope that it will be much more than a dumpster fire. But I think it’s at least worth seeing what happens before taking the nuclear option of defederation.
If things are shit all over and Lemmy.world still decides against defederating, there are plenty of instances that already have, so no skin off my teeth either way. I can always just sign up elsewhere, or even just host my own. The beauty of the fediverse is that you never have to feel stuck with things as they are.
I’m just giving the benefit of the doubt to the smallest possibility, however unlikely, that another influx of users might bring at least a bit more activity to some of the Lemmy equivalents of niche communities that I loved from Reddit.
But I’m also not the sort of person who is kept awake at night by the fact that thousands of people are about to be gifted PCs for Christmas that run Windows out of the box instead of Linux, so I suppose I don’t have as much to lose as others when it comes to having more normies show up.
Just for a fun fact of the day, it is a globus cruciger, which is an icon meant to represent Christian authority over the world.
It coincidentally looks a bit like the older ball-shaped grenades with pull pins on top, which is why one was made into the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.
There is still a bit of a gray area there, though, which is that if you know you are not a subject matter expert, you should try to disclose that.
Hence why “IANAL” is so recurring on any online discussion about legal advice, because you want to offer what insight you can but you definitely don’t want to mislead anyone into believing your potentially dangerous legal advice is authoritative.
I take it you missed the mid-credit scene where >!Gideon/Gordon and Julie are in an evil lair and he gives the “Time for the real game to begin” line?!<
It ended in a way where the characters got satisfying resolutions, but there is a hook for a season 2, and in terms of plot coverage the series didn’t really address >!the complications of Scott’s own backstory yet which remain only alluded to.!<
Yeah, the newer displays are just too thin for it. The backlit design was clever at the time, with the logo being illuminated by the display’s own backlight, but now at current thickness levels, it would cause ambient light to shine through the logo and back onto the display too noticeably.
Honestly, white fabric might be the most elegant and simple solution. Bonus if you can find one that has little glittery bits in it (but not so glittery that it gets on things). Freshly fallen snow is smooth and unblemished, and the contours of fabric simulate that well enough. Just pack it flush with little contours underneath and you’re gold.
I prefer YYYY MM DD myself, and I am assuming that the US operates along weird similar logic but just considers the year irrelevant for most dates, tacking it on at the end instead when the year needs to be mentioned so that the unstated/assumed dates which omit the year still begin the same way.
The copy/paste aspect of it is what really got me, and made me want to stop playing.
I’m okay with procedural generation, and there’s a lot of games that handle that sort of thing well. I never feel like exploration is a waste of time in Minecraft, for example, because there are always unique sorts of quirks about how the world is assembled that can still surprise you even if you’ve played for a while.
Starfield was fun for me early on. I was enjoying some of the sidequests and taking some time to just wander aimlessly in different planets. I would actually wake up feeling excited to play more during that first week.
But there was one moment where I was exploring a new planet, and I came upon the exact copy of a dungeon that I had done once already. Exactly the same, down to the layout of the halls, the trip mines placed up near the entrance, the locations of the enemies, and so on. That’s when it felt like I was running out of things to do. The world is procedurally generated, but it’s procedurally generated in a bad way, where there’s really only a small handful of different “things” that can just be anywhere, and there’s nothing really different in the ways that you can interact with them.
Plus the comedy of being on a no-atmosphere planet and seeing some of the clutter on outdoor balconies be, like, open food and drink packages as if people are just casually snacking in the vacuum of space.
I often find that happens if it notifies a different device first. Discord tries to figure out where you are “active” and notify you only there, so if you do something on a PC with Discord installed, it won’t ping your phone until it assumes you’re not looking at the PC anymore.
I think the main issue with that one is that they’ve become homophones in a lot of regional accents, a secondary part of it is that they are semi-related concepts, and the third part of it is that there are also technically noun and verb versions of each.
X affects Y, X has an effect on Y.
The affected happiness effect effected a positive affect.
I mean they are fairly similar. They share a lot of vocabulary, their nouns have corresponding declensions, verb conjucations are similar, there are a lot of other similar grammar constructions, and the Latin alphabet is mostly derived from the Greek alphabet, too.
Edit: Classical Greek and Classical Latin, at least. Modern Greek and Romance languages like Italian are further diverged from those ancestor languages to the point that they are difficult for modern speakers to even parse.
“Mama” is not the common word you’d use in Japan, it’s a loanword from watching English/European media. Normally they’d use “Haha”. At least as my neighbor once explained to me.
In Chinese, though, we use “maa maa”, which does sound more similar.
Certainly not, but it is at least a holiday that is recognized in an official capacity and a lot of people get the day off from work or get out early. From what I’m hearing in the other comments, Brazil doesn’t really do anything at all, so it’s more of a holiday in Japan than it is in Brazil.
It’s not always the same day, this year is just coincidental.
Being a holiday established during the post-war US occupation of Japan, though, I wouldn’t say it is entirely disconnected from the US holiday. It was willed into existence by Americans based on the fact that the US also celebrates a holiday around that time of year, and so the name is not coincidental.
I’d consider them as related as Christmas and Yule, at least.
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Sometimes it will be $1099 $899 but they may use subpar quality for Black Friday models compared to standard models.
Like TVs for example, certain models that are discounted on Black Friday have lower quality displays, fewer HDMI ports, cheaper speakers, etc. when compared to the “standard” model from the same line, and the ads will downplay or obscure the exact model number so you think you’re getting something better than you are when you look it up.
Despite this, you will still get a bunch of people complaining that they were never told, we surprised them with it at the last minute, etc.
If someone has an email address they never check, it doesn’t matter if you notify them once or one hundred times. They’ll still never see it. Do you try more than one pathway or are your warnings dependent on a single point of failure?
I have a theory that it should have a very different “personality” (probably more like writing style) depending on language because it’s an entirely different set of training data...
DeepL prompted a change in career choice for me, honestly. I was initially looking into finding work as a translator, since Cantonese is an in-demand language, but (while it is still not perfect) I have seen massive improvements in translation tech over time, and DeepL was my breaking point that helped me realize “Okay, maybe this can all be automated in the future”.
Sorry, should have clarified. It does Mandarin, but in terms of technical capabilities, it is demonstrable of the fact that the technology is there.
For context, I am Chinese-American and Cantonese was spoken at home, but I lived for a few years in Fuzhou, China where Mandarin is common (though the older people still speak Fuzhouhua which I didn’t bother to dive into). Occasionally I would have to look something up in Mandarin, though, and it was honestly easier to just use DeepL and translate from English with fairly decent results (and I knew enough to be able to fix the grammar where I noticed it was sometimes off, albeit even my Cantonese reading/writing skills aren’t perfect).
I feel iffy on this. I loved the original Karate Kid growing up, but absolutely hated the 2010 remake. Partly because I feel like it is following the trend of just lumping every Asian character into a generic “Kung Fu Guy” stereotype with no room for nuance.
Like, in the original, Mr. Miyagi’s backstory as a Japanese war veteran was pretty significant to his character, and karate being a specifically Japanese fighting style made sense for him to teach.
Not to say you have to be Japanese to learn karate, but that wasn’t even the premise in the 2010 movie, where Mr. Miyagi was swapped out for the Chinese Mr. Han, and the discipline being learned is kung fu, not karate. But that doesn’t matter, does it? Because as far as the white people in the audience are concerned, there’s basically no difference. Asian is Asian, right?
(And being a movie made in cooperation with China Film Group, which is a propaganda arm of the Chinese government, they definitely couldn’t have Mr. Han also be a war veteran who regretted his years of service, because who could ever regret fighting for glorious communism?)
To my knowledge, Lemmy does not have a built in feature to keep track of total points (i.e. karma), but some third party apps like Connect will aggregate a user’s comment/post scores into a pseudo-karma score.
You could, though, for example, set up a large collection system for water that would normally be fed into a tributary that other farmers are using downstream for irrigation. A company with enough resources to collect and bottle rainwater for profit across a large area that would otherwise feed into aquifers could bleed a small farming community dry.
Right, it’s just that not all rainwater collection is inherently domestic or agricultural, and that’s why some places (ostensibly, at least) have laws restricting it, with the goal being to keep it feeding into the water cycle and not shipping it elsewhere.
I didn’t miss that part, I’m just saying that usually that’s not why laws like this are created. The stated intent of this one is likely something about protecting fragile aquifers and the real intent is gradual genocide.
I don’t know why this is news. Most consumer Android phones, Google’s included, require you to acknowledge a warning before the ability to sideload is enabled. Their stance has always been “at your own risk, we don’t recommend it” and we always just laugh and say “okay, whatever dude” before we do it anyways.
I watched Lower Decks and am also tempted to jump on the Star Trek binge, if only to rewatch Lower Decks again and better catch all of the references.
Granted, I caught a lot of them just by being someone who has used the internet for my entire adolescent through adult life, but I know there’s a lot more good stuff out there to enjoy.
U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s defense of a phrase used by Palestinians in connection with the war between Israel and Hamas is drawing condemnation from critics, including two prominent fellow Democrats — Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin.
The two state solution will never work. After this conflict, neither side trusts the other enough to share borders any longer. Israel thinks they’re stopping terrorists, but in the process they’re inspiring hundreds more.
A neutral body needs to step in and end the Apartheid state in Israel. Equal rights and protections need to be given for Palestinians, they deserve equal representation in government, and democratic elections need to be held that can be audited by the international community.
Dissolve the Israeli military and set up an international peacekeeping force in the region for at least 10 years. After that, they are allowed nothing more than a self defense force. Codify it into the new constitution that they cannot make any expansionist movements from that point on.
That is not at all what I am saying. I absolutely think what Israel is doing in Gaza is terrible.
Now this might just be me talking at a wall at this point, but to give you the benefit of the doubt, my earlier comment is just me speaking pragmatically. I disagree with the premise of the article, that Biden will lose the election to Trump or whichever other Republican candidate is nominated due to his stance on Palestine, for a couple reasons.
First is that the Republicans are no more likely to support Palestine than the Democrats. In fact, I’d argue the opposite is true. I see the situation only escalating further with how overtly anti-Muslim the majority of Republicans are.
Second is the idea that choosing not to support Palestine is going to cost more voters than it gains. The US is deeply divided on this issue, but the fact of the matter is that there are more people taking Israel’s side in the US than Palestine’s. It is likelier that Republicans would gain more votes from Biden siding with Palestine than Biden is losing by siding with Israel.
If this article is contributing to a narrative that more people should vote for Trump over Biden because of Biden’s lack of support towards Palestine, and if that causes Trump to win, then all hope of a future for Palestine is truly lost.
I’m imagining some alternative political framework, something disruptive and reformist. But exactly what that looks like, I have no idea.
I’m a Marxist at heart, but I am also realistic. There are a lot of options that sound great on paper but fall apart when put to the test. I don’t know what the best alternative for the current situation is, but an alternative is definitely needed.
We’re approaching interesting times with the ongoing automation of labor.
Lemmy.world & Threads.net?
Sorry if this is not the right community, but I wonder if lemmy.world plans to defederate Facebook?
God Rule (lemmy.world)
Be water, my RULE friend (lemmy.tf)
Does an unfulfilled promise become a lie?
inside man rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
ChatGPT rule (lemmy.world)
Think different (lemmy.ml)
Just like everyone else...
Eco friendly spray adhesive and fake snow powder? Or something else that can be easily found in our little city? (lemmy.world)
Ok! I give up trying to find this stuff on my own, heh....
Monthly Rule (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
[NakeyJakey] Bethesda's Game Design Was Outdated a Decade Ago (www.youtube.com)
US files war crime charges against Russians accused of torturing an American in the Ukraine invasion (www.themoscowtimes.com)
Discord: Improving Our Mobile Experience (discord.com)
To our loyal players, It is with deep regret that we inform you that Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia will end service on Feb. 29, 2024 UTC. (twitter.com)
Nitter link: nitter.net/DissidiaFFOO/…/1729711814836187442...
Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition is coming to Netflix (mobilegamer.biz)
Speakers of non-English languages, what common mistakes do native speakers make that drive you crazy?
For example, English speakers commonly mix up your/you’re or there/their/they’re. I’m curious about similar mistakes in other languages.
They're basically the same right? (lemmy.world)
196 (lemmy.world)
Hey, it's Thanksgiving today in the USA and Brazil, and also kind of in Japan, so maybe it's a good day for me to ask, WHAT ARE YOU THANKFUL FOR? (a-z-animals.com)
Black Friday (files.mastodon.online)
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Just delete it already rule (lemmy.world)
Bilinguals, does chatGPT sound different in other languages?
I have a theory that it should have a very different “personality” (probably more like writing style) depending on language because it’s an entirely different set of training data...
Jackie Chan, Ralph Macchio Set For New ‘Karate Kid’ Movie (deadline.com)
Do we get points for comments and post ? I just downloaded Connect and noticed the points.
This was not the case when I was using Eternity
Rain Water Rule (lemmy.world)
Google CEO Pichai advises Android users not to sideload apps (www.phonearena.com)
What happened to The Militant?
I decided to check out The Militant, a socialist news site, and it looks to be supporting Israel. I could be wrong and I hope I am, but wtf?
Land (r)u(le)se (sopuli.xyz)
rule (catgirl.pub)
president rule (files.mastodon.social)
Amiright? (lemmy.zip)
Tlaib's defense of Palestinian chant prompts Jewish Democrats to call for retraction (www.detroitnews.com)
U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s defense of a phrase used by Palestinians in connection with the war between Israel and Hamas is drawing condemnation from critics, including two prominent fellow Democrats — Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin.
happy guy fawkes day rule (files.catbox.moe)
Young Activists to Biden: Change Course on Gaza — or Lose in 2024 (www.rollingstone.com)
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