Yes, I found it well-written but not all that enlightening. I recognise that it made sense for SpaceGhost/CheapSkate to build his sites out by hand in the true spirit of DIY, but that doesn't seem too practical or advisable for most folks.
The various federated software & networks may have their weak points and inconsistencies, but far as I can tell it's still best for volunteer site runners to work within that framework so as to remain connected to something bigger than just their little personal corner of the internet. Is it really so expensive a thing to federate? I seem to recall that some instances can host for only ~US$20, which doesn't seem bad at all. Images are arguably best stored at other sites like Imgur, anyway.
Yes, "DELETED BY CREATOR" was the very first thing I noticed! 😠
But yes, I looked around the upper-right, but didn't see much of anything like a "Restore" link. Now I did try pressing the "Joined" button, and now it looks like this:
There's absolute mass quantities, as Beldar the Conehead might say.
It's easy enough to guess that plenty of people just grabbed a community name in case they might find it useful one day, but I'm guessing plenty of others legitimately started up a community, put some effort in to it, then ultimately got discouraged and abandoned it. A big part of that likely due to not being able to attract many subscribers and contributors.
Personally what I've found is that if you really want a community to grow, you need to seed it with content on a regular basis; preferably daily. Posting bots are probably a good way to help with that, altho if the sub looks like it's little more than bot posts, I don't think users will be inclined to post or comment much.
What I haven't quite figured out myself is how to incline users to post on their own, but hopefully with time that issue will kind of resolve itself due to sheer user count.
Hmm, it looks like you're mod of ~three fairly dormant communities that have very small user bases. Unfortunately, at that size I wouldn't think there'd be much in the way of regular comments, much less guest posts.
In my case I was lucky, because a co-mod and regular poster happened to join in early-on, and we were able to build up the first couple hundred users fairly quickly.
But something else that I think helped a lot was that our community is very visual-oriented, so it was pretty easy to find users who were perfectly happy to join up just to look at pretty images without necessarily clicking links or putting too much thought in to anything deeper. So pandering to the lowest common denominator of user interest seems to work nicely for building up base numbers. That said, there's still a lot of growth we need to do, which likely involves outreach of some kind or another.
Oh shoot, I meant the above for @small44 actually, i.e. OP. I don't believe you had replied to me at any point, hence that wasn't meant for you.
That said-- I'm not too sure the "90:9:1" rule applies so well to the FV. For one thing, it seems like a good number of subscribers tried out Lemmy (etc) at some point and then went back to Reddit (etc), meaning they're no longer really here. Another point is that since the FV moves a lot more slowly than Reddit, I question whether FV users are as active here compared to other places.
About the bias of me seeing only part of Small44's community numbers due to filtering by my own instance-- you're right of course, but after double-checking their overall global numbers, they're actually only a tiny bit larger. Ironically or not, most of their users came from my own instance (lemm.ee). So their numbers across three communities are really too small to ever be properly viable IME.
So something like the kbin worldnews community I mod has literally thousands of inactive subscribers.
I remember that craziness because as a young adult, I was working nearby and saw the smoke clouds.
...and of course, it was all considered ok.
I'm unaware of anyone at all those days who considered it 'all okay.' On the contrary, it put a kind of national spotlight on Philly police' brutality going back to the Rizzo days, and doubtless contributed to Rizzo never being mayor again. And I think even amongst the folks who believed the bombing was justified, a large segment had to admit that it obviously went very, very wrong.
All that said-- yeah, as a nation I'm not sure we learned a damn thing out of all that. The police certainly didn't appear to.
Came here to make this point.
The CCP's version of "communism" is almost a textbook example to me of how an interesting system that can work beautifully on the local level can be completely betrayed and turned in to something much more like an oligarchy.
I don't understand how someone of reasonable knowledge and judgement could possibly be a tankie in 2024.
And from my reading, its former self was little more than a dictatorship with 'communist trappings,' anyway. Mao was a monster, and nobody to be emulated from what I've learned.
Whoa. I tried searching a bit on this one but am still confused as to the framing. So if we zoomed out, would the whole piece still look like a trapezoid?
The first time I heard someone complain about being a "furry," I had a huge rush of sympathy. Because I'd seen and read too much, way too much about the 'dog-boys as circus performers' despicable history.
There was also a pretty good film about this subject, starring RDJ & Nicole Kidman I think?
But then..... yeah, what does it actually turn out to be?
Um... maybe a bunch of delayed adolescents dressing as cutesy, idealised animals, insisting that they be treated as a special, downtrodden social class?
Daggit, I was really *with you*... up until you went full ridonkulous mode.
THIS, my friends, is the single greatest punching-through-reality accomplishment of "HwH."
Now, whether @FauxPseudo perfectly agrees with my take or not upon this particular one, we're now in to the realm of great philosophers, and arguably even the mechanisms of quantum physics.
It is just awesome IMO.
And almost randomly-awesome at that!
Cue Andy Kaufman moment.. oO
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Kinda nasty that the artist credit got rubbed out.
So, altho I thought this was Jim Benton's work at first, I do believe this one is by Mike Jacobsen of Oz. His stuff from this era is here, and more modern stuff here:
While there's truth in that, I also feel like the way OP phrased it is needlessly, simplistically cynical. For one thing, just because you're in general agreement with a group doesn't necessarily make it an "echo chamber." There can also be groups that do a pretty good job collectively shining critical analysis on the news of the day in order to sort it out properly. That's a real thing, and we can see it happening all around us.
Not just that, but never before has there been this level of disinformation injected in to Western society, primarily by Russia & China. They've become master internet bullshitters, and we're now on the brink of democracy failing because of how many people buy in to their complete nonsense. Now to me-- that's an echo chamber.
Not so much the ones who take the time to have real discussions about what the news of the day means. That part is much harder work IMO, it involves lots more uncertainty and even soul-searching, and overall I think Lemmy and the other place do commendable work, there. Bottom line, it feels pretty insulting to hand-wave away large groups like that as mere "echo chambers," as if they came anywhere close to what's happening in other places.
After Nixon successfully mobilised voters by Dog Whistling, then Reagan figured out that layering on the Religious Right was another winner, unregulated capitalism was well on its way to defeating a sustainable democracy. It's been mostly downhill from there.
I'm hardly a presidential scholar, but from what i understand, the country hit a peak of greatness under FDR's reforms. Wages were very fair, consumers had lots of buying power, and there were social safety nets in place. Even after FDR, i think those things stayed relatively stable for some years before traitors and capitalists gained the upper hand.
The great irony is that boomers were pretty much the first new generation to enjoy the fruits of FDR's work, and now they're one of the biggest bases taking part in working to destroy democracy.
For me it's Nitrobenzene by OwataP. This one is... make car horn noises? idk man, the whole benzene series is weird but this was the strangest one i've heard so far
Also Adriano Celentano - Prisencolinensinainciusol
Or completely non-strange once you understand the method behind the madness. Either way, a damn cool/funny song IMO.
Anyway for the OP, instead of going with the many, many artists who intentionally made strange music, I'll go instead with The Shaggs, three teenage girls who had utterly no musical training, but who tried their best to make conventional, 'normal music':
Over the decades, the album Philosophy of the World circulated among musicians and found fans such as Frank Zappa and Kurt Cobain. Following a 1980 reissue on Rounder Records, it received enthusiastic reviews for its uniqueness in Rolling Stone and The Village Voice. A compilation of unreleased material, Shaggs' Own Thing, was released in 1982. The Shaggs became the subject of fascination in the 1990s, when interest grew in outsider music, and they are credited with influencing twee pop. --WP
I agree it's irrelevant in terms of living our lives, altho perhaps greatly relevant for those in relevant sciences.
I think there's also a good argument that we already know we're in a simulation. That is-- if we already know a lot about the tiny building blocks of the universe, how they interact, and what forces govern them across various levels, then we can conceive of framing the whole of observable reality in to a massive, but known & quantifiable set of calculations... or a simulation.
In case it helps you, I've found that the uMatrix extension has been a great way to auto-block all Javascripts while still being able to permit just the ones needed to work past a site or network's limitations.
There's a little bit of a learning curve at first, but nothing too bad. Using the extension also feels empowering, because it gives you much more control than just a flat 'block everything' anti-ad approach.
Still kinda blows my mind that director Richard Linklater got four top-shelf actors in to this scene, which is from his beautiful adaptation of sci-fi author Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly....
Earl Grey makes an amazing iced tea, and a cool change from standard Black Pekoe. It's got of a spicy-flowery taste, altho I'd still recommend adding lemon or citrus powder, etc.
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There's also the running concept (or dada-ist joke) that Wondermark's dodos are completely obsessed with the concept of time, with the implication being that they squandered their time in life, perhaps ultimately aiding in their extinction.
It’s like asking “Does anybody dislike cartoons and comics?”
I have to disagree.
Comics is a huge, world-encompassing category of media in which events & stories are depicted through (generally) simplified art with text insertions. Manga (for example) is a subset of comics, being both specific to a single country as well as existing as a certain style of comics.
Personally I'd add that manga tends to exist under fairly tight conventions in terms of how things are visually portrayed and in terms of how information and context is given towards the reader. For example, kind of like emojis, there's a bunch of facial reactions and certain simple phrases that instantly tell you what mood or reaction a character or the author is trying to impart. This kind of thing isn't surprising to me either, as Japan tends to heavily codify cultural tradition, even in a relatively new-ish field like manga. There's also the fact that an enormous tradition in manga came out of aping or riffing on the early creators, primarily Tezuka Osamu I'd say.
So, point is-- one can dislike a certain niche or branch of comics, but that certainly doesn't have any special impact on how one likes comics in general. Personally I'm not a huge fan of manga, and superhero comics bore the tights off me, and I'm not as much a fan of underground comics as I used to be, but overall I'm a huge fan of the comics medium, and of course love me some BD, part of why I try to make a new post daily.
Yes, "manga" is the Japanese word for comics, but in terms of the overall, world genre of comics? It specifically refers to comics within a certain style, ~99% of it being Japanese-made.
It’s like saying all cartoons are the same as Disney, or all comics are basically Superman.
Yes, those are some nonsensical falsisms. Thanks for randomly stating them?
Hmm!
I could be wrong, but this is not only another primo example of HwH working perfectly well, but the first one I've seen in which it's actually much better without him.
As in-- in the original, it's just too many dang people on the left. Like a parade route or something. Three is still a lot, but it works because grandma is addressing the two clothes-wearers in question.
Bonus pts: 1) grandma inexplicably has 'Sleestak hands,' 2) the physical properties in Heathcliff's universe are pretty amazing, in which one can absent-mindedly allow clothing to shrink to a tenth of its original size. XD
Meat is a carcinogen.
Fruit and vegetables are good for you
What..?!
From the studies I've seen, meat does indeed carry higher endemic carcinogen and cardio-disease risks, particularly when processed, particularly when fried, compared to other foods.
And yes, too much fruit can lead to glycemic issues, but assuming properly washed and/or cooked, fruits & veggies are indeed an extremely important part of a healthy diet.
The vegan diet is the healthiest diet.
A purely vegan diet means one needs to be careful about getting a full range of amino acids and IIRC some vitamins, but besides that, yes-- a core vegan diet (assuming properly varied) is indeed arguably one of the healthiest diets for most people.
Personally I don't think one needs to be super-strict with it, but the point is that it's a great base to build on.
I won't argue that as a layman, but I feel that there are nutritional meta-studies, plus evidence from inter-disciplines (such as physiology of the colon, how the body processes food at the micro & molecular level, and what H.s.s's typical diet was across many centuries) to suggest that what I posited above is true.
AFAIK the body of nutritionists and the national academies have to take all of this in to account (including the limitations of correlational studies) when making hypotheses about best diet, making for a reasonably clear picture that the human body (outside of people like the Inuit I guess) typically doesn't handle excess meat well, and that we likely evolved as omnivores who didn't eat processed foods, and who mainly ate vegetables & some fruit with opportunistic protein supplementing such.
If this is indeed what our bodies evolved to handle, it shouldn't really be a surprise that we do best health-wise maintaining that approach. Not to mention, there are plenty of studies to suggest the various ways we can get in to health problems straying from that baseline.
Humans have become apex predators not from scavenging for vegetables and fruits.
What's your basis of conceiving of humans as apex predators? I haven't heard them described that way before, moreso that we're fantastic opportunists who can indeed hunt successfully when such is called for. But historically, based on the findings, I don't know of any evidence that suggests we were universally 'apex predators' for any significant amount of time.
Humans handle fatty meat very well. The growing popularity of the carnivore diet is a testament to this, with several practicing medical doctors starting to speak out in support of it. On the other hand, various populations handle different vegetation with mixed results. For example, a large minority of many populations still can’t handle bread, of all things, very well.
This is starting to sound pretty disingenuous or poorly-informed based on my impressions of the science.
Feel free to have the last reply, and if there's something to learn from it, I'll try.
You are playing up the 'ad hom' stuff like nobody I've ever seen before. It's gone from disappointment to embarrassment, frankly.
Talk about a tiny bit of internet power being used to attack someone else, then hide behind the sub's 'rules.' And of course, sidestep actual facts to back up your argument.
The fact that you're so utterly clueless about all this indicates to me that you have a long ways to go towards being a self-aware, professional, neutral mod.
This will be my last reply to you on this matter, and of course you can do what you like with your mod toolbox. In any case, here's a suggestion to be better in future, and good luck to you.
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Even from people that never lived in a communist state...
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When it comes to US politics, why do the majority of people like to stay in their echo chambers? (serious)
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What is the strangest song you've heard?
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What do you think about the idea that we're in a simulation?
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Still kinda blows my mind that director Richard Linklater got four top-shelf actors in to this scene, which is from his beautiful adaptation of sci-fi author Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly....
How do you Lemmings like your tea?
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Does anybody dislike anime and manga?
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