Hello, I made a proton mail account on my work computer for work. Seeing how great it is I wanted to sign up for the password manager for my personal use with the ultimate goal of getting the family plan and mover over my domain and parents from gmail and 3rd party vpn to proton....
Over the past two decades, Gee’s Bend quilts have captured the public’s imagination with their kaleidoscopic colors and their daring geometric patterns. The groundbreaking art practice was cultivated by direct descendants of slaves in rural Alabama who have faced oppression, geographic isolation and intense material...
You lay all of the blame on Target and act like they stole the designs and that they weren't licensed them. Target didn't pillage someone's cultural heritage, someone sold their cultural heritage to a corporation. If they valued it so much, why would they do that? You cant complain that your heritage was stolen when you willingly sold it away. Your beef is with the designer, NOT Target.
You're literally asking a question for other people to answer. How is that any less social media than Twitter or Facebook? People post their personal achievements all the time, etc. If you respond to me, are we not having a social interaction?
You can't just handwave away 90% of the content and claim that all these sites are really about the links.
For God's sake, you're citing reddit, a site renowned for people reading only the headline and then jumping into the comments to socially engage about the topic.
Or let's point to "we did it reddit!". That wasn't a social collaboration? Or r/place? Or AMA?
Yeah, if you ignore all of the social interaction, reddit is a link aggregator. But if you really think reddit is equivalent to an RSS feed, you're either being a troll or just oblivious.
Do you really think there's an important distinction to be made or do you just not want to admit that you're no different from the people who scroll Facebook all day? If it's the latter, maybe it's yourself you're more upset with than the term.
Alfred Nobel might be considered a runner up, but I feel he recovered his reputation. That and I don't think anyone but himself really was upset with the path his invention took.
I know you wanted a word, but I nominate "Midgley" to be the new word for that. "To midgley something" is to attempt to create something of value that instead only makes things worse. It's an improvement in the negative direction.
Seen a lot of posts on Lemmy with vegan-adjacent sentiments but the comments are typically very critical of vegan ideas, even when they don't come from vegans themselves. Why is this topic in particular so polarising on the internet? Especially since unlike politics for example, it seems like people don't really get upset by it...
Some people see "to reduce animal cruelty" as judgy because that's just how nature is. The moral superiority comes from you acting like you're somehow above everyone and everything else. It's entirely in your wording and the implications that if you eat meat, you enjoy animal suffering vs seeing it as a natural outcome of nature.
We're a constitutional Republic, dipshit. We're not even a true democracy and calling us the oldest when there are PUBS older than our country is ridiculous. We are YOUNG.
Exactly. Less bootlickering and more "Leopards Ate My Face" material. This was heavily forseable. If they did this as a protest against copyright and announced it from the start, it would be one thing. But this was just incompetence and ignorance at a level that will likely ruin them.
In those experiments, the speaking portion of Joe has no clue what the other side is experiencing. Like they show it to him on the wrong side and say "can you see this?" "No". Then they ask him to draw it, and to his amazement he does. It's not just being unable to vocalize certain thoughts - they're not even there to vocalize at all to that part of the brain. But the other half is happily chugging away with that info
In fairness, “If the president decides that his rival is a corrupt person, and he orders the military or orders someone to assassinate him, is that within his official acts for which he can get immunity?” applies to drone strikes of foreign nationals too. Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden all fall under that category. While we should be scrutinizing all of our leaders, I feel the argument will be made that it would make all of our presidents open to "frivolous"(their word, not mine) lawsuits for their actions in office.
And it damn well should. But instead it will be "well this is how a US president functions 🤷♂️"
I don't know if others are experiencing a similar situation. My all feed is very sparse with engagement. If I sort top six hours or by top 12 most posts have between 5-10 comments. I feel like there was more in the past? Is engagement dropping off? I'm on lemmy.world as my instance.
That's precisely their point: once you filter out all of the noise, you are left with very, very, little substance. And the communities with any substance are active at a ratio that makes them flood your feed with ONLY those one or two topics.
You're literally proving their point. You're saying "I don't see anything wrong with this, it's perfectly normal to me and I'm fine if this kind of thing dominates my feed". Their entire complaint is how normalized this kind of rhetoric has become and how pervasive it is and your response is basically "this is fine" dog.
Get off your high horse. It's a joke about layout and styling. It's the "don't dead, open inside" meme from way back.
No one is ignoring the issue. It's plastered on the front page daily. We'll be just fine without you. You're not spearheading some unknown cause. Go touch grass.
Close but it's because if the husband is an advertiser, then it's REALLY easy to slip product placements in. It was part of the transition from the actors just blatantly looking at the screen and advertising the product to making it more subtle.
"are you sick of ads? Heres an ad!" Doesn't have the same impact you think it does.
Also, food for thought: you really want to invite the kind of people who can't use adblockers here? Barriers to entry aren't necessarily a bad thing. You want quality, not quantity. More people isn't necessarily better. And the people who stuck by reddit and spez through all of that?
And you think that the people who already saw entire subreddits shutdown in protest, with Lemmy plastered all over the place as an alternative, who decided to stay after all the content creators left, THOSE PEOPLE, are the ones you want to now court over?
Again, quality vs quantity.
We already gained the quality contributors from reddit. Advertising now is just drawing from the bottom of the barrel.
Lmfao. Lemmy was PLASTERED on the front page. It was on r/place along with "FUCK SPEZ". If you missed it, you're just not even looking. And if you're not even looking and don't care and think reddit is just wonderful, again, do we really want you?
And seriously, with Lemmy being FILLED with "dae Linux?" and "communism good" posts and programming humor hitting my front page HOURLY, you're honestly trying to tell me "the programmers and lefties don't know about this place"? Seriously?!?!
And if your friend isn't convinced by you and somehow missed the months long protest, destruction of third party apps, and mass exodus, honestly they should stay in reddit. We don't need another Facebook.
Plus, have you considered that Lemmy isnt singularly owned? You literally can't say ANY of what you want to say in your ads. "We don't have ads". Really? You can assure me that no single instance has ads? Which instance are you even going to link to? Your own? What makes that one special? What happens when you advertise for "Lemmy" and people find the intolerant instances and assume that's all of the fediverse? What about other offshoots like kbin and mastodon? Not gonna advertise for them? And why should I trust you with money in the first place? For all I know it's just a scam to collect money and run. What happens when someone else pops up claiming that their donation campaign is the real one and yours is fake? Literally anyone can spin up an instance and claim to be "doing it for Lemmy!"
Not a fan of Melroy(mbin founder). They claim to have been a dev for Lemmy and kbin. Then when they didn't get the control they wanted, started their own instance. When that didn't take off, he ranted very publically once again about how the current team he was "working with" sucked and how he was the only true savior of the fediverse. Then he started mbin, which he named after himself(Melroy Bin).
His entire attitude has been "fuck you, I'm taking my ball and going home if you don't listen to me" from the start.
It still implies you're the only person aware of it and not like that very article on global temps was on the front page today. So yeah, it actually does make you seem a bit crazy.
Fyi, "chem trails", or "cloud seeding", as it's actually called, is very much real. When you search by it's real name, you'll find programs going back to the 60s. California, for example.
MANY conspiracy theories are based on a shred of truth. UFOs are mostly classified craft(the Blackbird was one, once known as the UFO "Aurora").
Flat Earth was just a group that liked to jokingly entertain crazy ideas for shits and giggles that got coopted by people who took the satire seriously.
We'd do ourselves a great service if we stopped seeing every issue in broad strokes and saw the nuance and context behind it. You're no better with your rant broadly denouncing a wide array of topics in mass.
Reptilians: Notice I didn't list that one? And how I said "most"? Thank you for demonstrating the lack of reading comprehension and context I was specifically pointing out. May others look at your comment as a perfect example of being dense and obtuse.
Um, no it's not. There are legit weather manipulating programs. Not the conspiracy chem trails bs, but legit "weather manipulation isn't illegal, so private companies have started getting into it for creating snow on mountains or clearing the sky before a concert" things. It made the news awhile back when a, I believe, California company, started doing it.
Beijing did it before the Olympics. It wasn't a secret by any means.
As it stands now, there is very little regulation in that area if the things you are spraying aren't already considered toxic substances. But should just anyone be able to manipulate the weather? Won't that cause more widespread issues? Maybe, maybe not. But should we leave that decision in the hands of corporations?
ETA: If you want to know more, start by looking up "cloud seeding". You'll see we've been openly testing it for decades. Source: Google
You say it's based in ignorance. It's not. Weather manipulation is real. This isn't just "let's not spray pollutants". It's very specifically targeting weather manipulation. You're seeming to say "well they're doing it because of a conspiracy, but at least it helps the environment anyways". No, we're doing it because of real tech that has been used since the 60's and is completely unregulated. This is intentionally a good thing, specifically targeting an issue.
Um, cloud seeding is solar geo-enginerring. What do you think clouds are doing? You realize they change the abeido, right? You're trying to be pedantic, but it's just wrong.
I get your point, but we also need to change this behaviour of treating all conspiracy theories as being full of crazy people. Is every plane spreading chem trails? Absolutely not. But some absolutely are and the people who try to bring attention to it get lumped in with the Flat Earthers. It's very hard to talk about the legit programs going on without being dismissed as crazy or "ignorant". It's long been a tactic to paint the other side as dumb or crazy and thus stifle actual discussion. We as a society need to rise above this.
The Vermont Legislature is advancing legislation requiring big fossil fuel companies pay a share of the damage caused by climate change after the state suffered catastrophic summer flooding and damage from other extreme weather....
Seriously. We already have the legal concept of "acts of God" in every form of insurance. Great idea, but you'd have to uproot centuries of legal standards, and I just don't see the opposition allowing that. It would open the door to so many more lawsuits.
Great idea, but I'll wait to hear if it passes and what actual teeth it has.
Oh look, bullshit filling my feed. You know this just means I can't trust anything you post today and will proceed to ignore any actual announcements, right? And anything cool that does actually happen today will be ignored?
Pranks need to be actual pranks. Not "I'm gonna lie to you because it's April 1st". That's just lying during the one day everyone expects you to lie. It's the most basic and lowest effort "prank".
At issue is a once widely used test that overestimated how well Black people’s kidneys were functioning, making them look healthier than they really were — all because of an automated formula that calculated results for Black and non-Black patients differently. That race-based equation could delay diagnosis of organ failure...
Sickle cell anemia would like a word. Some diseases are absolutely more prevalent in certain races. The problem is we as a society fail to distinguish between "being racist" and "acknowledging differences". You point out differences and suddenly you're racist, even if it is relevant. In this case, it seems not to be relevant and is good it is being removed. But let's not pretend there aren't factual reasons for it to exist in some crcumstances.
Another example is pulse oxygen monitors being worse on melonated skin. It's a result of the physical properties of the skin. Is it racist to acknowledge this and have different method for people with different skin types? Absolutely not.
Not everything is an identity issue. And it's not "your platform" you egotistical prick. Fuck off yourself.
You mean there's not still a team of developers working full time to make sure your 8 year old hardware is still getting software/security parity? Color me shocked. Shocked I say! They should support your hardware for free forever! How dare they advance in such a way that it's not possible for my 8 year old hardware to run the exact same as modern hardware that's been updated and iterated hundreds of times since then.
"Hey, you know that belief system that attempts to answer the great unanswerable questions and gives you some shred of comfort? Nah, you live in an unfeeling, uncaring world. There is nothing, no great answer. Just living until you die.
Why are you crying?"
If you call yourself an atheist vs agnostic, I immediately just see an edgy teenager who wants to be confrontational. Not someone seeking actual answers or discussion. Most of the greatest scientific thinkers acknowledge that science is the answer to "how?", but not "why?". We simply don't have that answer. Anyone claiming to is arrogant at best.
Found this interesting. I never saw the updated version, but I am guessing I probably wouldn't have noticed the change. Just a random article I came across thinking you might enjoy. Or not. If I die, tell my wife hello.
Many users don't log in. After the fall of the 3rd party apps, I only use the rdx webapp if I want to view reddit. I don't log in with an account at all anymore. So all of my data looks like some anon browsing from the same VPN server as hundreds of other anons. Yes they can analyze all of that traffic and individualize it, but that takes work. I'm glad to make them expend more effort, even if they get the same data in the end. Every step that makes it less cost effective for them is better, even if not perfect.
Alt Text: A screenshot of the tab bar and address bar of Firefox where twelve different fediverse websites are pinned. There is a new DuckDuckGo search being made in the address bar saying, "I think I might have a problem."...
Which is why good vpns are hosted in countries with extremely high privacy laws. And some can even be bought and used without giving any personal info. And why most vpns are RAM only and literally can't log any records.
It has long been the case that American women are generally more liberal than American men. But among young Americans, this gender gap has widened into an enormous rift: According to recent Gallup polling, there is a 30-point differencebetween the number of women age 18–30 who self-identify as liberal and the number of men in...
Which is why some men are becoming "anti-feminist". It's not that they're anti-women, it's that they are anti-"A movement that tells them they are the source of all problems and offers them no support". Why support a cause that openly tells you you're the bad guy just for what private parts you have while simultaneously shouting that private parts are irrelevant and shouldnt be part of the conversation.
But nah, guys are just hateful and terrible. Keep up the divide 👍
You said so well what I have felt and expressed for so long. It's really heartbreaking to feel like you're a "lesser ally". Thank you for taking the time to write this.
I'm of the view that this is a semantic question where we have a word, "pile", that describes a general amount but doesn't have a specified quantity to it, and so the only way we can determine the amount of units required to constitute a pile at the bare minimum, is through public consensus on the most commonly shared idea we...
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Hello, I made a proton mail account on my work computer for work. Seeing how great it is I wanted to sign up for the password manager for my personal use with the ultimate goal of getting the family plan and mover over my domain and parents from gmail and 3rd party vpn to proton....
They made one-of-a-kind quilts that captured the public's imagination. Then Target came along ( apnews.com )
Over the past two decades, Gee’s Bend quilts have captured the public’s imagination with their kaleidoscopic colors and their daring geometric patterns. The groundbreaking art practice was cultivated by direct descendants of slaves in rural Alabama who have faced oppression, geographic isolation and intense material...
Do you consider Lemmy/Reddit (and similar platforms) to be social media?
I had this discussion with a friend, and we really couldn't reach a consensus....
What's it called when an inventor's invention backfires on them?
Is there a name for this specific concept? Where somebody invents something (to do them good) but then that thing turns around and backfires on them?
[Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?
Seen a lot of posts on Lemmy with vegan-adjacent sentiments but the comments are typically very critical of vegan ideas, even when they don't come from vegans themselves. Why is this topic in particular so polarising on the internet? Especially since unlike politics for example, it seems like people don't really get upset by it...
[serious] If Project 2025 becomes a reality. Would you fight in a civil war?
The Internet Archive's last-ditch effort to save itself ( lunduke.locals.com )
Russia has forked Wikipedia, featuring "better truths" ( www.404media.co )
From real Wikipedia:...
We're all a little crazy ( mander.xyz )
YouTube putting videos in my feed that I am unable to watch (due to not having a paid membership) ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )
This is no shade against uncle dane or jontohil2, this is probably just youtube's fault...
The Court Just Sealed Everyone’s Fate, Including Its Own ( newrepublic.com )
Dank projection, bro. ( mander.xyz )
Has community engagement dropped off suddenly?
I don't know if others are experiencing a similar situation. My all feed is very sparse with engagement. If I sort top six hours or by top 12 most posts have between 5-10 comments. I feel like there was more in the past? Is engagement dropping off? I'm on lemmy.world as my instance.
Planet NOOB ( lemmy.ml )
https://kolektiva.social/@MnemosyneSinger/112322222920651812
23 April 2024 ( sh.itjust.works )
Should Lemmy buy ads on Reddit? ( fedidb.org )
User count has plateaued at about 420K...
Steve From “Blue's Clues” Touches Hearts of Millennials by Beating Dan Schneider to Death With His Bare Hands ( thehardtimes.net )
fucking beautiful. almost a year into the 'verse and its starting to become more functional than that R place... better than i imagined.
Mother who pushed kids from moving car, killed partner was astrology influencer disturbed by eclipse ( www.latimes.com )
Danielle Johnson was worried about the eclipse. ...
PR🌚🌚F ( mander.xyz )
Tennessee passes 'chemtrail' bill banning airborne chemicals ( www.bbc.com )
Vermont advances bill requiring fossil fuel companies pay for damage caused by climate change ( apnews.com )
The Vermont Legislature is advancing legislation requiring big fossil fuel companies pay a share of the damage caused by climate change after the state suffered catastrophic summer flooding and damage from other extreme weather....
BREAKING — Paramount Pictures “Moving On” from STAR TREK 4, Announces Development of New STAR TREK 5 Film ( blog.trekcore.com )
A biased test kept thousands of Black people from getting a kidney transplant. It's finally changing ( apnews.com )
At issue is a once widely used test that overestimated how well Black people’s kidneys were functioning, making them look healthier than they really were — all because of an automated formula that calculated results for Black and non-Black patients differently. That race-based equation could delay diagnosis of organ failure...
This laptop released in 2016 no longer receive OS updates. Which means I can't update Chrome Browser ( lemmy.world )
Victory? [elder cactus] ( lemmy.world )
https://www.eldercactus.com/
‘Futurama’ Fans Discover How A Tragedy Changed A Classic Joke — For the Better ( www.cracked.com )
Found this interesting. I never saw the updated version, but I am guessing I probably wouldn't have noticed the change. Just a random article I came across thinking you might enjoy. Or not. If I die, tell my wife hello.
Reddit started blocking VPN users on old.reddit.com ( lemm.ee )
I think I might have a problem ( lemmy.world )
Alt Text: A screenshot of the tab bar and address bar of Firefox where twelve different fediverse websites are pinned. There is a new DuckDuckGo search being made in the address bar saying, "I think I might have a problem."...
‘There wasn’t enough about the horror’: Hiroshima survivors react to Oppenheimer ( www.theguardian.com )
Film about ‘father of the atomic bomb’ finally opens in Japan after being delayed by outrage at ‘Barbenheimer’ memes...
A Look at What ISPs Know About You: Examining the Privacy Practices of Six Major Internet Service Providers - An FTC Staff Report ( www.ftc.gov )
cross-posted from: https://covert.nexus/post/27235...
The Political Divide Between Men and Women Is Getting Wild. One Party Is Primed to Take Advantage. ( slate.com )
It has long been the case that American women are generally more liberal than American men. But among young Americans, this gender gap has widened into an enormous rift: According to recent Gallup polling, there is a 30-point differencebetween the number of women age 18–30 who self-identify as liberal and the number of men in...
At what number of grains of sand does a non-pile graduate into being a pile?
I'm of the view that this is a semantic question where we have a word, "pile", that describes a general amount but doesn't have a specified quantity to it, and so the only way we can determine the amount of units required to constitute a pile at the bare minimum, is through public consensus on the most commonly shared idea we...