Private cars in cities.
They’re noisy, unhealthy, cause massive damage to infrastructure, transport one person at a time while taking up enough space for ~10 in the road, fill open spaces for parking, sometimes while being completely unusable, endanger everyone else on the roads…
I assume you mean while on a plane and not onto a plane. Also assuming you mean while on a public plane. Pretty sure masturbating while in public might be a bit illegal at least for dudes, and for anyone whipping it out to get off wouldn’t the exposing ones genitals in public just top it off?
Maybe Ursula Le Guin? The left hand of darkness is quite thought provoking. People can switch sexes at will in that story. Yes, there is some mention of nudity and adult topics but I can’t recall a single sex scene. If this sounds too risky, try the wizard of Earthsea, which I found incredibly bland and super safe for work. It’s about as riské as Harry Potter 1. And is a short read too.
I think you should be safe with most classics, like the other comment said, Agatha Christie is a good choice… Though maybe not super progressive.
I got my pixel online before it was officially available in my country. If you can’t find anything locally you can message sellers from other countries on ebay or use a proxy store like this guy link who offers worldwide shipping.
Humans have a brain that is effectively an extremely good pattern recognition engine, we are wired to find meaning in things, we anthropomorphize everything with no regard for logic or sanity.
Humans are hard coded to make religion or religion adjacent things.
To imagine a world without religion, would mean that we are talking entirely different brain structures, basically we wouldn’t humans anymore.
In saying the above, I think religion has had its time, it has had a good run. It now causes far more problems than it solves. Having a belief system based on an imaginary sky daddy, really doesn’t add much to the modern world.
Side note: why do people anthropomorphize their food, it is really messed up.
This right here. If we didn’t have religion, practically the first thing we’d do is begin hallucinating about one. There’s a “religion”-shaped hole in every human brain, basically, even though things that we wouldn’t necessarily readily recognize as religious patterns could come to fill it, wholly or partially. Our pattern recognition/reconstruction and predictive modeling systems will always generate hallucinations that, like most heuristics, are fundamentally not reality but MAY nevertheless offer sufficient utility (or the feeling of utility) that the synaptic connections they comprise will end up self-reinforcing.
The amount of vigilance it would take to continually purge these cognitive patterns would be more expensive and exhausting than most of the potential dangers of letting them exist.
But it’s possible to mindfully decide to cultivate the features and aspects of what emergently congeals there such that it’s more likely to be harmless, such as certain hobbies, fandoms, habits, or ritual-esque behavioral patterns.
Reflecting on our experiences against an anthropomorphized hypothetical observer to gain insights we would otherwise miss shows up even in places like computer programming - see “rubber duck debugging” - sufficiently strict religious sects would most certainly decry this activity as idolatry to a false god, even if YOU clearly do not classify a rubber ducky as a god. Because, again, the root of religiosity is group consensus of a socially shared memetic hallucination. what they perceive becomes a component of their beliefs even if it doesn’t become a component of yours.
This leads me to often consider spirituality, magical thinking, ritualistic behaviors, and religiosity in general as a bridge between our animalistic impulses and instincts vs. our sapience, or whatever you might label “higher” cognitive functions that enable abstract decision differentiation.
Religion isn’t really evolving fast enough. It is being out competed at every turn, the fastest growing religious position in a lot of places is ‘no religion’.
I think they do get marked as dead after the Bodis subdomain does not act as a Lemmy instance. But I was wondering if a large number of instances “waking up from the dead” and acting maliciously could cause some trouble. Or would such “undead” instances pose no more threat to the fediverse than the same number of newly created malicious instances ? I’m mainly thinking about stuff like being in a privileged position to DoS most instances at once, or impersonation of accounts that used to actually exist on these “undead” instances
From what I can tell, an instance is either ‘linked’ (federated) or ‘blocked’ (defederated) on Lemmy. Mastodon has some more granularity. If an instance came back as a zombie, it wouldn’t be any more powerful privilege wise than a new instance that is malicious. It would get defederated same as always.
What could be a problem is on the individual user level. Say that a lot of users sort their feed by subscribed. They are not affected by random instances coming and going. However, they will be affected if a bunch of their (dead) subscribed communities suddenly become malicious.
Anyway, I hope this at least serves as a reminder to not let our domains expire ;)
It’s an important point for sure.
Your sensitive data and logins are tied to email addresses, which are tied to domains. Lose your domain, someone can access everything.
My experience from when my backend server died, and Lemmy instances were getting a 502 response to ActivityPub POST activity, they eventually stopped sending anything. They kept trying to GET stuff though (user account details, nodeinfo responses), and lemmy.ml has never stopped POSTing, even though I configured nginx to always respond 403 to anything from them for about a year now.
never stopped POSTing, even though I configured nginx to always respond 403 to anything from them for about a year now.
Lol, there are definitely some stubborn user agents out there. I’ve been serving 418 to a bunch of SEO crawlers - with fail2ban configured to drop all packets from their IPs/CIDR ranges after some attemps - for a few months now. They keep coming at the same rate as soon as they get unbanned. I guess they keep sending requests into the void for the whole ban duration.
Using 418 for undesirable requests instead of a more common status code (such as 403) lets me easily filter these blocks in fail2ban, which can help weed out a lot of noise in server logs.
Long time Samsung user. Get a Pixel 8. Install Obtainium. Use it to install Neo Launcher and 99% of the apps you probably use. Or just switch to GrapheneOS. You will be happy again.
I also found filly changing my layout helps. My daily calendar, task list, and clock are the only things on my first home screen.
Didn’t know about obtenium. I think pixel 8 seems the only good choice also if it’s pricey and I’m afraid that is a lot smaller than the s22+ that I think is a right size
Yea, they have gotten pricey. I ended up going down in phone size instead of getting the bigger 8, really like being able to reach all the way across the phone again. Using a tablet for reading things probably made a difference here, though.
I use nginx & docker-proxy. Because the model I copied used that setup. Having messed with it a bit, I’m understanding it more and more. Before that, the last time I messed with a web server (Apache), nginx wasn’t around. Lately, I’ve seen a similar docker setup to mine that doesn’t use docker-proxy. If I find time, I’ll probably play with that some on my dev rig.
You need execute permissions on a directory to browse its contents. 664 on /var/cache/bind, /var/lib/bind, and /var/log/bind may cause issues. You may want to try 764 or 774 instead.
Campaign financing in general. If you get enough signatures you’ll get a fixed amount of money from tax payers for your campaign. If you accept money from anyone else you’re barred from public office for life. End of corruption right there.
I don’t believe so. I believe religions are human creations and as such, they can’t be awful if people don’t have that awful side to begin with. If religions disappeared overnight or were magically erased from existence we would still struggle with the same issues, only with a different flavour. Perhaps there would be no lies on certain topics but I’m not too sure that would make a massive difference overall.
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