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card797 , to fediverse in Move to defederate *.ml, hexbear, lemmygrad, etc.

How do you block an instance from the browser version of lemmy?

dch82 OP ,

Go to settings > blocks and there should be a instance block there

card797 ,

Hey, thanks.

Blaze , to newcommunities in RSS Feed Requests and Announcements - Get an RSS feed as a Lemmy community

Nice initiative!

dogsnest ,
@dogsnest@lemmy.world avatar

Agreed!
This rocks for me, for sure.

Many thanks.

58008 , to asklemmy in What isn't illegal but should be?
@58008@lemmy.world avatar
  • Lying if you’re a politician. You should be in a state similar to “under oath” in court, but at all times.
  • Advertising. I should have the legal right to not be advertised at. I should have the right to not have to accept advertising in order to access services, especially so if I already pay a subscription to that service. I cannot put into words how much I loath and despise advertising and advertisers. I hate them. Hate, in the real sense of the word.
  • Loot boxes in video games, whatever age group the game in question is aimed at, but especially so in kids’ games.
  • Microtransactions in video games for anything other than non-essential/non-advantageous items, like cosmetics. Even then, their presence should upgrade the PEGI rating to adult/18, regardless of the actual content of the game. This might help prevent their inclusion at all.
  • Whatever the fuck is going on in Gaza right now.
  • Shielding police or soldiers from prosecution for crimes they’ve committed. If you stand in the way of the due process any other citizen would face, you should be heavily penalised for that. Like, the murderer soldiers who carried out Bloody Sunday are currently being protected by the British state and its lackeys, and I cannot fathom why. Cops in the US who murder people are frequently protected by unions and get to retire rather than be fired etc. All of that shit should be illegal. Get the fuck out of the way of due process.
  • Naziism and related nonsense like Holocaust denial. Germany already has laws about this, but that shit needs to be legally smothered in its crib everywhere.
  • Conspiracism surrounding public health issues like vaccines and masks.
  • Climate denial.
  • Slave labour in prisons.
  • Private prisons.
  • PACs and donations to PACs.
  • Lobbying.
  • Joe Rogan.
11111one11111 ,

Lol they asked for what should be illegal not for a list of shit that annoys you🤣

devraza ,
@devraza@lemmy.ml avatar

Holds true for most of what this guy said, save a few things.

11111one11111 ,

Oh come the fuck on. You want to live in world that puts the same people this guys claims (rightfully so just using his words) are skirting the around the law, to also regulate political lying, advertising, video games, conspiracy theories, uneducated opinions and Joe Rogan? I mean I don’t even know where Rogan fits into any of this. I assume his podcast bit fuck me that means you all support governing who can amd can’t have a public voice? I’m not saying his whole list is out there and yeah I’ll admit I cherry picked the shit out if it but since when has there ever been any legal or legislative framework designed exactly as the voting people wanted? I’m not fuckin Libertarian and will prolly vote for Harris but damn I am not about to allow the buffoons to metaphorically get the foot in the door when they are on record of not even checking if they’re in the right house before blindly opening fire on innocent civilians.

thegreenguy ,
@thegreenguy@sopuli.xyz avatar
  • Slave labour in prisons.

It would be nice if prisoners of non-violent/minor crimes could (voluntarily) work (at maybe a lower wage than usual) and and they would be able to get what they earned once they get out of prison.

finley , to asklemmy in Do flat earthers think other planets are flat? All of them or some of them? Are stars (including and excluding the sun) flat too?

As I’ve heard it, they believe that other planets are around because they can be observed. Any observation of the earth being round is a lie.

These people are crazy

CosmicTurtle0 ,

Uses telescope to observe Mars

Yup, that’s round.

Is taken up into space to look down at the round Earth

No, it’s still flat. The windows are curved to make it look round.

Is taken to Mars with the same telescope and it’s pointed at Earth

The glass on the telescope is round, which makes the Earth look round.

finley ,

Something like that, yes

BurnSquirrel , to asklemmy in What would you like to change about Lemmy culture?

More diversity, More “normies”

Hearing from pooryoungmalegamerleftist#123049781234 saying the same thing as the others isn’t thought provoking or constructive. I’d like to see artists, WSB degenerates, football meatheads and everything in between in comments more because like it or not, those people are experts in Something

cows_are_underrated ,

This is the curse of a small userbase. Lemmy doesn’t has a very big userbase and those are primarily the Foss loving Linux leftists, because they decided to actually invest time in this small communities. The normies are at other mainstream social media platforms like Reddit or Instagram.

TopRamenBinLaden ,

Foss loving Linux leftists

I feel so called out right now.

Blaze ,

football

!football

Might be soccer to you

Angry_Autist ,

No sorry, reddit embracing sports culture is what opened the door for eventual right wing takeover.

The venn diagram between fratboy sportsbros and the alt right is damn near a flat circle.

gk6v2de6do OP , to world in Flying squid is a pedo

Fucking niggers

oxjox , to asklemmy in Is there any chance the decay of the extended family can be reversed?
@oxjox@lemmy.ml avatar

Any signs community might grow/strengthen in the future?

Community and extended family are different things.

Community is a choice blood doesn’t specify. You can choose or find yourself lucky enough to live in a community that’s engaging. I live in a major US city. My particular block isn’t super engaging but I know, and am jealous of, a number of nearby blocks and neighborhoods that are incredibly supportive and engaging with each other - despite or in spite of the appearances or affiliations of the individuals.

Inversely, extended family may be more physically separated than in generations past. We’ve lost most connection with relatives in favor of the choice to live in an area that’s more advantageous to us - be it financially or spiritually or physically beneficial.

I’ve observed more instances of people establishing their own “extended family” through their communities. I’m not so sure there’s an inherent advantage of the extended family being made of blood or friendship.

Also, I’m not sure how you define “extended family”. I hang out with some of my first cousins all the time. Second cousins, not so much. Are aunts and uncles extended family - if not “nuclear family”? I see them too often, tbh.

Shdwdrgn , to asklemmy in What things would you standardize globally if you were the Supreme Leader? All violations punishable by death.

Politicians who lie to their constituents.

tallricefarmer , to asklemmy in What creative project have you long wanted to start but never have?
@tallricefarmer@sopuli.xyz avatar

I want to paint the Dinosaur Train song “Dinosaurs A to Z” dinos on a large canvas for my son.

grrgyle ,

Everybody, we need to help this person reach their goal. This is bombastic yet attainable.

What’s blocking you? How can we help?

tallricefarmer ,
@tallricefarmer@sopuli.xyz avatar

lol thanks. do you watch dinosaur train too?

grrgyle ,

No, just always loved dinosaurs

blaine , to asklemmy in what tips do you have to survive job hunting?

I spent about a year looking for a job (senior management in cybersecurity), and had basically ZERO luck until I got wise and did the following. Had a new role within 4 months afterwards.

  1. Take your resume, and expand it 10-20x into a massive document listing every single project, accomplishment, or skill you can think of that could ever be potentially relevant in a new role.
  2. Every time you apply to a new job, copy the job posting into a ChatGPT conversation, and have it edit your resume to a 1-2 page document that only includes the experience most relevant to the job posting, and to rewrite sentences to use the exact terminology from the job posting where appropriate.
  3. Once you have the custom resume, use ChatGPT to generate a custom cover letter to include as well.

These 2 changes will cause your resume to get assigned a higher “relevance score” by the AI tool their HR or recruiting team uses to weed through the 400+ applications they receive, which means you’ll be at the top of the list of names that gets delivered to first human in the process (the recruiter).

You’ll actually start getting callbacks and phone screens at that point, which gives you a fighting chance. The rest is up to you.

There are paid services that’ll do this for you (like Teal), but you can do it yourself and with more control as long as you have access to ChatGPT. If you can generate a completely customized resume and cover letter in less than 2 minutes, you can pump out 10 high-quality applications in less than half an hour per day.

Edit: I see you’re getting a 40% response rate. You may be setting your sights too low if that remains consistent. If you’re applying for roles that are a solid step up form where you’re at, you would expect closer to a 10% response rate.

eldavi ,

i’ve been doing this for the last 6 months and haven’t gotten response; so i’m guess ymmv.

thorbot ,

I like the custom-resume-per-job idea, but using AI to generate it is a really bad idea unless you very closely comb through it and edit and clean up things. At that point you may as well just create it yourself.

blaine ,

The AI isn’t “generating” it - it’s just whittling down from what you provide to it and swapping out synonyms to match the job description. Try it - you shouldn’t need to make any manual edits if the input data and prompt line up correctly.

Plopp , to asklemmy in What things would you standardize globally if you were the Supreme Leader? All violations punishable by death.

Metric system, right-hand traffic, ISO 8601, high taxes on the rich, someone’s power being used as a multiplier in punishment.

BCsven ,

I would like to add free/accessible healthcare for all

velox_vulnus , (edited )

What about the electric socket? I like Type F, but I hate how it doesn’t have replaceable fuse, like Type G. I also think 3-pin should be mandatory. And about electricity, 230V, 50Hz should be the standard.

Over here in India, we have type C, D and M, and they’re decent, I guess. From a safety perspective, it is kinda bad, give how I confused type C slot with type M. This way, I have accidentally bent the two-pin many-a-times.

gazter ,

Type I. The angled pins make it much more stable than F, and there’s heaps of options for cable exiting sideways, upwards, downwards, straight out, etc .

velox_vulnus ,

What I like about socket type I is that it has both 2 and 3-pin variants, which is a nice feature. And you’re right about how stable it is, given how the pins are angled.

However, from all the images I’ve seen online, it seems to me that those cables aren’t at the bottom or the top, but toward the center. I mean, if you had something like a sofa or a bed pushed towards the plus, that would cause egregious amount of damage to the plug. Now, I could be in the wrong here.

Also, the ground isn’t tall enough, as screen in type G, D or M, which could be a safety hazard. And the point about the accessible fuse, which is a plus in type G, apparently doesn’t seem to be in any other socket.

In support of type F socket, they’re socketed - as in, a significant part of the plug has to go in first. And this interaction enables the plugs to be grounded first, before any of the other pins come into contact. You’re getting both stability and ground connection at the same time.

gazter ,

Plenty of type I come out sideways- they are lower profile than most I’ve seen, slightly more so than type G.

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This can actually be a bit of an annoyance, sometimes… If the socket is right next to the floor, or in a densely packed area, for example, it can make plugging difficult.

And if it does have a ground pin, it’s mandated that the ground be longer than the power pins, for exactly the reason you mentioned about G,D,M.

The recessed feature of F I do like, even if it makes the plugs physically larger than they need to be.

velox_vulnus ,

That’s actually nice that there’s a low-profile plug available. I could see a alternative type socket with recessed plug socket, sideways ground like the Schuko, and the angled pins.

magnetosphere ,
@magnetosphere@fedia.io avatar

Good choices. Fixed-rate fines are unfair. To someone living on minimum wage, a $500 fine can be devastating. To someone pulling down a huge salary, not so much. They’re essentially unequal punishments for the same violation.

Plopp ,

Yup. And not just fines imo. For instance, a cop who rapes or blatantly assaults someone, especially on duty, should have their sentence at least doubled due to the power dynamics.

superkret ,

“I’m afraid you formatted the date incorrectly on this birthday card. Any last words before we hang you?”

Plopp ,

This is not 'Nam, there are rules.

intensely_human ,

IT IS YOUR BIRTHDAY

finley , (edited )

If the punishment for all of those is death, and one’s power is a multiplier in punishment, one must reasonably assume that everyone has the same level of power.

Mubelotix ,
@Mubelotix@jlai.lu avatar

Metric system comes with metric (decimal) time and republican calendar

seaQueue ,
@seaQueue@lemmy.world avatar

I like the Scandinavian system of fines for breaking the law. They’re scaled based on your annual income so a speeding ticket isn’t just a fee for the wealthy.

bjoern_tantau ,
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de avatar

Still a fee for the wealthy. If I earn a million a year I can easily give up 90 % of that and still live comfortably. That’s not the case for someone who earns 100,000.

Still better than a flat fee.

spongebue ,

($93k vs $9300 for those who prefer USD)

Plopp ,

AFAIK, of the Scandinavian countries it’s only Finland that has that system.

VonReposti , (edited )

In Denmark if you are charged with hazardous driving the police can confiscate your car. A Norwegian who had bought a Lamborghini in Germany took the trip through Denmark back home and hit 228 km/t km/h. He lost the car and will never get it back.

Source (in Danish): …tv2.dk/…/2023-12-25-nordmand-fik-beslaglagt-sin-…

Plopp ,

Sure, and while I think that’s a good idea, it’s not really the same thing. Even though a rich person is more likely to drive a more expensive vehicle, you can have wealthy people driving sensible cars (especially the really wealthy) and lower income idiots, I mean people, having saved up and taken out ridiculous loans to get their expensive dream car that they can’t afford. Confiscating those two vehicles would be the complete opposite of equality in terms of financial pain.

BastingChemina ,

Don’t forget ISO216 for paper size. It does not make sense that the US is still using “letter” and “legal” paper size.

TheGalacticVoid ,

Why does it matter, just print stuff, supply the correct paper or material for your project, then move on.

trolololol ,

We need one more rule: can’t defend cluster fuck murican paper sizes

superkret , to asklemmy in What isn't illegal but should be?

double-dipping your dessert sausage into the fish oil bucket

MerchantsOfMisery , to asklemmy in What isn't illegal but should be?

Qualified immunity for police officers. Prosecutors and judges basically get qualified immunity, too-- in that they can be caught engaging in all sorts of inappropriate and illegal activity without facing punishment because like police, it usually doesn’t even get to the extent of being charged.

Angry_Autist ,

I don’t even understand how qualified immunity could even be implemented without massive social unrest

Im_old ,

Maybe fix the social issues as well so there’s no need to riot

Angry_Autist ,

I’d love to but even our most citizen aligned presidential terms only side with the people 20% of the time…

xiao , to asklemmy in What things would you standardize globally if you were the Supreme Leader? All violations punishable by death.
@xiao@sh.itjust.works avatar

I would be a terrifying and bloodthirsty Supreme Leader for sure… 😏

That is why we should prevent human beings from holding too much power.

wildbus8979 , to asklemmy in What things would you standardize globally if you were the Supreme Leader? All violations punishable by death.

I am the ultimate vermin, so… Mandatory tooth brushing, and ponies for all.

verity_kindle ,

Finally, I feel like I’ve scrolling for days to find this oasis.

verity_kindle ,

All hail @wildbus8979 The First of His Name, the Undomesticated People Mover, Giver of Ponies

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