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I’m gonna make a list and hit the library

The way I see it, the major barrier to countries implementing carbon taxes is the fear their economic competitors won’t do the same, therefore hindering their economic growth needlessly. A valid concern....

In the context of VPNs for example. Some VPNs store and provide information about what sites you go to third parties. Third parties analyze it and figure out what adds to show you. Hmm… then let them show me those adds they want to show me. I do hate adds as a whole and use an add blocker, thus. But I couldn’t care less what...

Close-up magic, stage magic, all that stuff. Who are you favourite magicians, and what are their best performances?...

I subscribed to my accounts customised rss feed which I got from RSS icon just above feed.It is configured to give feed of my subscribed communites with sorting of new BUT when new post arrive there is no update in feed.I thought my RSS reader is malfunctioning so I checked rss file and actually that file was not UPDATING.What...

Living in cruddy apt. Anger management neighbor slamming doors constantly. Bed shakes, waking me up....

I have a few questions on how to best behave to be as welcoming and inclusive as possible without sounding bad. I hope you guys don’t hate me....

Hello, Canadians of Lemmy! Down in the USA there is a lot of conflicting information regarding the efficacy of y’alls healthcare systems. Without revealing my personal bias, I was hoping for some anecdotes or summaries from those whom actually live there.

For example: someone intentionally misspeaks, pretending as if it was an error or Freudian slip, in order to subtley communicate their true intentions

Looking for some ideas of things to watch I like: animated, SF and comedy movies :)

I want to be respectful but if they say they don’t care what pronouns I use for them, that feels like it puts the decision on me to choose what to call them and I guess I would probably default to “they” because choosing a gender for them feels weird… am I wrong?

How close was it?

So, I’m trying out Floorp browser flatpak version for KDE Plasma and I can’t get the KDE plasma browser integration to work. Anyone faces similar behaviour?

Assume you’re life-lusted and are willing to abandon every moral you have just to live. Paying for cancer treatment is also worth prison time to you....

If top of the society is immoral psychopaths with power, and most of the society is composed of people with good intentions, then there is not much hope for “beta uprising” until things go way beyond point of recovery, because powerful psychopaths will not let their power get taken away....

This question is for all who set goals for them at the beginning of the year. What is it that you are yet to achieve?

and is there a open-source shazam?

There are a number of rating sites out there, sometimes with conflicting information. What do you go to when you want to donate, especially when you want to look for a particular issue/crisis/disaster....

for me: lemmy,kbin, nextcloud,pixelfed, matrix,xmpp/jabber and peertube

I’m about to sound like the ignorant American I am, so I apologize in advance! We’re looking at a trip to Germany, and possibly Prague, and we’ve noticed that a lot of the hotel names are French and a couple hotels that aren’t named in French have replied to comments with things like “Bonjour! etc etc” What’s up...

I am Ganesh, an Indian atheist and I don’t eat beef. It’s not like that I have a religious reason to do that, but after all those years seeing cows as peaceful animals and playing and growing up with them in a village, I doubt if I ever will be able to eat beef. I wasn’t raised very religious, I didn’t go to temple...