A lot of people have talked about the possibility of forking Mastodon to get the many improvements their communities need. Making such an effort successful is another discussion entirely.
If anything, this proves that forking Mastodon is a great idea. Not because any useful software would come out of it, but it would distract some of the annoying armchair managers out there.
The biggest problem with Mastodon isn't the lack of feature X or the presence of feature Y; it's those exact assholes, draining the energy and enthusiasm from anything that crosses their path while scaring away anyone looking for a meaningful conversation.
I hate to break it to you, but if you genuinely think you've figured it all out, chances are you're a fucking moron.
ELI5: It’s politically incorrect to use a group of people as a mascot.
ELIHypocrisy: This mostly gained momentum after an NFL team called the Redskins started getting flak for basically using what became a derogatory name for native americans as a mascot/team name. Pejoration is neat.
The pendulum kept swinging and it removed even non-derogatory names as mascots.
So what could be a different legitimate name used to represent being awesome and excelling on a team where you’re supposed to win constantly started getting shut down. Think Chiefs, Blackhawks (switched to the bird not the people), but they keep the name because these are okay despite plenty of people being able to use almost any cultural group in a derogatory way.
I understand it, but it felt like the usual smart changes that went too far. I blame white people white knighting / virtue signalling too much.
RIP Mia from Land O Lakes butter. You can understand it, you don’t have to like it. The opinion of the masses doesn’t require logic, only momentum. Doesn’t matter if the mascot was an accurate representation of someone, by those people, paid, generally loved, white folk will still kill it.
E: It’s okay if they’re primarily associated with white people or the in-group… or certain country people… not some white people though… or some people from certain countries… or some people from certain geological areas.
Americans, Texans, Yankees? Fine.
Irish, Canucks, Indians? You’ll need context.
Turks, Sicilians, Confederates? Probably not fine since they’re too brown or too American. Americans? That’s fine though, even though Americans killed far more natives than Confederates ever did through systematic governmental genocide… Indians? Ok, Dot not feather Indians get that one now… turns out racism is pretty universal but it’s okay if you’re part of the in group. Don’t emphasize what makes them unique or it’s racist… New characterization requires that you don’t emphasize what makes someone unique even if it’s a point of pride or completely relevant to their people.
Does it matter if you name your team after yourselves? No. Still not fine. You have to first remove the name, wait a period, then give yourself the name back. It has to be allowed to marinate in PC limbo like colored people, african american, black, or people of color.
You have to know what arbitrary linguistic rules people decided are more correct despite them all attempting to describe the same thing. Like trying to approximate someone’s skin color/genetic heritage and/or ethnicity.
People first language! Because it’s better if X is first and not Y…despite describing the same thing and fuck you for not knowing any better by not being part of the In-Group!
Conclusion: People can try to logic their way through it all the way they want, but the ELI5 is the true part. They’ll want exceptions for everything though as long as it’s about yourselves… despite some people being forced to be those things against their will or having no to little ability to change where they we from or what professions they got into. Or that names and terms change meaning constantly and it’s a futile attempt to give yourself an exception because it’s all about you, not about others… even though it is lol.
X, y, and z should only be used when working with things with dimensions larger than 1. Indexing into a 2D array, x and y are great uses. I’m also totally fine with i and j for indexer/iterator when appropriate, but I hate when people try to make short variable names for no good reason. We have auto-complete just about everywhere now. Make the names descriptive. There’s literally no reason not to.
Marijuana is its own special category, but club drugs (which for some reason include date rape drugs), inhalants and steroids are all in a “miscellaneous” category together?...
I actually wish this mentally kindof existed for hobby projects (although it doesn’t seem to, but please prove me wrong), like “looking for a programmer for X project to do Y” type posts where us programmers can more easily find projects to participate in (and they can find good people too) that we have a great interest for, rather than hunting sites like up-for-grabs for single feature requests to fulfill or starting completely new projects on our own.
In a statement, Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman accused President Biden of being “willing to sacrifice the American auto industry and its workers in service of its radical green agenda.”
If you look up the 10 most “Made in America” cars, the top 4 slots by a huge margin are Tesla Model 3,Y,S,X , which are all EVs, and they are at near 100% (or 100% for some models). There isn’t another American car brand on the list. So when Coleman is talking about sacrificing American auto workers, who’s he talking about? A car that is 40% American because all the parts are made in China or Mexico and there’s some final assembly done in the USA?
P.S. Musk is an idiot, though I’m not sure that needs to be said anymore as its so obvious.
the top 4 slots by a huge margin are Tesla Model 3,Y,S,X
Is that true? I saw recently that 95% of Tesla’s cars are the Model Y. I assume a huge chunk of the remaining 5% is the Model 3, leaving very few Model S and X cars on the road. I’d be very surprised to hear that either one of them is in the top 4 best selling American made cars.
A popular way of dealing with discussions, and familiar to most people, I assume. As far as I see it, adding a poll system to Lemmy is a good way to enhance user engagement. I’m not really aware if this has been a topic before or not, tried looking it up but didn’t see much juice on the topic, so thought I’d spark it up....
It’s better than nothing if you record that account X voted in poll Y without recording how they voted. Just keep count of the # of votes for each option. After the poll closes, delete the list of voters for that poll. It might be possible to do something fancier to get more privacy.
The Verge published this spam article about the “best printers of 2024” to demonstrate how terrible Google’s search results are. It now appears as the top non-sponsored post if you search “best printer” on Google....
Anything post-2022, and probably post-2020, is suspect on Reddit because it became abundantly clear how steerable it was and how easy to generate sales as long as you didn’t do anything too “suspicious”. Current ‘ad guides’ tell advertisers not to link things because just saying the name reads as more authentic.
Before that it was legitimately people discussing, e.g., the best flashlight for x-y-z purposes. But a decent amount of old stuff has been gutted by people deleting their posts/accounts.
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...
My personal experience has actually been quite whew opposite of everyone here apparently. Of the 3 vegans I’ve spent time with, not one of them has ever brought it up to preach or to sound smug. It only ever comes up because I ask for a recipe they served and they say something along the lines of “now, this is a vegan recipe, but you should be able to substitute ‘x’ with ‘y’ if you wanna avoid that.” It’s never preachy, it’s always in the “don’t let this being vegan ruin it for you” kind of way.
My low stakes conspiracy is that vegan hate on the internet is like people that don’t like the word moist. They either watched friends and decided to adopt that as a personality trait, or they look up to someone that did just that. They hate veganism because they watched a comedian quip about it and agreed or they saw someone that watched a comedian and agreed. It’s all too consistent to not be feeding from the same bowl.
As someone who knows his ways around the kitchen: No. It is definitely not easy, even if you just go for the salad option. Have you ever looked at any ingredient list? Some store-bought “fresh” pasta is not vegan. A lot of things you would not think for a second about them containing animal products like salad dressings are actually not vegan. In a lot of countries, McDonalds fries are not vegan.
And as soon as it comes to the necessity to replace non-vegan ingredients with vegan ones, you’ll fall down a rabbit hole of “this can be used to replace that, but only in those circumstances”, “Yes, you can replace X with Y, but you have to be careful to cover up some flavors”, or even “The replacement for X is basically a doctoral thesis in chemsitry”.
I posted this comment a week ago, but figured I’d share it here as well.
I’m an IT consultant and I had a meeting with AWS yesterday. My manager asked me to give the AWS team an overview of our solution so they could see what they could use for a new program they were pitching our clients. That’s all the information I had, so I started the meeting by saying “I’m not sure what you all are proposing, so I’m going to give you a high level but please let me know where you need more details.”
After I had finished giving my overview, I tried to get more info out of them about what they were proposing to build. I shit you not, their response was that they wanted to "build an app that allowed the business to run with AI and ML (Machine Learning).”
They didn’t say, “we want to solve X and Y problems” or “enable Z functionality.” Literally their entire goal was to build something with AI. I’m glad I wasn’t on camera or in person, because I literally face-palmed.
You can’t just throw an image up. You have to source it or we’re going to assume you made it in MSPaint. But you’re already showing signs of not understanding what inflation is. It is not some stand alone year by year metric. It’s a velocity measurement. Like your car’s speedometer. You drove X number of miles in Y time. Instead here it’s you rose X points in 1 year. The previous points do not go away. The wage increases from year 4 do not magically erase inflation from years 1-3, unless they beat year 4 inflation by the the sum of inflation from years 1-3.
Per my prior comment - “Find a hobby that often has some kind of social interaction and stereotypically attracts women in your age range.” That is not D&D, my dude. To later points - that’s where you need to be to meet people. I’m going to assume that you don’t go to church, and you said that you were out of college. That said, taking personal enrichment classes can be a good place to meet people and make friends, like finding classes on pottery throwing, or jewelry making. (Lapidary tends to attract more men though, which is a little odd.) Classes on making stained glass, maybe? Or ballroom dancing.
I’m not exactly in shape but I’m not exactly out of it either […] Supposedly dad bods are in however.
Yeah, no. Get in shape. I mean the kind of shape where you have a resting heart rate below 60bpm, can run at least a 5k and survive, lifting free weights, etc. In general people that are in good physical condition, and look like it, will have a far easier time dating, because that’s your first impression. The ‘dad bod’ thing isn’t about women preferring men that look like X, Y, or Z, but is more a statement that personality and how a man acts is more important than how he looks. HOWEVER, your appearance is going to be the first thing that people see, so you want to start on a high point.
For reference, when I was dating, I was riding my bike about 28 miles/day, 5 days/week, and in the gym about two hours a day.
I do take showers nightly
I would suggest morning rather than nightly. People sweat at night, and you want to start the day as fresh as possible.
I’ve seen worse though, and from women at that!
Irrelevant. You’re trying to create a positive impression.
Not a supervisor, but yeah it just seems like a whole can of worms I’d rather leave closed.
It is not something I’d recommend if you work closely with a person.
Honestly, I think that the best bet is going to be trying to make friends through classes that you take for enjoyment, and just trying to be social there. Like, no pressure, not goal-oriented socializing, just trying to meet people and make friends socializing.
I’m a researcher in the biological sciences at an institute which receives lots of government funding, and was at a university before my current position. We are not being paid to develop drugs. We are being paid to develop new knowledge that hopefully can be useful (in the broad sense of the term). Practically no one I’ve ever met during my time in academia is developing drugs, and the small few that were doing so were only researching a single, small part of a very long, complex process.
The R&D you are paying for is for us to typically find out that “Protein X interacts with Protein Y and causes Effect Z. When we delete Protein X then Effect Z goes away”. We might also find out that “Molecule Q can block the activity of Protein X, but has a host of issues that make it ineffective when given to Petri dish cells and mice.” This can give you a lead towards making a drug, but what we do is basically discover a possible starting point, nothing more. If someone wants to make a drug from this, they typically will start a company and get venture capital and angel investor money, as university labs are usually poorly equipped financially and talent wise to actually develop a drug (to speak nothing of pushing it through clinical trials). Transforming Molecule Q into a bona fide drug candidate is going to require a massive amount of work that most lay individuals are completely unaware of.
I’m really curious where this concept that the government is spending tons of money on drug R&D at publicly funded universities is coming from. It sounds great as a talking point, but from my perspective within the system it’s not quite how things work.
We are not being paid to develop drugs. We are being paid to develop new knowledge that hopefully can be useful
You know that the R in R&D stands for “research”, right? 🤦
The R&D you are paying for is for us to typically find out that “Protein X interacts with Protein Y and causes Effect Z. When we delete Protein X then Effect Z goes away”. We might also find out that “Molecule Q can block the activity of Protein X, but has a host of issues that make it ineffective when given to Petri dish cells and mice.”
Sounds a hell of a lot like that’s the kind of research that’s indispensable when formulating drugs.
This can give you a lead towards making a drug
Ya think? 🤦
but what we do is basically discover a possible starting point, nothing more
Sounds like you’re doing all of the research and other legwork tbh. That’s hardly just “a starting point”.
I’m really curious where this concept that the government is spending tons of money on drug R&D at publicly funded universities is coming from
You mean other than how you just confirmed it while trying to disprove it?
from my perspective within the system it’s not quite how things work.
That being the perspective of living proof that you can be intelligent and simultaneously oblivious of the obvious.
Either way, pharmaceutical companies aren’t spending all their income on R&D. By far the biggest expense is advertising and after that, it’s stockholder dividends of the absolutely obscene profits they’re making on ripping off sick people.
for real, I’m pro trans rights and I still sometimes accidentally deadname Elliot Page because I have dyscalculia. if you ban me for that aren’t you being ableist?
also yes context is very important.
if I say “when Caitlyn went by the name [X], and she used [Y] pronoun, [Z] thing happened to [Y]”, I assume I will still get banned for deadnaming even though I’m innocently adding clarity to a conversation.
to make things worse, if someone is trans and gender fluid, and I call them by a name or pronoun they used last time I knew about them, now I’ve committed a crime of which I had no knowledge.
this blanket condemnation of deadnaming is just dumb. it requires nuance.
Maybe stop trying to attach a number to it, whether or not to have kids is going to be a very personal thing. Instead of “should someone have kids at 21,18,27,30” or whatever
People should be asking themselves the following questions:
Do you want kids?
Is your answer to 1 being pressured by friends, family, this Lemmy community or something else?
Do you feel you are mentally prepared for a child?
Are you financially prepared and stable to have a child? (This one can vary wildly, some people are stable with houses at 18, and some are never financially stable)
Are you prepared to handle your child alone if your support network disappears?
Some people are going to be able check all the boxes at 18/19 some aren’t going to be able to until 21 or 30 or maybe even never.
Everyone is going to have to decide for themselves and stop the whole “you shouldn’t have kids at X! but not past Y!” Nonsense.
The sole exception is if you’re under 18, and that’s mostly because you need to finish high school at a bare minimum without distractions otherwise question 4 is going to be a long hard road. Even then the exception has an exception, if you have a well off support network (like wealthy parents)
Like the article posted by the other commenter, you can be mature and ready and wildly varying ages, 25 is a pop culture myth
By design nothing in the chain can be altered. But of course you could have a block indicating “person X is now person Y”. But you can always read that Y was at some point X (and at what point the change happened). That would not be good, as it would be a public ledger of all trans people. It would also make things like witness protection impossible because inserting a block “today in 2024, person W was born in 1974” is very suspicious
That’s a weird way to look at the projects, in my opinion (“if only X had Y, it would kill Z…”).
Helix and Neovim have different approaches to editing, configuration, etc. They don’t need to be competing for users. Neovim can exist for the people who want an editor with Neovim’s ideas, same for Helix, and that’s just fine.
In the first picture, the object in orbit is travelling along, say, y=0. There could also be an object in orbit along x=0, right? So that would mean there isn’t a “canvas” or 2D equivalent, since things can orbit at any angle. Is that right?
The Trouble with Forking Mastodon (wedistribute.org)
A lot of people have talked about the possibility of forking Mastodon to get the many improvements their communities need. Making such an effort successful is another discussion entirely.
Anon shares their highschool mascot (sh.itjust.works)
The easiest problem (discuss.tchncs.de)
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The way my daughter's middle school health class classifies drugs is insane. (lemmy.world)
Marijuana is its own special category, but club drugs (which for some reason include date rape drugs), inhalants and steroids are all in a “miscellaneous” category together?...
The one your friend, Dick, borrows (lemmy.world)
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Zero to hero (mander.xyz)
Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption (www.theverge.com)
Can someone explain Universal Blue (and images based on it) to me?
I think I get the idea of Fedora Atomic (Silverblue, Kionite, etc.), but I do not get what uBlue is about....
Would Lemmy Benefit from Implementing Polls? (slrpnk.net)
A popular way of dealing with discussions, and familiar to most people, I assume. As far as I see it, adding a poll system to Lemmy is a good way to enhance user engagement. I’m not really aware if this has been a topic before or not, tried looking it up but didn’t see much juice on the topic, so thought I’d spark it up....
The Verge shows how Google search is useless (www.theverge.com)
The Verge published this spam article about the “best printers of 2024” to demonstrate how terrible Google’s search results are. It now appears as the top non-sponsored post if you search “best printer” on Google....
[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...
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Two newborn twins need a one-dose treatment that would save their lives: Zolgensma, a $2.1M drug. Insurance (also the mother's employer) cut coverage of the drug the day after they were born. (www.wbtv.com)
america is so fucking based man...
Caitlyn Jenner’s rumored trans girlfriend is apparently really transphobic (www.lgbtqnation.com)
18+ I did vasectomy at age of 21
Yeah. Year ago I decided to take my money (over $800 including all checkups and gas) and make myself childfree....
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The editor Zed will have regular alpha builds soon (github.com)
Is there a "canvas" of the universe? Do we even know? Would a canvas follow the same laws as the paint?
Think of the universe as a painting. There’s the image made in paint, and the surface it was painted on. The canvas....