You’re literally just making stuff up now I never said anything of the sort. I didn’t separate anyone I seen a friend and said hi. Or are men and women not allowed to talk to each other without a chaperon?
I been outside in the smoking area and seen a friends girlfriend and been like “Hey how’s it going?”
Then had a fat friend runs over to me and be like “Leave her alone! She has a boyfriend!”
“Yea X” then I just stared at her.
She then goes “Oh right Y.” (Y being his nickname). Then just awkwardly stared as us as we both stood their in silence then she walked away.
I found it amusing. Turns out it was a barcawl from their course hence why they were all together outside. (The couple met on their course, I lived with him the year before).
So no it had nothing to do with anything I was doing. I was having a pleasant chat with someone who I was friendly with and she had struck up conversations with me many time, we used to chat at the gym also. It was just her friend being self conscious I guess.
It is always the fat ones that do that. The pretty ones either come over and say “alright?” Or they tend to stand in the conversation for a short period of time and then leave. But the abrupt cutting into a conversation and speaking on behalf of friend like she’s a child who can’t look after herself is always fat girls. The memes are true.
Gen X here. At this point in my life, seeking out healthcare might not bankrupt me as I’ve got a whole two deductibles in my health savings account, theoretically allowing me to get sick twice over the remaining twenty five years or so of my life.
Even with that luxury in my back pocket, it’s so hard wired in me that even driving past a doctor’s office brings bankruptcy, that I don’t even try.
Wild card for me is that I engage quite a few doctors on personal finance matters and have learned that many of them are just as bad as their insurance and hospital executives are. They’ll perform a less beneficial but more costly procedure because their God damned neighbor just got the newest Ferrari and they need to one up them. I have literally experienced Dr. X asking me if Dr. Y was doing better than him. It’s disgusting behavior into which I’ve no desire to place my life and four generations of medical debt.
I will happily die younger solely to leave a clean estate for my daughter in favor of giving it all to those shitheads for an extra couple months of excruciating pain extended life.
Mashable reports that users ran into a black screen on YouTube, and that it stayed for about 6 seconds before the video began playing. The reports indicate it affected several browsers including Firefox, Edge, Vivaldi....
I remeber when it was all about the YOU part of tubin’. Real people making real content because they wanted to show it to you.
When they first started getting paid they just made more of that same stuff, heck plenty of reviewers could even be trusted as they made the reviews on their own accord.
It was my go to place for entertainment, information and to help me decide to get brand x or y for the product i need.
Nowadays i just have it on as it’s less annoying than cable but nothing is actually interesting anymore. Mature youtubers who have turned into adhd 9yo olds just to try and stay relevant, people messing with annoying sounds effects just because they read it catches the viewers attention…video’s nowadays are an attack on my home space, constantly triggering me with noise or ads just to be annoying. It’s become exhausting to consume content.
Same goes for instagram which i very much liked, it’s on constant mute for me and the only reason i’m still around is because it’s become a habit and titties.
They do, kinda. But they also choose to not let their software interact with it, then.
Which puts us in this weird position countries like the US AFAIK have no laws for, the EU is just starting to employ gatekeeping-laws for technology forms in a big way. Play Services is Google’s piece of software, legally they have every right to refuse to let it run on hardware whatever. It’s their software after all. But, they have such a market-controlling situation that it’d be unfair of them to specifically exclude company X, Y or Z.
Most pill apps are meant for scheduled medications, like something you take every morning. But I take a medication on-demand, with the only rule to take at most X per day and wait at least Y hours between taking. So I only need to worry about taking it too often. Is there an app where I can track when I take this medication, and...
I made this app! Built it for myself and my partner because I had exactly the same problem — every other medication app seems to be built for taking something on a regular schedule.
Not sure if it’s very user-friendly, but it works well for me. There also isn’t an option for more complex rules (just max X doses every Y hours), so you’ll need to set something up that makes sense.
Nah, it's trying to imitate the bird and is going, "No cat here, only friend" (in terms of purpose. In reality, the cat just knows birds with y appearance come to x sound, so make x sound to make y bird maybe come, the cat doesn't understand the mechanics, just that it works)
Cats do have limited mimicry abilities - It's probably why there are so many videos of cats "speaking" human words - adapting that mostly unused mimicry skill to get the human's attention with sounds it notices humans use to get the attention of other humans
Hello World, As many of you have probably noticed, there is a growing problem on the internet when it comes to undisclosed bias in both amateur and professional reporting. While not every outlet can be like the C-SPAN, or Reuters, we also believe that it’s impossible to remove the human element from the news, especially when...
See, this is what I’m talking about. They don’t fact check articles by specific publishers. They fact check a claim. “Is this statement true”, “did X Y”, etc. they don’t do “is this this article by the guardian true.” That’s a whole separate thing not done by them.
They offer a separate service where they rate the general trustworthiness and bias of a publication but that’s not the same as doing a specific article, is it?
Your comment makes me wonder if you might be confusing them with someone else or are intentionally saying something about them that isn’t accurate. Because your comment is incompatible with what they actually do.
Hello World, As many of you have probably noticed, there is a growing problem on the internet when it comes to undisclosed bias in both amateur and professional reporting. While not every outlet can be like the C-SPAN, or Reuters, we also believe that it’s impossible to remove the human element from the news, especially when...
But then the issue arises what the people complain, the human bias.
Because the user x from instance b accuses the user y from instance a be a bigot because they added SomeRandomNewsPage as biased into there. And it repeats and repeats.
So we chose to use the available option to use MBFC and ground.news for 2 seperate options.
We all know the downside of a human maintained list / service (like MBFC) because you can not remove the human part.
A record number of athletes openly identifying as LGBTQ+ are competing in the 2024 Paris Olympics, a massive leap during a competition that organizers have pushed to center around inclusion and diversity....
In Swyer syndrome, individuals have one X chromosome and one Y chromosome in each cell, which is the pattern typically found in boys and men; however, they have female reproductive structures.
People with Swyer syndrome have female external genitalia and some female internal reproductive structures. These individuals usually have a uterus and fallopian tubes, but their gonads (ovaries or testes) are not functional. Instead, the gonads are small and underdeveloped and contain little gonadal tissue. These structures are called streak gonads.
Not a woman, right? Despite not even being able to tell even when you see them naked, right?
If Harris was born in the US, moved to Norway when she was 3, went to school in Norway, studied in Norway, then returned to the US, what ethnicity do you think she would identify with?
Identity with, or identify as? You can choose the former to an extent, but the latter is biologically inherited.
Why would you connect such unconnected things as phenotype and heritage?
Fine, since you’re getting hung up on definitions, instead of “phenotype” say “inherited physical characteristics”. I don’t feel like getting into an argument about genetics, it’s beside the point. The point is, people inherit physical characteristics common to their enthnicity, and that is what “race” is. It’s not a bad thing, just a descriptor.
The connection is not “You have black skin, therefore, you are African American”
The connection is “you have black skin, and wiry hair, and African ancestry, and X and Y and Z, therefore you are Black.” And it’s less a connection than a definition. No value judgment, just a statement.
It sounds like what you should be arguing against is “you are Black, therefore you are inferior”. Which would be a really easy and common argument to make without all this bullshit “race is imaginary” crap.
I’d like to see your source for those. I don’t know Gaelic so I can’t fact check those ones, but I do know a bit of Hebrew, and names that mean ‘God X’ usually end in el, not en. Also, Hebrew doesn’t have an English J sound, it has the IPA J sound though, or English Y sound. The Hebrew word for judge is ‘shofet’.
We can’t manufacture our way to using fewer resources.
Why not? Seems like a pretty simple formula: if it costs X amount of resources or pollution to save Y amount of resources or pollution per unit time, the break-even point is whenever Y times time exceeds X.
I strongly, vehemently disagree. I could probably count the number of “good” stories. I.e.: actually make sense, aren’t just complete idiocy, aren’t in the Old Testament because everything that happens in that part is somehow simultaneously horrific, disgusting, incestuous, genocidal… And yet still so goddamn fucking boring… I can count those ones on one hand.
It’s almost entirely complete nonsense. Even the parts that are meant to be historical records “x beget y blah blah” are bullshit. Dozens of pages of alleged family trees, and none of it adds up. Oh yeah and people lived well into their mid -100s because why not. What the fuck is that?
The entity that we’re meant to want to worship after reading is described with such petty human emotions as jealously and rage. He is responsible for numerous genocides, child murder (large and small scale). The book of Job is an awful story of ruining the life of his most loyal follower (including murdering his family) just to prove to the devil that he’d remain faithful. So fucking stupid. Noah’s Ark has to be one of the most nonsensical stories ever and so many fucking people think it’s literally true.
Meanwhile, the “adversary,” the ultimate evil killed how many in the Bible again? What did he do other then just tell Eve that she actually could eat a piece of fruit from a tree if she wanted (the fact that the forbidden fruit would allow humans to discern good from evil isn’t sketchy at all). Who’s the bad guy again?
And these are the “interesting” parts. The other 95% is just garbage.
And no, Jesus isn’t any better. Unless you’re cool with slavery I guess…
Using Relational DBs where the data model is better suited to other sorts of DBs.
This is true if most or all of your data is such. But when you have only a few bits of data here and there, it’s still better to use the RDB.
For example, in a surveillance system (think Blue Iris, Zone Minder, or Shinobi) you want to use an RDB, but you’re going to have to store JSON data from alerts as well as other objects within the frame when alerts come in. Something like this:
While it’s possible to store this in a flat format in a table. The question is why would you want to. Postgres’ JSONB datatype will store the data as efficiently as anything else, while also making it queryable. This gives you the advantage of not having to rework the the table structure if you need to expand the type of data points used in the detection software.
It definitely isn’t a solution for most things, but it’s 100% valid to use.
There’s also the consideration that you just want to store JSON data as it’s generated by whatever source without translating it in any way. Just store the actual data in it’s “raw” form. This allows you to do that also.
Edit: just to add to the example JSON, the other advantage is that it allows a variable number of objects within the array without having to accommodate it in the table. I can’t count how many times I’ve seen tables with “extra1, extra2, extra3, extra4, …” because they knew there would be extra data at some point, but no idea what it would be.
Socially? Would never happen. Imagine our population is just stock. It goes up and down depending on how good things look. At some point, it cannot continue as it’s not financially feasible. But when it drops back down into realistic numbers, balance goes up again.
You can see this behaviour in the generations (Z, Y, X, Boomer, Pre-war, etc.) These generation changes are marked by a tipping point of birthrate increasing or decreasing in a nation—typically globally, which is why we all tend to agree on the start/end of generational eras within 3–5 years.
You demonstrated the ineffectiveness of the approach by assuming I’m a Democrat or even American.
Actually I assumed you’re a lemmy user, of which I’ve yet to meet one who doesn’t generalize republicans whether the poster is american or not. Not without reason, mind you, many republicans are say, racist, though many are not. It serves as a damn fine example of exactly what I’m referring to and is also a generalization in and of itself, which doubles back to make my point again. I understand the process, and in fact at times see value in it rather than simply nature at work, the trick is knowing what to do with the generalization. Should you hate X because X usually Ys? No, but if Y is an undesirable behavior trait in X you should at least find out if they Y before becoming entwined with them somehow.
X men of Lemmy, what advice do you have for Y men of Lemmy?
Why not allow answers from women and for women? You already know most answers will be from and for men, why specifically exclude the least empowered amongst us? I thought I’d gotten away from that when I left reddit. We can be better.
In the UK we have had 2 MPs assassinated in the past 10 years. One Labour and one Conservative. Comments that essentially say, “The government should do what I want or there will be more political violence”, are inciting violence.
The figleaf of being like “unless X happens, someone will do Y” is the same as 4chan maniacs threatening to commit acts of terror “in minecraft” or whatever.
Context : Immich default map tile provider (which gets sent a bunch of PII every time you use the map feature) is a company that I see no reason to trust. This is a follow-up to this post, with the permanent temporary fix I came up with. I will also summarize the general opinion from the comments, as well as some interesting...
I’m pretty sure they are actually hosting it. The tech is quite different (cofractal uses urls ending with {z}/{x}/{y}, while their tile sever uses this stuff that works quite differently)
Anon meets his dream girl (lemmy.world)
Gen X, millennials face higher risk of 17 cancers than older generations (www.nbcnews.com)
YouTube's server-side ads resulted in a black screen for ad blocker users (www.ghacks.net)
Mashable reports that users ran into a black screen on YouTube, and that it stayed for about 6 seconds before the video began playing. The reports indicate it affected several browsers including Firefox, Edge, Vivaldi....
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Loss of popular 2FA tool puts security-minded GrapheneOS in a paradox (arstechnica.com)
Losing access to Authy leads to another reckoning with Google's security model.
FOSS medication app for unscheduled medications?
Most pill apps are meant for scheduled medications, like something you take every morning. But I take a medication on-demand, with the only rule to take at most X per day and wait at least Y hours between taking. So I only need to worry about taking it too often. Is there an app where I can track when I take this medication, and...
Interspecies linguistics
Help remembering a song.
Inspired by this....
Media Bias Fact Check - Automation
Hello World, As many of you have probably noticed, there is a growing problem on the internet when it comes to undisclosed bias in both amateur and professional reporting. While not every outlet can be like the C-SPAN, or Reuters, we also believe that it’s impossible to remove the human element from the news, especially when...
Media Bias Fact Check - Automation
Hello World, As many of you have probably noticed, there is a growing problem on the internet when it comes to undisclosed bias in both amateur and professional reporting. While not every outlet can be like the C-SPAN, or Reuters, we also believe that it’s impossible to remove the human element from the news, especially when...
A record 191 openly LGBTQ+ athletes are competing in the 2024 Olympics (apnews.com)
A record number of athletes openly identifying as LGBTQ+ are competing in the 2024 Paris Olympics, a massive leap during a competition that organizers have pushed to center around inclusion and diversity....
Is this just how it’s gonna be till Election Day? (lemmy.sdf.org)
never signed up for anything like this,...
what is with child names like Aiden, Braiden etc?
I’m seeing this so many times… Like Aiden, Caiden, Braiden, Jaiden, Paiden…
Cars Are Rolling Computers Now. So What Happens When They Stop Getting Updates? (www.wired.com)
Tell him yours (lemmy.world)
Drag performance resembling Last Supper at Olympic opening ceremony rankles conservatives (www.nbcnews.com)
JSON Query Language (programming.dev)
if the total fertility rate drops and stays below global replacement rate, will humans disappear?
After watching this video I am left with this question....
Ohio Supreme Court rules boneless chicken wings can have bones
‘Boneless’ chicken wings can have bones, the Ohio Supreme Court says...
How come as of today I can't access [email protected]?
lemmy.world/c/[email protected]...
YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete (www.yahoo.com)
YouTube has been spotted testing server-side ads, which could pose a problem to ad blockers.
What would you like to change about Lemmy culture?
Follow-up: Temporary fix for Immich's shady third-party API
Context : Immich default map tile provider (which gets sent a bunch of PII every time you use the map feature) is a company that I see no reason to trust. This is a follow-up to this post, with the permanent temporary fix I came up with. I will also summarize the general opinion from the comments, as well as some interesting...