JoelJ @ JoelJ @lemmy.world

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Unfortunately the Republicans agree with them on this point

"Someone could get the most votes, and not win!" McCarthy said at the time.. "So if you come in 3rd, you win. What? 'I got a lot of second votes, I got a lot of 3rd vote — what does that mean?'"

I don't think it's the "Black areas" that are getting confused about how it works. Or perhaps he's just pretending to not understand? 🤔🤔

Happy birthday!

It's winter down where I live, and I'm getting a bit sick of the cold. I can't wait until spring when the sun is up when I get out of bed and I'm not shivering my arse off while getting dressed

Ublock origin works too

Thanks, I appreciate the explanation :)

I looked for a lazy way to get myself a Tux sticker and found this pack of stickers for $1

https://www.stickermule.com/products/unixstickers-pro-pack

Bargain!

There's nothing wrong with having active discussion about how the largest Lemmy instance is being run. Maybe it'll even nudge the admin to reflect on their policy choices, you never know.

Exactly! Although I find dishwashing detergent dries out your skin a lot more, so I wouldn't try using that lol. Shampoo has a pH closer to your skin than a bar of soap, so is really quite well suited for it.

Can anybody ELI5 this for me? I have an AMD Ryzen 5 3600X, so does that mean it'll go faster now?

What it seems to me that you're suggesting is essentially crowd sourcing a mix of investigative journalism and data analysis, which is not a skill I think that just anybody can pick up and do properly. To be fair I've never tried my hand at investigative journalism, but I have done a few units of data analysis and trust me there's a hundred different ways to do it wrong. Even among the experts, there's a lot of disagreements to what the best approaches are. I had a teacher even say that if you give a set of data to 10 data analysts, you'll get back 12 different ways of interpreting it.

That is all to say that I'm not sure how much you'd be solving by providing another forum for people to post their takes on public policy issues, but then again if you manage to attract the right crowd of critical thinkers, who also happen to be open minded enough not to insert their own agendas into matters, perhaps people might hold each other accountable?

BTW have you checked that something similar doesn't already exist? Insert obligatory xkcd comic:

My guess to the biggest reason not to do this is safety - if somebody is being electrocuted, you want to be able to pull the cord out of the wall as quickly as possible to maximise their chance of survival.

I just buy cheap $2 bottles of shampoo and use it for my whole body. Cheaper than shower gel, and I've been doing it for over 5 years with no problems. It's all soap, right?

Do the numbers themselves have any specific origin or meaning?

I used to watch a lot of Luke Smith when I first got into Arch 5 years ago, but nothing much since then. The only Linux youtuber I watch nowadays is Chris Titus Tech, and then only sometimes.

I mean I guess I do agree with the sentiment that defederating shouldn't be the default response to finding offensive content on another instance.

If you check the highest scoring comment on this post you'll see it's also me, because I also find the content on that instance highly offensive. I'm just wary because Lemmy still feels very new, and the our behaviours now might set a precedent for the future, and I don't want every disagreement to end up with another instance defederated.

And no I don't use the N word regularly, I'm not even from the US

It's always refreshing to read an intelligent and well thought out response. The world needs more nuance!

Oh that's interesting, exposing kids to it is a great idea because then they won't have the whole barrier of the 'fear of the unknown' when considering installing it on their own PC. Thanks for sharing!

I just had a look at the main page, and saw a post with the line, "The lying cunts at shit Just Woke are trying to claim that we're Nazis because we fight against their far lefty woke ass shit about transgenderism and how it's used to groom and mutilate children", and another that says, "Reeeeeeee!! Don’t you understand that unless I read soft porn children’s novels to five year olds about the joys of anal sex, that trans kids will literally be genocided!!?! Reeeeee!!"

Yeah I'm comfortable with people not wanting to associate with an instance like that. You wanna be a part of it, go for it. Doesn't mean the rest of us need be exposed to that kind of ignorance, bigotry and hate.