This is your only option. Managing your carbon footprint sounds like a great idea in concept, but the entire concept was created and promoted by oil companies to distract us from where the real damage comes from. Worrying about your own impact is noble but if you're doing it to save the world you're on the wrong track.
Exactly! I can't even stand physical ads like billboards because the concept of reserving land for manipulating every passing person into buying something they don't need is ridiculously perverse to me. Ads are an attack against my psyche and I will do everything I can to avoid them.
When I want to invest in a better product or look for something that solves my wants or needs, I research my options. I will never make my decision based on an obvious ad because they are intrinsically deceitful.
I've never heard of this referred to as brigading, but it's definitely in the same spirit. Brigading usually means getting an external group of people to visit a post/comment solely to vote. It's effectively crowdsourcing vote manipulation.
I don't think voting down somebody's profile counts as vote manipulation because you still only have one voice, but it's still incredibly petty and I've heard Reddit even had a feature such that profile votes don't affect karma, despite not being banworthy to my knowledge. As a rule of thumb I don't check post history or even notice usernames because it doesn't really matter to me, unless a profile is genuinely entertaining to go through.
This is still an issue with Lemmy though. Ultimately, one instance's community is going to be "the" community for a given topic, most likely because it's on a popular instance, and at a certain point it's going to devolve the same way default subs did. People who wouldn't join r/SeaWa probably aren't going to join seattle@unpopular.domain with 50 active users, either. Personally, I'm more inclined to choose r/SeaWa over r/Seattle because it sounds less official.
This seems more like an aesthetic issue than a real problem, and don't get me wrong, I'm all for getting the community name you want on a different instance, but I don't think that's grounds for "Lemmy will never become a circlejerk".
Did you even use Reddit? It has more political communities than you could count. Just because there's only one r/politics doesn't mean that's the only community you can choose from. Reddit has a lot of problems, but this is not one of them.
Tyler's Glamorous Wash. I used to buy the cheapest detergent I could find, and laundry was just a means to an end. Now I look forward to laundry because it freshens up my whole home for a week.
This headline makes a ton of assumptions, namely that the ability to feel boredom means that you hate being alone with your thoughts. Of course people who are stuck in a boring ass experimentation room with no stimuli are willing to try out a minor shock. I wouldn't be surprised if most people would even consider it a fun experience. I know I've thought about playing with tasers before.
Something like "think about your past and explain how you feel, or press this button when you want to end the experiment early at the cost of a shock" would at least be a relevant premise. This is just another benign experiment turned into doomer clickbait, and I wouldn't let it paint my worldview.
I noticed the same thing! It seems like Hulu was really keen on making the first episode all about Hulu, which was annoying and a big red flag for me. Last time I remember they made a "we're back on a new channel" joke it was a bit more subtle and all of 15 seconds long. This new episode just felt like one long eternalized ad.
I often think about the silicon lifeform from A Martian Odyssey because of how uniquely different it is from the carbon-based lifeforms we're used to seeing even in science fiction.
I'm talking out my ass here but I think outer space literally meant "outer area" as in the area outside of our planet, and we're so used to that term that it's turned into the proper noun Space. Earth (or whatever celestial body is your current frame of reference) is implied to be the inner space.
The big thing for me is that I've seen a lot of people say they've had their accounts stalked and harrassed for saying really mild things. With how many times I've read "I read your post history and..." over even the most mild disagreements, I absolutely believe this happens on a regular basis. Dropping an obviously unpopular opinion feels like an easy way to become a victim.
I went through the whole menu not too long ago and they can be pretty hit or miss, but very edible. They've removed some of the worst offenders like the "vomelet". Most things taste uninspired but the meals can be pretty diverse and there's some solid options like chili mac or maple patty. None of them have made me particularly unhappy. I hear German rations are really good though, so maybe I just have low standards because we have worse food here.
MREs might be a good choice - I know the US ones come with a water-activated device to heat your food up. They're also about 1250 calories each and balanced for recovering after intense exercise.
The benefit is that you don't need to wait for verification from the user that they got the packet before you can send the next group of packets. If you're, say, watching a stream, it's not important that you received the packets because that's just a few skipped frames or a second of lag, whereas the tradeoff on overhead is pretty big.
TCP is more important with like file downloads where it's okay if it takes a couple hours to get a really big file as long as that file isn't corrupted or missing any data.
Reddit also had this exact same issue. For every r/flashlight you'd have a r/flashlights, r/realflashlight, r/flashlight2, r/torches, r/handbright, etc. Then you'd even have niche subsubreddits like r/flashlightslightingupdarkrooms. I never really considered this a problem because I like having different options available to me. I never really see the same thing posted enough times for it to be a problem, so usually it's just twice as much content to subscribe to both, which I'm happy with.
I wouldn't really consider communities to be competing with each other, and the redundancy is actually really nice as a user. You're free to only subscribe to the community you like more if you really want to limit your subscriptions for some reason.
Agreed - I want to come across as many communities as possible while I build my subscription list. I'd prefer if I could see all communities everywhere, but with the system the way it is, the next best thing is for everyone to subscribe to as many communities as possible. Please subscribe to anything you want!
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Well, for one, when compared to other countries, the United States is pretty consistently lacking no matter what aspect of it you're measuring. I wouldn't exactly call that a standard. Maybe a minimum standard?