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Oh, thanks for the correction!:-)

That does not benefit specifically Alphabet though...

Seems legit

It has to run out of all the water that was sitting still between the output hole and the input source where it's heated. If your apartment has a central water tank, that has its advantages - e.g. a whole family inside your place could take successive showers without ever running out of hot water - but this is the primary disadvantage to that, the wait to go through that cold water, which gets worse the further/higher up you are away from it.

Maybe try to find a way to not entirely waste it - like put some of that into a water kettle to be boiled for a hot drink? I enjoy such thoughts but do as you please ofc.

I am no plumber, just thought this might be interesting to know:-). I am 10,001% certain that someone will correct me here if I have said anything inaccurate. 😂

Oh... then yes, ofc.

But if we can't stop it, then so be it. Nothing is perfect, but you try anyway.

Wikipedia has some nice ideas about trusting people incrementally to increasing degrees depending on the outcome of previous manually curated efforts. And PieFed is bringing some of those thoughts into the Fediverse: https://join.piefed.social/2024/06/22/piefed-features-for-growing-healthy-communities/.

But part of it is not merely bots vs. humans, and rather different styles of what human psychology tends to gravitate toward: https://medium.com/@max.p.schlienger/the-cargo-cult-of-the-ennui-engine-890c541cebcb. e.g. people saying things like "^This", "I also choose this guy's wife", "And my bow", etc.

Lonely people just wanting to be heard... but unless emoji reactions are provided, how else other than to write a comment? And/or upvote an existing one that says what you wanted. Therefore... "^This" it is then indeed, none of us are immune to such, and any system that relies on people never falling into that trap is going to be vulnerable. The same way that news organization in the West were vulnerable to being bought out by the wealthy - it was always going to happen.

Anyway, wishing for something doesn't make it happen - that requires effort, like the PieFed approach, imperfect as it may be.

I did mention that it was only tangentially related. I did not realize though that programming.dev was not all that old. TIL.

Tangentially, there's a whole bunch of issues going on with the programming.dev server for one. See at !meta@programming.dev. Lemmy's upcoming upgrade to 0.19.6 should help - see https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4623 and https://feddit.org/post/3524876 discussing it.

Fwiw, lemmy.cafe defederated from lemmy.ml, and is even running a 0.19.6 beta codebase so even if there's only a single admin they seem really on the ball.

Tesseract also has implemented a way to ban all users from lemmy.ml.

And PieFed allows personal bans on any custom instance you choose. Plus it has "categories" of communities so that you don't have to keep searching on All, though you can do that too if you want. It seems really polished these days! Not 100% - e.g. you can't easily search for a user in the same form as a keyword - but it looks extremely usable, so I am switching to it today.

Meanwhile, on Lemmy we were promised that 0.19.3 would allow user blocking of instances, which turned out to be not quite true, and when your instance upgrades from that to 0.19.6 when it comes out (most other instances, like mine, are already running 0.19.5), the protections that it offers will be further rolled back - e.g. on 0.19.3 I did not receive notifications from those users, whereas now on 0.19.5 I do.

And maybe some apps allow blocking of an instance, I dunno about that aspect.

Lemmy.ml was one of the first instances in the Fediverse... but that doesn't mean that we should be forced to listen to the stuff spewing forth from it unless we choose that for ourselves, especially in the next few months as the trolls go into overdrive due to the ongoing USA election (and likely subsequent "constitutional crisis" event).

Anyway, I just wanted you to know that there are options! Not many, but they do exist!:-)

I did not make this, but it halfway almost seems to fit...

I refuse to live without it - gimme gimme, I NEEDZ it!:-)

!speedoflobsters@lemmy.world - it's only got 2 posts in it, but they are really funny:-).

Or at least a reasonable facsimile thereof:-)

Oooh, I actually do need to do this, thanks for the reminder!:-)

At this point it's not political at all I would guess. He's not running for president, I haven't even heard of him campaigning (maybe so but I just didn't hear of it?), so he's simply an almost-former elected official, like Obama or Bush or Clinton or Reagan or such.

Anyway Joe is known for his gaffes, and used to be also for his shoulder rubs (he was from a different time...:-).

With the pained look on his face... I dunno you might be onto something there, perhaps this was constructed by a conservative source?

You are thinking about it way more than me though - I simply recalled the phrase and found a gif that said it.

There are virtually no conservatives on Lemmy btw - or if there are they seem to keep rather quiet. And they will remain so if they know what's good for them!:-P

I am so sorry to have to be the one to break this to you, but...

Be a part of the change!:-)

Which reminds me: have you eaten lately? Maybe you should...? :-D