Parsnip8904 @ Parsnip8904 @beehaw.org

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Yours is the only plausible rebuttal I've seen in this thread. I'm aware of how inhumane Russian military has been but I've also seen few (a small number) of stories when Ukranian military did something questionable.

Can you expand upon how the cluster munitions might be used and if there's any oversight regarding their usage? (Which seems fair given how things turned out in Afghanistan).

I apologise if I'm asking something too private, but I would be interested in knowing what happened. It looks like you were a very active member. I'm nowhere near as active as you are but have been struggling with some complex feelings towards beehaw, and would love to hear your thoughts.

🤗 I get what you mean. I have PTSD which sometimes makes me feel like it has taken over my life.

Hey! You sound like a pretty tough person. Hang in there!

I'm really glad you asked this question. I'm older than you but fits similar description, cishet with some friends and colleagues who are LGBTQ+ , dated a girl once who was bi. I also would stand up for any of my friends if they were treated poorly or unjustly, or if their identities or preferences were badly talked about i.e. my parents had very negative impression of gay people due to prevalence of drug use and STDs in the local scene until I sat down and talked to them.

Unfortunately I'm also pretty neurodivergent so I don't understand a lot of stuff about LGBTQ+ because it isn't structured in a way that I can understand. I wish someone made a programmers guide to LGBTQ+ or something :)

The upshot is that I struggle with the same dilemma as you do. A while back one of my favourite programs changed their icon to a rainbow one in support of LGBTQ community. I heavily criticized for a) saying that I wish they had told this before hand or given an option to retain the old one because I found the change jarring b) could they be transparent about what they're doing for LGBTQ+ people in terms of donating money or workplace policy because it felt a little bit like an empty gesture.

The upshot is that I have no clue how people in this community would view me in the context of how hard it would be for me to interact with them (I already struggle with you're creepy/emotionless bias when meeting new people, if I'm doing something to offend them on top of that then it's going to be even more of a struggle).

The answers here have been really illuminating whr varied. So thank you to all the people who answered as well :)

People who use tabs after punctuation 🥲

Everything is super old, so you can be assured that people died and probably were killed. I come from a part of world with similarly old buildings. The house my grandparents lived in is where all of my ancestors until maybe 50 years ago died or committed suicide. Throw in few murders over 300ish years.

I can answer a part. I've stopped interacting with many people in real life because their rules were say centered around stealing or some other issue in a way that it felt like they expected a person to steal or do that thing by default.

I just wasn't comfortable working with people in whose mental model everyone was a theif unless disincentivised.

Who wanted soldiers when elephants and catapults were so much cooler? Ooo flaming archers!

Liftoff is really good.

Going to check out Thelma :) Have you seen the Good Doctor? That show makes me angry.

I would be curious to know more. As far as I am aware, what lemmy does differently is that it still shows username when you delete a comment, and lets you restore your comments until you delete your account. If you delete your account everything is deleted. That isn't the normal policy but it's better than reddit's where the site owners can unilaterally decide to restore content users deleted.

That is really cool :) I use sideberry which is similarish but more oriented towards tab management.

I used to use bromite until yesterday when I discovered that it has been abandoned by the main dev. One of the contributions is keeping the browser patches alive in his own repo but not under the bromite branding.

So currently I'm test driving Mulch which includes vanadium and bromite patches. My backup is trusty Fennec :)

I have some understanding of how this works:

• There's a non-profit organisation called ICANN at the top who basically controls everything and assigns TLD (top level domains like .com) and so on to registries.
• Registries host different TLDs and keep track of all domains under them.
• Registrar is an ICANN accredited company that can sell domain names. When you buy abcd.net from say Google domains, Google basically files your domain name with the .net registery.

As far as I know, you can't buy a domain from ICANN directly because they don't sell stuff? Only registrars can.

In practice there are registrars that charge you the actual price of the domain + a small registration fee (15 cents maybe) in a transparent way without any markup. An example is cloudflare.

Also in practice stay away from GoDaddy. They're one of the most horrible companies I know. Porkbun, cloudflare, namecheap, namesilo, Google are all usually moderately priced good options. You can find details of all registrars for a tld and their prices using tld-list like: tld-list.com/tld/nameoftld.

Hope that helps :)

Glad to meet other people interested in stem :) I'm a physicist who used to work in quantum chemistry (not anymore though sadly).

It is impossible to reproduce the wavefunction of a molecule in another molecule. Even the addition of a single hydrogen or electron changes the wavefunction. What you call molecular orbitals of benzene are the approximate solutions of stationary state Schrodinger equation that have somewhat fixed energy. They even change during the course of a reaction.

It is impossible to recreate that without the exact same molecule. Instead what the authors have done is to reproduce something that has similar shape and symmetry as the homo/lumo of benzene. It will never react like benzene. Instead what it will do is to let us study how an electron would behave on benzene using all the awesome tools you have available for surfaces which is pretty amazing.

I skimmed through the linked science article. It seems like authors arranged cesium atoms on a metal surface to create localised molecular orbitals on the surface that were similar to orbitals in benzene.

It seems you can essentially simulate what an electron would do in a benzene like system. I don't think it will be a strict 1 to 1 correspondence though, but rather a sort of abstract equivalent in terms of structure and symmetry.

The thought that Debian will continue into the future feels comforting. How cool it would be if in 5000AD kids on Mars or Europa are running Debian 100?

Firstly it's basically skinned debian so you get a pre-set nice xfce environment with some tweaks and some usability stuff without having to swallow the Ubuntu pill. It also has a devaun based iso which means you can run it without systemd on really old hardware.

This is a direct sibling to something like LMDE or MX Linux.

Practical advantage is that you get the debian base which is completely community driven and don't have to worry about snaps or whatever else canonical decides to do tomorrow.

This is a killer feature! One of the very few reasons I keep chromium based stuff around. Now if Firefox supported vertical tab bar without having to edit the css stuff, I can finally ditch Vivaldi!