Rolando @ Rolando @lemmy.world

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visiting a neat-sounding community and realizing all the posts are by the single moderator (and are getting less and less frequent).

This will be a key moment towards Lemmy's growth or decline. Especially in non-tech/meme/politics communities, it's so easy for the only poster be a single person who is posting daily, and who then simply runs out of content. Maybe the solution is for each frequent poster to post non-daily on several different communities. Anyway, check out !fedigrow@lemm.ee, @Blaze@reddthat.com has started posting a weekly thread on "How is your niche community doing?"

Make sure you listen to Eye of the Tiger: 30 minute intro while watching that.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-method/

most high profile labs have all had to deal with this nonsense.

It's even worse for low profile labs because those publication fees eat up a greater proportion of our budget.

There are a couple things we can do:

• decline to review for the big journals. why give them free labor? Do academic service in other ways.
• if you're organizing a workshop or conference, put the papers online for free. If you're just participating and not organizing, then suggest they put the papers online for free. Here's an example: https://aclanthology.org/ If that's too time-consuming, use: https://arxiv.org/

Finally, wave comes to lemmy.

!synthwave@lemmy.world has been here a while and there was waveform.social before that, but it's good to see a community with an active mod. I think I'm a switch to this one.

Well, I think if we were to resolve this, we'd need a formal definition of neighborhood, and you make a useful distinction of a neighborhood vs a borough or a town. I suspect sociologists have some useful definitions, but that's not my field.

it’s much harder to consider someone an expert or proud local of a “city” they don’t visit 90% of.

This is a lot more difficult to get behind. People are proud of their cities for a variety of reasons; visiting 90% of it seems like an irrelevant criterion. There's some truth to the trope of the born-in-NYC native who's never been to the Statue of Liberty.

Hmm... I don't really disagree, I'm just thinking it through...

Re. your first point: if neighborhoods are isolated and have little in common, then it doesn't seem crazy to call them neighborhoods.

There's the additional fact that some "neighborhoods" are actually cities: e.g. Long Beach is a city of its own but Westwood is a neighborhood of LA. Malibu and Santa Monica are cities but Venice is a neighborhood of LA. Compton is (famously) a city, but Crenshaw is a neighborhood. But these are all generally thought of as part of LA.

Re. your second point: I guess it's similar to someone who lives in Boston or NYC and is more likely to travel to Europe than Alabama, but is still able to say "I love the USA."

So if someone says "I Love LA" you want them to mean that they love every single neighborhood in LA? That seems like too high a bar for any city. Agreed about walkability and traffic, though.

Since everybody knows it's going to be mediocre, they should have just used the budget to make a historically-realistic movie about something in that era.

Insane Clown Posse: Ringmaster (full album)

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZQl3fO255E
• https://invidious.flokinet.to/watch?v=BZQl3fO255E

if you took the world and seperated its humans by intelligence, the “idiot” group is going to be much bigger than the “PhD” group. Like…by a lot.

No.... you'd have a bell curve. But even that assumes you have a single good measure of intelligence.

I kind of agree with the rest of your post, but I would have worded it a bit differently, emphasizing that people who found it difficult to start using Lemmy might still be worth having around. Also, I don't think "as large as Reddit" or "small niche unknown" are our only options.

My favorite live video clip is their performance of Cosmic Slop in Houston 1976. It's pretty much as you describe:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eR4aQrYozY
• https://invidious.privacydev.net/watch?v=0eR4aQrYozY

At one point they realize the sound on one of the guitars is out, and they just switch player mid-solo. That's professionalism.

Also https://akira.fandom.com/wiki/The_Clowns

Agreed, if you didn't publish parts of your dissertation before or after completion, then your advisor wasn't really doing their job.

“Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat a machine learning algorithm.” - traditional Native American saying.

Third building (biggest of all): Medical Insurance Administration.

Ellison was trolling. He did that a lot.

I've been holding off buying a Synology NAS for the same reason: it seems to involve creating an account with them. Is this in the same category or is it not as bad?