Haha I experienced a similar rule during my 9 months. Stationed on Hardthöhe in Bonn they, have a severe rank-inflation going on with all the old generals and admirals marching towards retirement. It was only expected to salute any of the inspectors if youver met them.
Funny thing that I got loads of salutes from fresh soldiers transferred there as I was in the navy and thus had yellow stripes which confused many of the similarly ranked guys from the other branches.
My father used to slather himself in olive oil when we went on vacation and he got a craz, dark tan and never burned. He never got to find out if it led to cancer but he lived into his 70s.
I was always very sceptical ofthis method and always use normal sunscreen.
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Oh and I think he used baby oil for the other thing. Also never went that route and got me some silicone based stuff specifically meant for the purpose.
In Mastodon you can not only follow people but also hashtags. And there are accounts that exist to 'retweet' posts related to a topic, so basically curation.
Ethiopia is building a huge dam for energy generation. And Egypt is very worried about it lowering the water levels on the Nile during the filling phase of the dam's lake and about Ethiopia using it as a weapon against Egypt, controlling an important water source of the Nile.
Apparently there are still loads of people who don't understand this simple fact and think everything that is done to make the world a better place is for climate change.
What has that to do with anything? Reducing single use plastics is environmental protection which is not the same as fighting climate change. No one who fights against plastics does so for climate change. Stop spreading such nonsense. Not even your linked article claims something like that.
That is just as stupid a statement as "scientists believe we evolved from monkeys". Not even the strongest believers I erer met claimed something like that.
openSuse. After my years of distro hopping ended over a decade ago I settled on openSuse Leap and never switched to something else again. It's reliable and gives me the least bullshit. And by now it's the one I have the most experience in.
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Leap on my server and tumbleweed on my work laptop but Leap would be sufficient there, too.
Yes, up/down votes are inherently subjective and reports are to be used for objectively bad content. It is up to the users to decide whether they feel that opinions they don't agree with are worthy of downvoting or not. In the end the voting system tries to give the community a voice to mirror what content they like to see - within the rules that are enforced by moderators. I think it would be better if people downvote content they don't like instead of using it to "punish" people they argue with. That's why I think it is a slight improvement that lemmy shows up and down votes separately - it gives the downvote a bit more gravitas and in consequence "not voting" receives some, too.
At some point the signatures were regularly larger than the actual posts and they became a laughing stock. Also they often contain information that only the signature's owner cares about - if he even keeps it up to date.
Good question. I think reporting is left to cases where a post is so bad that a moderator needs to take action to remove it or the user from the community. So downvote things that are of low quality and report things that are against the community or instance rules?
Where did you get that idea from? Even the pope accepts evolution and the big bang as creation history. Religion accepts scientific truth all the time, they just attach "... because of god" to everything.
Originally up- and down votes were intended to crowd source filtering and rating content in a community. So voting up for things you want to see more of and vote down spam or content that is unfit for the community. But people will tend to upvote things they agree with and downvote those they deem wrong - I also find myself doing something like that. I now try to follow these rules:
Upvote things I like (or agree with)
Don't vote on things I don't agree with or think are dumb
Downvote things that I feel really don't belong here.
It helps that lemmy currently shows the number of up and down votes instead of just the score, it gives a bit more inhibition before downvoting stuff.
I did use it but over the past months the input recognition got worse and worse so I switched to something completely different: thumbKey https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key
Funny thing that I discovered it around the same time I switched to lemmy as it is developed by the same guy...
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Haha I experienced a similar rule during my 9 months. Stationed on Hardthöhe in Bonn they, have a severe rank-inflation going on with all the old generals and admirals marching towards retirement. It was only expected to salute any of the inspectors if youver met them.
Funny thing that I got loads of salutes from fresh soldiers transferred there as I was in the navy and thus had yellow stripes which confused many of the similarly ranked guys from the other branches.