Not strictly a scam, but there's a little money to be made creating viral content on Facebook. They receive a tiny portion of the ad revenue from Facebook when they generate engagement.
A rule of thumb for weirdness in age difference is age/2+7, leaving you at 51/2+7=32,5. So going by that, 30 is a bit on the young side, which is obvious also from the fact that you felt the need to create this thread.
If one person would be in a position to judge you for it (or rightfully feel weird about it) it's your daughter. It's safe to say she seems cool with it, so whatever.
This is just obviously not the case to anyone who bothers reading it. It's an original piece of writing.
The only thing that could hint at AI here is the use of em-dashes, which is a bullshit tell—I use them all the time myself as well. They're right there for anyone with a compose key on Linux.
Yeah, I imagine parts of the US is probably pretty ideal for this. Where I'm from you'll find remote places where it would make sense, but you probably wouldn't want to drive around in a rather low riding sports car on the roads in these places. I guess this thing probably won't be street legal in Europe anyway.
I think chapter 2 does a good job presenting the advantages.
Maybe you inherited someone else’s codebase. A minefield of nested closures, half-commented hacks, and variable names like d and foo. A mess of complex OOPisms, where you have to traverse 18 files just to follow a single behaviour. You don’t have all day. You need a flyover—an aerial view of the warzone before you land and start disarming traps.
Ask Copilot: "What’s this code doing?"
It won’t be poetry. It won’t necessarily provide a full picture. But it’ll be close enough to orient yourself before diving into the guts.
So—props where props are due. Copilot is like a greasy, high-functioning but practically poor intern:
Great with syntax
Surprisingly quick at listing out your blind spots.
Good at building scaffolding if you feed it the exact right words.
Horrible at nuance.
Useless without supervision.
Will absolutely kill you in production if left alone for 30 seconds.
Yeah, I understand your point and I think it might be the only way of silencing these trolls. Perhaps making it this explicit is the only way of providing clear enough guidelines, I just feel like it's a bit bombastic as a point 2.
What left me a bit reluctant was your comment that other communities "are hosted in Germany which is a Zionist police state". I'll be the first to criticize Germany (this is precisely what got banned me from !europe@feddit.org half a year ago, after all), but this seems a bit bombastic especially when paired with rule 2.
I already got banned for criticizing Germany, I don't want to get banned for defending them as well! ;)
I guess the problem is that if you take your car to the plane, then your plane somewhere else, suddenly you don't have your car. And then if you drive somewhere else you don't have your plane any more.
I think it's pretty obvious that rental cars and commercial flights make a lot more sense for most scenarios. But I guess it's possible to imagine scenarios where this vehicle makes sense, either for extensive round trips or for places where car rentals don't exist but the roads are nevertheless pretty good.
They don't have a general rule to ban all protests, but they did ban several of them and cracked down on protests pretty effectively early on. As is reported in plenty of media.
Well, the entire thread is still there except my deleted comment reading as follows:
insufficient avenues for engagement beyond voting.
Funny what banning protests does to a country.
So you can see in the thread that I provide sources, such as the New York Times:
The country’s authorities have banned many protests in the name of fighting antisemitism. Critics say such restrictions are discriminatory.
To me, this seems relevant in a thread about how German youth feels that their avenues for democratic participation beyond voting are restricted. Besides, I was not banned for alleged misinformation, but for "derailing".
Even if I was wrong, which I do not believe I was, I hardly see my comment being worthy of a ban in a reasonably moderated community. Discussion, yes.
Edit: I would possibly revisit rule #2 though - making the rule more general, such as "no hate speech", and specifying that proponents of any hateful ideologies should be excluded. Right now it's strangely targeted - I guess "no antisemitism" goes under rule 1, but I think rule 2 should be wide enough to also cover "no nazis".
Edit edit: As frustrated as I am by !europe@feddit.org, I think I'll proceed with some hesitation.
I got banned from !europe@feddit.org at some point for raising the German response to pro-palestinian protests as a potential democratic problem. Seems European enough to me. 🙃
I think maybe it does, but I'm a pretty normal user who just used the Murena quick installer to get /e/OS. Reading up on Magisk after some web searches I quickly realized it was more than I could bite over without spending too much time trying to figure it all out. If people insist on making apps I can't use I'll just accept that I won't be using them at this point. Their loss.
I live in Denmark, their state identification app does not work if it detects that the Android ROM is not straight from Google. So when I switched to /e/OS I couldn't access anything any more. So yeah, in my case the solution was ta give up on one pretty critical app.
Thankfully the solution was as easy as getting one of those old fashioned code chips, and everything else seems to be working fine (including banking apps from other countries). So now I'm rocking /e/OS and I'm pretty sure there is no way I'm ever going back to Google Android.
We have no ambition of being more lenient than Reddit, it's just less centralized. If people want to be bigots they can find themselves an instance and a community for that, and other people can choose not to be exposed to their bullshit. That's the whole point.
Also, the UKSC judgment is a pseudo-scientific piece of junk. Agreeing with it is a big-ass red flag.
For me, it's my favourite thing in the world. I feel more at home when I'm in the middle of the mountains not having seen people for days than when I'm in any building I've ever lived in. We evolved for these conditions, and at least for some of us it resonates with our souls - much like the ocean calls to others.
The experience of hiking is a bit like running, just dragged out over days. In the beginning you have energy. At some point you get tired, and you might want to stop for a while and you're worried if you're going to make it. And then you push through, and suddenly your body is in walking mode. So don't get too worried if you start feeling tired early in the hike.
As for the tent, the experience varies a lot. Is it raining? Are there lots of mosquitoes or midges? Is it cold? Are you walking until sunset, or do you have time at the camp site? What is the terrain you put your tent on?
You generally don't have the answer to those questions. I have had a wide variety of experiences in tents - crazy tent pole-breaking winds, thunderstorms beyond anything I believed was possible, floods, cows trying to graze underneath the tent in the middle of the night. Most of the time though the biggest event is waking up to the view, or going out to take a leak at night and enjoying the night sky.
The important thing is to always be flexible and open to improvise. When you're in up there you're at the mercy of the mountain, and you adjust your plans accordingly. Many mountain folks believe that the mountain has a will of its own that needs to be respected, and I don't hink it's too far from reality. Following from that is that the experience is never completely predictable, which is part of what makes its appeal infinite.
Also looking at the projects he has created, saying that he has not delivered anything seems a bit... Imprecise.
Every project I know of on the Fediverse is a work in progress, and it's always a question of prioritization. But Dansup has created, and continues to create, some amazing stuff. Even if he sometimes gets a bit ahead of himself in advertising stuff.
My bet would be tax evasion and money laundering. ;)
It's hard to wrap one's head around just how freaking rich the mega wealthy are. The 1% is not even the enemy at this point, they are closer to most of us than they are to the billionaire class.
Not strictly a scam, but there's a little money to be made creating viral content on Facebook. They receive a tiny portion of the ad revenue from Facebook when they generate engagement.
It's just Facebook sucking really.