That's not how all close relationships are and I hope you find enough generous people in your own life to eventually change your mind about that. Everyone deserves to have friends they can absolutely trust.
I'll refrain from talking specifics until the poll closes since the ideal solution is going to vary a fair amount depending upon the exact curation methodology, but I basically agree with what you're saying here.
There will definitely be some feature for this, though -- depending on the goal order established in the survey -- it is possible that the feature won't be ready at day one. For what it's worth, I will be sharing a proposed roadmap with the community long before anything gets written in stone. Goal #1 is ensuring that the entire pipeline is as fully aligned as possible with what the community finds valuable.
Hey RealM, as @wjs018@lemmy.ml has already suggested, this is a kbin quirk. It's documented on the kbin Codeberg bug tracker as #350. The kbin maintainers have not yet commented on whether this is intended behavior or a bug, but it does not appear as if anything will be done about the problem in the near future.
The only course of action that I could possibly take to work around the issue is to remove the bot flag from @shinobu@ani.social. Unfortunately, doing this would violate the right of Lemmy users to opt out of seeing bot activity -- not to mention also violate the ToS of numerous instances (including ani.social)
I have such a softspot for this series. I love that it puts careful consideration into the lore of the world without explaining away the underpinning fantasy. I love that it's willing to skip over perfunctory action setpieces in favor of interesting dialogue. I love that characters take each other seriously and naturalistically pursue their own individual interests without getting coded as evil.
Most of all, I love that the characters can engage in a sappy non-deathflag conversation like this and have it feel completely earned:
You know, I often raise an eyebrow when Lemmy jumps straight to the "this action is directly fueled by racism!" Argument, but... well, this time I completely agree.
The basis of this ban, as far as I can gather, goes like this:
Terrorism is bad, so pro-terrorist demonstrations are banned
Palestine deliberately targetted & killed civilians in an ongoing, messy conflict
Ergo, Palestine demonstrations are now banned
That third link in the chain of logic is what bothers me about what's happening in France. Targetted mass killing of civilians during war is detestable... but it's not terrorism. Calling Palestine a terrorist state on that basis is a double-standard -- one which I can only conclude is driven by the fear of what Palestinians believe & look like.
I'm never going to give Epic a single red cent. Their stewardship of Rocket League has been a nonstop parade of fuck-yous:
Pulled the game from Steam
Forced pre-existing Steam users to make Epic accounts
Killed Linux support
Laid off a large number of key studio members
Inserted season passes into a (previously) paid game
Too much take take take. I know this level of publisher meddling isn't uncommon, but it's rarely so obvious. We can see exactly what the game looked like before/after and I'm struggling to think of even a single positive change.
With that much money, you could effectively end homelessness in the U.S. for a full year [^1]
[^1]: According to a rough estimate by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, it would cost $20 billion in 2012 dollars to afford every homeless person in the U.S. with one year of housing via vouchers. Independent groups have more recently recalculated this amount as ~$30 billion in 2023 dollars using similar methodologies. This is an estimated annual cost, but advocates argue that the program pays for itself -- both in the sense that eliminating homelessness will reduce costs to other social programs & in the sense that many homeless will eventually return to self-sufficiency if given a fair opportunity.
What a wild journey to get here from Abe Shinzo's assasination just over 15 months ago. It must feel absolutely surreal to be Yamagami Tetsuya, sitting in a jail cell and receiving the news that he actually somehow managed to take down the Unification Church.
Welcome to the human condition. Justice isn't real, but that doesn't mean we can abandon it. It's impossible to undo the damage of the past, but if you turn a blind eye to it then nobody will follow you into the future.
That... seems like a silly concern? At best I think you could pull off tricks based on specific timeslots of the day/week (e.g.: lunch rush, weekends, business hours) and most of that was already realistically feasible through bossing around normal humans -- no tech required.
Maybe I'm off-base, but it seems to me like the following things would severely hamper the efforts of anyone attempting to do this at scale:
Exploding the complexity and error surface across all price-setting procedures
Micromanaging, per location, when/how prices change to compensate for locality-specific stuff like daylight hours and foot traffic
Avoiding the very legally dubious scenario of prices autochanging in the time gap between taking an item off the shelf and paying at the register
All of that effort in exchange for what? A few extra quarters on the margin if you do it right but losing a few dimes on the margin (or a class action suit) otherwise? I can already see middle-manager heads exploding in contrition. It might happen someday once active AI store management finally oozes into place... but until that day comes I think shoppers can feel safe knowing that they are merely getting gouged in the same old fashion as their forebearers.
That's cool. At the end of the day I'm just generalizing my own lived experience and to tell you the truth I am not a particularly wise person. Normally I wouldn't lecture on about this sort of thing at all -- it just so happened to be topical today.
An excellent observation! Isn't it funny how the hardest apologies are the ones where you don't feel like you've done anything wrong? Indeed, more often than not, it's easier to choke down a slice of humble pie before trying to come clean. Then again... sometimes the only available option is to cook up a disingenuous apology and lie that sucker out through your teeth -- both costs are valid forms of payment in the world of apologies. Whichever currency you spend, the most important part is not wasting it!
People like the benefits of apologizing but don't want to pay the ego tax. It's one of the singlemost powerful social rituals we have as a species but you wouldn't know it based on how tightfisted so many apologies get.
That's why I cook half for me and half for the freezer. Modern problems with modern solutions