fireweed @ fireweed @lemmy.world

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Log was absolutely a part of my American high school math curriculum, and while it may not make its way to everyone, many if not most Americans were exposed to it in school. But people have terrible memories when it comes to what they leaned in school, doubly so regarding math, quadruply so regarding higher-level math. Regardless of their level of educational exposure to math concepts, I certainly don't expect the average American adult to be able to reliably do any math they learned outside of elementary school, myself included, because after a few decades of not practicing, not even thinking about those concepts, that knowledge is almost certainly gone or at least covered in a very heavy mat of mental cobwebs.

Even worse is when you try to "support local" and discover that, sure, the local hardware store sponsors the town's little league team, but the owner also reposts racist memes on his personal social media page. You can't win.

Step one: live in a country the size of Kentucky with the population of Texas + Florida, half of whom live in the capital's metro region while the other half live within half-a-day's drive.

The US's geography makes comparisons with successful protests in much smaller countries basically moot.

To add to this, the "default" for a three-character ensemble in circa 90s kids media was: one (white) boy, one (white) girl, one (non-white) boy, for a 1:2 gender/race and 2:1 "diversity" ratio, which made the media feel diverse (back then this was generally considered a good thing) while still making male and white the default. In other words, a win-win that still was a setback to true diversity. Examples: Wishbone TV show and Harry Potter (if you count ginger as non-white).

Interesting idea, but it would need to be heavily moderated against scams and such that have pervaded other online "handmade" shops.

Cruises are an environmental nightmare; we really should not be promoting them for any reason.

Me trying to raise kids

Well there's your first problem

While I appreciate the effort, how is this not an inevitable losing game of whack-a-mole?

At no point has Gmail ever said "we're no longer allowing you to send/receive emails to/from Hotmail" or has Yahoo said "we're maintained by a single volunteer who because of real life stuff can no longer continue so we're discontinuing our email service."

But this literally happens with instances all the time.

I'm a fediverse supporter (obviously, that's why I'm here), however what you're looking for requires a critical mass of users that the fediverse (at least the Lemmy side of it) will never achieve as long as two very critical problems persist:

1. sign up is confusing. People are used to clicking "create an account," inputting a user name, password, and maybe an email, and then BAM they're a user. I realize the whole instance thing is the entire point, but no one wants nor expects to have to do significant research and make a decision about how they want to interact with a social media site before they've even started using it.
2. the site (or at least lemmy.world) is sooo slooow. Basic functions like loading images take me back to the dial-up era of "click the image then do something else while it loads," which is downright ridiculous in the 2020s. Again I've stuck with it because I want to support the fediverse, but 99% of users won't.

And no, these aren't "features not bugs" unless you want to keep the site small and homogenous.

AFAIK it's primarily (exclusively?) a Canadian thing

Read the article: they were indoor only cats

Japan is an outlier for numerous reasons, the biggest of which is that housing value there decreases over time (without going into the causes, the result is a feedback loop where housing isn't built to last because it's a poor long-term investment, so it depreciates like other semi-short-lived products, such as cars). This isn't something the government planned, it came about naturally. So I wouldn't say they've "solved" housing so much as their situation has made it a non-issue.

Are you comparing bagged tea or looseleaf? I feel like bagged tea tends to taste pretty similar, especially if sourced from a grocery store vs a tea shop.

Well then, my hot take is going to be that she was miscast and it was to the show's benefit that Worf took over as security chief.

Star Trek is a franchise about a bunch of nerds striving to find a "better way" to run society

Lemmy is a platform populated by a bunch of nerds striving to find a "better way" to run social media

Not surprising that there's overlap

Apparently I've just trained myself to click around them.

Don't want to disable NSFW in case I miss a spicy meme

Broken clocks...

The 90s aesthetic doesn't make the second gen series unwatchable, but damn if it isn't hella distracting. (It's the hair. And the wardrobe. But mostly the hair.)

Someone didn't watch the Star Wars prequels