grte @ grte @lemmy.ca

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The actual content is way better now than it was the first couple of months after the Reddit thing. Initially a lot of the comments were either Reddit related or people trying to force communities that didn't necessarily have the population to survive, yet. That's all fallen away now and the content feels much more organic. Someone opening a Lemmy instance for the first time is going to find today's front page much more engaging than what it looked like in June/July.

Lemmy is becoming its own thing rather than a reflection of Reddit.

In some ways a lot more responsive as well. The news that Kissinger died was all over Lemmy for hours before I noticed one post about it crack the front page of Reddit, for example.

Mixed commercial/housing. Instead of offices, give the first couple floors to commerce and the higher floors to housing. We have the perfect opportunity to build nice integrated cities where people live near the resources they need to live, within walking distance of the places they work.

Despite the funny headline I guess there is a real issue here in that breast implants are subject to occasional manufacturing defects that can pose serious health risks to the owner. That said,

The committee report recommends the registry be implemented through a mandatory "checklist" form signed by surgeons and patients. It said that patients would be offered "the possibility of opting out."

I think making this mandatory with the option to opt out rather than the reverse maybe crosses a privacy line.

The Canadian law in question has specific provisions in it that would pass any lemmy instance by.

— Companies impacted by the Online News Act must have global annual revenue of $1 billion or more, “operate in a search engine or social-media market distributing and providing access to news content in Canada,” and have 20 million or more Canadian average monthly unique visitors or average monthly active users.

source (archive)

That's literally half the country, by the way.

There was never any chance this law was going to impact any lemmy instances.

Alternate source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/11/29/henry-kissinger-dead-obituary/ (archive)

I wouldn't be surprised to see a schism at some point. American Catholicism is being influenced greatly by evangelical Christianity and the political project that exists around that.

Create a sleep schedule and stick to it religiously. Drink more water.

I imagine the 3 trillion dollar bailout the US pumped into the market when it crashed in 2020 that no one seems to remember or talk about has more to do with inflation than anything Canada did.

Thanks for the share. I wasn't familiar with this person but he seems like a great presenter.

Back in 1999 I came across a copy of this book. Not a great book, I wouldn't recommend it even if it weren't decades out of date at this point. But it came with a CD-ROM with Red Hat Linux 6.2 which I installed on the family computer and never really looked back. I haven't had a Windows install since 2004ish.

I've never really been an evangelist about it, though. And I would say that I was obsessed at one point but that's waned quite a bit in the last few years. I'm still Linux only but messing about with computers generally quite a lot less.

I believe it was this guy, an LG Cosmos 2. I recall it being not great. But it was infinitely nicer to type on than any phone I've had since so there's that.

Similar experience. My current install is not as old due to hardware failure but I've been using arch since 2007ish and it's been stable enough through all that concurrent with sort of losing interest in being an admin for a hobby in the last few years that I've honestly got kind of bad at administrating the thing, haha. But it hardly matters because issues are rare.

Here you are.

It makes more sense when you consider seniors are among if not the most active voting bloc.

No joke on the rapidly accelerated. That thing caught some air. Like a scene out of the Blues Brothers.

If you like this video this guy also has a show on CBC Gem.

A Halifax based forum where a prize named for a dead American senator is given to the people of Israel? WTF is going on here.

I mean, in Barak's mind he's probably attempting to justify the bombing. In a sane person's eyes it looks really bad.

No, he's saying Israel built it for Israel's purposes. He's claiming that Hamas has been using it (presumably since Israel pulled out of Gaza in '05). But Israel using structures it built as casus belli to blow up a hospital looks really bad on Israel's part.

That Israel built the bunker that they are claiming justifies them bombing the hospital it was under looks really bad for Israel. Why would he lie about that?