krayj @ krayj @sh.itjust.works

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we could literally have a video of him raping their mothers and they would still vote for him

They would. They would call the video 'fake news' and find it easier to assume their mother was lying than admit their false prophet is capable of any wrongdoing. They've built their entire identities around their unwavering confirmation bias. The vast majority of people who ever successfully disconnect from a cult do so only posthumously.

Not just the police chief. They need immediate investigation into magistrate who authorized this raid basically signed their name to a raid that blatantly violates constitutional rights and ignores over 100 years of legal precedence

Over the past 30+ years, I average an episode every 18 months. I'm currently in my 9th week of recovery from my latest episode and mostly past the crippling pain and now into that constant mild/medium pain and range of motion limitation that seems to never get better and lingers for months.

Of my nearly 2-dozen lifetime episodes, a solid 2/3 of them washed me over with such sudden and intense pain that I entered an hours long state of shock accompanied by cognitive disability and short term memory haziness. I don't think I've ever actually blacked out, but I expect everyone responds differently.

I am not a doctor and am not qualified to diagnose your specific issue, but if you are suffering from herneated lower disc (my problem), then a mass of inner disc material is breaching your outer disc and putting direct pressure on a major nerve bundle...triggering the most intense pain imaginable.

My standard recovery is to immediately get a perscription for a round of Prednisone (powerful steroid) to quickly reduce inflamation and immediately get on a perscription for muscle relaxers.

Long term, when you are not injured or recovering, you can work on core strength and posture which is supposed to make episodes less frequent.

There's also surgery option: three main types available. The most modern and least invasive is the micro-discectomy. My doctor (and all my previous doctors) always try to talk me out of the surgery for numerous reasons.

Many 3rd party services such as "Mint Financial" (part of Intuit) offer the ability to connect to a vast number of US banking and financial institutions to ingest your transaction information as it happens, so I assume there must be APIs they are using for it. The number of institutions they support is greater than the number of institutions they don't.

They are making an assertion as if it is a statement of fact...and they are, in fact, wrong. That's ignorant and not helpful for discussion or helpful for understanfing and solving the actual issue. If they had actually asked an innocent question it would be different, but they didn't. That is why the responses are the way they are.

No, not programmatically. The only way to 'move' an instance is for a community of users to create a new community elsewhere and arbitrarily start using it as their preferred community. There is no way to force it and there is no mechanic for moving.

By claiming that the problem isn't DDOS, you're just advertising your ignorance. Cloudflair is outstanding for protecting static web content against DDOS, and Lemmy.world is well protected against that. The problem is certain dynamic pages and api calls that can only be rendered from costly realtime dynamic database operations...those are the url that the DDOS attackers are focusing on and those are the kinds of content that cannot be easily protected by cloudflair.

Your premise, though, is still accidently correct. The way to mitigate instances being targeted by DDOS is to spread the user base and community hosting across a vast number of instances so that no one instance is such a rewarding target for DDOS attack.

First initial + middle name + last initial.

https://i0.wp.com/baltimorefishbowl.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/muscle-vs-fat-500x385.jpg

5lb muscle vs 5lb of fat.

If you replace an equal mass of fat with an equal mass of muscle, your weight will not change but you will be physically smaller.

My current position is 100% remote work-from-home and I took this job in 2018. It was impeccable timing and when the pandemic hit, my life/work routine barely changed at all.

Prior to that, I had an office job with a 1h 15m commute each way...not because I lived super far away, but because my office was in downwtown Seattle and commuting is a nightmare in this region.

Having an extra 2.5 hours of me-time each day is almost priceless. Not having to deal with the stresses of commuting and not having to deal with the daily scum of public transportation is priceless.

To get me to return to the office (that miserable routine)...it would take a 4-day work week, plus a significant pay increase, plus a monthly transportation stipend.

1. If you are planning on hijacking one of their online accounts, then obtaining all possible intel about someone helps to make phishing their other service providers easier. Knowing someone's IP address means you instantly know what city they are in and who their service provider is.
2. If you are trying to reveal someone's true identity and you have already learned of their IP address through some other means, then this would allow you to reveal their identity on lemmy. Example: an employer already knows the home ip addresses of their employees who work remotely and vpn into the company office. They see someone on lemmy sharing insider info about the company they would rather not have shared and suspect the lemmy user is a disgruntled employee and send them a dm with tracking pixel to verify whether that lemmy user's ip address matches the addresses of any of their employees.
3. Consider the case of someone thinking they are anonymous and boasting about some activities that might be legally questionable, then consider some law enforcement agency using tracking pixel to get user's ip address. If the lemmy server is outside of jurisdiction they might not be able to subponea the lemmy instance admins for that user's ip address, but now they don't have to. With the IP address they can just subponea the isp to get the user's identity. This could be over criminal activity...or maybe just something like admitting being gay in a country that sentences to death for that.

These are just three examples...there are countless other examples just as bad.

TL/DR: it is a significant security breach to allow 3rd parties the ability to use the platform to expose user's ip addresses, and even worse when it can be targeted at specific users (such as the DM scenerio that is also affected).

I won't disagree with that, but I would also include wasps, and possibly canadian geese.

The real question is...what should we call a burger made from ground ham?

While traveling in Spain many years ago...and completely desperate for a good old fashioned American cheeseburger, I spotted a street vendor selling 'hamburgers'...and in my haste and desperation, ordered two. You cannot possibly know the misery that came over me as I realized half-way into my first bite that it was ground ham.

The fertility rate index (births per woman) is only dropping in every western nation. (source: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN )

I don't believe this will ever be a thing in any western nation unless there is a polar shift in the trends and statistics. If anything, we're headed in more of a handmaid's tale direction with forced births (something that is already happening) and incentivized breeding (already happening in some cities).

I am die-hard pro-choice, and this is still an obvious no-brainer....and yet there are a faction of pro-choice absolutists willing to murder me for stating that fact.

It's pretty well established that GMOs ultimately cause a measurable and significant loss of biodiversity...which is bad for many reasons. I think in this case the companies and the product are both bad.

I've got no complaints with your other arguments, though.

I was never huge, though 212 at 5'9" is overweight and approaching the technical definition of obesity. Due to some undesirable side effects of that weight (medical), I've been working to lighten up and am already down 24 lbs in 3 months, with a target of 170. It's tough, and even painful at times, but it really is as simple as making sure calories in is less than calories out. For the doubters, I recommend just starting with meticulous tracking of activity and food consumption without even making any changes. It gets very obvious very quickly what's happening, which makes it easier to start making changes.

100 pounds lost is amazing. What did you find that worked for you and how long did it take?

Non-human predators that hunt, kill, and eat other animals...do you consider them unethical, or is it only unethical for animals capable of inventing the concept of 'ethics'?

You really should be directing your angst at the bastards who respond to advertising. If it weren't for them, there would be no advertising at all because it would be completely unfeasible. Nobody would be willing to pay for something that has no return on investment.