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A related link was posted in this comm not too long ago.. It tries to address why female chimps would live past reproductive age, to begin with.

The catch here is that adult male chimps stay in the clan of their parents, while the female ones migrate to other clans. And this creates an asymmetry between old vs. newer adult females in the same clan:

• from the PoV of an older female, the children of younger females are likely also the children of her sons, thus her grandchildren.
• from the PoV of a newer female, the children of the older females are not relatives.

In situations where food is short, it's advantageous for the clan to have less children: every new child spreads the food resources thinner, and puts at risk the lives of the other children. But that pressure to stop having children only affects the older female, because it puts at risk the lives of her grandchildren; for the newer females it's more like "why would I stop having children? For the sake of my in-laws? Screw them!".

Evolution solved this through menopause; you got the older females still alive, gathering resources, and taking care of the children of the clan, but they aren't bearing new children.

I've heard about some idiot from the third planet being obsessed with space travel (and with X). What if we sent him to the fourth planet then? It's a win-win!

My list:

1. What's even a country, and why should I care about it?
2. If this has something to do with homeland, can't I answer "third planet past Sun" instead?

        exsuscitō
    sed lūx non accendit
    iam somniō

    I wake myself up
    But the light does not turn on
    Still inside the dream


  

Note: in the Latin version I'm only counting two morae per syllable for the long vowels, not for the codas. (Japanese barely uses coda, if I do it here the verses get too long.) The English version disregards syllable weight.

Even if this wasn't Elon Musk, the very idea of your boss having control over your finances sounds dumb as a brick.

[Musk] "And for some reason PayPal, once it became eBay, not only did they not implement the rest of the list, but they actually rolled back a bunch of key features, which is crazy. So PayPal is actually a less complete product than what we came up with in July of 2000, so 23 years ago.”

"And for some reason not only they didn't implement a lot of my stupid ideas, but they reverted some of my dumbest takes that still went through. And 23 years later I still didn't learn."

I'll reply to my own comment for transparency, to avoid editing the above after a bunch of users replied.

Nota bene: this is solely a taunt to provoke self-reflection.

How many of you are genuinely concerned about the feasibility of a multilingual instance, even in languages that the admins might not be speakers of? And how many of you are instead pissed, because the idea of multiple languages in the same instance would invade the online "Lebensraum" of your "Reichsprache"?

Or even, here's a third alternative: perhaps you're already unable to use context even in the languages that you speak, and you're unable to recruit community help even if this is essential in a monolingual/bubbled community, and so you can't see yourself relying on it. If that's the case, sorry to burst your bubble but you shouldn't be touching any position of power over what others may or may not say.

And as I mentioned in another comment, it's rather curious how people here love to babble about minorities and their empowerment, but when it comes to practical actions to support said empowerment, suddenly it's "too hard". Guess what, this "no foreign language in my online Reich!" approach hurts the most speakers of minority languages.

I think that's neither. The whole thing boils down for me to an adult trying to strike a deal with a kid so the kid gives up their ice cream, the kid saying "no!", and then the adult still grabbing the ice cream by force.

In other words I think that Meta run some risk assessment on the move, and decided that it was still profitable.

Agree. No 180°, she's still the same selfish princess, even if a bit smarter than before.

Trolls are attention seekers, but troublemakers tend to be focused on a particular action.

For other types of troublemakers, check the rest of the very sentence that you're referring to.

Although... frankly, given your lack of basic reading comprehension, coupled with other people are raising the same points that you are, I'm not bothering with your comments further.

Putting more work on the admin running the server, that’s a great solution for someone who doesn’t have to do the extra work.

That's a fallacy known as "moving the goalposts", given that the original claim was about impossibility. I'll bite though.

Yes, there is an additional amount of overhead. However, I genuinely do not think that it is a lot, provided that the admins are smart. Automatic translation is built in browsers nowadays, and again, context.

I'll give you an example. Someone posts a picture of a cat doing something silly, then text in a language that you don't speak. Do you even need to bother translating it to know if it's OK? ...not really, right? You can simply wait until there's any sort of report against it.

And going through this amount of overhead yields a more diverse and active community. The whole point of building a community - be it an instance, a /c/, or even a non-Lemmy forum - is to service people with an online space to hang around.

Another thing that you guys are failing to consider is that the ability of the admins to recruit help scales up alongside the size of the community. Most content will be probably fine; rule-breaking content ends getting reported, unless the community itself is composed of nothing but troublemakers. The later is however blatantly obvious even if you don't speak the language.

Why I'm insisting on this point: people in Lemmy really, really love to babble about minorities and their empowerment. But when it comes to practical actions towards the empowerment of minorities, suddenly it's "too hard"?

This sort of "use this language else fuck off" approach might not be too problematic for something like a Spanish or a Mandarin speaker; sure, they'll eventually find some instance in their language. The picture however changes when you get someone who speaks Basque or Min or another minority language - because that instance won't exist.

I think the point is that the mod of the instance doesn’t want to be multilingual because of the unnecessary amount of overhead.

The claim is that "they’re impossible for an admin to actually administer". Not that there's an "unnecessary amount of overhead".

So your entire arguement doesn’t make sense.

The argument makes sense in relation to what was said. It doesn't need to make sense in relation to your LLM-like hallucinations ("I think the point...").

Here's my full list of subscriptions.

Unless there are dinner leftovers, I usually eat a corn farofa filled with two scrambled eggs, half onion, and a carrot. It's 10min cooking if you plan in advance (grate the carrot and chop the onion), really filling, and... well, you got two vegs and a grain and a source of protein, I'd say that it's nutritious.

I think that the other user is conveying something like this:

"If you're in a community you don't need to know something, as long as someone else knows it. And if enough people know it, you escape being manipulated by external players."

Yup. That's because the Lemmy side of the Fediverse had a bit more time to settle down, after the huge influx of users from July.

The issue with foreign languages is that they’re impossible for an admin to actually administer.

Emphasis mine. That's bullshit. You got at least three resources at hand:

1. Machine translation.
2. Context.
3. Community help.

Note that you should be already doing #2 and #3 even in a monolingual instance or community; failure to do either means failure as a mod or admin.

For all you know, a foreign community could be focused on sharing recipes, or could be focused on sharing Neo Nazi dogwhistles. And you’d have no way of distinguishing between the two without basically learning a new language.

Besides the three resources that I mentioned, remember that dogwhistling Nazi are trying to promote an ideology. They're likely to beeline towards the majority language of the instance/comm, because they want to be heard. Posting a dogwhistle in a language that practically nobody speaks is pointless.

"My instance" as "the instance I'm subscribed to": I might interact with it if it's in a language that I speak, otherwise I leave it alone.

"My instance" as "a hypothetical instance, that I would be the admin of": if I had my instance odds are that I'd be tweaking its rules to promote linguistic diversity on first place, so the appearance of speaking communities outside the default language (that would likely not be English in my instance, but either Portuguese or Italian) would show that I'm doing a good job.

Some people raise the concern of administration; but frankly? It looks for me like a strawman, not an actual problem. Trolls are attention seekers, so they'd likely post in the majority language; and other types of rule breaking scale with the size of the linguistic community in question, so when they become an actual concern you'll be able to recruit help anyway.

Overall I liked the episode quite a bit. One of the charms of the series for me is how small conflicts are woven into a bigger narrative. Sure, it's just a ball dress for a provincial noble, but now Mia got one less barrier between herself and a happy ending. (There are further implications later on, but I'm not spoiling it.)

And while Mia was 90% lucky, this episode shows the other 10%: in the earlier loop, she didn't have the chance to make her few skills (ball dancing for example) work in her favour. Or the fact that she actually considered the PoV of the four nobles, instead of ideologically dismissing it.

For the people discussing here: remember that the morality of an act depends on the act itself, the context where it happens, and the moral premises. It does not depend on how you phrase or label the act.

With that in mind: since I define arseholery as "actions or behaviour that cause more harm to someone else than they benefit the agent", and there's practically no harm being caused by OP's actions, I do not think that OP is being an arsehole.

It's satisfying to see a villainess who doesn't pull her punches, like this.