Google has broken trust so often, so severely, that it’s the default to not trust anything they do, ever.
If they can, they absolutely will leverage basic security measures for their own benefit. And, it isn’t like there’s no press by governments to backdoor all the things.
So it shouldn’t boggle the mind at all. This is what happens when oligarchs and their servants run amok, nobody can trust anything.
Ay, yo, I got the hookup on that puddy hat you lookin for. I got a big thatch of it, and prices are reasonable
Eh, the term meme has come to encompass reposts of things from other outlets for some reason. I don’t like it, I think it waters down meme communities, and kills the fun of memes via it being harder to find good memes.
But I think it’s here to stay.
The stats are irrelevant, imo. What matters is how useful lemmy is both to average users and specialty users.
Right now, the more niche the hobby/interest is, the less useful lemmy is unless it fits into the handful of subjects that lemmites grok.
That being said, for general use, lemmy is great. Plenty of memes, plenty discussion about subjects of general interest, and plenty of posts for casual scrolling on the john. In that regard, it’s better than bigger forums because you don’t have to scroll through a dozen fake posts to find things that interested a fellow human.
I can usually, on bad days when I’m not very mobile, spend an hour or so on lemmy before I get back to where I had previously left off. That’s about the sweet spot, imo.
Hey, I appreciate the work. No bullshit, it’s a great idea, and the way you implemented it as its own C/ is perfect.
That being said, it’s too much. It was essentially a wall of nothing but the bot for me. I’m not sure if that’s because there was just that much for it to scrape with it being new, if it needs a rate limitation to keep it from flooding, or maybe the list of sources needs to pared down.
But it definitely interfered with accessing human posts by sheer volume. Which is the bad thing about bots.
I don’t know Jack shit about how bots work under the hood, but it definitely needs some kind of change to how much it’s posting.
Again, I think the idea is great and I was initially happy about it. Thanks for doing something to help us all stay updated.
Well, you asked a question that doesn’t have a definitive answer.
However, nerve endings aren’t the end-all be-all of the sensorium. The brain has activity, even when cut off from stimulation via the senses.
We aren’t reliant on our bodies for "self*, in other words.
Look, your comments show what you’re saying better than your post. So keeping that in mind, you’ve made an error.
See, while language is a consensus based thing, or isn’t the only determinant of how it’s used. The consensus doesn’t inherently forbid individual usages.
So, the idea that me insisting on my pronouns be used is not the same as a burka or similar garb.
Now, I get part of your argument, that there’s a point at which highly individualized pronouns become enough of a hassle that expecting anyone to remember them is an exercise in futility. You aren’t going to shift the way a language functions like that, it just isn’t going to happen that everyone gets to pick their own pronoun/s when they aren’t also a part of the current language structure.
That’s not a matter of right or wrong, it’s a purely practical thing. To create that kind of shift in language requires broad acceptance of the idea, and it being part of early language acquisition. In other words, if you aren’t learning the structure of completely individual pronouns as part of your learning your language as a very small child, then that’s going to always be unfamiliar and awkward. It will take conscious effort to use the proposed change.
And that’s where the barrier is. It’s easy enough to get folks on board with he/she/they because it’s already there in the unwritten rules we pick up passively. Once you start trying to invent words, you have to convince other people they’re useful at all. Then you have to teach them what those words mean, when to use them or not use them, and how they’re supposed to be applied when a niche situation arises.
As an example, xe and xey replacing not only the gendered he/she, but the agender they in consistent way. It kinda makes sense, though English isn’t a great language to use x as the first letter of a word. There’s other languages that only have a single pronoun for individuals and one for multiplies, so the concept is easy to swallow.
But, you still have to convince people that there’s a good reason to switch. There’s people that already fight hard for the right to have their gendered pronouns recognized, and won’t give that up because it matters to them. You’ve got people that will (accurately) point out that we already have the singular “they”, so adding another word in is not useful. You’ve got people that will object because the you’ll still have to teach the previous forms so that people can read the centuries of writing already out there.
That’s a huge barrier to overcome, and that’s just for one change.
And there isn’t a single consensus about what alternate pronouns to add/replace. There’s multiple competing ones, so there’s no critical mass of people to shift the majority.
To be clear though, none of that is the equivalent of forcing you to wear a burka. None of it.
That’s where you screwed up. You conflated two things that are absolutely not the same, crammed them into a ragebait title, and didn’t think it through before posting.
Mind you, that last part assumes you don’t actually believe the tripe and are just playing around with ideas. I prefer not to assume malice, until it is so certain it can’t be alienated avoided.
First off, those Dexters are a seriously underestimated brand. A lot of bang for the buck for sure. Same with the Kershaws.
My favorite survival story is fairly simple and it wasn’t horrible, though it could have been.
We’re nestled right up against the Appalachians. Very rural, lots of sketchy roads. I used to be a nurse’s assistant, doing home health, so those sketchy roads were something I couldn’t just avoid.
One winter, I got delayed before an obnoxiously heavy freezing rain storm and got caught in it. I tried to make it back onto paved roads, with no luck at all. Slid off the road up against some trees. Wasn’t going fast enough to get hurt, but there was no way I was getting my little hatchback car back out. Not without help.
So I’m there with maybe enough gas to last a few hours, and at that point didn’t carry the kind of gear I do now, because of this incidence. All I had was my work bag with ppe and supplies, and the usual assortment of lug wrench and not much else in the way of tools. But I had my knife, a decent flashlight, and a lighter (was a smoker back then).
I figured that in the car, I could likely stay warm enough to get through the night and be better able to get myself out, or walk to the nearest house. Not something I wanted to do in the dark, that walk. But I was also under some trees with some already heavy branches. Wasn’t sure if they’d come down or not.
I decided that I’d rather set up a shelter and a fire with the light I had left than risk having to do it in the dark if a branch messed up the car.
So that’s what I did. Cut enough smaller branches to give me cover and a screen, scrounged up some wood big enough for a decent fire, and settled in. It turned out to be not necessary, as the only branch that fell just dented the hood.
But that little shelter rocked. It was essentially a lean-to, just a little modified to fit against the niche I had. It wasn’t comfortable, but once I was under it and the fire was going, I got dry fairly quick. As the ice kept building up, it got warmer since it was blocking wind and drips.
But I did all the cutting and tinder making with the 710 and hands. Took maybe an hour amd a half? Normally, that kind of shelter is maybe twenty minutes of work, but this wasn’t a great spot, and it takes a while to whittle through the kind of branches needed to support the lean-to. I’d have been fucked without the lighter and paper though. No way could I have managed a friction fire. As it was, it took some doing to get the first bit of wood dry enough to keep going so I could drag a bigger piece to it.
That event actually started me doing primitive camping and such. It was a bit of a rush to realize that even though I was barely remembering shit I’d been taught, that I managed to stay uninjured, and in good shape. Growing up, my grandfather had taught us a good bit of outdoors basics, plus some survival skills. But by the point that happened, it had been years since I’d practiced any of it other than what’s useful for hiking off trails.
Didn’t sleep much that night, what with worries about the fire, hoping the wind didn’t fuck up the shelter in some way, etc. But I managed to get the car out on my own using the stuff from the shelter for traction after making sure it would run. The dent was not a small one lol.
What started out a little terrifying ended up being a good memory. Not the cold and the annoyances and the expense, but the fact of it. That I’d done something pretty damn difficult and made it through, despite some mistakes.
I don’t have a picture on the device I’m using, and I’ll forget to take one by the time I get home, but 
it’s easy enough to find one online lol.
Benchmade 710-1401. It’s one of those custom versions made for a knife retailer, knifeworks.
I’ve had one of the earliest versions of the 710 since it came out, and it’s literally helped keep me alive a few times. The 1401 variant is a prettier version, with a fancy steel. My original 710 is still fully functional in every way, but it’s taken on a sentimental value, and I was increasingly worried about damaging it beyond repair since I use the hell out of knives.
Plus, I had wanted the variant from the day I saw it. What they call a grail for me.
not really. Once I got to the point where I could put aside the vape, I’d gotten used to not having one, so I never picked anything else up.
Eh, going back at least as far as his real world days, he’s always been about being edgy and asinine. I’ve never heard of him directly fucking people over, but I can’t call him nice just because he uses a degree of manners in public.
It isn’t about his political views, idgaf about that as far as this subject goes. Until you get into actual extremists, the kind of right or left wing folks that make up the bulk of things tend to not be assholes in their day to day behavior. They don’t often pound their pulpit non stop, or publicly and directly bash any given group. Theo is like that, in that regard. It’s about him generally behaving as though he has some need to stir shit to feel like he’s funny.
Preach!
When I officially quit, as in not even using 0 nicotine vape products to help with the fidget aspect of smoking, I made myself a little side envelope that I kept the money I was saving in not smoking to give myself a little boost in terms of any residual urges popping up.
Bought myself a little gift in just 4 months that I’d wanted for years, and cost damn near 400 bucks.
Mind you, cost of living swallowed that amount up since then, but it was a strong incentive to not backslide under stress.
It’s been , years since a real urge hit, if only a few. But I have my sweet-ass knife that reminds me every day exactly how much smoking costs in a monetary sense.
Honestly, at this point the only urges I get are situational, where the habit of smoking would be nice. The little ritual of lighting up and having something to do with hands. No actual cravings for nicotine at all for at least two years.
Not gonna end well unless you’re bringing you own bags and they’re sturdy.
You’ve apparently never had to give a chicken a bath for real.
It ain’t something you’d eat or drink
That’s essentially the same thing
Well, you’ve got great points.
And, here in the US, they’re points that require extra scrutiny of any such situation.
That being said, Norway has done this kind of thing with incredible success, and not just remote work either. So the idea itself is most definitely one that merits a real attempt here too
Considering how damn low their recidivism rates are, that’s a hell yes
Dude. It’s Christmas, and even if it wasn’t, mods aren’t a 24/7 presence.
If something gets seen and handled in a day or two, it’s fine for anything that isn’t illegal or dangerous to the instance.
Not that the mods/admins have to agree with your interpretation of whatever it is being misinformation to the kind of standard that needs intervention, but there’s other reasons it could still be up that are entirely unrelated
Aight, not a biologist, just an interested bystander.
But, yeah, everything alive has their microbiome. There’s an assortment of standard ones that are everywhere on earth, but there’s also some regional, and species specific types.
Iirc, sloths have a variety of algae that’s unique to them, or it may be that it’s a variant of a species. Something like that, but the point is that sloths have a biome adapted to them.
Going back to my disclaimer again, I believe that there’s also a fairly species related mixture of bacteria and fungi. Not accurate numbers, but something like 50% yeast, 25%staph, 25%lactobacilii as an example. If that were our mix, a gorilla might be 50/20/30 instead. The different conditions on the skin and fur/hair mean different types of microbes will do better or worse in a given climate with given environmental conditions. Again, totally armchair on this.
But the mixes aren’t static. All those microbes are competing. As conditions shift, so does the prevalence of one or some of them. That’s how yeast infections usually occur. Something happens to change the strength of other microbes and the yeast goes crazy taking over