A foreign military occupation of an entire region in the Middle East to ensure peace.

Does anyone remember how this one goes?

That didn’t stop them from plowing ahead with Apple Maps, even though its debut was total garbage.

I would be an asshole to show up to this.

That’s the part I really don’t get. If you’re cis male looking for a job, do you really think crashing this event is going to reflect favorably on you and that you’d be more likely to land a job? People are going to look at you and think that you have good judgment and won’t be a problem at all? What the heck is the thought process that makes this a good plan?

This list comes across as very self-serving though. It’s basically saying men’s issues are only a problem for Feminism when it can be framed as also impacting women. I read the parent poster as calling for rising above a narrow single gender view of equal rights.

Most nuclear countries have had conventional conflicts since 1945. Many have lost without (publicly) considering nukes. The closest was the UN vs China in the 50’s and it got MacArthur removed from command for asking.

I tried RTSP on the wyze v3 cameras and it was unstable bordering on nonfunctional. Even if they worked, I think you also had to power cycle them occasionally to keep them going.

But you’re not researching, hiring, and scheduling a contractor to fix it. You don’t need to become an expert in long term planning and anticipate problems. You’re not mentally cataloging basic maintenance tasks like when you last painted the siding or mowed the lawn.

Home ownership vs renting goes beyond equity and I know a lot of people who were happy renting because it gave them a huge chunk of free time back for trips, hobbies, etc.

I think that would have been a healthier start, to focus attention and generate some liveliness, but people’s preconceived notion is “Reddit” so that’s where community creation went.

But then we would get every instance with their own meta-community, and it’s just a complication on top of communities and instances.

The trick is to have meta-meta-communities to aggregate the aggregators :)

You’re selling Comcast short there. They put in the effort, they should get 1st place. Please have their medal ready somewhere between 6am and 2pm on Tuesday, if they don’t cancel.

Dungeons and Dragons. Tabletop roleplaying game. Because it featured demons, magic, etc with elaborate books documenting it all, conservatives condemned it.

AD&D is a gateway to Satan worship and witchcraft. /s

The Internet is a series of tubes, not a dump truck.

I found fishing for (and following) hashtags on Mastodon effective but Mastodon was also in much better shape to receive the waves of Twitter exoduses.

Lemmy lacks effective tools to organize a feed. I think many people recreated their favorite subreddits as communities but the userbase was too small to support them. Being able to create “multi-reddits” to group related micro-communities together to help mitigate the ghost town feeling as you raise the probably of at least one of them having something new to talk about.

Effective prevention of climate change is and has been politically impossible, like you said.

Maybe I’m just depressed about it all but I’ve moved on to the unfortunate “resilience” (or acceptance) phase. It’s coming and it’s not slowing down. So what are we going to do about? The answers differ depending on where you live. Some places just aren’t going to survive. The ones that do are going to have strained resources to withstand extreme climate effects while simultaneously having a refugee problem.

Modernized privacy law alone wouldn’t be enough. The danger from social media apps (not just TikTok) is algorithmically swaying public opinion. It’s an ultra-refined form of propaganda.

Taking the GDPR as an example, a modern and widely recognized privacy law, there is virtually no protection from manipulation of your news feed. GDPR is primarily worried about gathering and resale of personal information to data brokers. Within a service, it’s virtually guaranteed to obtain consent from people to gain full access to the site.

We put import restrictions on groups of things. We ban cheese from France. We don’t ban cheese specifically from Jacques Cheese Emporium in Lyon but all other French cheese is okay.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer

Holy crap that was a wild read. Jewish Mother but a Holocaust denier. Died in exile in Iceland while evading criminal deportation to the US. I had this vague memory that he was an asshole but I had no idea.

I raised this exact point to a relative on a similar issue (people on the road during a major blizzard).

That said, there are many jobs where you don’t need to be there in person. Saying “if you feel sick stay home” (or similar) should be encouraged as it’s necessary to enforce this expectation that if you can stay home, you should.

It was a bit tongue in cheek but since Win10, there’s more “nervous laughter” in the room than there was before.