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Ask me anything.

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But while the production shortfall underpinned the initial price gains, speculation from investors like hedge funds took things to another level.

“Yes, there’s fundamentals that trigger the move, but then these financial considerations add to it and compound to the situation.” said Judy Ganes, a commodities consultant. “It’s money driven.”

And we can charge anything we want: 2,000 a day, 10,000 a day. And people will pay it

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Kinda feel like anyone who opposes that should immediately be put on a watchlist and their browser histories put under intense scrutiny.

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Riders are a whole other problem, agreed.

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Jack and Liz saying 'Shut it down'

Russia Victory Day parade: Only one tank on display as Vladimir Putin says country is going through 'difficult period' ( news.sky.com )

On 9 May every year, Russia celebrates Victory Day, putting on a large parade in honour of the country's victory over Nazi Germany 79 years ago - in what remains an important symbol of the country's national identity....

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I also thought the one, lonely tank seemed familiar (had to check the article date to make sure it was new). Thanks for posting that so I didn't have to dig up last year's.

ptz OP ,
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I love the term "nonsense aggregator" xD

Usenet's also a good comparison, and yeah, not social media.

Definitely agree on K/Mbin straddling the line because of its microblogging feature.

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That's an interesting and not inaccurate comparison lol.

ptz OP ,
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That's basically my friend's argument. And I can see your/their point.

My argument against it basically boils down to the scope of what you follow. Following a group/community vs individual users. e.g. If I posted this on a forum back in 1997, we'd be having this discussion in a similar manner (though probably not threaded).

That, and "social media" carries a kind of stigma from the engagement algorithms they all use. Granted, that's not a requirement for something to be technically social media, but it's definitely something most people associate with it.

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Yeah, I agree it's likely just a matter of semantics.

Lol, what started this discussion was that I said I didn't use any social media and my buddy was like, "What? You're on Lemmy all the time".

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If I have to concede this argument to my buddy, that's how I'm going to do it: antisocial media 😆

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We need a cool new term for it, one that is easy to say and memorable.

Someone else in this thread used the term "nonsense aggregator" and I think that's my new favorite word for it.

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Social Media: Not even once

Bryce Dallas Howard's character from the Nosedive episode of Black Mirror

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Tesseract because I made it. lol

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If I ever have to job seek again, I'm probably gonna just hand write my resume on a crumpled piece of notebook paper to make it stand out from the AI generated drivel.

I'm only sort of not joking.

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That logic is sound, and I certainly can't fault it, but personally, I refuse to use the problem to solve / deal with the problem. Call me stubborn (everyone else does lol), but I will not buy a solution from the same industry that created the problem. At most, I'll let the "AI" fill out the unemployment forms for me lol.

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Lol, okay. I thought maybe my instance screwed up the thumbnail generation or something. Glad I'm not the only one confused.

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Depends on the instance/community as it could be either site rule or community rule. Either way, they're usually listed in the sidebar.

If you're referring to .ml, Rule 1 is saying anything they don't like (criticizing an authoritarian regime, etc)

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No, no global list. There's not really a provision for that in Lemmy. It's just convention for community owners and site admins to list them in the sidebar.

Snooped on the modlog, and Ask Lemmy does have its rules in the sidebar. Depending on what UI you use (and whether you're on desktop /mobile), it may or may not be visible.

Ask Lemmy's rule #1 is this:

Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them

On LW, their site rules are laid out in the terms of service (linked above). Usually when a submission runs afoul of those, the mod text will reference that rather than a rule number.

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Yeah, I noticed that. Makes sense given the nature of the community. Good call on the mods' part for that.

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Admins can purge them (which deletes them from the local database), but I don't think users can. I'd guess the reason is that it breaks comment chains when a parent comment is physically deleted from the database. Plus, "purge" operations don't federate, only "remove/restore/delete". So purging a comment locally would not purge it on any other instance it federated out to. And once it's purged, you wouldn't be able to do any actions against it that would federate; it would effectively orphan it on other instances.

Eventually, deleted items go to "Permanently deleted" status, but all that does is change the title/text to "Permanently Deleted".

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I'm immediately suspicious of anything that says "earn crypto rewards" so that's a "no" from me.

I just use Searx-NG as my meta search engine, and it's been pretty good.

There's another self-hosted actual search engine (with its own dataset + crawler) but I forget its name off the top of my head. I've been looking into setting that up to experiment with.

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I've heard of that one recently, but the one I was thinking of was Stract. Had to search through a few communities to find it because I'm a genius who didn't bookmark it lol.

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Yep! Wish I'd have seen your reply before digging though old posts to find that lol.

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Critically-thinking humans move out to better states leaving those who either don't think critically or who can't afford to leave. Less critical thinkers = more Republican votes and a more solid grip on power to make things worse.

They're not out to attract critically-thinking people with these; they're trying to wear down and drive out their perceived enemies. Any deplorable who thinks "yep, this is what I want" and who decides to move there because of it is just a bonus.

Edit: Because of the way the Senate is structured, regardless of population, each state gets two. So if, hypothetically, there's a mass exodus from these shithole states and population in better states explodes, they'll still be able to hold the Senate hostage. In the House, the number of reps per state is determined by the census every 10 years giving them a big window to control both chambers of Congress with a minority of Americans on their side (House reps are elected every 2 years).

So, counter-intuitively, the best thing critically-thinking, rational people can do is move to these shithole states and vote these ghouls out. Because if enough states devolve to shithole status and drive out rational people, they'll be able to either pass federal legislation making all states shitholes or at the very least prevent any federal laws from being enacted that would stop them.

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I agree it's a big ask to stay let alone move there. But long term, the repercussions seem like they would be worse unless the people left there wise up in time.

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Yep. Somewhere between prisoner's dilemma and trolley problem. Lol

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I recognize that there is a lot of privilege at work here, such as the economic stability of having remote jobs that can cross state lines, not to mention a lot of passing privilege at play. But like, that’s kind of the point, right? If not us, who?

Exactly!! You recognize your privileges and are using them for good. That's awesome!

I live in a shithole, non-battleground, mostly politically-irrelevant state (WV: not as shithole as some, but we're on our way). While I could move elsewhere, I decided a few years ago that I might as well commit myself to the long haul and stay to try to slow the decline if making things better is off the table (both are uphill climbs, lol, but the latter is definitely steeper).

I wish you all the luck. Hopefully you're able to set a good example others will see and follow.

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“The guy is not a democrat with a small d,”

But I am!

(Sorry, there was a dick joke to be made, and I could not help myself)

I get what he is saying, but the phrasing could have been better. This seems like something that could be flipped into a campaign slogan that hides the dark undertones of what it actually means.

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To be pedantic (which is the theme so far), the term"post" can also refer to a posting which would include comments.

"I posted a comment to your post".

That said, it's certainly not a hill I'm willing to die on lol.

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I miss seeing Sue Perkins on QI; she was always a fun guest. I know she's got her own projects, but so do most of the other panelists.

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"Counterpoint" is one of my top 5 favorite episodes. The string of double crosses, liberal abuse of the pattern buffer, and Janeway's chemistry with Inspector Kashyk made for some great TV.

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Harsh but fair. 😆

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Did he actually,like, literally lick his boots?

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🤯

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If you already look like a Bond villain, maybe don't tent your fingers in your photo-op.

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I was wondering that, actually. Many instances predate the Rexodus, but a lot of them sprung up around the same time as a result of that.

Trying to think of some way to celebrate on my instance. Maybe a birthday hat on my site icon for the day? lol

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That's a Tuesday for me

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I totally forgot Ming-Na Wen was in that.

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I've seen the reference a lot, but I don't understand it. At this point, I'm too afraid to ask. lol

ptz OP ,
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Thanks!

Also, I've been watching The Good Place and completely read your comment in Jason's voice. Hope that's okay. 😆

ptz OP , (edited )
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Thanks!

Interesting about the broken Peertube federation. I'm following a few channels (mostly for testing purposes) and I did get new posts to them from PT's side and saw my votes reflected on each end. Haven't gone back and done any comparison's lately, though. That post says it hasn't worked in ~3 months. If it's a Lemmy issue, It's possible that it works for me since my instance is still on 0.18.5? If something changed with Peertube, then I may have just not noticed. Will check on that when I have some time as I'm now curious.

Update: Seems the ones I got were just from the initial fetch.

Update #2: A new PT video came through this morning on one of the channels I follow. So maybe federation does work but is just wonky/inconsistent? Again, I'm still on 0.18.5 so may have something to do with it.

Regardless, yeah, like you said, they'll still embed when brought over manually.

1.3.0 "Defiant" Released 🎉🎉🎉 ( tesseract.dubvee.org )

Finally releasing 1.3.0. I didn't quite rip it down to the studs, but it was damn close. Much of the UI has been re-written as well as a lot of the underpinning helper functions. There's a lot of changes, though most are just enhancements and polish to things that already existed in 1.2.9....

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"I don't like Trump, but [mental gymnastics], bIDEn bAd!"

- So many people I've blocked because that's suspiciously all they ever post

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Turns out that, in college, I was a solar panel.

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