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ptz

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Ask me anything.

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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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https://y.yarn.co/10e5f297-d4fb-4b0f-a126-f5cf0f83d0e3_text.gif

ptz,
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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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That’s a Tuesday for me

ptz,
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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

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