I feel when Bucha happened in Ukraine still a lot of people were shocked and outraged. But somehow this extreame achievement of the human race to formulate human rights and at least try to defend them is withering away....
I don’t think it’s that nobody cares. It’s just outrage fatigue. There’s so many things, as you listed, that it’s just exhausting to be outraged about everything all the time.
Most of us are just trying to get by: pay rent, put food on the table, etc.
So it’s not that I don’t care about those, it’s just that I don’t have time or energy to (or at least not all of the things all the time).
In a vacuum, I wouldn’t consider “diversity hire” to be a slur. However, in colloquial use by racists and bigots, it is definitely used as such much in the same way they have appropriated “DEI” as a slur.
To clarify, I mean the terms themselves used in the proper context. Calling someone a diversity hire, DEI hire, affirmative action hire, etc is 100% appropriating those terms as slurs because it calls into question the target’s qualifications by insinuating they were only hired to tick a box.
why don’t we question the competence or qualifications of non-POC hires? Like why are non-POC hires not “cronyism hire” or “familiarity hire”?
We totally do:
Familiarity hire: We call those ‘nepo babies’ or something related to nepotism.
Cronyism Hire: Not sure there’s a single term for it, but I (and probably others I’d imagine) just literally call them “cronies”.
I am currently trying to create my own Lemmy instance and am following the join-lemmy.org docker guide. But unfortunately docker compose up doesn’t work with the default config and throw’s a yaml: line 32: found character that cannot start any token error. Is there something I can do to fix this?...
Disclaimer: If this isn’t in the spirit of the community, feel free to remove the post and I’ll re-post it in my app-specific community. I’m posting it here since it’s a feature that I’m thinking through that may eventually make it into the Lemmy app I develop, and the people here would probably have good...
Having said all that, I recently participated in a conversation about EA putting ads in their games, and there was three different posts in three different communities, on the same subject.
I literally had to add links in my comment, that I was duplicating, to the other two duplicated comments of mine, so they were all cross referenced. It was definitely a pain in the butt to do so.
That’s basically the hassle I’m trying to address (won’t go so far as to call it a problem, just an annoyance). I wouldn’t say I’m attempting to centralize things, just bring multiple conversations together into one view.
When I think of centralization, I think of something that makes the aggregation point a load-bearing facet. In this case, it’d just be detecting that there’s 3 posts for the same item (from the cross_posts list from the API) and pulling the comment trees from all 3 into one UI display. Each still exists as its own, and nothing relies on the UI doing the merging.
That said, it wouldn’t do much in your scenario unless other UIs did something similar (i.e. you’d still need to cross-reference you comments to accommodate other UIs that view them separately). It would just make it easier on you to participate in conversation on 3 posts simultaneously. I guess it would be a bit easier to cross-reference your comments since you could do it from the same page, though.
The app I develop is a web app that also works as a mobile PWA. I try to keep the number of “apps” to a minimum on my devices lol. Half of the icons in my app tray are PWAs I run myself :)
A Trump-appointed judge on Friday delivered a win for big banks when he granted the U.S. Chamber of Commerce a temporary injunction halting a Biden administration rule that would cap credit card fees at $8....
could save U.S. consumers more than $10 billion each year
That’s $10 billion a year in free money the banks will lose out on. No wonder they’re fighting this: that’s a big chunk of money they get for doing absolutely nothing.
Will agree it’s confusing, but pretty sure the “I” in the meme is not OP referring to themselves but rather a satirical first-person view of prominent conservatives.
Luckily, I’ve never had that question on any maths test, though I do know how to solve it given enough information.
Do those questions ever tell you how far away each city is from one other, or are you just supposed to know that? Also, do the tracks go in a straight line the whole distance, and do they need to slow down on any stretches of track?
With over 100 active wildfires burning in Canada, wildfire smoke has drifted across the border into the United States, prompting Minnesota officials to issue the state’s first air quality alert of 2024....
I’m not aware of any, but I hope to be proven wrong (edit: maybe PayPal - see below).
AFAIK, NFC payment apps have to be linked to your bank and have some kind of relationship with them. The app doesn’t just “spoof” your card over NFC (which would make card cloning terrifyingly easy).
So, any other Google/Apple Pay app would have to be setup similarly and have relationships with banks and card providers/payment processors. I don’t know of any third party services that have done that since there’s likely a lot of financial regulations around it (just guessing on that part).
I haven’t tried that since there’s always a line of people, and I’m too embarrassed to cycle through several apps to test if they work at any particular retailer. lol
You may also check to see if your bank’s mobile app allows you to setup contactless payments.
But if you’re looking for a FOSS solution, I doubt there is one for the reasons mentioned above.
There are a lot of tanky posts coming from lemmy.ml. Their whole purpose seems to be to troll and spread their bullshit far and wide. They are nearly as bad as the alt-right. They argue in bad faith and celebrate authoritarian oppression. The beehaw mods might want to consider defederating.
I defederated months ago for exactly why you described. Night and day difference in how enjoyable Lemmy can be.
Like, yes, capitalism is failing us. But jumping into every comment thread and shutting down every conversation that’s not advocating for the complete and utter destruction of the current economic model is exhausting. And that’s the least toxic reason I chose to block that instance.
At first, I did miss some big FOSS communities that were there, but over time, similar communities elsewhere became more active. Good riddance.
So I unsubscribed from that community, and even considered leaving Lemmy altogether since I feel like those types of posts/comments are so pervasive lately.
I was at that same point back in November/December. Finally just defederated from .ml entirely and started blocking any agenda-pushing accounts in general, and wow, what a difference.
.ml wasn’t as bad back when I first started on Lemmy during the Rexodus (most of that was all on grad), but it’s definitely become grad-lite since then. My guess is at least a portion of the grad crowd migrated over since it’s a commonly defederated instance.
I kinda wish .ml wasn’t the official / de-facto flagship instance. I wonder how many people would have joined the Reddit-style corner of the Fediverse but were put off by .ml thinking that’s what it’s all like.
Beehaw’s still on 0.18.4 and from a post I saw a while back, isn’t planning to go beyond that. So user-level instance blocking isn’t an option there, unfortunately.
Instance blocking also only blocks posts; you’ll still see the users from there in the comments. So it’s nice, but doesn’t go quite far enough; you still have to block obnoxious accounts manually/individually.
Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news (english.elpais.com)
Why don't people care about human rights anymore?
I feel when Bucha happened in Ukraine still a lot of people were shocked and outraged. But somehow this extreame achievement of the human race to formulate human rights and at least try to defend them is withering away....
Is “diversity hire” a slur? If not, then why don’t we question the competence or qualifications of non-POC hires? Like why are non-POC hires not “cronyism hire” or “familiarity hire”?
I’ve seen this too much in the media and other places, and I am kinda sick of seeing people get unfairly criticized or sidelined.
RFK Jr. sues Meta for “election interference” after it temporarily removed a campaign video (www.theverge.com)
The First Amendment claim is unlikely to go very far....
Problems with creating my own instance
I am currently trying to create my own Lemmy instance and am following the join-lemmy.org docker guide. But unfortunately docker compose up doesn’t work with the default config and throw’s a yaml: line 32: found character that cannot start any token error. Is there something I can do to fix this?...
Sandi Toksvig & Alan Davies Interview (2024) (www.youtube.com)
Sandi and Alan discuss how the Klaxon was Alan’s idea, their favorite guests, and possibilities after Series Z
[RFC] Thoughts on Combining Comments for Crossposts?
Disclaimer: If this isn’t in the spirit of the community, feel free to remove the post and I’ll re-post it in my app-specific community. I’m posting it here since it’s a feature that I’m thinking through that may eventually make it into the Lemmy app I develop, and the people here would probably have good...
Trump-Appointed Judge Halts Biden Rule Capping Credit Card Fees | Common Dreams (www.commondreams.org)
A Trump-appointed judge on Friday delivered a win for big banks when he granted the U.S. Chamber of Commerce a temporary injunction halting a Biden administration rule that would cap credit card fees at $8....
Is there a way, as a user, to block an entire server?
Title says it all, I hope.
Only slightly exaggerated (sh.itjust.works)
13 May 2024 (sh.itjust.works)
Smoke from Canadian wildfires reaches US, Minnesota under air quality alert (abcnews.go.com)
With over 100 active wildfires burning in Canada, wildfire smoke has drifted across the border into the United States, prompting Minnesota officials to issue the state’s first air quality alert of 2024....
Where is her family? (matrix.gvid.tv)
Everclear - I Will Buy You A New Life [1997] (www.youtube.com)
Google Pay alternative?
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/15358017...
lemmy.ml Tankies
There are a lot of tanky posts coming from lemmy.ml. Their whole purpose seems to be to troll and spread their bullshit far and wide. They are nearly as bad as the alt-right. They argue in bad faith and celebrate authoritarian oppression. The beehaw mods might want to consider defederating.
Gov. Jim Justice Faces Heavy Business Debts as He Seeks Senate Seat (www.nytimes.com)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/9476352...
Dinner and a Movie on TBS (tesseract.dubvee.org)
With Paul Gilmartin and Annabelle Gurwitch