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Developer of PieFed, a sibling of Lemmy & Kbin.

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Yes. The process is the same on kbin.social except the admin has been AWOL for months. So don't expect a response.

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/10/uk-food-production-down-record-rainfall-farmers

Wheat production is down 15% since November, the biggest reduction in cropped areas since 2020. Oilseed rape is down 28%, the biggest reduction since the 1980s, and winter barley is down 22% at 355,000 hectares, the biggest reduction since 2020.

So, the above effects, every 3 years.

And we're just getting started.

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You're looking for meaning where there is none. Fascism does not want to make sense, it very intentionally rejects reason and logic. To fascists, force and power is the only real politics. Few people really grasp how deep the nihilism of it is.

The chaos is an end in itself.

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Employers would absolutely love to be able to ask their pet AI "hey tell me who to fire based on their computer usage"...

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You can see how using AI to analyze a video (effectively a video, they didn't say how often the screenshots are taken but they'd need to be pretty often for it to work) of their entire work life the whole time they've been at a company takes it to another level tho, right?

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This is how it's done. USA, take note.

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You don't. Their minds are closed.

There are a huge mass of people who don't normally vote who are much easier to sway.

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That's done.

It is a bit awkward, having to shove all the foreign language communities into one topic. Ideally, topics would have a language setting in the same way that communities do and then people could see different topic trees depending on their language. Maybe one day. However the instance admin (myself, in the case of piefed.social) needs to manually assign communities to topics and I don't know French (and German, and Portuguese, and Japanese, etc etc). So that's tricky.

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Fake Jehovah's Witness

Gender bias in open source: Pull request acceptance of women versus men (www.researchgate.net)

Our results show that women's contributions tend to be accepted more often than men's [when their gender is hidden]. However, when a woman's gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless.

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Thanks for grabbing the chart.

My Stats 101 alarm bells go off whenever I see a graph that does not start with 0 on the Y axis. It makes the differences look bigger than they are.

The 'outsiders, gendered' which is the headline stat, shows a 1% difference between women and men. When their gender is unknown there is a 3% difference in the other direction (I'm just eyeballing the graph here as they did not provide their underlying data, lol wtf ). So, overall, the sexism effect seems to be about 4%.

That's a bit crap but does not blow my hair back. I was expecting more, considering what we know about gender pay gaps, etc.

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Really great comments at https://peerj.com/articles/cs-111/reviews/. The reviewers are very nice about it but do point out some big issues towards the end.

Zelensky: 'Our partners fear that Russia will lose this war' (kyivindependent.com)

President Volodymyr Zelensky believes that Ukraine’s partners “are afraid of Russia losing the war” and would like Kyiv “to win in such a way that Russia does not lose,” Zelensky said in a meeting with journalists attended by the Kyiv Independent....

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Yeah although if Russia wins it'd involve "unstable geopolitics" too.

This could be a long war.

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Spoiler:

I think the answer is community. We have to be responsible to more than ourselves. We have to feel an obligation to more than our children. It can’t just be a selfish desire to hold on to what we currently have. You can maybe grip tightly onto your comfort in the short term, but the more we resist being part of the collective solution, the less likely that collective solution is to happen. In a sense, you’re echoing a bit of this bunker mentality where we have these megawealthy people who are buying up land in New Zealand and wherever else trying to save themselves. That seems like such a sad way to see the world. Like, do you want to live in a bunker for a year eating canned rations? Is that the life we want to build? Or do we all try to make sure we have a world where there’s enough for everybody, where no one takes too much and we share what we have. I’d rather share.

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Durian.

Texture of banana but with a huge seed. Tastes like a strange combination of rotten eggs, whipped cream, vanilla ice cream, diced garlic, onions, cheese, and... caramel?

It's fucked. Never again.

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To fascists, hypocrisy is a virtue:

https://hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/hypocrisy-and-fascism-2018-08-12

They NEED to demonstrate their hypocrisy in order to signal to their supporters that the nasty shit they promise to do to The Other (immigrants, gays, whatever) won't be done to their supporters.

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National will never do anything like this. Even weed. A total non-starter.

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It is very rare to only get one term. So we're looking at another 6 years, minimum.

It's going to feel like forever 😉

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Yup true, true

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Then try harder. If the receptionist at his building is enough to stop them then they're shit at their jobs.

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It might cost more overall but it will be different people paying that cost (taxpayers and poor, mostly) whereas if we took action now it would be the capitalists paying for it.

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