New evidence strongly suggests that OceanGate’s submersible, which imploded and killed all passengers on its way to the Titanic wreck, was unfit for the journey. The CEO, Stockton Rush, bought discounted carbon fiber past its shelf life from Boeing, which experts say is a terrible choice for a deep-sea vessel. This likely...
We want to discuss topics. This is a place to do that.
Simple need, simple solution.
You don't need an extra incentive to make people talk about things if people talking about things is the thing you want. You don't want to incentivize people who don't want to talk about things to be active somewhere you want people to talk about things because then those people will start doing the thing your'e incentivizing them for instead of talk about things.
I personally only want people who want to talk about things here, and don't want people who don't want to talk about things.
I also believe in transparency makes social media better, under certain circumstances.
In real life, talking to people face to face, there's a huge amount of limiting factors to what you can say and do, and that's a good thing.
Somehow using the same principles online can be beneficial. The flip side is, online also exposes everyone to everyone else. The reach, both ways, is enormous compared to what's physical possible IRL. On top of that, IRL, moments are transitionary. Nothing stays forever. Online, everything you do is tracked so there's no possibility of privacy ultimately. IRL, everything is ultimately private because the reach is too limited.
She literally called me at the time of the appointment to tell me she can't see me. She was so apologetic, but was like "I absolutely can treat you, but I'm not allowed by your insurance". Fuck this country....
The extreme profit oriented business culture of the US combined with the human nature of bandwagons make these sort of disgusting practices possible.
Corporations are justified, by default, in anything they can do to increase profit, and will do so until there's enough public backlash to negate the amount of profit that practice makes.
The public backlash is tied to the social momentum the idea has. Because profitability is the default idea to be promoted, you can't say something like "don't do this obviously profitable thing because it's bad for people" unless there's enough people around you who'll get on the bandwagon. If suddenly some influential person or a critical number of schmucks say the opposite, then everyone is defending the corporation's, not only the right, but the duty to be profitable.
It's an unpleasant way to live, really, but people are creatures of habit and won't easily go against the culture they grow up in.
Not the same misconception, though it's a poor choice of wording.
Type II diabetes cases are actually increasing around the world, due to factors another comment summarizes very well, but it's not obviously "spreading" like a contagious disease.
It's not an issue of doctors starting to diagnose something that always existed but went undiagnosed due to ignorance/bias like the case with autistic women.
I guess Linux will never be in a state suitable for wide adoption because people have been making this exact comment (swap details from gestures to something else like graphics drivers etc.) since the nineties.
Huffman has said, "We are not in the business of giving that [Reddit's content] away for free." That stance makes sense. But it also ignores the reality that all of Reddit's content has been given to it for free by its millions of users. Further, it leaves aside the fact that the content has been orchestrated by its thousands of...
Also, that stance doesn't make sense. Stances aren't assessed in terms of sense making in a vacuum. A stance doesn't mean anything without its context and I the context of reddit, it doesn't make sense to keep content behind paywalls.
I just preemptively blocked the community for my account. I'd recommend everyone do the same until, and if they prove to be a problem.
I think instead of calling for pre-blocks or defederation of entire instances, we have to be vigilant and keep a close eye on the discussions going on around us.
I'm saying this not because I'm an "enlightened centrist" living in a delusion of tolerance or a fascist in disguise. I am as left leaning, antifascist, and antiauthoritarian as they get. I'm just saying this as I know from experience that there's no real way to eliminate people with bigoted views from our communities other than on an individual basis.
Ban an entire instance, you'll still have to block the individuals if they come one by one to stir shit up on your turf. Just skip the first part and go for the individual communities and users. They will simply find each other and form groups, as instances or otherwise anyway.
I know it's not ideal, but there's no real way to prevent these fascist groups from forming anywhere there's a large enough number of people. We can only block our own interaction with them and form counter groups, and actively fight against their bigotry.
I believe this is the sad truth we all have to live with, at least for the time being, because I can't see defederation as an effective tool.
The problem is with defining what "elective" is. Defining in legal terms, a "necessary abortion" is also equally difficult.
The best way to safeguard medical professionals against career, even freedom threatening legal battles, is to leave the discretion to medical boards who know ultimately better than anyone what they are dealing with.
This is why it's dangerous to meddle in something like this. We can't go on legislating depending on our personal morals and understanding of ethics. We can't legislate from a position which assumes medical professionals are profit driven, soulless devils who'd do wrong unless prevented from doing so by the strong hand of the general society through government intervention.
This same principle is valid in both gender affirming care -yes, for minors too- and for access to abortions.
And with that comes the responsibility of what to do if the mother's life is in danger late in a pregnancy but not in a way exactly as defined as "allowed" in the legislation written by non-medical experts? Even medical experts can't preemptively imagine every possible scenario and write down what should be included in the list.
Here's something I'm sure you haven't thought of before when you formed your opinion on which abortions should be legal.
The issue is extremely complicated to think of in terms of prohibitions.
Read about all those recent incidences where women with clear danger to their lives couldn't receive necessary abortions because their clearly nonviable fetus had a heartbeat while they were bleeding internally.
That's what tying the legality of abortion to the legally defined status of a fetus does, because it's quite impossible to legally define viability in a way which accounts for every possible detail where things can go wrong.
When you leave it to doctors instead, they do the right thing for the vast majority of cases, because they actually do have morals, just like you and I.
So you're ok with potentially killing mothers, who have established lives, loved ones, people to take care of and share a life with, through scaring doctors away from administering necessary procedures to prevent the cases of some mother-doctor pairs from killing some hypothetical fetuses which can be counted on the fingers of one hand annually anyway.
Again, you are missing the reality that most people, including pregnant women and doctors are human beings with compassion and morals, just like you and I.
What you are proposing is a moral high ground from a position of complete incompetence on a matter unrelated to you in any shape of form outside of a vague philosophical connection through shared humanity.
The worst part is, virtually nobody on the "fetal lives matter" side of the discussion, if it's fair to call it that, show the same amount of moral sensitivity when it comes to death penalty, sending 18 year olds to war and similar issues where governments take lethal action on the basis of our collective support through the same philosophical mechanism you propose as a means to control how doctors can use their means to administer healthcare.
Inspired by the previous post of a very generous Lemmy user, here are some games that I have keys for that I will not use (from Humble bundles of years ago). I don’t really know how I will choose who gets them, I feel like just using upvotes kinda awards the more creative or charismatic people. I’ll probably use some sort of...
I'm not in for the giveaway, I'm just supporting the random select suggestion since you mentioned the inherent problem with upvotes.
You can use something to randomly match users with a game. Maybe you can devise a way to use a random sample generator used to group people for randomized studies.
The problem here isn't talking to Meta or Meta making a federated platform.
Nobody can prevent Meta from doing that anyway.
The problem is the need to push against the insistence of Meta to keep these meetings off the record. It's against the entire philosophy of something like not only fediverse but FOSS in general.
If Meta wants good faith, they have to show it first.
Notice that in the email, Kev gives his guidance as to the matter. Do whatever the fuck you want as long as you put people first and make a product for the purpose of serving them.
This should be the attitude everyone should have first.
We will accept you as long as you're bringing value to us, not the other way round, got that Meta?
As long as any dev is taking this approach, Meta included, I'm supporting them. If someone is secretive about their intentions about a public service which is not a for profit endeavor inherently, I'll have a hard pass too.
I have a theory that there is a impossible trinity (like in economics), where a food cannot be delicious, cheap and healthy at the same time. At maximum 2 of the 3 can be achieved....
For the love of god, people, even if you like an idea very much, and want to be supportive of someone's efforts, it doesn't mean you can't be constructively critical!
The line work on this bird is atrocious. The idea is good, the general design idea is good.
It is a terribly executed bird head though.
The line weight is too low for the size, it's full of weird angles with lines not flowing into each other. Intersections around the beak are not clean as they look doubled up in places. There's no clear gesture in the shape language to either let the eye rest or direct it in meaningful way.
It's a somewhat cute bird, but this has to be cleaned up, a lot, to function as a real mascot.
I never meant you in particular meant this to be a finished work, in fact I thought you posted this in hopes of getting some constructive feedback rather than the blind adulation everyone showed here.
As far as I can see, nobody even bothered with thinking about what they are looking at and participating in the process of making it better, except that one person bringing up the balding dude silhouette.
I think it's on the right track as it is. Needs the improvements I mentioned, plus anything I can't see obviously, one person can't notice every detail ever.
As for help, I didn't offer any as I don't do vector art myself, so I wouldn't be able to solve the issues I mentioned, perhaps ironically.
What are you playing this week?
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OceanGate CEO Bragged About Using Expired Carbon Fiber to Build Doomed Sub (futurism.com)
New evidence strongly suggests that OceanGate’s submersible, which imploded and killed all passengers on its way to the Titanic wreck, was unfit for the journey. The CEO, Stockton Rush, bought discounted carbon fiber past its shelf life from Boeing, which experts say is a terrible choice for a deep-sea vessel. This likely...
Criticising the Irish Data Protection Commission and Big Tech to become illegal in Ireland if this bill passes (evil.social)
https://noyb.eu/en/irish-gov-makes-critizising-big-tech-and-irish-dpc-crime
What other less-toxic system could work instead of karma?
Hey! Thanks to the whole Reddit mess, I’ve discovered the fediverse and its increidible wonders and I’m lovin’ it :D...
[Final Update] My insurance won't cover UTIs for males. Yes, I'm in the US. (lemmy.world)
She literally called me at the time of the appointment to tell me she can't see me. She was so apologetic, but was like "I absolutely can treat you, but I'm not allowed by your insurance". Fuck this country....
Starfield (2023), just like every other Bethesda game, will absolutely need mods to be usable. This is a reference to how this sublemmy also needs mods. Apply here. (lemmy.world)
Update: mod applications halted for the time being. Thanks.
Why is diabetes spreading around the world? (www.aljazeera.com)
Society IF (lemmy.world)
Meta's upcoming AcitivityPub-enabled app Threads will only come with an "import from Mastodon" option. The new network won't federate on day one. (mastodon.social)
Full report is on The Verge.
This is apparently a real PSA from the CDC in GIF form
Reddit is in danger of a death spiral (www.zdnet.com)
Huffman has said, "We are not in the business of giving that [Reddit's content] away for free." That stance makes sense. But it also ignores the reality that all of Reddit's content has been given to it for free by its millions of users. Further, it leaves aside the fact that the content has been orchestrated by its thousands of...
Lemmy 3 day no poop challenge (lemmy.ca)
What's your Sci-Fi unpopular opinion?
It's a slightly click-baity title, but as we're still generating more content for our magazines, this one included, why not?...
FediPact is an Organized Effort to Block Meta's ActivityPub Platform (wedistribute.org)
r/The_Donald now on Lemmy (edit: not anymore)
It was banned on Reddit because it is racist, hatefull and spread Conspiracies....
Poll: 61% of voters disapprove of Supreme Court decision overturning Roe (www.nbcnews.com)
On the anniversary of the Dobbs decision, 53% say abortion access nationwide has become too difficult, a new NBC News poll finds.
Another game giveaway!
Inspired by the previous post of a very generous Lemmy user, here are some games that I have keys for that I will not use (from Humble bundles of years ago). I don’t really know how I will choose who gets them, I feel like just using upvotes kinda awards the more creative or charismatic people. I’ll probably use some sort of...
Kev Quirk, one of the admins of Fosstodon (a Mastodon instance), destroys Meta in an email exchange. (fosstodon.org)
The exchange is about Meta's upcoming ActivityPub-enabled network Threads. Meta is calling for a meeting, his response is priceless!
Is there a food that is cheap, delicious and healthy at the same time?
I have a theory that there is a impossible trinity (like in economics), where a food cannot be delicious, cheap and healthy at the same time. At maximum 2 of the 3 can be achieved....
OC Here's the nice Kbird with changes that people suggested, is OK if it isn't the mascot of Kbin but it will always live in our hearts, the real mascot was the friends we made along the way.