The United States is giving tentative backing to a plan that would remove barriers to Ukraine’s entry into NATO without setting a timeline for its admission, a modest step that American officials hope can bridge divisions among member nations over Kyiv’s path to joining the transatlantic military alliance....
Normally, yes! You can browse and interact with lemmy communities from kbin and vice versa with absolutely no problems.
However, since both are still so new, it's common for one or both to crash. And if your home interface is down, you won't be able to vote or comment anywhere until it comes back online-- even on other instances which are still up. So if you're an impatient person (like me, lol), it makes sense to make an account on each, so if one crashes you can switch to the other.
NATO defence ministers failed on Friday to reach agreement over new plans on how the alliance would respond to a Russian attack, and one diplomat blamed Turkey for blocking them.
YouTube is running an experiment asking some users to disable their ad blockers or pay for a premium subscription, or they will not be allowed to watch videos.
Or at the very least, show me a healthy variety of ads, instead of spamming the same ad over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and--
This is an excellent podcast with just seven episodes. It talks about a very little discussed topic: Nixon's corrupt vice president. I've never even heard the name Spiro Agnew before, but he got very close to becoming president himself and he was insanely corrupt. What's interesting is that they did extensive research for this...
What they found is what neoliberal hero George HW Bush was also part of the corruption.
George HW Bush is widely remembered for having a relatively successful presidency, but the dude was involved in some messed-up shit in his years before taking the office. IIRC he was director of the CIA when they committed some of their worst human rights absuses of the Cold War, too. This podcast sounds really interesting, I'll definitely check it out.
Also, speaking of Rachel Madow podcasts about forgotten American political scandals: have you listened to Ultra yet? It's fascinating and really well done, if more than slightly terrifying.
(Continuing the long proud tradition of someone asking for the opinions of a specific group, and someone not in that group replying anyways...)
...I think what happened is by 2022, Elon had fallen into such a bubble he genuinely convinced himself his alt-right ideas were super popular, and the only reason social media tended to lean left was because right-wing voices were being "surpressed". I think he honestly believed if he went free speech absolutist and removed all restrictions, right-wing voices would naturally dominate.
Of course, that didn't happen, because the right-wing is a minority that's shrinking every day. But instead of realizing he'd been wrong, he deluded himself into believing all the left-leaning folk had to be bots, because there's no way the far right's the minority, right? Right?!
Does anyone know how you go about making a new post in a magazine here on kbin? (Sorry for the dumb noob question, mods, please move / delete this if this isn't the right place for this!)
I know all the #fediverse can work together and talk to each other, but inasmuch as it matters, I'm rooting for #kbin to come out on top of the #RedditMigration. I really like the blend of the thread interface for more formal, large-scale engagement threads, with the microblogging tab for more casual posts. It just makes sense to put them together. This is neat.
Edit: I wonder if people are having trouble viewing replies on others' posts? I've gotten so many that restate the same idea.
@harmonea Agreed. I also like the user interface better, it feels more intuitive to me. (Or maybe I'm just used to this layout coming from old.reddit, lol)
This goes out to all the homies that don't have the time/energy to moderate, and to the ones that do that would like ideas (If there's been posts about this already then I'm srry)
@MishaMouse Just as a heads-up, the first few episodes are a little slow, since the writers need to do some worldbuilding to get all their ducks in order before kicking off the plot. The advice for new fans is generally to give it a chance through at least the first four episodes. If you still don't like it by then, it's probably not for you-- but hopefully, by then you'll be hooked just like the rest of us!
Agreed. We know so little about Venus compared to Mars despite it being slightly closer to us. That whole drama with the phosphene gas a few years back really revealed how much there is to learn there.
I also love that one of the serious ways scientists have proposed for colonizing Venus is to build cities that float in its clouds at the altitude where the atmospheric pressure / temperature are roughly the same as Earth's. It's simultaneously batshit insane and hoplessly romantic.
The onscreen text appeared Tuesday beneath split-screen footage of President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump, who had been charged with federal crimes hours earlier.
Apologies if this is the wrong place for this. A few subs opened up and were discussing the possibility of extending the blackouts. The majority wanted the blackout to end to keep the influx of content. That was to be expected....
This is a huge problem on reddit as a whole, IMO. The whole website is chock-full of doomers, cynics, and pessimists who are quick to say why every piece of good news is bad, actually, why every attempt at change is doomed to fail, why there's no hope for anyone anywhere trying to do anything, and we should all just lie down and wait for the sweet release of death. It's universal, across almost all the big subs, regardless of subject matter.
I'm not sure why reddit ended up that way, but it was both exhausting and depressing. That doomer shit is contagious, spend too much time immersed in it and you catch yourself thinking that way too. And, well, it's just sad to see everyone around you being sad.
One thing I'm loving about Lemmy / KBin so far is that it's not like that. Maybe it's just because they're still small and new, but people seem less nihilistic here. Not polyanna-ish toxic-positivity optimistic either. Just... normal. It's so refreshing. God, I hope this place stays this way!
The new Strategic Tree-based Instrument for Combat, or STIC, is the latest armament to join the Raytheon Family. After seeing the devestating effectiveness of sticks on the recent battles between global superpowers, defense analysts correctly recognized a gap in the US armed forces stick-based combat capabilities.
A team of top Raytheon designers has formulated the Strategic Tree-based Instrument for Combat - STIC - to arm and equip US soldiers. STIC is a 7-foot long, 3-inch diameter, pierce of solid American oak, hand-carved for maximum effectiveness. Its density, combined with length, heft, and durability, make it an excellent combat weapon in modern peer-to-peer combat. At 7 feet long, the STIC outranges comparable Chinese & Russian sticks by nearly 2 feet, and is much more resistant to breaking.
Several variants of STIC are already in various stages of testing:
STIC-2: a pair of shortened STICs, optimized for dual-wielding
STIC-ER: the extended range variant of STIC, 12 feet long
STIC-N: the naval variant, made of driftwood to prevent the wood from sinking
STIC-L: made of bamboo wood; it is 60% lighter, perfect for airmobile infantry
STIC-AP: sharpened at the end, able to penetrate T-90 armor at close ranges
If Einstein is correct, and World War IV is fought with sticks and stones, Raytheon's STIC will be there to arm American soldiers.
Amid NATO divisions, U.S. backs incremental step for Ukraine’s entry (www.washingtonpost.com)
The United States is giving tentative backing to a plan that would remove barriers to Ukraine’s entry into NATO without setting a timeline for its admission, a modest step that American officials hope can bridge divisions among member nations over Kyiv’s path to joining the transatlantic military alliance....
What is a useful tip a new lemmy/kbin users should know?
I'm sure many new users are curious.
NATO meeting fails to approve first defence plans since Cold War (www.reuters.com)
NATO defence ministers failed on Friday to reach agreement over new plans on how the alliance would respond to a Russian attack, and one diplomat blamed Turkey for blocking them.
YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
YouTube is running an experiment asking some users to disable their ad blockers or pay for a premium subscription, or they will not be allowed to watch videos.
Bag Man: A Rachel Maddow podcast from MSNBC (www.msnbc.com)
This is an excellent podcast with just seven episodes. It talks about a very little discussed topic: Nixon's corrupt vice president. I've never even heard the name Spiro Agnew before, but he got very close to becoming president himself and he was insanely corrupt. What's interesting is that they did extensive research for this...
Twitter has suspended the accounts of a prominent Tesla and Elon Musk critic, PlainSite founder Aaron Greenspan (www.cnbc.com)
Before he bought Twitter, Musk remarked, "I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means."
What are some communities you'd like to see on Lemmy that don't exist yet?
This goes out to all the homies that don't have the time/energy to moderate, and to the ones that do that would like ideas (If there's been posts about this already then I'm srry)
CNN's coverage of Trump indictment after Chris Licht firing shows echoes of more partisan Jeff Zucker era (www.foxnews.com)
Which is your favourite scifi TV show?
For me, it would be The Expanse, and Dark...
Which is your favorite planet and why?
I would choose Mars, mostly because of all the plans that we have for it. Imagine having people actually living there, it sounds insane!
Fox News Chyron Calls Biden a ‘Wannabe Dictator’ (www.nytimes.com)
The onscreen text appeared Tuesday beneath split-screen footage of President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump, who had been charged with federal crimes hours earlier.
Disconcerting responses on Reddit over blackout
Apologies if this is the wrong place for this. A few subs opened up and were discussing the possibility of extending the blackouts. The majority wanted the blackout to end to keep the influx of content. That was to be expected....
Worms
What do you like most about worms? I like how they don't need to worry about their wives leaving them.