It's also the exact same reason I'm not surprised News Corp is doing it. The Rupert Murdoch tabloid trash media conglomerate. The Australian national division news.com.au has hard-hitting headlines like this example from today:
Macca's(*) brings back popular item
(* Macca's is the Australian nickname for McDonalds. McDonalds loves using it as a brand mechanism to reaffirm its brand personality of familiarity, casualness and fun)
I've yet to see any news outlets deal well with any of the times they have stumbled on stories in my spheres. The more context you need to understand the importance of the problem being reported on, the worse the articles will be from career journalists. The only good articles were about a workplace drug scandal; that was very fun to watch unfold from inside and outside. Career journos have nailed writing for that topic.
Having said that, I think current events reporting will suffer the most for this development though, because they rely on mostly new information that doesn't have consensus yet. It will be very easy for ChatGPT to replace a number in a tragedy with information from a previous similar incident or a wildly bad source. Oops, that protest now only had 20,000 attendees instead of 200,000!
Holy shit. It cycles through a bunch of animation presets like a giant fucking set of high beam Christmas lights or a modded out Nissan Z.
In not even going to link a video, because it comes dangerously close to the photosensitive seizure threshold in some parts. Also because the video was in a tweet.
They got done by one of their own contractors who had a bunch of conduct complaints. Maybe they shouldn't have outsourced that particular piece of government work?
Every time you perform an action like commenting, you expect it to maybe update a few things. The post will increase the number of comments so it updates that, your comment is added to the list so those links are created, your comment is written to the database itself, etc. Each action has a cost, let's say it costs a dollar every update. Then each comment would cost $3, $1 for each action.
What if instead of doing 3 things each time you posted a comment, it did 1300 things. And it did the same for everyone else posting a comment. Each comment now costs $1300. You would run out of cash pretty quickly unless you were a billionaire. Using computing power is like spending cash, and lemmy.world are not billionaires.
Is that so! I had always heard the pipes blamed for the cumulative effects, I was under the impression they didn't know about the connection between lead and dementia until much later. But it was just the Italian love of sweet wine all along. I guess I can't name a more iconic duo.
Yeah, I just went down a really fun rabbithole, thanks for that!
"So many poisons are employed to force wine to suit our taste—and we are surprised that it is not wholesome!" - Pliny the Elder, Natural History (XIV.xxv.130), c. 78 CE
You don't need a wire bristle brush to do this. If you have a smaller brush head for your vacuum which fits the space, that will work fine. The last place I lived I had the same vacuum problem, but I had an old half-broken hairbrush I used to give the steps or wherever a quick once-over before vacuuming. It worked great. Silicone / Thermoplastic Elastomer / Rubber pet brushes work even better. The Kong Zoom Groom is great at this, but I'm sure you can find a cheaper version from similar materials.
0.6 nozzle and still got decent detail. Ive been having a ton of fun and productivity with the big nozzle but can’t wait to go back to 0.4 which I haven’t used in a long time, or to try out the 0.2
I love it. A little glazing to sell the enamel effect, maybe a little bit of yellowing here and there for colour correction like they do with implants, and this would be amazing.
Ooh, you could even put a little dab of silver or gold for a filling on one. Like some sort of kintsugi.
We've experienced this where I am, and I agree. Mixed demographic high density is necessary to prevent the stigmatisation that comes from living in designated ghettos.
It does look like they're thinking about these things to sone degree though, thankfully:
40% of the units designated for tenants earning 30% of the Denver area’s median income.
I am very happy that there are efforts to help the homeless though. I hope it is to help, and not just hide away.
I'm personally a fan of Singapore's rules which make 5% of all new development social housing.
It actually seems to be central to the point. If I take your account as the truth, it appears that by using the dislike functionality to leverage your personal UI extension side effects, you have actually had the effect of delegitimising this person's contribution. Because downvotes on kbin also affect everyone's content sorting.
This person may have felt harassed by those actions, even if it wasn't your intent. While you have asked for us to excuse your actions as childish retaliation and an attempt to defend your communities from bad actors, you have also cast the exact same actions from the other person as being "troll powermod".
That seems problematic. If i were in your position, I would look at modifying the tampermonkey extension to provide a hide function which only affects your client. And also retracting downvotes which it created, as a show of goodwill. I hope you can both get past whatever it is that happened here.
Downvotes not having reasons attached allows for a lot of room for misinterpretation and uniformed assumptions. Instead of hiding the downvotes, perhaps we could all just be more mindful of how we use them.
I hope you all have a better time from here on out.
On the other hand, if one of the actual spammers were to just block downvoters and their downvotes, this would allow them to more easily evade detection as bad faith content creators. It's hard to say how that should be remedied beyond more moderation, which would require more unpaid mod labour and time. And relies on moderators always making fair and sensible decisions.
People and communities are tricky. Why do we all got to be so damn tricky?
All the time. There are things many people do which cause me (and others) physical pain because of a medical condition. They don't mean to cause me harm, but because they have a mental model of everyone sharing similar abilities as themselves, it simply doesn't occur to them that the one small thing they're doing has negative consequences for others. It's a monkeysphere thing, it's nobody's fault.
I get past it by remembering that I am also incapable of remembering everyone's needs at all times. I'm sure there are many things I have done which seemed completely mundane at the time, but affected someone else negatively. No matter how hard I tried.
The people who still do things like casually block the entire sidewalk with a heavy rental e-bike still pisses me off. But, not for as long as it used to. And if it's something I can fix for someone else who can't, I'll try to do that too.
I also try hard to ensure I actively remember other people's needs where I can. If I can create less suffering, I think that's a good thing to try for.
To be brief, I have a painful condition where I injure myself by standing or walking for too long. If I overdo it I can be (and have been, many times) confined to bed for days.
It isn't something you would ever really think about if you weren't in my position, but society really assumes you can stand for as long as you need to. Seating is a "convenience" for 90% of people, not a necessity.
Public spaces will frequently only a couple of seats, which will already be taken by others like me. An invite to a random bar by a friend can be a huge problem, queueing is even more hellish than for most people, kitchens are built with the assumption you will be standing to cook... limited standing ability has much wider reaching consequences than you would ever think.
Anytime someone sits in a seat just for convenience instead of need is painful, because there are usually very few. Anytime someone holds an event and does not organise for seating means I have to leave. Others plan routes around cost and walking time, I do it by seating opportunities. Even something tiny like parents letting their bored kids climb and play all over the only bench in an art gallery means I will be in more pain, because the gallery designers assume you stand to view the works.
I don't get out much. One of the worst parts is that you can't prevent your mind from linking physical pain to all activity. When peak covid hit and shops and parks etc. barred off seating areas to "prevent people from congregating", that was not a good time for me.
Sorry, didn't mean to unload, that just sort of spilled out. It looks like I have some self-care to do.
Walking stick I have used for a long time, but it creates asymmetry if you aren't thorough enough about swapping sides with long-term use. Been there, done that. I still use them in airports or other places where i know I'm going to have a really bad time. But truth be told, I hate them. Losing the use of a hand is really really irritating. And then when starts raining and you use an umbrella, you lose use of both hands. Infuriating.
Walkers are probably ok, but I can actually walk very quickly most of the time if I'm being careful with my standing time budget, and the extra bulk makes it harder to carry more stuff. Which is frequently the reason I'm out of the house, picking up shopping etc. So a portable seat would be a win, but not without cost, so probably a draw overall.
I have considered a chairless chair, and it's spin-offs. But I have a suspicion that the weight distribution required for 'sitting' might create more problems than it solves in my specific case, and I can't just borrow one to test that theory. The thought of how people will react is exhausting too.
I was going to buy a collapsible telescopic stool, and I may still do so, but it can only address part of the overall problem. For example, if you're at a social event and everyone else is standing... you end up just being stuck there at crotch-height. Very awkward.
The best solution is the social contract. Everyone benefits from having more seating options available of various heights and configurations in public places. Notice how often at a gathering people eventually end up sitting to chat, because standing for a long time is no fun for anyone!
Sounds like I'm not going to Seattle then! Thanks for the warning on that, i would have assumed Seattle had a big cafe-sitting culture. Did Frasier lie to me about that too?
It’s like society views homeless folks as a cancer and deploys hostile design as an immune response to try and get rid of them rather than trying to help them.
Yep. GDP ROI or GTFO. Disability rates for those below the poverty line are huge and it's ignored. Businesses would usually rather choose a different candidate than change anything about their set-up, so people can't afford to eat properly or get their meds or alter their spaces for their needs... and then their condition deteriorates further and they end up even more undesirable to employers. It's a vicious cycle.
News Corp using AI to produce 3,000 Australian local news stories a week (www.theguardian.com)
Twitter neighbours complain of lit-up ‘X’ sign working at high intensity (www.theguardian.com)
New logo for Elon Musk’s social network strobes over San Francisco neighbourhood, prompting complaints and mobilising building inspectors
Pentagon hit by ‘critical compromise’ of US air force communications – report (www.theguardian.com)
Forbes reports claim that engineer at Arnold air force base in Tennessee had taken home government radio technologies
Lemmy World is down once again.
Ugh.
Roman-Egyptian mosaic glass plate, 1st century BCE or AD
How the hell do I clean/vacuum carpeted stairs?
I know this is a cleaning request than a home improvement one, but I would appreciate some advice....
i made a teeathcup and saucer and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out (lemmy.world)
0.6 nozzle and still got decent detail. Ive been having a ton of fun and productivity with the big nozzle but can’t wait to go back to 0.4 which I haven’t used in a long time, or to try out the 0.2
Are you team tree frog, or curlew crew? We're looking for Australia's favourite animal sound (www.abc.net.au)
The article is about finding Australia’s favorite animal sound....
Denver plans to convert 194-unit, $26M hotel into city’s next homeless shelter (www.denver7.com)
The city would start leasing the complex through its Department of Housing Stability (HOST) on Sept. 1.
Is there anything that can be done about troll powermods?
I logged into Kbin today to see 18 notifications where the same guy banned me from all of their magazines for downvoting them....
Do you ever despair at the apparent lack of regard for the "social contract" by so many?
In this case, I’m referring to the notion that we all make minor sacrifices in our daily interactions in service of a “greater good” for everyone....