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If you like international and eclectic news, come and join me at @worldwithoutus (Link for Lemmy = worldwithoutus).

I've also started helping out at @worldnews, (Link for Lemmy = worldnews), @movies, (Lemmy = movies), and am a ghost at @13thfloor (Lemmy = 13th Floor).

Mars Express is a smart and stylish addition to the sci-fi noir canon (www.theverge.com)

Mars Express is a futuristic detective story about the autonomy of synthetic beings — which is to say, it’s the latest in a long line of sci-fi influenced by Ghost in the Shell and Blade Runner. But while its premise may be familiar, the movie makes up for it with style and energy. The debut feature from director Jérémie...

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Cool! Hopefully it will come here too.

I've only just heard of it but it looks really good. I like the OG Ghost in the Shell a lot so they sort of had me at that comparison, but the premise sounds super interesting.

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I think you might be right. I didn't really like The Hobbit and this kind of feels like a bridge too far. Will probably still watch it though.

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@maculata I can't stop laughing!

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"Fetch my catheter"

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Rule 3.

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In what way (good or bad)?

Will I ever be seen as truly British?

My family immigrated to the UK from Poland when I was six. I’m 20 now, speak much better English than Polish and feel like this is my land/culture. However I have a Polish first and last name, Polish passport and “unique” accent everyone picks up on, so despite this I’m usually perceived as an outsider. It makes me...

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We all agree London is cosmopolitan.

I think they were objecting to the phrase "few and far between".

You really can't use it to describe a situation of almost 2 in 5.

If 2 in every 5 cars you see are red you can't say red cars are few and far between.

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I'm usually the only poster in the one I created, but I'm happy knowing a few people read it.

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There's a really cool one I used to love called The 13th Floor that used to be active and then one week the mod and his friends disappeared.

After the mod was gone for a month I took over moderation to protect it from spam or deletion, but I have other projects so can't really do it justice. I would love it if it got a new lease on life.

Link for Lemmy.

Link for kbin.

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I mod 4, but only the smallest one (worldwithoutus) is actually mine.

It has about 240 people now, so according to the 90:9:1 rule (out of every 100 people 1 posts and 9 interact) there should be 2 people posting but in reality it's not at that point yet! However, I like doing it.

The other 3 are bigger but not any more active.

very small user bases

If you're talking about the stats, you're probably only able to see how many accounts from your own instance are subscribers.

Kbin is kind of weird because the software is way less developed than Lemmy and it has regular outages, so a lot of people signed up and then left, a lot of communities got abandoned due to inactive mods and spam problems. So something like the kbin worldnews community I mod has literally thousands of inactive subscribers.

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Ah, that makes more sense if it was meant for small44. The only reason I thought your numbers were out was because I thought you were talking to me about my communities.

Geez, that’s… not good

It's not ideal, and kbin did fork. In my opinion it was not the dev's fault, it wasn't even really a beta when he suddenly got swamped with reddit refugees. But I believe in his vision.

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Hey, neat! Thank you! It's an "imagination engine" - the original mod @Arotrios kbin.social wrote a detailed description here.

I never really fully got my head around it but it seems to be a combination of art, poetry, music, cinema, mythology, etc and a lot of the posts in it bounce off other posts in it.

I don't think Lemmy uses hashtags but it still gives you an idea:

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P.S you have to scroll back 6 months fo start seeing all the posts that aren't me.

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That's exciting!

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Sealions gonna sealion.

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It's caused by a very common cognitive bias called the Just World Hypothesis.

It's tha same thing that makes people ask cancer patients what they "did" to get cancer.

Everyone wants to believe that their own good fortune is deserved and the corollary that unfortunate people deserve misfortune.

I hope I'm wrong but I think you're going to find that it's not generational.

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Not an American myself but I remember in like 2016 people were saying you can't have Bernie because he's too old.

And now I'm like wtf they totally could have had Bernie.

I mean look at the candidates now. Out of the potential old men leaders Sanders is the only one I would trust behind the wheel of a car.

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White phosphorus is restricted under international law. If it is being used in Gaza that is a war crime.

The usage of white phosphorus is restricted under international humanitarian law. Although there can be lawful uses, it must never be fired at, or in close proximity to, a populated civilian area or civilian infrastructure, due to the high likelihood that the fires and smoke it causes spread. Such attacks, which fail to distinguish between civilians and civilian objects and fighters and military objectives, are indiscriminate and thus prohibited. - Amnesty International

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Death from giving birth number seems awfully low

Seemed slightly on the high side to me, but within the bounds of normal. This is like a medical version of the overton window, I guess.

Here in NZ it's around 7 per 100,000. I get the impression the US is an outlier on this particular stat.

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This "warning them beforehand" fig leaf only works if you think of everyone as fit healthy and mobile.

Anyone with disabled people, chronically ill people, terminally ill people and elderly people in their own lives knows it's not that simple.

Most of us don't have people physically weakened by famine in our own lives but it doesn't take Einstein to know this is a problem too. And from NGOs we know there's a lot of parentless children and a disproportionate number of child amputees in the mix as well.

If your response to this many civillians being killed is "it's their fault for not getting away" you need to examine your logic, I think.

Fish are shrinking around the world. Here’s why scientists are worried. | Figuring out the reason why has big implications, with billions of people depending on seafood for protein. (wapo.st)

The pair restarted their work in Massachusetts with about 400 brook trout reared for up to eight months in tanks. The scientists kept some of the fish in waters set at 59 degrees Fahrenheit while others at 68 degrees Fahrenheit. All were fed the same diet....

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@Neon yeah I think you need to actually read the article before you @ me about this stuff. You're constructing a massive straw man involving embargos and local companies that has nothing to do with the real situation.

The Feedback report takes a different perspective, recommending the Norwegian government to “halt the growth of Norway’s salmon farming sector” and “ensure the domestic farmed salmon industry does not undermine its global development goals.”

The NGO based its calculations on public commercial data and company reports by the four companies that together supply close to 100% of the feed used in Norwegian salmon farming: Mowi, Dutch-owned Skretting, U.S.-based Cargill and Denmark-based BioMar. According to Feedback’s analysis, all of these companies sourced fish oil made from small pelagics caught in FAO’s Major Fishing Area 34, located off West Africa.

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