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- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
A couple of months ago I wrote a single comment
The modlog shows you were having quite a spat with some mods 5 months ago.
Nothing else
Again, the modlog shows otherwise.
https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&userId=111123
Why bring this up now, five months later?
- Comment on Ding, fries ain't done 3 weeks ago:
It’s a cropped frame from this video, right around the 1:31 timestamp. Here’s a screenshot I took on mobile. Not the best quality, but if you have urgent memes to make it’ll do.
- Comment on Why did it take so damn long for humanity to "learn" how to draw/paint realistic images? 3 weeks ago:
something as simple as a variety of colors took hundreds of years of technological advancement
If anyone is looking for a rabbit hole to go down, the history of pigments is a great one.
- Comment on Weather in New York City - December to January 3 weeks ago:
Winter weather on the northeast US coast is a battle between cold, dry air blowing in from the northwest, and (relatively) warm, humid air from the Gulf Stream coming up from the Caribbean. The weather is determined by which of those two forces is “winning” at a given moment, and it can swing abruptly when the balance shifts.
Expect cold, windy, rainy weather. But don’t be surprised to get snow and ice if those Canadians send a strong cold front.
The comment comparing New York to Scotland is a good one. Dress like you are going to Aberdeen and you should be just fine in New York.
- Comment on It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple? 4 weeks ago:
That’s my understanding. Though I have only visited the Kartoffel regions myself.
- Comment on It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple? 4 weeks ago:
Some German speakers say “Erdapfel” which is literally “earth apple.”
- Comment on Why do residential skyscrapers always seem to include balconies that never get used? 4 weeks ago:
In some places that is a strategy to satisfy zoning requirements. The builder has to provide a minimum amount of outdoor area per dwelling unit. They could create a large ground-level courtyard, or they can create a bunch of tiny balconies that sum up to the same total area. The ladder strategy allows a larger building to exist on the same lot.
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- Comment on Is 24/7 a common idiom throughout the world? 1 month ago:
Your first point is technically correct, but 24-hour days and 7-day weeks are a de facto global standard at this point in history. There are outliers, like the Javanese 5-day week or the experimental 5-day Soviet calendar, but they are few and far between.
- Comment on Reggae is christian rock, but cool. 1 month ago:
- Comment on Anyone else having trouble with links not showing as read? 1 month ago:
It’s a known bug in Sync with Lemmy 0.19.5:
https://github.com/laurencedawson/sync-for-lemmy/issues/539 - Comment on Do all there former Republican leaders endorsing Harris do her any good? 1 month ago:
Hillary lost because she didn’t do enough to incentivize people to vote for her.
Hilary got more than enough votes. She received 2.9M more votes than Trump. Her problem was that her support was much too concentrated in a small number of states. The Electoral College math punishes candidates in that situation.
- Comment on American tourists visiting the EU, what do you think of it? 2 months ago:
Your last paragraph is a good one. I fell in love with Sweden when I was there. Then I talked to some teenagers and they said they really wanted to live in America. It caught me off guard. I didn’t understand why they would want to leave a place that seemed so safe, secure, and comfortable. They said they wanted more flexibility and opportunity. Sure, they could get a stable living-wage job and keep it for their whole career, but in America they thought they would have more chances to try new things and reinvent themselves.
Whether our perceptions of each other’s countries are correct or not, for all of us the grass certainly looked greener on the other side of the fence.
- Comment on Why is quakers.social defederated? 2 months ago:
At one time they had open registrations, so spammers were taking advantage and setting up shop there. It looks like the instance now has a sign-up application. I have unblocked them. Thanks for noticing!
This is a good opportunity to remind users about our Fediseer profile: https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/sh.itjust.works
We try to keep our Censures list on Fediseer up to date with the sh.itjust.works instance blocklist. That way we can leave notes in Fediseer explaining why each instance is blocked. - Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It’s all about conservation of energy.
In your satellite scenario, the sum of kinetic and potential energy must remain fixed. This means higher orbits are slower orbits. In fact this is observable in man-made satellites that are moved to higher or lower orbits. There is no free ride.
In the “heat death” of the universe scenario, the total amount of energy in the universe is conserved (it is finite) but the volume of the universe keeps growing. On a long enough time scale the universe’s average energy per unit volume approaches zero.
- Comment on Is there is any modern Reddit alternative on the fediverse? 2 months ago:
Also lotide, if you’re into a minimalist text-only interface.
For a FOSS but not federated option there’s Discuit.
- Comment on Finding recent post comparing lemmy clients on how they view markup etc 2 months ago:
I think this is the post you want:
https://lemmy.world/post/18159539 - Comment on How do I get in touch with the creator of lemmyworld or the one who was the first to create the fediverse? 3 months ago:
I think the answer to your question has several layers. I’ll start with the most general layer and get more specific from there…
The ActivityPub protocol, which Lemmy and Mastodon (and other services) use to communicate, is published by W3C and was developed by a group of people. This page on W3C includes a list of authors. It looks like at least one author has a Mastodon account; I’m curious to see if mentioning them here will federate to Mastodon and get a response: @cwebber@octodon.social
The main developers of the Lemmy software are @dessalines@lemmy.ml and @nutomic@lemmy.ml.
Each Lemmy instance (there are >600 of them) was started by a different person. This is usually (but not always) the first admin listed in the sidebar on that instance’s homepage. Sometimes the founder is not the most active admin; in many cases they have recruited others to help in order to spread the work and reduce the chance that the instance dies when the founder has some unforeseen life event. Here are a few people who started some of the larger instances:
@dessalines@lemmy.ml (mentioned above)
@ruud@lemmy.world
@sunaurus@lemm.ee
@TheDude@sh.itjust.works
@db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
@smorks@lemmy.ca (took over that instance from a previous owner) - Comment on Can someone define "liberal" (in its use as an insult) for me? 3 months ago:
I think others have answered your question better than me, but I’ll chip in my two cents anyway.
The definition depends on who is saying it.
Within mainstream US politics, Republicans use “liberal” as a catch-all pejorative for any person or group further to the left of themselves. It is usually aimed at Democrats but could also refer to Greens, communists, etc.
The irony is that, in a broader political context, Republicans are very much liberals, too. People outside the US political mainstream who sneer about “liberals” are usually referring to this larger group, which basically encompasses the capitalist status quo in the “western” world.
- Comment on Electoral College and The Numbers | USA question 3 months ago:
If you win a state by one vote (offer not valid in Nebraska and Maine), you get all that state’s electoral votes.
I’m going to pile on to your good answer.
Since you only need 51% to win all of a state’s electoral votes, any additional votes beyond 51% could be considered excess votes that are not helpful. The system awards candidates whose supporters are spread around, and punishes candidates whose supporters are heavily concentrated in a handful of states.
For example, in 2016 Hilary Clinton got 4,269,978 more votes in California than Trump. That’s 4,269,977 more than she needed to win the state. Meanwhile, she lost Michigan by 10,704 votes, lost Pennsylvania by 44,292 votes, lost Florida by 112,912, etc. Hell, she lost Texas by less than a million votes. If Hilary’s supporters in California had been spread around in other states she would have won the national election easily.
- Comment on How come as of today I can't access politics@lemmy.ml from lemmy.world? 3 months ago:
There are so many politics communities, but before you mentioned this I didn’t realize how are concentrated they are on .ml and .world. These look like the most-subscribed USA and World politics communities that aren’t on .ml or .world:
!politics@hexbear.net
!usa@midwest.social
!worldpolitics@lemmy.ca
!politics@sh.itjust.works - Comment on How come as of today I can't access politics@lemmy.ml from lemmy.world? 3 months ago:
The community was removed from lemmy.ml. here’s the reason in the modlog:
Unmoderated duplicate of /c/usa . Any world-related can use /c/worldnews
- Comment on Not Spam, ON TOPIC: Fidget Toys for Adults, 1911 3D Printed Small Pistol Toys, Stress Relief Pistol Toys Suitable for Relieving ADHD, Anxiety, Suitable Toys for Friends Adults and Kids Best Gift 3 months ago:
Imagine your kids get accustomed to playing with these, then someday they find mom’s real 9mm that looks just like the toy.
- Comment on Could President Biden fully legalize cannabis before he leaves office? 3 months ago:
You might like this fun article in The Atlantic from a week ago: Congress Accidentally Legalized Weed Six Years Ago
Here’s an archive.is link for those who prefer it.
- Comment on Sadly, must report our favorite communities asfsdfgdeshgsed and awdeafesdges for spam (inshallah a boy) 5 months ago:
Thanks for the heads-up. They’re gone now.
- Comment on Mods, what tips or etiquette do you recommend for reporting? 5 months ago:
Tangentially related: if you see something that needs to be addressed now, like CSAM or gore, notify an instance admin via Matrix. That tool can send push notifications, so you’re more likely to get a prompt response. Some instances also have public Matrix chats you can use.
You can find the Matrix account info for Lemmy users by clicking the “Send Secure Message” button in a user’s profile.
- Comment on Did the premise of an entity approaching you only when it's not being viewed originate with Doctor Who's Weeping Angels? 6 months ago:
The ghosts in Super Mario Brothers 3 (1988) would pursue Mario only when he looked away. When he faced them they would stop and hide their faces.
- Comment on Reactionary memes when sorting by new 6 months ago:
Lemmy is also finicky about when certain actions federate. If you watch the modlog you will sometimes see a user be banned, unbanned, and then immediately rebanned. That’s a mod or admin trying to get content removal to federate out to other instances.
That happened in the case of the spammer here ~3 hours ago. Their content was removed from their home instance but it stayed up in this community. It’s gone now, though.
- Comment on Protocol for purging inactive moderators? 6 months ago:
I’m definitely interested in hear other people’s opinions. Posting something in the Agora seems like a good idea. If nobody in this thread does it then maybe I’ll put something up myself in a few days.
For now, @imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works’s suggestion is the way to go: PM one of us admins on a case-by-case basis and we’ll help out.
In the long term, maybe we should set some criteria for identifying dead or unmodertaed communities and locking them? Our instance has hundreds communities, many of which are hardly used and likely abandoned by their creators. I made an effort some months ago to find active mods for the busiest communities, and remove communities with no assigned moderator. I’m not sure what to do with the rest of them, if anything. They aren’t causing immediate problems. And confirming the activity status of every mod is one of those dull chores that has lingered at the bottom of my to-do list.
