I believe most don’t officially

Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. That’s Good Omens

I actually like censored swear words in written text. At least when they are censored enough that you can’t tell what the swearword is, but you know the intention behind it.

Deliberate misspellings are obnoxious though

The king wants everyone to make a ghibly avatar and thank him for it.

I don’t think Lemmy tracks your views. So it can’t exclude them from your feed.

If you sort by hot or hop few hours, you should get more new posts. And stop refreshing the feed.

So now, rushing to implement useless AI workflows has directly killed patients? Fuck them!

How has this even gotten FDA approval in the first place? Bribery?

They are loud. And not really that much better than a broom and a rake

They might start a big grassroots movement. Artificially. You might call it a turfgrass movement. Maybe use a genericized brand name. That seems fitting

The city should

Obviously DEI training isn’t to blame.

But the point about a new tree-trimming policy seems logical at first glance. Does anyone know if it is valid?

Russia does a lot of terrible things. Invading countries. Killing POWs and civilians.

Domestically they have assassinated opposition leaders, tortured prisoners to death and persecuted members of the LGBT+ community.

But criminalizing being an asshole? I don’t really care that much.

There definitely is such a thing as sex with a child. At least if you count teenagers as children.

If you are within the bounds of the standard creepiness rule, don’t have a position of power and if all parties consent, it’s definitely sex. And that’s not uncommon. Even if many people would like to pretend it is.

Also, if a teenager convincingly lies about their age, I wouldn’t call it rape either.

Not that that has much to do with what’s in the Epstein files.

The Great Depression that happened almost 100 years ago? That definitely must have been caused by a court decision that happened half a century later

I’d definitely like to see more social housing projects. But for such a legal mandate, the government would also have to pay for it. That means rising taxes. I’m okay with that.

But at the moment, we are quite far from that. I’d already be pretty happy if the government would stop selling their governmental buildings. Especially to foreign investors.

Even though Russia pretends it isn’t, it is a country at war. Censorship is pretty normal during wartime.

And making fun of disabled people isn’t okay. Whether the country is at war or not. Maybe not quite not-okay enough for prison. But I can’t say that I’m terribly upset

If the housing market gets so unprofitable that people aren’t building enough apartments, even though enough land is zoned for building, prices are too low.
That just leads to homelessness.

If you all think landlords make that much money, why don’t you guys all get together and form a housing association? In fact there are plenty of housing associations that sell shares.

With building and repair costs at an all time high, being a landlord isn’t as profitable as it used to be.

And the high interest rates make it even less profitable. It’s more attractive to invest elsewhere. And impossible to pay off a mortgage with rent.

If more people were able to build apartments, we would be able to reduce the housing shortage and rent would go down.

The one thing landlords do that I would consider theft is lobbying (bribing) for NIMBY policies. Especially zoning laws.

The instance is the part after the @. They host users and communities. Admins manage the instance.

The community is the thing you subscribe to. Moderators manage the community.

I’m pretty new.

Lemmy is great. It doesn’t have as many active hyper specific communities as reddit. But there are still plenty of active communities.
There is no attention based algorithm. But the more basic sortings work well enough. I already spend too much time here.

I tried mastodon and Twitter a few years back. I still have absolutely no idea how that whole microblogging thing is supposed to work. Am I just supposed to scream into the void? Same thing with pixelfed.

If people link peertube videos from Lemmy, peertube works well. But the feed needs work. I don’t really care about the topic of the video. So the filter by topic isn’t that useful. I’d like to filter by language. And then find well researched videos by someone who is enthusiastic about a topic. Any topic. I don’t know if there simply aren’t that many or if I just can’t find them.

I think attention based algorithms could help retain new users. I think there are many who try fediverse platforms and just don’t stay long. And if we get more users that stay longer, we get more content, and then niches can form.

To not lose current users, and just because of mental health, it would probably be better if the attention based feeds could be turned off in the settings.

Yes. My thoughts and feelings matter. But if it’s simulated with a few shortcuts, your thoughts and feelings might not exist.

Maybe all other humans are only about as well-simulated as current LLMs.