rimu
@rimu@piefed.social
- Comment on How likely do you think there will be a run on the banks? 5 days ago:
One time, in 2008. It was an envelope, tho.
- Comment on How to mute posts containing certain keywords on Lemmy? 1 week ago:
During onboarding of a new account, https://piefed.social asks you this:
... and sets up an appropriate keyword filter based on your answer.
- Comment on When we explain to other people how our capitalist system works and they recoil in horror 2 weeks ago:
There is more than one alternative and some of them involve having capitalism...
- Comment on When a country is ruled by a dictator, does it matter which party he belongs to? 2 weeks ago:
I read the whole thing and the constitution of China.
I didn't post the link to refute anything, just providing information.
- Comment on When a country is ruled by a dictator, does it matter which party he belongs to? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on What my front page looks like with no-politics content filter on 3 weeks ago:
PieFed, which federates with Lemmy so you can get all the same content, just added a new step to the onboarding process which sets up a Trump and Musk filter based on your preferences:
- Comment on Am I the only one that think the new bitcoincash community is full of bots? 4 weeks ago:
I appreciate them clustering together on a single instance, much easier to block.
- Comment on Microplastics in tea bags 5 weeks ago:
I had trouble believing you at first so I hunted down the study to verify. You're completely right!
- Comment on Inside Inventor Simone Giertz’s Small Los Angeles Home, 58sqm/630sqft 1 month ago:
I love how she's just casually living with all these things she's made each of which could potentially turn into a multimillion dollar business.
- Comment on Inside Inventor Simone Giertz’s Small Los Angeles Home, 58sqm/630sqft 1 month ago:
I had low expectations of this video but it turned out awesome. Give it a chance!
- Comment on Is Threads fully integrated with the Fediverse? 1 month ago:
No it is not. Threads has barely dipped their toes into the water - there are all kinds of limitations. I can't remember the details but it's something like "we can follow a threads user but they can't see any of our replies to their posts". It's barely functioning.
- Comment on The White Lotus Season 3 | Official Teaser 2 months ago:
Oh hell yeah this is gonna be carnage.
- Comment on If I wanted to make and distribute videos without profit motivate, but also with no or minimum expensive, what would be the best platform? 2 months ago:
Yeah, that'll get big fast so you'll need some service that can give you a publicly-accessible URL to your files. There are endless discussions on the internet about cheaper alternatives to S3... Consider Backblaze - https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/pricing
- Comment on If I wanted to make and distribute videos without profit motivate, but also with no or minimum expensive, what would be the best platform? 2 months ago:
PeerTube is the obvious one.
Shameless promo time:
An alternative is to make a community on PieFed and set it so only moderators can post. PieFed is Lemmy-compatible but with better support for video posts. Check out https://piefed.social/c/crazyfuckingvideos@lemmy.world as an example of how it can look. Now compare it with https://lemmy.world/c/crazyfuckingvideos. It's night and day.
PieFed doesn't host video files so you'd need to put them on S3 or wherever (imgur is fine if the video is small/short enough like in this video https://piefed.social/post/366849) and then create a post with the url to S3 as the post url.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 2 months ago:
Ideologies tend to sort people into a limited number of overly simplistic categories. This makes theorising easier but applying it to reality much harder.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Small nitpick: the Democrats impeached him twice. They don't get to choose who the DOJ prosecutes.
- Comment on Went Off SSDI to work, hit with large FTB tax bill, lost power and can't pay for meds. Now what? 2 months ago:
Ask your boss for an early christmas bonus. "Hey look I'm having a really hard time here. Money is very tight and I can't afford to keep electricity running at home. An early bonus would keep me more productive than if I was bouncing around public libraries and coffee shops".
Then use the bonus to buy what you need to live in a camp ground. Tent, warm sleeping bag, etc. There's a world of difference between intentionally-and-planned-for-homeless and forced-homeless.
- Comment on Went Off SSDI to work, hit with large FTB tax bill, lost power and can't pay for meds. Now what? 2 months ago:
Is there a public library nearby? Get down there, plug in and use their WiFi.
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- Comment on How to get over my reddit ""addiction""? 2 months ago:
Don't think of it as stopping, quitting or denying yourself something. Get better hobbies. Take up a new interest. Fill your life with things that make trolling on the internet seems lame and stupid in comparison.
- Comment on Why people consistently vote against their own interests to benefit the rich? 2 months ago:
Part of the issue is the system of voting is set up so that there can only ever be two parties. Dividing the country up into chunks and then having one winner in each chunk creates a situation where voting third party is a wasted vote. When there are only two options it's pretty hard to vote for your interests.
In the 90s when New Zealand changed to MMP to led to a proliferation of new parties getting into parliament and the people involved were much much less often old white males. It changed the dynamic completely.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-member_proportional_representation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_system_of_New_Zealand
- Comment on How do you go about evaluating sources of information for truth/credibility/etc.? 2 months ago:
Media literacy crash course https://youtube.com/watch?v=sPwJ0obJya0&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtM6jSpzb5gMNsx9kdmqBfmY&index=1&pp=iAQB
- Comment on Is there any, any takeaways at all from the next 4 years that's about to happen? 3 months ago:
Don't forget that Trump is completely inept and this time doesn't have any help from people even trying to be "the adults in the room". He's made some huge huge promises and I just don't think he has the ability or the team to make much of it happen.
- Comment on Does hair in food carry any health risks? 3 months ago:
It's not so much the hair itself as it being a symptom of god knows what else.
- Comment on Simple way to get emails for new Lemmy or Mastodon posts? 4 months ago:
Lemmy communities and Mastodon profiles both produce a RSS feed of posts. I'm sure there is a RSS-to-email service that would do the trick.
- Comment on What can I do with US$10K that is a good investment? 4 months ago:
There is no universally good investment - it all depends on your priorities, risk appetite and timeframe.
- Comment on Is there a house advantage in a "double-or-nothing" coin flip game? 5 months ago:
And, in real life, the house has a much larger bankroll.
- Comment on George Santos Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud and Identity Theft | Santos, a former Republican congressman from New York, agreed to pay nearly $375,000 in restitution and will almost certainly face prison 5 months ago:
Love this for him
- Comment on Designing Friction (philosophical essay about technology) 6 months ago:
FYI 90.6% of all votes are upvotes.
- Comment on TikTok Stacking Algorithms in Chinese Government’s Favor with Pro-China Content Originating from State-Linked Entities, Study Claims 6 months ago:
following the first report’s publication, TikTok disabled its hashtag measurement functionality in a move that made it impossible for the researchers to replicate their findings.
