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- Submitted 4 days ago to videos@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on The Great Decentralization: What happens when sprawling online communities fracture into politically homogenous, self-governing communities? 1 week ago:
Today the Great Decentralization is accelerating, with newspapers of record, Luke Skywalker and others as the latest high-profile refugees to lead fresh retreats.
For a moment I thought this was some kind of AI-written glitch, but apparently it was taking "artist license" to use the name of the character rather than actor without acknowledging such - and is real (wow I hate trying to mess with Forbes, it kept changing the link to some other article entirely).
- Comment on A delicate balance 1 week ago:
*How* we know what we know is just as important as *what* we know - or arguably even more so.
literally means believing something to be true just because you want it to be
Exactly. We shouldn't do that.
- Comment on A delicate balance 1 week ago:
That is not a great quote to use fyi (I mean this one here by Martin Luther - whereas the one from Carl Sagan is *fantastic* imho:-).
I have heard an analogy in that it is like saying that the Mind is one's greatest adversary to a child learning how to swim - true, but when quoted out of the surrounding context (in this case iirc it was Reason *alone*, unaided by Faith - or something to that effect but I could be misremembering so don't take this part as... well... *gospel*, pun intended:-) really comes off super poorly. Similarly with wanting to exercise - "Mind" here does not mean merely "mind" as in mental faculties, just as "Reason" != "reason".
Also the quote is disputed as even coming from Martin Luther himself rather than one of his students.
More at https://randalrauser.com/2011/10/quote-others-the-way-you-would-have-them-quote-you/ in case it helps.
Now a quote of my own (by me, from right this second): if we want to rise above the teeming unwashed masses and truly use Reason, then we need to hold ourselves to a higher standard (than those we accuse of not doing such). It's just a thought: do as you will with it.
- Comment on Feelin' Festive 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Fatherly advice 2 weeks ago:
That's just what "they" *want* you to believe!!! 😉
- Comment on Oh yay 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Oh yay 3 weeks ago:
I'm in this picture and I do love it.
(So do I "win" now?🤪)
- Comment on Beta Testing Loops by Pixelfed 3 weeks ago:
Ah I see. Fwiw, !loops@midwest.social has this in the sidebar:
If the loop you’re posting isn’t original content uploaded by the creator, prefix the title with [R] for “reposted”. For example, [R] Cute dog.
So that's at least something to help differentiate them.
- Comment on Beta Testing Loops by Pixelfed 3 weeks ago:
It's kinda is yeah.:-) Both Tesseract and PieFed have YouTube embedding, but only Tesseract has that for Loops (so far).
- Comment on Beta Testing Loops by Pixelfed 3 weeks ago:
That will come but for now it's more helpful for the beta testing to have a large diversity of scenarios to work with.
- Comment on Beta Testing Loops by Pixelfed 4 weeks ago:
FYI Tesseract as implemented on e.g. dubvee.org, an alternative front-end UI for Lemmy made by Admiral Patrick, has an embedded player already, which doesn't need an account to play the videos. See it in action at https://tesseract.dubvee.org/c/loops@midwest.social, or read more about Tesseract at https://dubvee.org/post/2453173. I hope to see even greater levels of integration soon, perhaps in PieFed!:-)
- Comment on How Worried Should We Be About Bird Flu? California has declared a state of emergency over the virus. We asked experts how concerned they are. 4 weeks ago:
I was wondering if it was only going to affect people who drink raw milk, but other articles are reminding me that it still affects the farm workers themselves (which I thought protective gear was shown ro be sufficient there, but I don't recall how certain that is).
- Comment on How Worried Should We Be About Bird Flu? California has declared a state of emergency over the virus. We asked experts how concerned they are. 4 weeks ago:
Maybe I misunderstood - hence why I asked - but passages such as these led me to question what then it was trying to say:
“If you’re not working directly with animals right now, it would not be the top thing that I’d be worried about... It’s unlikely right now that’s going to be a problem for most people.”
"... right now, there’s no reason to panic or really do anything beyond avoid raw milk products.”
- Comment on How Worried Should We Be About Bird Flu? California has declared a state of emergency over the virus. We asked experts how concerned they are. 4 weeks ago:
The article specifically said that?
- Comment on How Worried Should We Be About Bird Flu? California has declared a state of emergency over the virus. We asked experts how concerned they are. 4 weeks ago:
Thank you for answering. My comment probably sounded like conspiratorial nonsense, but you answered as if it were - and it was - authentic, so thanks.
- Comment on How Worried Should We Be About Bird Flu? California has declared a state of emergency over the virus. We asked experts how concerned they are. 4 weeks ago:
I wonder why an "emergency"? The person who got sick was in Louisiana, and pasteurized milk, unlike raw, is entirely safe to drink. So if nobody in CA is sick, then...? The article did not seem to answer why.
- Comment on Just because you're a slob at home do you have to be an inconsiderate slob in public 4 weeks ago:
They'd probably like it, or at least enjoy your having started the fight they were spoiling for.
- Comment on I can feel it 4 weeks ago:
I have feelings about the state of the world but corporations tell me that caring for things other than their products is *wrong*.
Diagnosis: empathy.
Their response:
- Comment on We dumb 5 weeks ago:
Hey, the only reason you choose to think that way is... bc it is objectively true.:-|
- Comment on Nobody understands me. 1 month ago:
- Comment on Next Generation Internet (NGI) projects adopt platforms Mastodon and PeerTube as main communication channels 1 month ago:
It's somewhat funny how most Lemmy mods seem to discuss things on Discord or Matrix, rather than Lemmy (based on the chatter, though I am not a mod here so what do I know, really?).
Anyway the article itself is awesome news, though odd that accepting the cookie policy took almost a minute, and a bunch of stuff does not render well in my Firefox on Android web browser (switching to Landscape rather than Portrait helped). I also found the table layout to be highly confusing - does every one of those projects use ngi@video.ngi.eu, bc that's normally what those lack of border lines would mean, or does only NGI Zero Commons Fund use it? Either way the meaning isn't clear at all, but there are so many problems with that site that it could just be another html rendering mistake.
- Comment on Subscribe now for more clicks! 1 month ago:
What will Premium Plus get for me?
- Comment on How I imagine my father as a kid 1 month ago:
- Comment on healthy routine 1 month ago:
You are a lunar-tic! And I for one and here for it:-P.
Although I think the solar totalitarian authority figure would like to have a word with you...
- Comment on 'Dark Patterns' became normalized: When asked to build web pages, LLMs use manipulative design practices they learned from web pages generated by humans, study says 1 month ago:
- Comment on healthy routine 1 month ago:
Username does *not* check out. This answer makes far too much sense - are you sure that you don't want your answer to be more evil? (On the other hand, it is compatible with photosynthesis so there's that!)
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- Comment on healthy routine 1 month ago:
And still have a few leftover to doomscroll before work!:-P
- Comment on healthy routine 1 month ago:
It's nice to have options 😉
- Comment on healthy routine 1 month ago:
I read this as 4am.
It did not help.
