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- Comment on Reddit repost bots taking over entire communities 2 days ago:
Repost bots discourage new users and kill engagement.
Suppose you’re into trampolines but there’s no community for that here. You create one, and to kick start it you get a repost bot to repost from the other place.
Over the coming weeks a few fediverse users see your community but see that they’re all reposts with no comments, there’s nothing to really engage with there, so no one does.
Next month someone signs up to the fediverse and joins a few special interest communities. /c/sports, /c/gymnastics, and /c/trampolines. There might actually be real posts and discussions in /c/sports, but that new users feed is overrun with reposts in /c/trampolines. It’s a very clear signal that there’s no content here, all the content is on reddit.
If you actually want a community, then you can read about trampolines on the other site, and manually repost things yourself as a human.
- Comment on Reddit repost bots taking over entire communities 2 days ago:
They actively discourage new users, and engagement.
- Comment on .🤨. 1 week ago:
Some of the other writings that didn’t make the cut for the canonical bible are wild.
- Comment on "I am an ancient nobleman and need some coin made prove to me youre a craftsman that can make quality coin" "check this thing out." 1 week ago:
Yep, in a way this has similarities to modern cryptography.
In cryptography you can share a public key, which can’t be used to create the private key but can be used to identify the correct private key.
With this object, you can share a description which can’t be used to make the object, but can be used to identify the object.
Its obviously not infallible security, but it would take some effort to overcome.
- Comment on "I am an ancient nobleman and need some coin made prove to me youre a craftsman that can make quality coin" "check this thing out." 1 week ago:
Nah the knitting / weaving idea doesn’t add up.
Basically, they can be used to weave a tube, but that isn’t really evidence that they were created with that intention.
The bronze would be polished up around the knobs if it were used that way.
You wouldn’t use bronze to make a weaving tool just because it’s so expensive. Maybe as a once off or special item, but not generally.
You don’t vary the size of your knitting or weaving by using a bigger template / more loose weave. One larger finger you would use more stitches: that’s fundamental to knitting and weaving.
At first glance it’s a nice idea but it doesn’t withstand critical thought.
- Comment on "I am an ancient nobleman and need some coin made prove to me youre a craftsman that can make quality coin" "check this thing out." 1 week ago:
My preferred theory is that it identifies the bearer as belonging to a group something like a smithies guild.
If there was a practical function someone would have figured it out. It’s a lame candle holder, coin counter, and glove knitting template. It’s function is symbolic.
It was hard to make, and the materials were costly.
It has specific features that can be described like “it has 12 flat faces with holes” but would be difficult to construct if you had never seen one.
They have often been found with caches of coins, but often found alone as though forgotten or discarded. They had value to some people but they were not treasure.
- Comment on Title 1 week ago:
On Lemmy it’s more like, I realised I was wrong 5 comments ago and now I’ll just trying to soothe my ego by arguing semantics, but when I run out of things to say I’ll just block everyone.
- Comment on Employers ditching health coverage 2 weeks ago:
A ponzi scheme is a very specific type of scam, and this isn’t it.
- Comment on Why does most of the world use WhatsApp as their messaging app rather than RCS/SMS? 2 weeks ago:
Network effect.
- Comment on I did nazi the rest of the tattoo 2 weeks ago:
if it was AI generated it would be more geometrically correct.
- Comment on I did nazi the rest of the tattoo 2 weeks ago:
I’m also curious.
My supposition is that it’s real but it’s not a swastika nor a number 5.
The downward slope on the right is not long enough for it to be a swastika. For that matter the top point of the slope on the left should align with that slope on the right, but that’s too short also.
From the right hand point, it looks like there’s an edge that follows the seam of her pants.
If it was a fake / AI generated swastika tramp stamp none of the above problems would be present.
My guess is that it’s some kind of unique geometric symbol someone designed for a college or university or something, and she’s had it tattooed without realising that with the wrong pair of jeans on it looks like a swastika.
Obviously, of course, that’s just supposition.
- Comment on Min wage in most states is so sad 2 weeks ago:
I think everyone wants to “enact change”.
The problem is, the people with the requisite skills can earn much more than $60k doing something else.
- Comment on Min wage in most states is so sad 2 weeks ago:
Salary will have unintended consequences.
Why would anyone choose that job unless they were already very wealthy?
- Comment on Walmart Shopping Carts Left Feet Away from the Cart Corral. 2 weeks ago:
I don’t mean to be dismissive, but most of what you’ve described is present elsewhere to varying degrees.
Australia seems comparable on all points, although our pension / super system is not great but not terrible.
Our real estate market is shit, with most people priced out of the market over the last decade.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Actually marinas like the one pictured or “canal estates” often create environments that become “infested” with pests and predators. Some of which for example contain bull sharks in plague proportions. Yes sharks live in the ocean but anyone living next to a canal teaming with them would conclude that there is an “investation”.
Bull sharks are unique in that they can somehow retain salt from ocean / salt / brackish water which allows them to operate in fresh water. They’re also more aggressive than other species, or perhaps just more likely to grab at movement in murky river water.
I remember watching a documentary suggesting that bull shark attacks might have been the inspiration for the Jaws series, after a spate of attacks in estuaries in the US in the years prior.
Jeremy Wade on River Monsters TV series also had an episode about them.
- Comment on non issue 2 weeks ago:
I’ve switched to kagi.
It’s not free, but it’s absolutely the best IMO.
When I search something I don’t see an AI summary. Not sure if I disabled that or not.
- Comment on Americans complaining that someone is "stealing" their jobs while Procter & Gamble is over here turning them into soap 3 weeks ago:
Guaranteed, the soap is made somewhere in Asia, the bottles are made in mexico, admin accounting and marketing is in south america or south east asia, but there’s a shed somewhere in the US with a machine that pours soap into bottles and screws the top on.
- Comment on Extra Milky 3 weeks ago:
Actually this is really common.
In areas with unreliable power, powdered milk is much more common. People often do mix it super thick and spread it on bread.
Obviously not a balanced diet but you could do a lot worse for a cheap meal.
- Comment on Every Landlord I've Had In Australia 3 weeks ago:
Quite right.
- Comment on Food served to US service men & women. 3 weeks ago:
Almost certainly misleading, but the underlying truth is that shits fucked
- Comment on Every Landlord I've Had In Australia 3 weeks ago:
Certainly not always.
I think what that teacher was really getting at is things like electrical standards, phone networks, things like that.
- Comment on Every Landlord I've Had In Australia 3 weeks ago:
I think most western countries could say that about each other.
Yes, there are shitty landlords in Australia. However, I’ve never encountered mould or a landlord that wouldn’t make appropriate repairs.
I’m sure there are shitty landlords in Canada, and every other country.
- Comment on Every Landlord I've Had In Australia 3 weeks ago:
Some 35 years ago my 3rd grade teacher explained to us little Aussie battlers… That through history we have usually had a chance to observe what hasn’t worked in the US and improve our own implementation.
- Comment on What Are These Things Called Again? 4 weeks ago:
Americananas
- Comment on Overturn Citizens United (and launch billionaires into space) 4 weeks ago:
We have something like this in Australia. Candidates receive a fixed amount, maybe $2.50, per first preference vote, provided that they achieve more than 4% of all votes.
The 4% requirement avoids creating an incentive for every idiot to register a political party so they can get a few hundred dollars from the Electoral Commission.
The effect is to essentially tie what you proposed into the election itself.
We do still have private donations, but I think they’re somewhat restrictive, and the public funding lessens the benefit of private donations.
- Comment on Yes, I use Debian stable. How'd you know? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t mind at all if people think I’m old, I kind of am.
Thing is, fancy new containerised packages have really changed the dynamic here.
I don’t care if gnome is 5 years old. Everything I actually use is up to date.
- Comment on Yes, I use Debian stable. How'd you know? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah team bar-soap here.
It’s just soap and when you use it you feel soapy and then you rinse it off and you feel like you’ve used soap.
Anything in a bottle is some concoction of bullshit woo-woo like honey and pomegranate or hibiscus petals and seal fur. As in, it’s more marketing than soap.
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 4 weeks ago:
I refuse to believe that there’s a bipedal robot that can make my bed, with out ridiculous specific programming.
- Comment on Groceries are expensive and they're too busy talking about culture war 4 weeks ago:
This was such a bizarre interaction.
El Sayed seems brilliant at responding to these gotcha questions.
- Comment on Capitalism is an unrealistic death cult. 4 weeks ago:
Hmm… No most post apoc fiction is mindful of these issues.
My main concern is that most novels have a token nerdy / accountant type who’s role is to demonstrate how useless our skills are in a post apocalyptic wasteland. That’s me really. An accountant.