Rentlar
@Rentlar@lemmy.ca
- Comment on if charlie kirk is so pro life then why is he dead? 2 weeks ago:
Has anyone (in Utah) asked: What was he wearing when this happened to him????????
- Comment on Too soon? 2 weeks ago:
From NYT (cw: gift link to live report with details of shooting):
“Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America in the last 10 years?” a person asks. “Counting or not counting gang violence?” Kirk responds right before he is shot.
- Comment on Why is Lemmy much better with telling a user why they were banned? 2 weeks ago:
I grant you that it’s not perfect and it doesn’t prevent the abuse in the first place, but calling it out is important. There are still plenty of drama about people DMing each other, but there’s less hearsay involved, and appropriate suspicion is cast upon any mod that’s too vague with their ban comments or any user that doesn’t want to reveal their old banned username.
In terms of what users can do about mod abuse: There have been coordinated community shifts in response. A couple examples:
!onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone was created because the !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone mods wanted to forcibly move the community to !196@lemmy.world, but most users didn’t like that because BZ has more LBGTQ+ friendly policy. So the new community got set up with new mods.
!risa@startrek.website more or less moved or splintered to !tenforward@lemmy.world after some mod beefing and people getting banned for some rules even though it was a “no real rules” community.
- Comment on That'd be helpful 2 weeks ago:
I do feel bad for making people paying hundreds to come visit, not to eat at least some local restaurants.
But for more frequent hangouts it would be nice to hangout informally.
- Comment on Why is Lemmy much better with telling a user why they were banned? 2 weeks ago:
The public modlog is one of the best features of Lemmy, IMO. When a Lemmy user appeals to the public of stuff mods/admins have done, we can call BS on them since we can read through stuff if they’ve been toxic, or if it’s the mods on a power-trip, or if it’s controversially borderline but reasonable discretion given the circumstances.
- Comment on YAYAYA CONGRATS!!!! 4 weeks ago:
A series of Taylor Series
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 4 weeks ago:
That is definitely a problem that needs to be dealt with, since AI scrapers hogging bandwidth or making sites inaccessible means it is hampering equal access to everyone. Ignoring conventions and not rate limiting itself are harmful to the open internet.
So yes, those kinds of AI scraping behaviours should be mitigated, but on the principle of AI ingesting my public data, I’m not against it, if it can access it reasonably and fairly like anyone else.
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 4 weeks ago:
If I’m going to share my information and knowledge publicly on an Internet site, I’d like everyone to have fair and open access to it, not at the whims of a multinational corp to gatekeep for me. So the fact that AI can access it too doesn’t discourage me.
You have information from me because I choose to share it, not because a site has demanded I give it up without a clear benefit to me in return.
- Comment on I have tomorrow off :) 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Ottawa intervenes in Air Canada-union dispute, sending them to binding arbitration 5 weeks ago:
There was a >90% strike mandate. This is not going to go over well.
- Comment on Vampire Survivors is getting an official board game 5 weeks ago:
I’m just imagining one person moves a character around while the others move pieces with ten fingers and ten toes.
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 1 month ago:
Thanks, now my mental image of the AI bubble is now shit-coloured.
- Comment on fr Lemmy really do be like 1 month ago:
help I don’t know which upvote button to click
- Comment on Why is land/sky so cleanly split between mammals/birds? 1 month ago:
Peacocks and hens, Grouse and Turkeys, and some Phaesants spend most of their time on the ground. Ducks and Swans spend a lot of their time floating on water surfaces. Geese do fly and flock but are often in groups nipping at the ground, rather than in trees.
If birds slithered, tunneled or other weird land behaviour, I don’t know if we’d still call them birds. Probably something like dino-saur, idk.
- Comment on Couldn't big-tech shut out non-monopoly laws by saying that it's meant to be like that on "their" product? 1 month ago:
I mean, in general, if your business model is to break the law and the government tells you not to, that is infringing on your ability to conduct business in the way you want to.
Laws, also generally, are designed to balance the tradeoffs between allowing personal freedoms with protecting a populace from expected or possible harm.
Non-compliance to a country’s laws could lead to: a ban of that product from that country, fines/taxes/expenses to the business, or in serious cases prosecution of company representatives within the country.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Everybody! Yaaaaay
- Comment on Dropbox is shutting down its password manager 1 month ago:
Lol. Up until a few months ago Dropbox was begging me to use that feature.
- Comment on In racoon we trust 2 months ago:
It saves space in landfills.
This can’t be stressed enough… a huge proportion of landfills volume is material that otherwise could have been composted.
- Comment on Why are there so many german communities on Lemmy? 2 months ago:
A huge group moved from ich iel subreddit (meirl but almost like 196 in practice)… most german redditors were there. The main German instance was called feddit.de but the frontend and database got very messed up. The main admin was MIA so feddit.org was made instead.
- Comment on Why don't Americans use electric kettles? 2 months ago:
They are not universal but reasonably popular in Canada.
- Comment on Th EU iniative for Stop Killing Games has reached the goal of 1 million signatures!! 2 months ago:
To address your first point. Yes it applies to other software, this initiative applies to games because the “buying a license to allow them to remove your purchase” practices have been most prevalent in gaming.
Extending the scope too far will bring in more opponents than allies and muddy the discussion. Getting a decisive answer here will inform laws on how other industries should be regulated in separate but parallel legislative processes.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I think the state legislature and governor will be more of a hurdle to clear than council. Since in US and Canada, most municipal powers are rooted in state/provincial legislation, they have the ability to override or veto, sanction or outlaw anything the city tries to implement. Gov. Hochul is an establishment Democrat so I expect some efforts to water down the most radical policies, but aside from her characteristic flip-flopping she won’t try to put herself in the way of city politics.
- Comment on Not for me, tho 2 months ago:
I’d think four times: 4:20, 4:35, 7:20, 7:35
- Comment on Air Jordens 2 months ago:
Since when were 3 basketballs allowed in the game at once?
- Comment on The 11foot8 bridge opens another big can 2 months ago:
It’s the same moving company as the one that had crashed 10 months before!
- Comment on Jigsaw Trolley Problem 2 months ago:
Hoping to select the door with a goat, that will headbutt the switch for me.
- Comment on Officials Concede They Don’t Know the Fate of Iran’s Uranium Stockpile 2 months ago:
I called it:
- Comment on It's the dream 2 months ago:
Yeah it happens a lot. At my job people are given 40 hours (or more, without overtime) of work to be done, and then call meetings that eat up into those hours, so ending early gives people back the time the meeting took away from them.
- Comment on If one were so inclined, could you take your plot of land, parcel it up into 1-meter-squared (or smaller) sections, and sell each of those sections to different people/companies? 2 months ago:
cardsagainsthumanitystopsthewall.com
C.A.H. did something similar ish, crowdfunded a vacant plot along the wall and hired an eminent domain expert lawyer to stall the process if wall was to be constructed there.
I think contributors were given a recognition that they helped buy 0.00067% of the land, it wasn’t officially subdivided between the contributors nor were they given a share.
- Comment on Just lost internship at general electric 2 months ago:
But those are ouchie fire lamp