CombatWombatEsq
@CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world
- Comment on ICE Out General Strike 1/30 9 hours ago:
E2EE can’t come to fedi fast enough because you’re entirely correct, even if you trust the person you’re messaging.
- Comment on [deleted] 13 hours ago:
Depending on what you mean by “this,” it kinda is, but you only get a vote by doing the work, and posting is generating work, not doing work.
- Comment on [deleted] 13 hours ago:
Just start a new community if you don’t like the mods. It’s super easy, and if you’re attached to a particular name, usually you can get the same name on a different instance.
- Comment on [US] How are so many people able to protest? (Logistically) 1 day ago:
You’ve gotta stand up for what you believe in. The medium is the message — your boss and coworkers will start to understand that you are serious once there start being consequences. That’s how it spreads. Little people, everyday people, saying “I won’t do this anymore, damn the consequences.”
- Comment on ICE Out General Strike 1/30 2 days ago:
For sure. You’ll wanna check in with one of the endorsing organizations, like 50501, CAIR, or LA Tenants for more complete information — this is just a prompt to go check in with more formal organization if you haven’t recently.
- Submitted 2 days ago to workreform@lemmy.world | 10 comments
- Comment on Why do some car lovers oppose bike infrastructure, when more bikes would mean fewer cars on the road? 2 days ago:
My personal belief is that American cities should have about 100x fewer cars.
- Comment on smh 2 days ago:
You and I, I suspect, agree here. I prefer 2; you prefer 5. But what matters about weights and measures is communication with other humans and everyone has decided to use a 10 bases system and what matters is not your personal preference but interoperability. Mebibytes might be better than megabytes but you use megabytes in your documentation because that’s what everyone else uses.
- Comment on smh 3 days ago:
Yeah. You hear a lot more UK commentators call it the 18 yard box than the 16 meter box.
- Comment on smh 3 days ago:
I dunno, a half cup is 8 tablespoons, quarter cup is 4 tablespoons, an eighth cup is 2 tablespoons. A half liter is 5 deciliters, a quarter liter is 2.5 deciliters, an eighth liter is 1.25 deciliters. In cooking I’m much more likely to use binary arrangements than decimal, and the fact that metric users would use milliliters instead of deciliters makes me think that ten isn’t really the magic number it’s cracked up to be.
- Comment on smh 3 days ago:
How hard is it to get your American colleagues to use metric as well?
- Comment on smh 3 days ago:
Yep. Old hands in the field, not students in the academy.
- Comment on smh 3 days ago:
Factors of 10 are overrated. Mebibtyes are objectively a better measure than megabytes.
- Comment on smh 3 days ago:
We joke, but the metric conversion act of 1975 means that most Americans are more familiar with metric than we care to admit. It’s on most everything. Mostly, it’s the professional class — engineers who don’t want to learn to visually estimate in liters/second rather than gallons/second — who have resisted switching over, rather than Joe and Jane American.
- Comment on What do you think is the opposite of Kiwifarms? 5 days ago:
- Comment on What are some ways to fight for socialism from the comfort of your room? 6 days ago:
I think the most effective way is to choose a small sliver of socialism you’re most interested in — universal healthcare, public transit, state capacity — and to focus on that. Most of the “all the socialism, all at once” approaches are pretty well suppressed, and most people just switch off when they encounter the word. Find like-minded people who are focused on that, and see what they need — someone to mod their discord, someone to rewrite their website, someone to edit the newsletter. The focus is banding together with people who can do the outdoors part and doing the work that can be done from your room so they can have more time to do the stuff that can’t.
- Comment on Why do some car lovers oppose bike infrastructure, when more bikes would mean fewer cars on the road? 6 days ago:
They think of it as a zero-sum game. There is either a bike lane or two car lanes. The number of cyclists is fixed and the number of drivers is fixed. If there is one less lane to drive in, there is more traffic. If you spend limited tax dollars on bike infrastructure, driving infrastructure will not receive necessary maintenance.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I am not — I think that were I to stand up a threadiverse instance today, it’d be a piefed instance. I think it’s already a better product and that it has a better governance structure that means it’s going to continue to improve faster than Lemmy.
Which is not to get down on Lemmy! To the best of my knowledge, it was the first of its kind in the fediverse, and the Lemmy devs solved a lot of thorny problems. And the lemmy.world admins have been incredible hosts — I’ve modded a half dozen communities and still never had to take a mod action.
No, I meant the larger project. I came to the fediverse back when ActivityStreams was published in 2017. I didn’t quite see the vision until ActivityPub was published in 2018, but you could see the promise of social media interoperability even in those first few steps. I don’t know if you remember, but there was a time when the World Wide Web was a very small part of an internet that was divided into tiny silos, but for me, I saw the release of activitypub the same way — the w3c has come in and put together a reasonable way for everyone to play in the same sandbox together.
And I think ActivityPub has done it. I can boost my bookwyrm posts from mastodon to tell people about what I’m reading. I can cross-post to piefed from my pixelfed by @ mentioning a community. I hardly even notice when I interact across instances and services.
For me, the thing that is exciting about Lemmy is that it is a small backwater on a weird, wide beautiful world of people who are all talking to each other in the way that makes them the most comfortable, in small groups and enclaves that have the frontend and moderation policies that best match their needs, but that they can still talk to everyone else. It’s more like email than reddit, and to me that’s what’s most exciting.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Not everyone. I’ve never caught any kind of Reddit discipline. There are a few of us around who indie web/fediverse enthusiasts who deeply believe in the project.
- Comment on Promising signs from Minnesota 1 week ago:
You can! I am.
- Submitted 1 week ago to workreform@lemmy.world | 12 comments
- Comment on Woke up with hate in my heart 1 week ago:
The transition of the word meme from meaning “unit of transmission of culture” to meaning “funny picture” is complete and I just have to come to terms with that.
- Comment on Seems like Trump waited for winter to escalate his ICE agenda but why did he go after Minnesota? People who are completely acclimated to frigid weather. 1 week ago:
I had friends who visited from the Netherlands who wanted to spend the day in LA and swing by Las Vegas on the way home.
- Comment on Seems like Trump waited for winter to escalate his ICE agenda but why did he go after Minnesota? People who are completely acclimated to frigid weather. 1 week ago:
I don’t think he waited for winter, I think he waited for the nfl playoffs, which are unfortunately in winter. Minnesota is close enough to DC that the east coast feels threatened but like going there is unreachable, plus Trump feels he has a score to settle for the response to the murder of George Floyd.
- Comment on What team would you put and why? 2 weeks ago:
The Portland Timbers
- Comment on At this point, should we form an alternative government of the United States as a micronation? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t fly the Cascadia flag for nothing. Cascadia now!
- Comment on Do you have to deal with this during your morning commute? 3 weeks ago:
The old dude driving slow in the morning probably doesn’t want himself to be driving at rush hour, either. Maybe if we had some kind of system where professionals planned and implemented a ride sharing systems, perhaps with planned routes and really big cars that lots of people could sit in? Maybe we even put it on rails so it uses less energy while moving?
- Comment on Is ice heavier than water? 3 weeks ago:
It’s an old riddle that only works with imperial units. In traditional British fashion, the imperial weights and measures had two pounds in it, and you had to choose the right pound for the right thing you were weighing. The troy pound was used to measure metals and only has 12 ounces, whereas the pound used to measure feathers had 16, so a pound of feathers was 4 ounces heavier than a pound of lead or gold or whatever.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 3 weeks ago:
Pretending they’re well travelled by bragging about how many states they’ve visited.
- Comment on Bicycles should be allowed on the road with the full rights and requirements (tags, inspections, and insurance) as motor vehicles. 4 weeks ago:
You should take your bicycle down for a smog check sometime. I think you’ll find it’s less useful than you expect.
