Serinus
@Serinus@lemmy.world
- Comment on Beware of BigReddit® 18 hours ago:
You’re more likely to believe things that are true instead of making up your own facts. What’s more creative than an ice wall keeping the oceans in?
- Comment on Request to mod syria 6 days ago:
Welcome. You may need to make a lemmy.world alt and appoint it as an additional moderator. I don’t know all the details, but I know moderating between instances can have issues.
- Comment on Even the traffic signs are weighing in 1 week ago:
I would still be very careful about when and where and how you say it. Quoting the state constitution at the right time should certainly give you more leeway than other states, but I wouldn’t risk saying it too early.
It’s best to just treat it as not allowed, at least until deliberation. Maybe even then.
- Comment on Even the traffic signs are weighing in 1 week ago:
Get on a jury, say exactly that, and see what happens.
- Comment on Even the traffic signs are weighing in 1 week ago:
You have to be very particular if you’re going to do that.
Jury nullification is not allowed. Voting not guilty because you have reasonable doubt is always allowed. You don’t have to explain why you have reasonable doubt.
The fact that those happen to be jury nullification is unfortunate for those who would like to disallow it.
- Comment on 'Caves Of Qud': Roguelike RPG Finally Launches After 17 Years in Development (And It's Really Good) 1 week ago:
Lemmy came through (below). Things are getting better here. I feel like we’re reaching critical mass, if only we could stop the infighting.
- Comment on $1K a month is a good deal 1 week ago:
The $1300-1800 numbers are the total. The employer pays most of that, and you’re left to pay something around $600.
That fully covers preventative care like regular checkups, standard vaccines, and regular screenings.
If you’re in your regular checkup and there’s an issue, it’s no longer free. Any actual issues usually require you to pay around 20% of the inflated cost. However, you get to use a special, untaxed account to pay it. So you end up paying roughly 15%, and the government chips in 5% (through not charging you income taxes on that portion.)
If you spend somewhere around $10k out of pocket (in addition to your $600/month fees, and your employer’s $900/month fees and the government’s ~$700/month they lose by not taxing any of this), THEN everything is free, as long as it’s approved.
So the real benefit of health insurance is that if you get cancer you only have to pay $~20k a year for as long as you keep your job. Try not to get fired for taking to much time for chemotherapy.
And after you go through all this, there are still complications such as which doctors and pharmacies you’re allowed to go to, but most importantly, the healthcare company has a large say in what medications you’re allowed to take.
If you don’t have health insurance and you get sick you probably just go bankrupt.
- Comment on As a human, here is my human take on unions 1 week ago:
I used to consider myself libertarian. Now I understand how basic that is.
Think of it this way, when you’re way ahead in a video game (one without anti-snowball mechanics), how hard is it to maintain and grow that lead? First, when it’s a team game, you’re likely to have opponents just leave, or start fighting each other.
Some people will say the world isn’t zero sum, which is true. But when they take the whole sum, it sure feels that way.
Besides just what is right, the economy works better for everyone when people have money to spend. People who have something to lose commit less crime. If all the money does collect in very few hands, the economy grinds to a halt.
- Comment on Should we create a new political party in the US, specifically for shitting on the rich? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, creating a third party seems a lot easier and more effective than taking over an existing party like the tea party did.
- Comment on Charities of Employees from "non-profit" I was going to donate too 2 weeks ago:
I think they fixed the gay bit recently, 2023.
- Comment on CEO brains go brrrrr 2 weeks ago:
This was the whole purpose of our founding fathers.
Kings were getting beheaded. They knew enough that if they didn’t want to watch their backs constantly, they needed to spread power thin.
It’s the point of good faith in government. It goes back to the Code of Hammurabi. We have these laws so that we can all mostly agree on how things should be handled in a reasonable way.
When people can’t rely on laws and justice, eventually blood spills.
These people have been so intent on gathering money and power, they haven’t realized why the founding fathers did the exact opposite.
- Comment on Funny how uniting this is somehow 2 weeks ago:
The claim was lying.
The media is purposefully changing it
No, they’re not. I’m not invalidating Chomsky. I’m saying that’s not this case in this particular instance.
- Comment on Funny how uniting this is somehow 2 weeks ago:
No. The meaning is clear. The media isn’t outright lying to you on this.
Generally they don’t outright lie. They may choose to cover some things more than others, or they may publish ridiculous opinion pieces, but the decent ones almost never outright lie.
- Comment on Smug Viruses 2 weeks ago:
I think they’re on nebula.tv too, if you prefer that to YouTube.
- Comment on Percentages 2 weeks ago:
You must not be playing on a soft tip board.
Image of a soft tipped dart board. - Comment on TURKEY POWER 3 weeks ago:
Well, any waste problem is a hell of a lot better than what we’re doing to the atmosphere.
Coal should be illegal now.
- Comment on don't be a coward 3 weeks ago:
Why don’t I remember this?
- Comment on Creamy 3 weeks ago:
Oh, someone did that on purpose.
- Comment on I got a message the other day saying one of the communities I mod has unfinished business and either I or other mods can take care of it. I clicked the link and nothing came up. Is this just a ruse? 3 weeks ago:
Which community? I’ll check for open reports.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I’m a little concerned that a full quarter of your participation here has been asking to mod a community.
Is this your only Lemmy account?
- Comment on When will LW be updated to something newer than 0.19.3? 4 weeks ago:
There’s literally communication in these comments that point to older communication on the same.
You’re being combative about it.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
One of the few things we know about Vance is that he doesn’t believe what he says.
I’d take the coin flip liar over the traitor.
- Comment on When will LW be updated to something newer than 0.19.3? 4 weeks ago:
When it’s ready, because the admins do more detailed research than just “bigger number better”.
- Comment on How do l hire moderators? 4 weeks ago:
My typical method of checking is to look at the mod log at the very bottom right of this page (next to Legal), and search for their name. Activity there does not rule someone out, especially bans from .ml, but it’ll help you make a judgement. Then I’ll spot check their history, both for content and how often they post. People who are going to be on the site regularly anyway tend to be better moderators, as they’ll both notice their notifications and spot things without being prompted.
Unfortunately, tech_memes is still too new to offer any suggestions on who to pick. The one name I do have I’d quickly rule out from my previous interactions with them (likely troll).
Generally moderating a community shouldn’t take more than 5 minutes a day (a little more some days, a little less most every other day). It’s part of the reason we try to find a lot of moderators to do a low number of communities each. Hopefully you’re not getting that many reports on different content.
If you’re still having issues, reach back out to us in a week or two and I’ll see what I can do.
Thanks,
Lemmy.World Community Team
- Comment on What is stopping a scammer from HTTPS certificating a "nonsense.ReputableBank.com" 4 weeks ago:
All that does is allow someone in the middle to potentially read your traffic. So what’s secret about the traffic between you and the Internet archive? If it’s only your login details, that seems like a you problem.
It wasn’t long ago that most of the internet was http only.
- Comment on What is stopping a scammer from HTTPS certificating a "nonsense.ReputableBank.com" 4 weeks ago:
So you’ve… compromised your own security. Grats?
- Comment on Broadcaster Alan Jones arrested amid indecent assault and sexual touching investigation 4 weeks ago:
Is he a drag queen?
- Comment on Anon tries programming in Java 5 weeks ago:
Needing everything to be a class
In 2015 they added scripting. If you’re making a real project, you should absolutely use classes. (It’s not that hard. Don’t do the Java shit.) But you can absolutely write one off scripts just fine.
AOT support is still lacking.
Publishing your app as Native AOT produces an app that’s self-contained and that has been ahead-of-time (AOT) compiled to native code. Source.
- Comment on Anon tries programming in Java 5 weeks ago:
C# is nearly the same, but much, much better.
- It doesn’t (usually) come with the Java culture 8 layers of abstraction. This isn’t in the Java language. This isn’t in OO. Yet nearly every Java programmer makes things way more complicated than it needs to be.
- It’s a prettier language. Similar syntax with less bullshit.
- It’s open source
- It’s still multiplatform. Modern dotnet / C# works on anything.
- Both Visual Studio and Visual Studio code are great IDEs that blow Eclipse out of the water
- It’s one of the most common business languages.
- It’s going to be supported forever.
If I could restrict the world of programming to two languages, it’d be C# and Rust. C# for most things and Rust for a lower level language.
- Comment on Im flyinf to the USA from england 5 weeks ago:
I think Italian and Irish are now acceptable. Maybe choose one of those.
