Hungary and Poland have always shared a special connection, but this isn't how it was supposed to go 😅
It'd be wasted on you, as my previous insights have been. But yeah, evolution doesn't exist, genetics don't exist, whatever helps you sleep at night buddy.
There's nothing different between me and LeBron James, I'm just not trying hard enough to dunk 😅. If only I made the choice to dunk the basketball, independently of the fact that my ancestors are not particularly tall. But my ancestors are irrelevant, as you've clearly asserted.
That was a really pretty goal. Lukaku jumped out of the way and opened up a tiny window for it to squeeze through
The US is really big, but the Northeast megapolis is a bit of a nightmare when it comes to driving etiquette.
Hm, that makes sense. My mistake. Doesn't change my actual point but thanks for the info. Substitute passing lane for left lane and that's what I meant.
I'll get back to you on that. Seriously, I just don't have time rn but I'll edit this when I have a chance within the next 24 hrs. The second half of your question is particularly difficult to answer.
Ok I just accidentally wiped my entire edit before saving. Fuck that, I'm not writing all that again. God damn it that was such a good response too. Sorry.
I don't believe that anyone truly acts independently. We are all products of our environment, of which our ancestors comprise a significant portion. I don't believe in free will.
Your contention regarding inventions is wrong, but irrelevant anyway. I understand that it's nearly impossible to discuss this topic objectively without allowing your personal emotions to bleed into it, so I'll just leave it at that. I've already made my points but you don't seem to understand at all.
significant portions of a population dying during or prior to fertility is the only way that natural selection works. That or the existence of bachelor herds that lead to a very slim minority being the only ones to breed.
And I don't understand evolution? Wow. I think it's possible you may be suffering from a severe case of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
Shout out to XGen Studios, who made Motherload along with Stick RPG, Stick Arena, Defend your Castle, etc.
The era of flash games will remain forever goated in my eyes. Nostalgia tinted glasses but I refuse to take them off. This game is also a core memory. I feel bad for kids nowadays, these games were so much fun and 100% free and playable on any computer.
There’s nothing different or more special about one person’s progeny than another
How do you figure that? Are you familiar with the theory of evolution? How do you think we got to the point where I'm communicating to you through a global communication network? Dumb luck?
We are as important to future generations as past generations are to us. If previous human beings hadn't done everything they did, we wouldn't be here now. Likewise, everything that we do in the present has a rippling effect for the rest of human history. Having kids allows you to have a little more direct input on what kind of ripples you leave behind.
The passing lane* is for passing.
I actually like it better that way because it emphasizes how obvious it is. When I visited the UK and rented a car, I actually found that drivers were far more courteous and self-aware compared to the US.
Why wouldn't it matter? If your family doesn't matter to you, what does?
'ooh those 12 people have something to do with me if you go back far enough"
It's not about that, it's that those 12 people won't ever exist if I never have any kids. They have everything to do with me, because without me, they wouldn't be alive. And I also think the world will be a better place if they do exist.
It's not our genes that he cares about. It's his genes.
For me personally, I feel that I am inherently good, humanity is inherently good, and I just want to pass the torch to the next generation and see how far they can carry it. We're currently in a bit of a slump as a species, but I believe that everything will turn out alright in the end and I'd like for my descendants to be around to enjoy and indeed contribute to it.
I agree, I don't think not having kids has anything to do with being selfish.
But I guess what they meant to say is just that having kids is hard. A lot of times, people become more selfless and less focused on their own wants and needs after they become parents.
Of course, some people don't actually become more selfless or responsible, and instead they just become bad, narcissistic parents. But the choice to have kids is associated with the choice to be a responsible adult and work for the benefit of others, at least in theory.
The term nerf in respect to video games was actually derived from Nerf guns. Because Nerf guns are basically just normal guns that have been heavily nerfed 😅
Sure, I do the same thing sometimes. But I also pay attention and move to the right when I see someone catching me from behind. And I especially don't drive at the exact same speed, side-by-side with the car in the right lane. And yet I see other drivers do that constantly.
Some people seem to think of it like a moral crusade or a pissing contest and they feel emasculated if another vehicle passes them. The sociology of automobiles and traffic is endlessly fascinating to me, although I often forget my intellectual curiosity when I'm actually driving 😅
Idk man. That's above my pay grade.
That's fine. That means you're passing the cars in the right lane that are slowing to make a turn.
In the city it is definitely usable for navigation purposes, getting to the intended destination.
So is the right lane. If you're driving the same speed as the car in front of you, you have no reason to use the left lane. Unless you're making a left turn. Right?
The left lane is for passing. If you're not passing somebody, move over to the right lane. It's not that hard people
Why is it the perfect context to mock them? It seems like you just care more about getting upvoted than treating another human being with empathy.
Self reflection is hard; I don't begrudge you for shying away from it. But don't act all high and mighty in that case.
Cute animation of SCP-999, seemed appropriate for this community.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13087351
> SCP-999 > > > !
Pixelfed is redefining community engagement with its latest feature: Curated Onboarding. This new feature is not just a way to sign up; it's a way to weave into the community's fabric by sharing your story and intentions on the platform...
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/7026921
> This sounds like something Lemmy would also really benefit from.
Threads will be implementing federation in the near future and many instances have been discussing whether they should be pre-emptively defederated to protect the fediverse. See below for our local discussion thread, which will remain active until this vote is complete.
Given that this is a time-sensitive issue and it's the holiday season, we decided to initiate the vote a few days early to make sure everyone gets a chance to vote. The vote will be tallied on Friday, December 29th.
https://sh.itjust.works/post/11011288
Only sh.itjust.works accounts may cast a vote
Vote by commenting either yes/aye/oui or nay/no/non
Any further discussion should be posted in the thread linked above
Additional Context/Discussions
41% of instances have blocked Threads
Extensive discussion at Fediverse@lemmy.world
For the hard of hearing
IF YOU ARE NOT A SH.ITJUST.WORKS USER, YOU CANNOT VOTE IN THIS THREAD
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VOTE RESULT
In favor (aye/oui/yes) : 200 votes
Against (nay/non/no) : 55 votes
Sh.itjust.works has voted in favor of preemptively defederating Threads.
Thank you for your participation, and happy holidays to everyone!
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Matthew Allen’s AI art won first prize at the Colorado State Fair. But the US government has ruled it can’t be copyrighted because it’s too much “machine” and not enough “human.”
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/4658537
> Why This Award-Winning Piece of AI Art Can’t Be Copyrighted::Matthew Allen’s AI art won first prize at the Colorado State Fair. But the US government has ruled it can’t be copyrighted because it’s too much “machine” and not enough “human.”
I didn't want to make an announcement about this but since there seems to be some confusion (to say the least), I feel that I must.
You have almost certainly started seeing posts and comments from hexbear.net users in the past day or so. Long story short, when hexbear originally federated into Lemmy a few weeks ago, they left SJW off the list of instances they wanted to federate. A few days ago, hexbear users had a vote where they agreed to add SJW to their list of federated instances.
Myself and TheDude were informed of this vote by the hexbear admins while it was in progress. We agreed that if hexbear voted in the affirmative, we would be amenable to federation and seeing how it turns out. Now, here we are.
Hexbear is a Lemmy server that was created about 3 years ago as a new home for the former users of r/chapotraphouse. CTH was banned from reddit because they were openly calling for the deaths of slave owners, which reddit considered hate speech 🙄
Hexbear is composed of leftists of all shapes and sizes, and they also have a special sensitivity to the struggles of marginalized groups, including but not limited to LGBTQ folk, the disabled, and gingers.
Some things to know about hexbear: they removed downvotes from their platform. Therefore, they tend to make a lot of comments, because the only way to respond to something you disagree with is by commenting. This can give the impression of being brigaded, but that's not necessarily the case. Also, their custom emojis are displayed very large on other instances. This is a technical issue that will eventually be fixed.
Of the major instances, Lemmy.world, lemmy.ca, feddit.de, and beehaw.org have defederated hexbear.
SJW, Lemm.ee, and lemmy.ml are still federated with hexbear.
I hope we can all get along, but obviously that's not going to be the case. I recommend that users from either server make use of the block function as necessary. More importantly, don't intentionally go to communities on the other server and attempt to antagonize them because you have a differing political stance. Some political debate is well and good, but there is a time and a place, and if you're not sure, it's probably best to keep it on your own server.
We will be banning hexbears liberally if they come in here trying to start shit, and their admins will do the same regarding our users. Pun intended.
Bottom line: we will not be defederating from hexbear in the immediate future. I personally believe they are a valuable asset to this platform, and I urge you all to give them a chance to contribute positively. If you find them annoying, just block them and/or report them; they are subject to the same rules of conduct as everyone else.
Please direct any comments and concerns to this thread, or to the Agora.
https://sh.itjust.works/post/4188546
Welcome, this vote will determine which image we use for our banner image for sh.itjust.works. The discussion thread is in the Agora, and was also cross-posted to ImageAI
Fantastic work on the banners sh.itheads, I think we've got several excellent choices here. I've reposted the candidates below, with credits to the users who submitted them. I culled some submissions at my own discretion.
Each candidate is labeled with a number. In order to vote, simply comment on this post with the number of your preferred banner. You only get one vote. ***
Number 1 - @TendieMaster69@sh.itjust.works
Number 2 - @scumola@sh.itjust.works
Number 3 - @scumola@sh.itjust.works
Number 4 - @scumola@sh.itjust.works
Number 5 - @scumola@sh.itjust.works
Number 6 - @scumola@sh.itjust.works
Number 7 - @ComfortablyGlum@sh.itjust.works
Number 8 - @thelsim@sh.itjust.works
Number 9 - @thelsim@sh.itjust.works
Number 10 - @thelsim@sh.itjust.works
Number 11 - @thelsim@sh.itjust.works
Number 12 - @thelsim@sh.itjust.works
You may also specify a few honorable mentions in your comment if you so choose, as a way to acknowledge the artists' work.
The vote will run until next Friday. ***
VOTE RESULT
1. Banner 8 by @thelsim@sh.itjust.works: 91 votes
2. Banner 11 by @thelsim@sh.itjust.works: 49 votes
3. Banner 6 by @scumola@sh.itjust.works: 24 votes
4. Banner 7 by @ComfortablyGlum@sh.itjust.works: 20 votes
5. Banner 3 by @scumola@sh.itjust.works: 19 votes
Reddit has decided to run another edition of r/place in mid July for some unimaginable reason.
https://sh.itjust.works/post/1387534
It seems to me that it would be stupid to not at least attempt to advertise for Lemmy given the perfect opportunity. Many have expressed concerns about giving reddit more traffic, but a few thousand users is less than a rounding error to reddit. However, getting a few thousand more redditors to move to Lemmy would be great for us.
Hopefully I can get a few sh.itheads to help in this noble endeavor. If not, at least I tried.
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/1022097
Don't mean to get in the middle of the Dieselpunk challenge but I figured the people here might want to take a shot at creating a banner as well. I'm going to leave that thread open for at least a week so you guys should have time.
Please post your best submissions to the Agora thread linked above
I will try to scan both threads to get all of the candidates before we vote, but the Agora thread is the official discussion, this was just cross-posted for awareness.
> The two obvious themes in my mind are gears/some sort of complex machine, or computer hardware/circuits. > > As an avid Lain Iwakura enjoyer, I added that screenshot because it's awesome and I think it'd be an extremely cool banner, but there are probably much cleaner designs out there that would be more welcoming to new users. I'm sure you guys will be able to come up with some in short order. > > You can look on lemmyverse.net to get a quick overview of some other instance banners. > > I really don’t know how the formatting and proportions are supposed to work but I will edit that in as soon as someone clarifies. > > Lemmy.world looks like this > > ! > > This discussion run for at least a week, and then we can take the most upvoted submissions in this thread and put them up for an official vote.
The two obvious themes in my mind are gears/some sort of complex machine, or computer hardware/circuits.
As an avid Lain Iwakura enjoyer, I added that screenshot because it's awesome and I think it'd be an extremely cool banner, but there are probably much cleaner designs out there that would be more welcoming to new users. I'm sure you guys will be able to come up with some in short order.
You can look on lemmyverse.net to get a quick overview of some other instance banners.
I really don’t know how the formatting and proportions are supposed to work but I will edit that in as soon as someone clarifies.
Lemmy.world looks like this
This discussion will run for at least a week, and then we can take the most upvoted submissions in this thread and put them up for an official vote.
TheDude recently upgraded the server to the most recent version of Lemmy. You'll notice significant improvements to the user interface, and hopefully the functionality is also improved. There is no official changelog yet because this version is not yet finalized, but I'll link the GitHub releases page where it should eventually appear.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/releases
Edit: 0.18.1 is now fully released and we have upgraded to the final version. You can view the link above for the changelog.
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/776343
Better suited for the main community, the Agora is mainly for official discussions and votes.
> Hello, > > I'm the mod of Japanese Metal. For a few days now, the community appears empty to me, both on Liftoff and my browser on my desktop. > Edit: it's fine if I view it on my lemm.ee account, but that's not optimal. > > What might be the cause, and how do I fix it? Anyone with a similar problem? > > Thanks in advance.
Say "aye" or yes" if you are in favor of defederation.
Say "nay" or "no" if you are against defederation.
All of the relevant information can be found in the link below. Thank you all for your input.
https://sh.itjust.works/post/564252
I can only hope for this level of engagement in all discussions going forward 😅
I apologize for the lack of clarity and structure surrounding the process and just know that we are working to streamline the process ASAP.
EDIT: If you post anything in addition to aye/yes/nay/no, it will be removed and I will reply to the comment with your vote.
I am not voting, I am simply cleaning up comments that try to continue the discussion. Just vote and get off the pot people.
If you're from another server, you don't get to vote
VOTE RESULT
In favor of defederation
We are now defederated from EH.
The mod team is currently examining the data in greater detail to arrive at a final count of legitimate votes. Nonetheless, whichever voting system/restrictions we arrive at, the result of the vote is not in question. I will update this post with the final count ASAP. Thank you for your participation, it was a largely successful debate and vote.
I've been experiencing a bug whereby my comments are not showing up on https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration. Perhaps on all of kbin, I'm too lazy to check.
https://sh.itjust.works/comment/500520
https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/109810/Kbin-Lemmy-has-just-ticked-over-100k-active-users
https://sh.itjust.works/comment/523173
https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/116113/It-was-fun-while-it-lasted
In both cases I copied the comment a few hours later on my kbin account which has the same name, and it posted instantly.
Anyone have any insight into what's going on here? You can tell that this is happening to multiple people because the number of comments doesn't line up exactly, but on the other hand the majority of the comments are federating successfully, as I can see comments from lemmy.world users there.
This is the kind of bug that really kills engagement. I demand compensation for all the upvotes I missed out on 😂
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/579437
Locked the original as it doesn't belong in the Agora. @Abrslam@sh.itjust.works
> So I've been browsing lemmy and this instance for a couple weeks using the jerboa app for Android and thought I'd try another app to see if I liked it better. However I can't find lemmy or sh.itjust.works in my password manager, or anything in my email. So I using my Brower I went to reset my password and the password reset button is greyed out. What do? > > edit This might (probably?) be the wrong place to post this. My apologies if so, I'm still fairly unfamiliar with how lemmy works. > > Xo
Exploding-heads.com is another instance on Lemmy where alt-right MAGA types tend to reside. Some people on this server want us to defederate from them immediately, some people want to save defederation as a last resort. They have 104 active users (more stats below).
It seems that exploding-heads has also experienced a recent botswarm invasion. This is obviously another point in favor of defederating them, assuming you are worried about botswarms, which is currently being discussed here.
My advice to you all is please try to discuss this in a civil manner, we need not allow them to create divisive conflict inside our communities. No matter how the vote turns out, you're not going to be able to defederate from your fellow sh.itheads so be nice.
I've linked many of the previous discussions below so people who are out of the loop can get a general sense of the situation.
https://sh.itjust.works/post/216888 https://sh.itjust.works/post/225714 https://sh.itjust.works/post/281126 https://sh.itjust.works/post/410325
Lemmy.world just recently defederated them.
https://lemmy.world/post/747912
https://lemmy.world/post/577526
Although this could be considered a point in favor of defederation, it actually means even if we vote to remain federated, people have a great alternative in lemmy.world where they can still participate in our communities and simultaneously be protected from exploding-heads.
Ensuring diversity of servers is beneficial to the platform as a whole, but it is also not our responsibility to bear that burden.
TLDR, just wrap up any last points in this thread before we open the vote tomorrow. Please be civil.
EDIT: To clarify, this isn't the official vote, this is the final discussion. The vote thread will be posted tomorrow and you will only be allowed to make a single comment saying Aye or Nay.
EDIT2: Vote thread is up, this thread is now locked. Very lively discussion thread sh.itheads. Please try to be more respectful next time.
2 days ago I posted in nfl@sh.itjust.works and suggested we come over here and consolidate in this community. But now nfl@sh.itjust.works has over 50 subscribers so it's actually significantly bigger than this one. Doesn't really matter which community prevails but I figured everyone should be aware of both communities.
One of the classic GoodNeighborStuff skits and the source for my new avatar. I think Kyle is one of the funniest people to ever exist. Probably gonna post a couple more of these skits here in the coming weeks.
A fascinating analysis of the themes and motifs common to the mythologies and oral traditions of a variety of ancient cultures. Campbell delves into mythology in search of some perennial or fundamental truth.
