Today I read a headline that said "Doctor who saved a senator's life now stranded...", but I only read the first part as "Doctor Who, saves a senator's life". I was like Doctor Who? Saved someone's life? That's amazing!
Sigh
Good point
But the YouTuber who put the sponsor segment there assumed everyone would see it. So I think they'd have to be pretty shameless to have their video content be so obviously influenced by the ad. Ok sometimes it's more insidious but come on. People will catch it and call them a sellout.
Personally I don't care. I'm here to watch the video and ads don't work on me 99.9999% of the time. Because I associate them with bad products and services, if your product or service is good it'll sell itself. I trust word of mouth way more.
Get sponsorblock extension on website or on revanced if you're on mobile.
I haven't seen a sponsored segment in ages.
It's Sudan. War's been raging since April of last year. The war is between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces, a militia responsible for a ethnic genocides in Darfur years ago that are now being repeated.
Also I'm not caught up in that at all. Some extended family is. But I'm very very lucky to have been living somewhere else since I was 6.
No. I haven't lived there since I was 6. I am extremely lucky.
I have family there and the only news I hear are bad. I'm also still a citizen of the country and I'm worried it might break apart and I'll end up stateless.
Every country is different.
I would say at least in the American civil war I know who to root for. In ours we've got a corrupt kleptocratic oppressive government turned military junta vs a genocidal militia headed by a rich and powerful warlord with ties to the Russian Wagner group. And oh by the way the militia was supported and enabled by the former regime as they used it to hold onto power but now it's turned against them. So it's like "pick your poison". I thank my lucky stars I don't live there but I also stopped following the news cause it's horrible.
I agree America has some serious problems but they're just not on the same level as the 3rd world.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. As someone from a country currently going through civil war, the US is nowhere near close.
You reminded me of the loading screen in "The Stanley Parable". There's text that reads:
"The end is never the end is never the end is never..."
And it wraps around the screen. Fitting for that game.
First day moving to Germany in a study abroad. Lost and confused in country where I don't speak the language. Dragging 3 luggage bags up a hill searching for my rented apartment. This old lady and her son comes and helps me find the building and even drags my bags along with me up the hilly road. Was very kind of her.
It's in beta but it's been out since september of last year and all I can think is WHY DIDN'T ANYBODY TELL ME THIS?
I've been using desmos for years now and always wished they had one. I'm gonna spend the evening plotting random surfaces to see what they look like.
Thing is these generation labels are not as common outside the US. I doubt they know or care.
Too general, aka always wrong
I had no idea there even was a graphical interpretation of matrices, why did no one tell me this?
I think he's probably guilty. Maybe 60-40
You can style both dark mode and light mode with CSS but the question is how will you toggle between them? A button? Then you need JavaScript
Viewing all is always a bad idea.
Well not quite but close. I'm holding a hard disk that has ALL of Wikipedia's text in 10 different languages.
Yes you can download all of Wikipedia and yes it can easily fit in a hard drive. Isn't that amazing? Text is incredibly dense compared to images and video. Around 22 GiB for English Wikipedia alone and 56 GiB for the 10 languages I downloaded.
I also have all of Wiktionary in the same hard drive. It's around 16.4 GiB.
Besides lemmy of course
Edit: By community I didn't mean lemmy community. I meant like a fandom for an old or obscure piece of media with still some activity
I mean they're still the ones who made the hardware
Fun coincidence. Makes me think of reincarnation. Now I wonder what else we shared?
I'm a reddit refugee trying to figure this out. It seems to me like it's a decent idea to break up countrol like this, but unfortunately there are some inherent problems that mean it might not work in the real world.
The biggest in my view is that communities are scoped to the instance they started in. You could have 2 different communities with the same niche and the same or similar name but different insurances and the subscriber numbers will be split across them. I think this is damaging to growth because it spreads active users.
Eventually if the niche grows one of the communities of the niche will be the biggest and most active. So generally users will consolidate around the instances with the most active communities thus making those instances have a lot of control and defeating the purpose of federation.
Is there something I'm missing here? Because currently I'm not convinced this can both grow and keep things decentralized.