The article did a shit job of linking to it, but here's the actual verbatim 
I honestly thought your first photo was a still life study in oil paint.
If I could get something like this for my steam deck + Xbox controller, I'd be sooooo happy
(this sound bite lives rent free in my head)
This is me, so much. Both my parents, my aunts and uncles, my grandparents. After I got my diagnosis, it's like all of a sudden my family's whole history of immigrant trauma snapped into relief.
What's the end game for these people? Is it hubris? Stupidity? Do they not think anyone's gonna notice - and even so, how do you expect to fly under the radar with "solution to the unified field theory."
Running the title though Google and looking at the discussions around it in various corners of the Internet seems to indicate it's utter bunk.
It's that banality of evil thing
Served as "flat files" - filesystem, object store, what have you. No server logic generating content, just passing around of strings and binary data. Files are the representation are the source of truth. Counter to a web app, where the content response is ephemeral and the "source of truth" is scattered across a writeable DB and recombinated (potentially) on every request.
Interesting question though, I (a web dev) just take the term for granted.
This might be more an aesthetic/sound/genre thing for you, not any one specific band (considering your other examples)
Kongs are basically indestructible from what I've seen. We used to have a pittie with separation anxiety and a kong frozen full of peanut butter was good for hours.
Himalayan yak cheese/milk chew things - really durable, moreso than some of the bones we get. Our dog really isn't into antlers, but my theory is that she likes the yak chews because they have an intrinsic flavor, and do actually wear down and give eventually. The only downside is that she likes to leave them in main walkways on light flooring, so I'm pretty sure I'm gonna die tripping over one, one day.
We also used to get chew rolls made from rawhide-alternative in bulk from Costco. They lasted a while, but we stopped getting them once we found the yak stuff, they get real gross.
Frankly, I'd kill for the Dems to pour money and resources into down ballot races.
If you're in RoR land, there's always the Faker gem to get you started. Or keep it simple - find lists of names on Wikipedia or something, shuffle and combine.
Honestly, along those lines, I don't think we (Americans) will get anything until we get rid of the electoral college and the Senate.
Edit: Shit, I probably should have made the title plural - "Does Lemmy need charters?"
From the great discussion below, some clarifying thoughts:
- Not advocating for a SINGLE charter, and less of a system and more of a... convention.
- In my universe, groups of instances could get together and come up with some common governing strategies that set them apart from other instances.
- Given common strategies, other instances can opt in to get in on that sweet, ethical branding.
- What I sketched out below was thinking specifically around what a single charter could look like addressing the immediate issues facing Lemmy to date. A prototype for the convention, even.
/Edit
Looooong time r/all lurker here, something like 10+ years on reddit with maybe 10 comments. I've seen a lot go down.
I'm seeing a lot of hand wringing around defederating Meta, Threads, and even handling problematic instances within the Lemmyverse itself.
It's tiring to see these things come into consideration on a case by case basis, completely decontextualized from earlier crises. And the patterns are all too familiar - the big ones lately have been around (to name a few things):
- Adopt-Extend-Extinguish (https://lemmy.world/post/467454)
- the corrosion of commercialization
- the never-ending gyre of "Free Speech" vs The Overton Window (nazis are bad, vaccines are good)
This definitely isn't a new idea, but at in these early days of the Lemmyverse, we can take our collective past experiences, good and bad, on other social media networks, and define some sort of Lemmy charter that sets standards for ethos and quality control. I'll start:
> 1) Don't federate with for-profit or commercial institutions > 2) TBD
Because we're done with the for-profit, commercial web, right? In the last couple of days, my brain has taken all the all the Lemmy posts and comments on the subject, mashed it all up, distilled it, and keeps coming back to this idea of non-profit/non-commercial entities.
but y tho?
Because loose, institutional underpinnings could, like a mycelial network, feed the Lemmyverse. And mycelial networks are dope.
Here's a proposed methodology:
- Initial Core* Lemmy instances define a charter of guidelines about behavior, ethos, standards
- Lemmy instances that adopt the charter get known as "Charter Instances"
- Charter instances have a say in the upkeep and development of Charter... things.
\*We'd have to think about what that initial "Core" means - maybe the first X instances to have reached Y number of users? Beyond bragging rights that They Were There when the charter was created, no other special status would be conferred.
And because I'm an anarcho-syndicalist:
- Charter status is basically just a blue checkmark that just says "hey, we're cool, folks"
- An instance can walk away from the charter, no biggie
- Charter instances can determine if another instance is violating the charter and take away their status, or choose to update the charter to be inclusive
- Instances wouldn't be limited to just the charter for guiding principles once adopted, instances can do whatever
- The charter should probably be Super High Level, descriptive rather than prescriptive, to allow communities decide how to interpret and implement
And because I have ADHD, and this is currently over-stimulating my brain:
- Different charters developed by different communities! Mix and match! Merge!
- Creation of a Charter .org non-profit foundation that provides material support to new or struggling instances!
- and compensation for software maintainers!
- and legal support when necessary!
- and maybe maintains the technical specification of what makes a lemmy a lemmy!
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Alright, ADHD has run its course. Back to lurking for another 10 years.