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I'm using the actual meaning of libertarian, so yes in part like anti-authoritarian. BTW, I hate that there's even a need for clarification, American free-market liberals using 'libertarian' to describe their ideal of laissez-faire capitalism is so annoying.

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I would like to remind you of rule 0.5, please add some alt text to this image. Something as simple as; "A man with a CIA hat typing on a computer" should do.

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I like the municipalist flavour of libertarianism, so you don't need to tell me what it is 😅.

I had the meme laying around, so I have no idea what the maker of it had in mind. I posted it with the prediction that there will be a lot of calling people libs in the comments under this post, and I wanted to make fun of that ahead of the time.

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Thanks!

Just as a tip for the future, markdown actually has a built-in way to include alt text. In the CommonMark format that Lemmy uses, you can format an image like this: ![This is alt text](image_url).

It associates the description directly with the file, which works much better for accessibility than typing it as a separate line below, and keeps the content looking clean for everyone else. I don't know how much of a diffrence it actually makes though, I don't have first hand experence with a screen reader, just what people have told me.

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Human nature

To everybody acting like the desire path is the problem:

  1. If the problem for you is that it's 'bad' or 'illegal', grow a spine so that when you need to break the law, for something that matters, you can do it with dry pants.
  2. If the design doesn't take into account how people will interact with it, it's bad and lazy. Only time it would be acceptable to 'force' a way to interact with something is when there are safety concerns, and there are none here.
  3. You are traped in a cage of your own making, break free or perish like the dog you are.

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They them seem to come from very new accounts. Like three or four come from this one.

Actualy, now that I'm looking, most top post on this community seem to come from similar accounts.

Either there's been another migration from some corpo social media to lemmy, and this is just what they post, or there's a bit of a boting problem going on.

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Europeans of Lemmy, what places in Europe should foreigners avoid at all cost?

Here's what I would avoid when traveling to Poland:

  • Zakopane, it's overpriced and very crowded. If you want to visit the area the town is in your better off staying in smaller villages, unless you have to use public transit.
  • Szczecin --not an 'avoid at all cost' but more of a 'there are better cities to visit'-- this-or-that part of the city is always being remodeled/reconstructed and there's no 'old city' with day and night life focused between two shoping centers and some roundabouts in the city center. If you want to go sight-seeing Kraków, Wrocław or Gdańsk are much better choices.
  • Mazury lake district, beautiful lakes and decent nightlife, shit infrastructure - roads are narrow (two bigger cars can't pass eachother without going offroad) and often lacking sings and other markings
  • Podlaskie Voivodship, even worse infrastructure than Mazury, it's rural, mainly towns and villages with nothing a tourist might want to see. You might think it's a good place to go star-gazing but Bieszczady are a lot better for that (Tho you should probably go to a Dark Sky Site for that, there's one close to Bieszczady, in Slovakia)
  • THE SEASIDE, it's crowded, expensive, the sea is cold and it's fumcking wimdy, go to like Italy, Croatia, Portugal or Spain instead

Also in general avoid capital cities, they are often the worst of major cites in a given country.

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Sadly that's not a woodstove, that would be too good.

That's probably an Aga style stove. Those are mostly made with cast-iron and use radiant heat to cook. Each oven 'compartent' has a diffrent function (eg. top left is warming, bottom left is for roasting and a big one for baking). They work kinda like a masonry heater. And are meant to be always on.

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What is the problem with banning weapons?

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In the case of the USA, there's more than just the lack of gun restrictions at play. If you were to compare knife deaths per capita in the UK (we all know how much of a problem stabbings are in the UK) and USA, the US is leading by a significant margin (and that's on top of gun deaths ofc).

For a gun ban to reduce death in the USA you'd first need to addres atleast some of the other systemic problems the country has been neglecting and/or intentionaly expolting.

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This how real professional IT people should deal with the UNHOLY computer, do not dare to BEEP at me machine MY FLESH IS A GIFT FROM GOD YOU SINFUL AMALGAM OF SILICONE AND COPPER, YOUR SPELLS HAVE NO POWER OVER ME

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OH! Finally! A chance to use my knowledge acquired from scrolling wikipedia while procrastinating! That law hasn't been overturned and is still, well, law. Of course every once in a while some clueless cop (because why should somebody enforcing the law, know the law sigh) will ask a topless sunbather to cover up. Here's the article.

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"assumptions"? Maybe consider how "I'm so sick of coding" implies you're doing coding? I'm so sick of driving, oh no somebody 'assumed' I'm a driver instead of a mechanic. Believe it or not, most people 'assume' something when you use sentences that imply it. CrAZy, riGhT? 😲