Which one really did it? We’ll never know

Oh, we will, be reassured that we will find out eventually.

Could the US or China have done this covertly? Yes.

So this is what we find on Lemmy? A russian apologist as top post?

First post and this is what I read. mmmkay "The USA or China could have destroyed this dam covertly", right... The good old russian strategy of making you doubt everything you read. The goal of the russian propaganda is not to lie, the goal is to make you trust nothing, and specially not journalists.

A quick look at your history and you constantly bash the Ukrainian resistance.

When the only thing that continues to work on you ad-filled web site is the captcha, I’m not interested in supporting your journalism any more.

Protip: You can crash self-driving cars by purposefully misclicking during Captcha checks when they ask you to identify what is a bicycle, a car, a pedestrian, etc. Keep misclicking, your are poisoning the AI with each misclick. Just stay safe on the sidewalk.

Seriously, I'm not from the USA and I'm not supposed to know the names of American senators, MP's, governors or lawyers, or of who shot who, or who had a panic attack in an airplane, or why people are shouting at each others at a mcdonalds drive-in. Does any american ex-redditor know the name of a single european politician besides Merkel?

The news cycle proposed by reddit is filled with american politics ad nauseam and by ragebait. The european subs of reddit are filled with russian shills. When you add up all of this there is no point into opening reddit for the news.

This is you about Zelensky in a previous post. What the heck is wrong with Lemmy?

How the f# people can give 2 seconds of credit to this douche?! How Ukrainians could sacrifice their life for this sucker?!

If he had 5% of honor, he would abdicate and stop sacrificing Ukrainians lives!

Russia has started an illegal war and is using illegal means. They will pay for this.

The dam sluices were Russian controlled but the dam is on the front line. It easily could have been attacked by either side.

Wrong, you don't destroy a dam just like that. It takes preparation and a lot of explosives at the right points. This is not a Micahel Bay movies we're talking about.

Both sides will see flooding but moreso the Russian side because it’s flatter. Breaching the dam will empty the canal providing much-needed water to Crimea. The lower water level upstream could threaten the safety of an offline nuclear plant upriver. I can’t tell which side controls the plant, so I’m not sure who that would affect more.

And Putin doesn't care about all of that. He has proven it again and again.

I can’t tell which side controls the plant

Russia, They took control of the plant, which is illegal, all nations around the globe know perfectly that no army should take control of a civilian power plant. Every other army is trained to carefully avoid the nuclear power plants. For some reason Russia keeps ignoring the international laws.

But Ukraine could have done it for the reasons stated.

Nonsense, but keep trying

We’re definitely still in the fog of war and it’s ignorant to assume we know all the details.

Textbook Russian propaganda here -> "Nobody knows for sure".... Well, keep telling you that, nobody believes you west of Russia.

The dam was under Russian control and they sabotaged it to slow down the Ukrainian counter offensive. It's fine, Ukraine knew it was a possibility and they have plans accounting for it.

From the article

But if Russia did destroy the dam, he says, it might have hoped to protect its western flank by complicating Ukraine’s offensive moves. “We know the Russians have form for this sort of thing,” he argues, pointing to Stalin’s destruction of the Dnieper dam at Zaporizhia in 1941.

So far? Lemmy is filled with Russian shills. I hope we outnumber them soon.

Joining communities is very counter-intuitive. They are spread around and I ended up joining lemmy.ml communities exclusively, from another instance.

We could use much more space for the text, so far the text is way too concentrated in the middle of the screen in a narrow column.

Now on the content I'm rather satisfied. It's still a bit low in volume and if you compare to reddit it's really small, but we will catch up soon. We should lower our expectations and start building anew.

"Think critically" you say? So where are your facts? Because thinking critically is all about the facts. You have brushed away all the facts and declared "We will never know". So where are your facts?

For example the russians had control of the dam, not the ukrainians. It's just an example. What do you make of it? Come on, show us your "critical thinking".

Linux

I swear that the last time I've ever shouted at a machine was when I was installing the latest release of Windows Server and I was unable to find the most basics elements on their graphic interface. It's like I was a baby in a toypark. And they have the guts to call it a server. I've seen enough dark patterns in their install steps to make any sane person go mad. Windows is leaking bad faith though all his interface. You know what I want to do and you purposefully stop me from doing it. You are not an ally and not even a tool.

I tried Macosx years ago too, but from now on I will only use any reasonable brand of linux.

I won't miss the n^th^ screenshot of a tweet of a tiktok.

AI will come up with technological solutions to societal problems so effective and straightforward that it will raise the floor for everybody.

• "Please scientists, tell us what to do to overcome global warming"
• "You need to reduce your consumption, there is no other way"
• "Wait, what? What do you mean?"
• "We mean that you need to purchase less stuff"
• "No, there must be an error, are they crazy? We need a real solution! Let's ask the AI instead"

• "Oh, AI, please tell us how we can overcome the challenge of global warming!"
• "computing... You need to reduce your consumption"
• "Nonono.... wait a sec.... opens the box.... Look, it's these damned scientists again!"

Spez decided he’s doing an AMA tomorrow.

Tomorrow? Who wants to bet that the questions and the answers are already written as we speak?

It is a python script, you need the praw library. The client id’s are given in your profile after you create an app.

  
import praw

reddit = praw.Reddit(client_id='yourid',
	client_secret='yoursecret',
	password='your password',
	user_agent='deletes my comments',
	username='your username')

redditor = reddit.redditor("your username")

for comment in redditor.comments.top(limit=10000):
	comment.edit("deleted")
	comment.delete()

You can edit and delete everything in the same pass but I prefer to overwrite my comments first and give time for the cache machines to register my new garbage before deleting with another pass.

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/burggit.moe

  "countryname": "Netherlands",
  "lat": "52.352",
  "long": "4.9392",

It won't impact our society because it won't have enough time to do it since global warming and the lack of resource will ravage our way of life anyway.

Do it quickly while the scripts to do it still allow you to overwrite your comments.

Honestly we'd better picking another main instance from scratch. lemmy.ml is federated with a cesspool of russian shills (lemmygrad) and we don't need this, we really don't need them. Nevermind how many people can register on our new instance, more redditors can start new instances as time goes one and still connect to the communities (subs) on our new one. In a way we don't completely escape federation.

The bonus is that if the admins of the new instance go reddit-crazy, we always have the possibility of picking another instance as the main one.

All your posts and comments will feed the future AI's. That's the end goal of reddit: selling their database to different AI's. Don't give it for free.

go to the sub called /r/lemmy, people there are begging for tutorials about lemmy.