Comment on
TIL the Apollo 11 astronauts had to go through immigration in Hawaii when they splashed down because they had left U.S. borders.
Cape Kennedy-Moon-Honolulu.
"You know you could have take a more direct route to Honolulu, right?"
Comment on
TIL the Apollo 11 astronauts had to go through immigration in Hawaii when they splashed down because they had left U.S. borders.
Cape Kennedy-Moon-Honolulu.
"You know you could have take a more direct route to Honolulu, right?"
Comment on
It just keeps going
Reply in thread
I am willing to bet he has an automated scanner running searching for tweets containing "Elon", probably even aggregating them by how many followers a tweeter has
Comment on
The pipeline
Ah yes, famously socially progressive Stalin
Comment on
Top 200 Defederated instances from the Fediverse (May 2024)
Reply in thread
Anything illegal posted on a remote server will bring legal trouble to you as a server admin the moment it federates onto your instance. Therefore I completely understand them defederating from instances with a high risk of illegal activity.
Comment on
People who were fired on their first day at work/saw somebody get fired their first day at work: What happened that led to the firing?
Reply in thread
Omg he had hired the replacement already and forgot to fire the guy... what a mess, and what an idiot
Comment on
196
What always bugs me about this is that they had the boys in underwear. Like, if it's fine to symbolize with clothed girls, why do you need to do it differently with boys?
Comment on
You can see who upvoted and downvoted a post by viewing it in friendica.
Reply in thread
Well yes, the whole concept of the fediverse is that of social media as a public service. All activitypub data is public.
Comment on
Here we go again rule...
I've seen an expert say that due to the pattern of the spread it's unlikely that it is a newly mutated illness, and more likely that it is something we already know but is untypical for this region so they havent identified it yet
Comment on
Pope Francis has died
Reply in thread
The catch is that he did not appoint by ideology. His appointments were mainly based on the guys doing work for poor people, for migrants, and on them doing their jobs in the global south.
Quite a few of these he made cardinals are somewhat conservative in their views, especially regarding sexuality
Comment on
Romanian far-right candidate prematurely and falsely declares himself the winner of the election, proceeds to confuse the flags of Romania and Chad
Can we talk about how "I am the new president of Romania" in itself is an absolutely stupid phrasing to use when prematurely declaring yourself the winner of an election?
Comment on
How did you find Lemmy?
In the wake of the Reddit API changes, I decided to jump off that ship. Saw Lemmy mentioned but a lot of posts were painting it negatively, due to federation things and tankies. I was on Squabbles (lol) as my Reddit replacement platform for a few months before that disintegrated and then finally arrived at Lemmy.
Comment on
J.D. Vance Awkwardly Retreats After Bizarre Attempt to Storm Harris’ Empty Plane
Reply in thread
To prevent things like bombs being planted?
Comment on
Porn Is Illegal in Ukraine But That Might Be About to Change
"“Our colleagues from BRDO (Better Regulation Delivery Office) calculated that in 2021, law enforcement officers spent about 85,500 working hours on cases related to the distribution of porn."
All that while Ukraine has been one of the biggest producers of porn ever since at least the 1990s..
Comment on
*Permanently Deleted*
Turkish government in early 2025: let's start peace talks with PKK
Turkish government in March 2025: let's arrest our main competition for bogus terrorism charges related to the PKK
Comment on
Can someone explain PewDiePie
One thing to add to what others have said:
After having done these three or four very questionable things, people realized that YouTube's algorithm was essentially sending Pewdiepie's viewers down a radicalization pipeline. The algorithm would start recommending alt-right content to people who had watched Pewdiepie videos.
He himself still at that point made fun of the journalists who reported on this, essentially showing the stance of "I am not responsible for what my viewers do" and "I am not a Nazi and I am not radicalizing anyone".
In response to the fiverr video in 2017 he was dropped from his partner network and his Youtube Red show was cancelled midway into production. Additionally in what was called "adpocalypse", advertisers forced Google to disable ads from being shown on controversial videos.
And then in March 2019 a Nazi terrorist livestreamed himself shooting 50 people in two mosques in New Zealand. Before starting to shoot, the terrorist screamed "Subscribe to Pewdiepie!" This was the point where he finally seemed to wake up to the fact that some of his viewers actually were far-right extremists. And he stopped doing any edgy stuff that could be interpreted as being pro-Nazi.
Comment on
After watching the 2nd episode of 11th season of Futurama, I googled "Futurama S11E02 discussion" (without quotes) and Lemmy.world was the 2nd result. We can do it, guys.
Futurama has one of the bigger communities on here. Lemmy needs more dedicated communities centered around a certain franchises, like Baldurs Gate or Futurama or live-action One Piece.
Comment on
Trump tells Canadians to Elect the guy who'll make them the 51st State of US [Canadian elections today]
Trump: "NO BORDER!"
Comment on
Lemmings, which communities are you blocking?
for me it's the Linux and Star Trek stuff
Comment on
Fun facts
Reply in thread
They continued on quite long in an isolated place in northern Siberia. But since it's an isolated population of mammoths, it's kinda cheaty because this comparison sentence always makes people think "oh mammoths roamed eurasia still when the Pharaos were around!"
Comment on
[Trans] Woman suffers burns after three children throw suspected acid on her in West Philly, police say
Reply in thread
Even a twelve year old would normally not have the means to plan such an attack. Researching how to do it, getting the acid, actually going through with the plan – that sounds suspiciously like someone older planning it and having the children execute the attack because they'll face more lenient penalties from the law IMO.