A couple of guys couldn’t handle a few troll messages? Sorry, if we want an independent site, away from the hands of venture capitalists, you’re gonna have to tough it out and deal with a few nasty messages.

No they aren't. Clearly they don't have to, as they are in fact shutting the instance.

They're providing a service, as volunteers, for free, and asking nothing in return. By definition they get to set the terms on which they do that, and it is astonishingly selfish for you to expect them to do so under conditions that are clearly untenable, and blame them for this outcome when they cannot continue.

No. If you want an independent site, away from the hands of venture capitalists, you should've stepped up and volunteered to admin when they needed help.

Literally the entire point of the comment that you're responding to is that it isn't true for the metre, and it isn't true for any SI units.

Your entire claim of tautology rests on the assertion that the speed of light is defined by something external to light itself. That's false. It remains false irrespective of which SI measurements you swap in.

Just because the speed of light can be expressed in terms of SI units, doesn't mean its definition depends on them. Which is the point that wolframhydroxide was making.

This directly disproves your original assertion of tautology.

*reasonably bothered.

That is a perfectly reasonable bother, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

The inside of the cone is coated in chocolate to prevent it from getting soggy from all the melted icecream. It tends to pool at the bottom because that's how gravity works.

There is no "random" plug of chocolate. It's an inherent function of the product. No matter what the flavour of icecream is, the cone itself is inherently a chocolate product.

So yes, you are, in fact, knowingly purchasing chocolate products, as evidenced by the fact that you're currently complaining about all the chocolate in these cones that you keep purchasing. If you hate chocolate that much, then maybe just don't buy it?

This is entirely a problem of your own making. And people are correct in pointing out that your responses have been nothing but toxic.

So in other words, the documentary was so successful in decrying the rampant hyperconsumption that was accepted in its time, that such rampant is no longer considered acceptable or normal. And on that basis, you consider it to be facile, obvious... "problematic"?

No shit its conclusions were already obvious to educated people. They were never the target demographic. Literally nobody references Supersize Me as a "study". It isn't, and it hasn't ever claimed to be. It's a shock story to grab the attention of the least well-informed segment of the population. That you're trying to call it out for not succeeding at being something it never claimed to be, and even more so for succeeding at the thing it did try to be, is not a problem with the documentary.

Whenver you come up with similarly hot takes, the comments always end up being filled with a you offering litany of obtuse bad reasoning.

the rare people who know the difference between i.e. and e.g.

This honestly isn't rare at all, and people who try to flaunt it as some kind of mark of erudition tend to come across as... well, not quite what you intended.

PCCs were a mistake. Never should we have let the ruling class impose a politicised police force upon us. It was inevitable that it would lead to ignorant nonsense like this.

That would seem to suggest that your browser has cached the old version. Nothing to do with OSM.

No. Everywhere uses the same terms, you just didn't understand the question.

The result of addition is the sum. The sum is calculated by summation of inputs.

The result of multiplication is the product. The product is calculated by __________ of inputs.

OP's question is: why can't the blank be "production", by analogy with "summation"?

No, it's not you, the joke just doesn't work.

Being a proud maritime nation, sure we should be celebrating this by having each denomination of note show a different famous vessel?

£5 is Boaty McBoatface.

If someone damaged my property, I'd feel pretty aggrieved... and it still wouldn't make them a terrorist. And the police wouldn't do nothing, because damaging property is a crime. That property being a few planes doesn't magically change the equation. Just like the government wouldn't be doing nothing if they hadn't designated PA as a terrorist organisation, because a whole raft of criminal charges would still apply.

Literally, and I want to stress this, literally nobody has suggested that PA should not face appropriate and proportionate consequences for their actions. And you knew that. You knew damed well that people have no problem with the government taking action, as long as that action is legal and democratically responsible. Yet you deliberately chose to dishonestly equate opposition to terrorist designation with support for them getting off scot free, even though that's an obviously false and mendacious equivalence.

You are not very skilled at this dishonesty malarkey. Consider yourself called out.

Eh, it's not really similar though. Yes, a lot of what we think of as "taste" is actually perceived via smell. But separately from that, there is actually a phsyiological sensation of taste that is unrelated to smell, i.e. the five basic tastes: sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and savoury.

Whereas there isn't really any meaningful distinction between the sense of acceleration and balance. They're exactly the same sensation, and the mind only knows which one you're actually experiencing by cross-referencing what your other senses tell you. If you're in a situation where these other senses are unavailable, people generally can't distinguish whether they're accelerating or off balance.

This has led to a number of plane crashes in history, in situations where pilots are in dense cloud cover and can't see the horizon. During stressful situations, if they forget to look at the artificial horizon display, they think the plane is pitching up, and therefore try to pitch down to correct, when in fact the plane is accelerating (due to already being pitched down), resulting in a crash.

Uh huh, because that's what they were advocating for. Sure. I'm gonna do you the favour of assuming good faith, so I'm not sure if you just didn't read the operative word "supposedly" in their comment, but if not: don't be so naïve.

There are widely documented occasions on which smaller instances have been blacklisted based on entirely spurious and false accusations of "fascism". All it takes is for one large enough instance to defederate, and others will follow based on their word alone. This results in the affected instance becoming non-viable, due to absence of any visibility amongst the wider fediverse. In one well-known case, an instance was branded as "fascist" and forced to shut down because the admin refused to take censorious actions that would have been illegal in their country.

That is the outcome you are advocating for when you suggest that such instances should be "iced out". And that outcome is the "toxic community" that we should be most wary of, because it is insidious and cloaks itself in a guise of supposed good intentions.

And before you suggest that these are isolated incidents that don't reflect the behaviours of communities at large: don't forget that it was mere days ago that feddit.uk, a rather large instance, was defederated by another large instance based on entirely baseless and spurious claims of transphobia, prompting the instance admin to issue a "guidance" post that basically just reiterated the existing rules... and suddenly this was seen as ok, and not transphobic at all. Imagine if the admin had instead not issued this statement, and pointed out that the existing rules were already sufficient? The instance's anti-transphobia stance has not changed, but I don't doubt that other instances would have portrayed such a response as doubling down on transphobia and defederated. So even large instances are not immune!

Defederation should be a last resort for rogue instances that support actual problematic behaviours like fascism. It should never be considered an action of first resort based on any accusation of supposed fascism or communism. Which was OP's point. Yet it never ceases to shock and amaze me at how openly and readily people are willing to suggest such a thing.

Literally nobody is suggesting that actual fascist instances should not be defederated. Nobody needs to debate what should be done about those, because the answer is obvious, and already widely implemented (i.e. defederate). So why even bring it up, as if it's a valid rebuttal to OP's point? It's not, and it's disappointing how so many discussions on this subject devolve to comments with an absolutist stance that has a feelgood vibe, without actually analysing it for cogency to the actual discussion at hand.

There was certainly a 'no-brain' somewhere in her thought process, I'll grant her that.

People complain about the proportional sizing of Mercator but the sense of direction it gives us is completely broken.

With respect, this is silly. People complain about the proportional sizing of the Mercator projection because disproportionate sizing is literally the only problem with the Mercator projection.

The sense of direction being off has got literally nothing to do with Mercator. That's an inherent drawback of trying to project a three dimensional globe onto a 2D image. Literally every single projection has this exact problem, in one form or another. It is considered ot be an acceptable trade-off for not having to work with globes all the time.

Stop looking for yet more baseless reasons to bash the Mercator projection, which is a perfectly reasonable and acceptable projection to use within its intended usecase (which this specific example literally is).

Ah, sure, the youths these days are so violent, they're always going about the place besieging castles and knocking down fortifications.

People often express this view. And, in practice, it does seem to mostly work that way. But why? There's no reason it should have to. There are many oldschool forum websites where the entire website as a whole has less members than there are subscribers to individual comms on Lemmy. Yet those forums have individual subforums with greater post volume/rate. Why should this be?

I think the problem is that most Lemmings are reddit refugees. They still have reddit-brain. They expect every Lemmy comm to be a constant firehose of content that they can just passively consume, and only occasionally post to. Even though the constant firehose nature of Reddit was largely bot-driven. So when there's no constant stream of content, people incorrectly think the userbase is too small, and check Lemmy less often... which means they post less often, which means there's less content. It's a vicious cycle.

I think people need to come into Lemmy with a healthier mindset. It is a community to participate in, not a feed to be consumed. Lemmy isn't Reddit, and shouldn't try to be.

It's an older meme, but it checks out. This meme is from the peak meme era, circa 2004.

Conventionally, rather than two panels with captions, it's made using four separate image panels. For that reason, the meme format is known as gaijin 4koma. You can search that term to learn more about it. Apparently the guys were IGN reporters.

I don't follow any blogs particularly consistently/regularly, but the one that I find myself coming back to at intervals is Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing. It's got a pretty heavy programming focus, but also occasionally covers interesting little trivia from Windows history. I'm not a professional coder, and I no longer even do any coding as a hobby, so take it from me when I say that there's content of interest to programmers and non-programmers alike.