Like others, I can't actually see anything but the title.

So I'll just soapbox a moment and say that I think some circles get way over-invested in trying to super-hard delineate between one and the other. It doesn't reduce the value of a label if it has varying flavors within it; if anything, it's good to have some variety within a label.

Back when I used to mod Reddit, starting maybe a year or so ago we'd occasionally get users who would be inexplicably targeted by the auto-filter.

The accounts weren't new, weren't shadowbanned, weren't using any filter-triggering words (that I could guess at), and an examination via Pushshift didn't reveal any kind of spammy behavior. Nonetheless, their posts would get silently removed by the site-wide filter, and frequently we wouldn't even know until they modmailed us.

Now I can't help but wonder if this was a result of a beta-test of something like this. Something they had done had invisibly lowered their "Reddit credit", leaving us as confused as them.

Not Republican myself, but work with a lot of them. I'm seeing a few different camps right now. I can't really speak for exactly how many fall into each, but can only give estimates based on my subjective experiences:

• The "Leopard-Facers": The ones who've suddenly woken up to the fact they elected a moron and a bully. These tend to be foreign policy hawks, and may have only voted for Trump reluctantly. Probably the smallest group.

• The pure Trumpists: A mix of people who thought the US should be isolationist anyhow, just don't like Zelensky in particular, or just are too invested in the vision of messiah-Trump. Obviously they're thrilled. Very vocal, but I think also somewhat fewer. Maybe I just hope they're fewer.

• The cognitive dissonancers: Probably the greatest number. There's a lot of different views under this umbrella. Some of them were buying into the idea "he's just blustering for a better deal"; some thought the message was on-point but the display was inappropriate; some actually support Ukraine but can't bring themselves express any actual opposition to this shitshow. Broadly speaking, they're all squirming - struggling to reconcile the appeal they feel for his persona or other actions he's taken, with their opposition to his foreign policy and this in particular. Yet not able to accept reality like the Leopard-Facers.

Really glad I'm not the first to come here and say this. We're "firing" programs now? Come on.

Bows are actually incredibly hard to use. When you see a "draw weight" of the bow, this is the force you need to exert to pull it back to its full draw. 40-50lbs is considered normal, I believe, while the English Longbow - famous for its use in the Hundred Years' War - had a draw weigh of at least 80 pounds, with some scholars suggesting even 50% greater numbers than that. Imagine lifting a weight that heavy each time you wanted to loose an arrow!

Bows, then, require extended training to use properly. Not just strength training, although professional archers were jacked, but in how to properly employ the weapon. The dominance of early firearms had much to do with not just their absolute performance - at times, they were actually outperformed by bows in absolute terms - but by that their effective use could be broken down into simple actions which could be easily drilled into new recruits.

If we're talking about modern guns, this effect is much exaggerated. Guns can take some getting use to, sure, and modern bows have added features for ease of use. But guns are, honestly, shockingly easy to use for what they can accomplish.

Well, I mean I guess after a long day or working really hard it can get a little achey and-

But my lower back will randomly act up, sometimes it gets so bad that I about black out from the pain.

No. Holy shit, no. Not normal at all. Go see a doctor ASAP. If you're ever in debilitating pain for no obvious reason, that is a colossal flashing "go see a doctor now" sign.

3D CAD software. There are a few options out there (FreeCAD, LibreCAD, etc) and Blender is a thing that exists for more artistic 3D modeling. But they simply don't hold a candle to the features and capabilities of the paid packages, which typically have costs in the 4-to-5-digit range. And I'm not talking the crazy high-end simulation options - those I understand, they're hard - but basic modeling features.

Hell, I'd even settle for a CAD package that had some solid basic features and had a reasonable purchase cost. Unfortunately the few providers have the industry by the throat, and so your options are "free but terrible" and "you need a mortgage to use this".

They don’t understand how to use a search engine effectively anymore or how to rapidly filter through large amounts of information to find answers

This bit, at least, may be at least as much a fault of the environment - the increasing awfulness of search results these days. It used to be you could search a specific issue (e.g., "borked.exe high CPU usage" or "how to partition a drive") and your first results would be relatively well-written sites run by actual tech people. More recently, though, it feels like:

• The first 5-8 results are near-identical "help" sites that are 40% introduction, 40% basic troubleshooting steps, 15% "download our app!", and 5% actually useful tips.

• There are tech site results listed... but they're from 2016, a different software version, maybe even a different OS.

• "Okay, so, to fix this problem you first need... [SIGN IN TO CONTINUE READING]

• If you're very, very lucky, you'll find a Reddit (or now, Lemmy) thread on the issue.

I'd consider myself pretty technically savvy, and even I find it frustrating to search for IT info or fixes these days. The newest problem is AI-written answers cooked up for you on the spot, which are frequently completely unhelpful yet pushed to the top of the results.

At one point I really, truly believed that the internet and social media would be a turning point in human interconnectivity and cultural understanding. The ability to just... talk to someone on the other side of the planet, at will? When we know that exposure to other beliefs and cultures is superb at punching holes in hatred and misunderstanding? Surely this would lead to great things!

Yeah, that was a miss.

Exposure to other is still a fantastic way to grow understanding. But the internet and social media were not a highway to it, and as the "wild west" era of the internet faded and we instead got corporate-governed, algorithm-driven siloization of views, my views on the value of social media changed sharply.

It may not be an exact comparison, given changes in both popular media and US culture, but Huey Long (1893-1935) is possibly one of the closer comparisons.

A wildly popular populist demagogue, Long similarly set about expelling political opponents from the government system following his election and engaging in political maneuvering and strongarming which ultimately got him impeached (though, like Trump, the effort collapsed before before long). His efforts included setting up Louisiana state boards which directed the distribution of state money to political allies, a move to deny hostile newspapers "official printer" status, worked with a businessman to create an oil company which profited from public lands allotted to it, produced his own newspaper which published positive stories, and other similarly totalitarian moves.

However, it must also be noted that unlike Trump, Long actually achieved many populist goals, such as dramatically expanding the road system and increasing school enrollment. He was hostile to Roosevelt's New Deal, claiming it was actually insufficiently populist and overly friendly to businesses, but also was highly isolationist and opposed to US involvement leading up to World War II.

Long was assassinated in 1935 by the son of a political opponent. Most believe he was shot by the assassin, though some believe his bodyguards accidentally shot him in confusion after the assassin missed.

This. It says, "I acknowledge you are upset, and accept blame."

It's not as dumb as you make it out. The issue isn't that GPS is really, really good at what it does; it's that it's also incredibly vulnerable to disruption and spoofing. And due to the particulars of how GPS works, we can't entirely fix that. We can do some things to ameliorate it, but a lot of those aren't suitable for smaller things that use GPS today.

The other thing is that GPS largely replaced a tremendous number of other navigation aides and techniques, including other radio-navigation systems like LORAN-C.

See, this one I like, because it's one of those "man, I know the writers didn't mean it that way, but it makes sense... and it's horrifying!" theories.

The Falcon is so good, because for decades it has essentially had the crippled, half-dead "ghost" of a droid locked inside its computer systems, unable to fully die yet clearly devoid of her true consciousness.

Now this is the good stuff I look for in a Tech community.

Technically you don’t need it, but it makes it a little easier for the developers and the users.

For that matter, if you poke around in some games' files, you can find the actual game.exe and launch it directly from there, bypassing the launcher. You just bypass the authentication and compatibility checking as well.

"...can I join too?"

Assuming the majority of the material on it is still Radium, the good news is it's mostly undergoing Alpha decay - which can be stopped by something as simple as your skin. Depending on the decay chain, there's also probably a bit of Beta decay in there, for which a strong metal box will probably suffice.

But the real point here is that 10 uSv is the radiation equivalent of being alive for an average day, so brief exposure is unlikely to cause real injury. But here are some things you can do if you're still concerned:

• Limit time exposed to it. It's okay to take it out to show to friends and family, but otherwise keep it somewhere people aren't likely to be nearby.

• The aforementioned metal box.

• Wash your hands thoroughly after handling, and/or wear gloves. It's unlikely, especially if the radium-painted parts are under glass, but possible that radioactive materials could end up on your skin. Washing hands should prevent this.

If you've heard of the "Radium girls", the thing that really made them sick is that they were licking radium-coated paintbrushes, causing radioactive material to end up inside their bodies. Since (I presume) you're not licking the compass, you're much less at risk.

Guy sets a bluetooth speaker down on a seat, and then proceeds to do a full gymnastic dance routine right there in the subway car. Plenty of "regular" dancing, but also handstands, hanging from the rails, spinning on the floor, walking on the walls, the works. All well-timed to the music.

Didn't ask for money. Just got off at the next station. Dude just wanted to dance, I guess.

tl;dr (if I am getting this right):

• Sometimes moderators don't get if something is forbidden under the TOS, or believe something should be forbidden but isn't. Ask an admin if uncertain.

• Moderators can further restrict content beyond the bare minimum of the TOS. Please don't complain to the admins if a moderator does this (in good faith, obviously).

• Conversely, moderators, please read the TOS and don't tell someone something is forbidden under it if it actually isn't.

• Previously, admins told mods to remove content re: Jury nullification when discussing violent crimes.

• Currently, this has been limited only to discussion of jury nullification of future violent crimes, as it could imply someone should actually perform said violent action because they would be acquitted via jury nullification. As far as I can tell, this is the only actual change of any rule in this post.

Summary over, personal thoughts follow: That one specific change, I don't actually have any issue with. Reasonable enough. Obviously the devil is in the details of what is forbidden under "advocating violence"; that is a monstrously complex discussion beyond the scope of this particular announcement. Furthermore, the value of some of the clarifications in this post are dependent on admins actually holding an open dialogue with users, the track record of which is... variable. (I am still waiting on a response from months ago, which I was then told would be available in a few weeks.)

Additionally, since lemmy.world remains federated with other instances which tolerate unpleasant behavior and I see no indication on this post that this will change, this functionally changes little of users' ability to access that content and contribute to it anyhow.

It's frustrating for me as well. I'd sometimes like to go back and look at a conversation I had once before - so I don't have to manually unearth whatever point or evidence I had in that post - only to find I'm actually unable to.

What really frustrates me is that if a post is removed or - it seems like - the parent of comment of a conversational thread, I become unable to view any discussion in that post's comments or conversational thread. I get that people might want to remove their own posts, and that's just fine - but one person removing my ability to view anything else in the comments doesn't seem great.