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Does lemmy.world allow criticism of the CCP?
Well let’s find out: Free Ukraine! Fuck Russia. Fuck China!
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Does lemmy.world allow criticism of the CCP?
Well let’s find out: Free Ukraine! Fuck Russia. Fuck China!
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Reddit CEO: We're Sticking With API Changes, Despite Subreddits Going Dark
It's not that you're charging for API access; it's that you're charging US pharmaceutical industry pricing levels ($12,000 for something that should realistically be $200) and then only giving devs such a short time to implement changes. This was designed to kill 3PApps outright and everyone can see it. What an ass.
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I feel like posts need to age quicker
Yeah, the “active” sort also seems broken. I change to top with a day time period or hot. Works much better.
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Is there any more ethical solution to our current circumstances than "murder all billionaires"?
Tax all billionaires more?
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"If you tell a lie big enough and tell it frequently enough, people will eventually come to believe it". What is an example of this happening today?
If you cut taxes on the rich it will benefit everyone.
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YouTube is deliberately crippling Firefox on ARM systems
That’s gonna be a lawsuit…
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AI-screened eye pics diagnose childhood autism with 100% accuracy
It’s apparently good at 100% at classifying autism in groups that have already been flagged for high chance of ASD. It is not good at just any old picture.
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What Film Are You Surprised Didn't Get A Sequel?
District 9.
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[Final Update] My insurance won't cover UTIs for males. Yes, I'm in the US.
Yea it will. Just not at a minute clinic. You need to go to an actual urgent care or primary care doctor.
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The panhandle is a mysterious place
Former Texan here: slavery is why that exists. They ceded the land so they could enter the union as a slave state.
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23andMe frantically changed its terms of service to prevent hacked customers from suing
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Lawyer here: this isn’t necessarily correct and in America it’s state dependent. There are absolutely parts of the law you can waive, including negligence of a party which is likely your bungee jumping scenario with the rope snapping.
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My favorite XKCD
Thanks for posting this! I love XKCD but never saw this one.
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only lemmy.world users will understand this pain
Yeah, what the heck is up with that bug? I keep getting random sports posts when I click links.
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*Permanently Deleted*
It is unfortunately such a PITA to self host. Spent hours a few weeks ago trying to set it up and failed.
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Does Florida's SB 1718 violate the full faith and credit clause of the US Constitution?
Lawyer here; it's almost certainly unconstitutional but it's a political tactic used to garner votes from ultra-conservatives. It doesn't have to win in court, it just has to make a splashy headline now, which his base will see, and then the base won't see the court losses months later.
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Is there any more ethical solution to our current circumstances than "murder all billionaires"?
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That’s part of the problem; but, increasing tax rates (income, capital gains, depreciation recapture, 1031 exchanges etc) is needed even more than enforcement of existing. You’d be surprised how much of what the rich do to reduce their tax burden is perfectly legal and IRS enforcement would just be an annoyance.
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Don't say "autistic people"
I’m hoping the /s was for the whole post. Lol. Person-first language is problematic in many more ways than also being poor grammatically. Person with X indicates that the person has a medical affliction like Covid. Autism isn’t an affliction; it’s a more-common-than-you-think phenotype of humans that’s been in existence for centuries if not longer. Like red hair or blue eyes. I’m not sick; I’m just different. I’m a correct zebra not a sick horse.
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How the beehaw defederation affects us
What was their reason for defederating? I tried to read their post and it didn’t make sense to me.
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so, which Big Tech company do you think is going to shit the bed next and popularize its Fediverse/FOSS equivalent in the process?
Well, I don't think it will STB, but YouTube needs a FOSS equivalent that has the same capabilities sans ads. But, that's $$$$ infrastructure so I don't know if that will ever come.
BUT, I really hope that by the time Discord pisses off its users, that matrix or another federated equivalent will have figured out the UI/UX to capture a large chunk of those users. I used to live in IRC, but discord finally killed it. And I hate using proprietary software for so much chat.
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I'm hearing Lemmy itself, the .ml instance and some others are ran by Tankies that censor criticism of russia and china. What are your thoughts on this?
Please excuse my ignorance: what’s a “tanky/tankies”?