The four-color theorem is pretty cool.

You can take any map of anything and color it in using only four colors so that no adjacent “countries” are the same color. Often it can be done with three!

Maybe not the most mind blowing but it’s neat.

Expand and term-limit SCOTUS. This system is ridiculous

Can someone explain why r/privacy is so up in arms about this? Seems fairly obvious that my actions in the public domain are public, but they’re all “Lemmy doesn’t care about your privacy”. Why?

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/144clka/warning_lemmy_federated_reddit_clone_doesnt_care/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1

Expand and term-limit SCOTUS. This system is ridiculous

Can’t emphasize enough how important this is for the growth of Lemmy. Many people I know only access Reddit through google searches.

This is an example of a logical fallacy called “tu quoque”.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque

It’s funny because Facebook was the original dumpster fire

Totally. Microblogging (twitter alternatives) have a much harder task because they depend on the right users. Especially famous/influential people. Post aggregators (Reddit alternatives) don’t have that constraint.

1. Because they think they know better than poor people.

2. Because they manipulate poor people.

Yeah here’s a take that resonates with my cynicism about Republican politicians. They literally see it as a way to get more numbers in the long run because they know it disproportionally affects poor people (ei forces them to have more kids) and they know they can get those people to vote for them through other manipulation.

Seems like a pretty long con though right? The same cynicism tells me these politicians just care about short term wins.

It’s type 2 fun. You don’t want to do it, but you’re glad you did when you do

Wow I’ve never heard of someone wanting to ban a medical procedure all together because they experienced an adverse effect of it. Thanks for the view into a psyche that I didn’t know about.

I know he says it’s pronounced “jif”, but I just don’t care. It’s like “gift” without the t

Lol yeah but we were 12 back then and we still understood the internet better than anyone else 🙃

This is called the “poverty trap”. Here’s a great book about it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_Economics

Lemur? Lemming?

Can you explain the significance of these buildings?

Are they the head offices of those departments, or the offices that are in that city?

How powerful are these departments?

People seem super jazzed about the decentralized nature of Lemmy and other stuff in the “fediverse”. I don’t really understand how it works but it seems cool that Lemmy isn’t a single company/website. Can’t have a power tripping CEO or a board that panders to shareholders that way.

I’m not basing my statement (about American sentiment) on what I see on the internet though! The polls and votes seem to support abortion access.

Learning git was like every other cool tech thing for me (including the fediverse). People explain it in such a convoluted way. It’s like they think you want to understand the deep theory of it before you get up and running!

Yes, git is more than just a “save box”, but really, new users should absolutely just think about it as a save box. Learn the fancy shit later.