I can share the perspective of why I joined beehaw instead of the other services.

I used to be on the side of free-speech maximalists, but after seeing communities crumble because of toxicity driving out people, I also came to see the same problems with social media that the beehaw folks see.

On anon/pseudo anon places, the social structure to correct anti-social behavior does not exist like in real life. So to create an environment that’s tolerable to the majority of people, you have to isolate and punish the bad actors.

I’m past the age where i want to be spending time on things and places where people are hateful and mean all the time.

So far I haven’t felt any overt political views other than be respectful of other people.

I used to be pretty extreme on the free speech side (a la Ellen Pao saga), but I think the biggest lesson I learned is that unfettered trolls just drive out solid content and create very toxic communities.

Derisive term for communist authoritarian who support left wing ideology and also state violence to maintain their power.

Common themes include whitewashing Mao and Stalin history, and dismissing current state sanctioned violence against minorities in “communist” countries.

How does one even plan for contingencies? 96-hour life support, but can specialized rescue subs get there in time?

Weird person giving me something incredibly sweet. (Later found out that was a polio vaccination via sugar cube). The memory was very partially formed, but it should have been around 18 months old.

Other fully formed memory starts around 2 and half.

Consequence of insulting the business that employs you is that you’ll get fired. To limit the consequences here is to restrict the property rights of the business to hire and fire the individuals they hire.

More realistic scenario, if you’re an insufferable person spewing nonsense all day, people in your social circle (and those near you physically) will distance themselves from you. That’s the natural consequence of anti-social behavior.

There is no speech without consequence. To have speech without consequence is to expect cause without effect.

the US is a fractal scam. At every level, everything is an attempt to extract money from ill-informed “suckers”, from the running of the government, to the prices of supermarket groceries, to the tipping culture at restaurants, to even finding a place to put your car [1]. Every single thing is someone’s grift. In order to function in America, you need to be willing to be suckered to some extent. There’s no way around it. Unfairness is baked into every transaction, and increasingly more social interactions.

What a quote. I will add that “we” also like to believe we have the most fair system. And in many ways, the “gotchas” are much more hidden and systemic than other countries. For example, you might be scammed haggling with someone in Southeast Asia, but we get scammed everyday by credit card companies making bank on every single transactions.

after all this piracy, isn’t it ironic that it’s the mega corps that that ultimately breaks our current copyright model.

Naked pics online? Where did you find them? That’s disgusting, which site was it?

This has been amazing so far. I wouldn't let the request stress you out. If it's one thing I've learned from working in startups or small orgs is that it's just impossible to fulfill all the different asks, but at the same time, it's super encouraging when people do create asks because it shows that they are engaged.

Big thank you to all of you admins and volunteers for building this out.

Rosemary and bay leaf. They grow so well here in Ca, it’s criminal that they sell the leaves at 8 dollars a pop at most stores.

I’m not quite sure I understand what “social reward learning period” means exactly after reading through that paper. Can anyone help explain that in more concrete terms?

Call me paranoid, but imo, Reddit might just install ML based mods. I’ve seen quite some progress from these tools recently and they might pull it off.

What that will do to the emergent culture of each sub will be a big unknown.

Seems like a relatively easy thing for reputation to be implemented in the lemmy framework no?

The quality of life for young people is objectively not that great if you want to build much of anything.

Housing is tier 1 cities is 20x your yearly income, things are expensive, standards for relationships are high for both male and female, and you got aging parents to take care of with a near non existent social security system.

No wonder people are dropping out. The social contract has failed young people in China, just like in much of the developed world.

I would recommend checking out EU4 again. It’s an amazing game if you like history.

CK series is much more of a family simulator than country simulator, so that takes a bit of getting used to

Let’s see the VIM one.

I would stick to single-ride tickets on the Octopus card. They're pretty cheap at around 1-2 USD per single ride.

Do check out some of the mall food courts though, they are legit.

I got them at a local nursery!

But I was also told by a plant geek friend that folks grow them on the side of the road, and there are quite a few "semi-public" (true) bay laurel trees in most places in California if you know where to find them. They grow exceptionally well here since they are a Mediterranean plant. We also have a native California bay laurel variety that grows quite well in southern California without much care at all. They taste pretty similar and it's EXTREMELY easy to forage. https://www.foragesf.com/blog/2019/10/5/california-bay-dont-buy-bay-forage-it

Exactly!

It's absolutely insane, I remember needing it in a pinch to make some soups, and had to buy one for 8+ dollars at my local store, and it was like 4 leaves.... I went to the plant nursery the next weekend and bought a small bay laurel for 20 bucks, and never looked back. Zero maintenance, it seems to be pretty pest tolerant, and I just put it in my backyard in a pot close enough to catch some residual water from my sprinkler, and it has been thriving ever since.