So I'm not an app developer, so I might be completely off base, but I don't really understand a lot of the arguments against this.

Firstly, there's an ad free one time cost that in my opinion seems very fair. Secondly, as I'm looking through the feature for Ultra, most of the features seem to be things that require an external server. I'm not sure how push notifications work so I can't comment on it, but syncing settings across devices for example doesn't happen at the instance level. That kind of thing could only be done through a server owned by the dev. However, it is very likely that the dev doesn't own a server, and is instead renting on a VPS, which is a subscription for them. So in order to provide these particular services, the dev has to pay a subscription. So would it not make sense that those that enjoy the benefits of this subscription the dev pays, also have to pay a subscription? In my mind that simply seems fair, in order to support a dev that has clearly put a lot of time and effort into making a great app.

The user base for Lemmy is significantly smaller than Reddit. The dev needs a smaller number of people to be able to support the operating costs of the app (as well as the wellbeing of the dev) which means that necessarily a different (and steeper) pricing model would be necessary.

I do not think it's fair to claim that Lemmy API access is free and therefore there are no operating costs, because there's more to the app than API calls. It is indeed correct that API access is free, which seems to me to be the precise reason why there exists a free version of the app that you don't have to pay for in the first place. All API calls within the app are free. There are no paywalled Lemmy API calls, at least from what I can tell. But again if I'm wrong I'll admit it if someone can inform me.

My freaking God. I volunteered at a local charity org a bit this summer and one of the first things they told us in orientation was that "most people think that poverty is about what people lack. But it's actually a mindset." That pissed me the heck off not gonna lie.

I love how the one guy keeps qualifying the "American" casualties. Like are we gonna ignore the fact that dropping atomic bombs on cities is gonna take a few lives? Those casualties somehow don't influence the equation at all?

I hate that. I never noticed that. This is my first job where I've had to do these types of training. I've worked food service until now. How anyone could say this kind of crap and not realize they're a bad person for doing so astounds me.

Idk sounda kinda based. Maybe the devs should get on that

It was, unfortunately, yeah.

I always eat ice cream with a spoon. I can't stand any other form of it.

Yewler like math. Euler dope. Mispronunciation funny.

Or you could have someone tell you they weren't quite sure if asexuality is a sin or not so they're gonna be praying for you just in case 😔. Legit had that happen to me when I told someone I was ace once and I went away from that encounter in shock.

When your entire ideology is pissing off the other guys

That's a really great question. The answer is that mathematicians keep their statements general when trying to prove things. Another commenter gave a bunch of examples as to different techniques a mathematician might use, but I think giving an example of a very simple general proof might make things more clear.

Say we wanted to prove that an even number plus 1 is an odd number. This is a fact that we all intuitively know is true, but how do we know it's true? We haven't tested every single even number in existence to see that itself plus 1 is odd, so how do we know it is true for all even numbers in existence?

The answer lies in the definitions for what is an even number and what is an odd number. We say that a number is even if it can be written in the form 2n, where n is some integer, and we say that a number is odd if it can be written as 2n+1. For any number in existence, we can tell if it's even or odd by coming back to these formulas.

So let's say we have some even number. Because we know it's even, we know we can write it as 2n, where n is an integer. Adding 1 to it gives 2n+1. This is, by definition, an odd number. Because we didn't restrict at the beginning which even number we started with, we proved the fact for all even numbers, in one fell swoop.

I revived an old laptop with arch and the i3 window manager which worked quite nice with my use case. I used vim for coding and qutebrowser for web browsing. I'm sure there's a lightweight reading app that you can use from the keyboard, to complete the "never take your hands off the keyboard" vibe, if you're anything like me and that sounds appealing.

Except that many of us, including myself, live reasonably comfortable lives under capitalism? It's an extremely selfish position to be satisfied with a system that has done good things for you personally, but has ravaged the lives of countless others.

It's not about free stuff. It has never been about free stuff. It's about the fact that a society is bad if it allows a minority population to get richer, without first ensuring that everyone's basic human needs are satisfied.

Not really; an argument is valid if the conclusion is true only when the premises are valid. I believe the argument can be best constructed as follows:

1. If you think femboys are attractive, you're gay
2. If you don't think femboys are attractive, you're gay

Therefore, you're gay

Not only is this a valid argument because assuming the premises, the conclusion must be true, it's formally valid because it follows the form

1. A -> B
2. ~A -> B

Therefore B

And this argument is valid for all choices of A and B. It doesn't really have anything to do with the conclusion being true.

Aww adorable! Also Smudge was the name of my dog. He's no longer with us, but he was the best.

Just reading the replies, and the idea that minimum wage laws are bad because they increase unemployment and layoffs is such an obnoxiously ass take.

I refuse to believe that someone can have a take that insane without knowing exactly what they're doing. I can't fathom it. What, pray tell, is the usefulness of the unemployment metric if the quality of life for those employed is deplorable? What information does the unemployment metric convey? Their assertion that unemployment and layoffs will go down is implicitly admitting that wages will drop significantly without the limits. There's a 0℅ chance this person doesn't understand that, and yet they sit there pretending like low unemployement is some holy grail, inherently good number to keep low.

As an arch user myself, I almost tripped over myself running to leave this comment. I do use arch btw.

Can unfortunately confirm

How do reflections work? Aren't changes in direction caused by acceleration? Also aren't photons affected by the gravity of black holes? How does that work?

Wait... explain to me why proving your humanity is a necessary requirement to getting rights? What, because people who are slightly different than you aren't really people unless they're calm and collected?