Wanna name some examples? Because right now, it just sounds like a tankie bemoaning people not wanting the toxic waste that is your ideology flooding into their instances – through .ml but especially through the noxious cesspit of insufferable losers that is Hexbear.

Edit: And I’d add that defederation is barely a part of this. The main problem is simply that Lemmy doesn’t have a lot of users, and so niche posts tend to receive minimal attention and effectively no discussion. I moderate a few niche-ish (but not that niche) communities on Lemmy.World (federated with .ml), and decent-enough posts I make there get effectively nothing.

While there are more significant causes, one such cause is that sane people don’t want a social media where at every other step is a tankie shitting their pants about how North Korea is based as hell and how dare you impugn Kim Jong Un’s name. I live with the tankies because I’d sooner quit social media than use Reddit again, but I never said I was sane. (Plenty also wouldn’t like all the ancom shit, but I’m close-ish ideologically, and I at least recognize they’re good people with good intentions and not just blatant, cowardly liars.)

Self-plagiarizing:

Germany, France, Belgium, Spain, Italy, and Poland, where Poland has by far the highest rate of trust in US and Chinese tech companies. Seems therefore like the five other countries might not be a representative sample of Europeans, even though total Polish trust of US tech companies still only amounts to 38% compared to ~15% in runner-up Italy.

Coincidentally™, Polish trust nearly triples over more “Western” countries, which shows that this clearly isn’t a representative sample of Europeans – definitely not enough to claim “8 in 10 Europeans”. (Politico actually changed the headline from earlier which didn’t claim this.)

We’re all still reeling from the plague that killed off every child except for yours.

No, there is a well-studied and objective answer to this general question. Even though people will vary, there’s a crystal-clear trend that’s been studied over and over again as a perennial question in psychology, sociology, and economics. We don’t have to base any of this on vibes, and arguably a question with a definitive answer like this doesn’t belong here.

A large empirical literature has debated the existence of a U-shaped happiness-age curve. This paper re-examines the relationship between various measures of well-being and age in 145 countries, including 109 developing countries, controlling for education and marital and labor force status, among others, on samples of individuals under the age of 70. The U-shape of the curve is forcefully confirmed, with an age minimum, or nadir, in midlife around age 50 in separate analyses for developing and advanced countries as well as for the continent of Africa. The happiness curve seems to be everywhere. While panel data are largely unavailable for this issue, and the findings using such data largely confirm the cross-section results, the paper discusses insights on why cohort effects do not drive the findings. I find the age of the minima has risen over time in Europe and the USA.

Here you go, OP (full-access preprint here). There’s no need to get anecdotal about this; it’s a very well-studied question in psychology, sociology, and economics. The U-shape has extensive evidence supporting it. If “have you gotten progressively less happy as you age?” were the prompt here, I wouldn’t be doing this, but you asked a general question that can be and has been answered empirically over and over.

Email wall* to be clear. Meaningfully different from a paywall – and imo also shittier since I’m paying with my spammability rather than my money that supports the journalists. But easier to negotiate with a sock email.

“The investors are simultaneously strong and weak.”

I only get about 4 hours

If you feel rested after that much sleep (but I suppose probably not if you’re having this consistently for months), that could be a symptom of mania.

Take that with a massive grain of salt, especially because I know nothing about you besides this one thing and because mania is more than just that.

Here’s the original article from Mozilla instead of this third-party AI slop regurgitating it.

Paywalled original from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for those who have access. Leaving this here because aggregators like MSN and Yahoo! News have notorious problems with link rot.

Archive (yes, I know more than enough about archive.today stuff.)

Benzene is a type of hydrocarbon, so neither is wrong.

I think you mean hydrocarbon*

electric cars also aren’t always the best if the electricity is generated by coal or something

Actually untrue. Because internal combustion engines (ICEs) are so inherently inefficient, even an EV powered 100% by electricity from a coal-fired plant (accounting for electrical transmission loss) comes out on top – and that assumption is ridiculously unrealistic.

Used EV sales are on the rise and could theoretically replace ICE cars, but that obviously isn’t very elastic and also relies (in the US) on foreign lithium.

So seconded: get fucked, car infrastructure, you absurdly wasteful source of energy dependence.

who still wants a television in this century?

This is so out-of-touch it’s unreal.

—Someone who doesn’t still want a television in this century

Taken as a whole, I like your contributions here. But I – ironically, because I’m responding – also don’t think you should give a shit what I say or really what anyone in this thread does. The only validation you need is your own; if you enjoy posting here, if you enjoy the comments you get* and conversations you have, if you think you’re giving people something worthwhile, and if you think you’re staying within the rules and on-topic, then that’s what matters. If you don’t, then that’s also fine and maybe means you’re burnt out and could be more fulfilled reducing your time here in favor of something else.

* I’m confused what you mean here by being “controversial”; Voyager shows you as +208 upvotes for me, and I’m sure I’m at least a bit notorious to regulars of this small pond as a cranky, critical, cynical fuck.

“That’s too much, man!”

Depends heavily on the editor you’re using. Editor-agnostic, however, is that under the hood, everything uses “tags”, which are effectively key–value pairs that the broader editing community has agreed mean something.

In most editors, you’ll draw the area in a sort of free-form connect-the-dots, and you’ll have a created a blank area once you close the loop (under the hood, this is defined by the placeholder area=yes tag, but seriously don’t worry about directly changing tags unless you’re experienced; just let the editor give you a list of items to choose from).

Next, select the area, and your editor should present you with some way to search for what you want. Once you click that, the editor will apply the corresponding tags under the hood and will likely give you a list of properties you can change (for example, if you create a fast food restaurant, it might let you decide if it has a drive thru or not).

I’ll be able to give something a lot more specific once I know the editor, since UIs vary heavily. (Note which I didn’t know at first myself: if you went to OpenStreetMap’s website, made an account, and clicked “Edit”, then you’re using the iD editor.)

I use OsmAnd which I think is also really good. I’ve heard nothing but good things about CoMaps too, like you said, which is a (seemingly well-justified) fork of Organic Maps.

If anyone’s curious about contributing to OpenStreetMap too to make the maps in your area better, I know a bit, and I’d be happy to answer questions, even if they’re just random curiosities. It’s a lot of fun.

and then minimally acknowledging their verbatim taking at the bottom.