I see no mention of GHG. Tree services often cannot find a use for the trees they cut down (which is strange because you would think they could mill it and sell the lumber). In the end, they dump trees they were paid to remove into landfills. When trees rot they release methane gas, which is 10× worse than CO₂.
I bring this up because wouldn’t wood mulch have the same problem?
Playbook implies that the republicans benefit in some way in pursuit of some grander plan. The “law and order” party would most certainly want the word “terrorism” to retain a strong useable meaning. Using “narco terror” to extrajudicially execute some drug dealers outside US jurisdiction is entirely contrary to a strategy that supports republican iron-fist intolerance.
Trump has endorsed using the death penalty for drug offenses for decades, IIRC. So in his last term he is indulging in his fantasy and has non-strategically compromised the language that was helping with GOP propaganda.
When Piefed emerged, it was extremely sluggish in my browser and I got the impression that it was lightweight on the server side due to exporting a lot of the work onto the client side. That could be wrong or perhaps it evolved more. That comparison suggests I should have another look.
First of all, you didn’t answer the questions.
But I will answer yours:
Why do people fear downvotes so much?
This is irrelevant and already addressed in Lemmy. Lemmy already has a disable downvotes config option. Beehaw is an example of where that is used. Anyone who outright opposes¹ downvotes can use beehaw.
Silent downvotes are a different matter entirely. There is good reason to oppose silent downvotes. They are a suppressive act that lacks justification, heavily manipulated, and adds negative value and toxicity.
Re: toxicity – silent downvotes are also an assault on dignity as they regard the OP as unworthy of explanation. Then there is the further side-effect of the OP being denied the viewpoint of a (cowardly) opposition and ultimately being denied understanding of the community they are in, which is not conducive to future positive content.
It’s ultimately shitty communication. Like when a bank’s way of communicating to you that your ID card expired on file is to freeze your account. Or when in Office Space they communicate to Marvin he is fired by fixing a payroll glitch. It’s that kind of communication that’s shitty. Bizarre how people actually think this is a sensible way to communicate in a civilised society.
If you don’t like the downvotes, you can use a sorting algorithm that ignores them.
There is no sorting algo that disregards silent downvotes while counting reasoned downvotes.
Also, the power of defaults is a thing. The suppression has effect because of default algos used by the unmeticulous masses. One’s own custom sorting algo could not make a dent in that even if it were magically feasible from the user’s view to associate upvotes to downvotes.
¹ I don’t outright oppose downvotes, but when our blunt options are the default shit-show we have by default or no downvotes, no downvotes is better which is why I use beehaw.
Downvote is the wrong tool for spam.
Also: spam is so rare in comparison to other downvoted content that in the off chance that the proper tool falls short, of course you can unsilently downvote the spam for the greater good. But as well, when you trigger “report spam” functionality, that is engagement. The server could of course cast a downvote in that circumstance while awaiting moderator action. That would be the most sensible of course.
This setting:
Clear cookies and site data when you close all windows
is true. I’m not sure what site data is involved there but I’ll try flipping that switch to false. I also reject 3rd party cookies but I don’t suppose that matters.
I don’t do change.org. Cloudflare is an exclusive walled garden which is contrary to the principles of democracy.
When a published “scientific study” that uses derogation like the “tankie”, I wonder why a publication would accept it or neglect to at least tag it with some kind of warning about bias.
Moreover, the second most active community, c/genzedong, further solidifies Lemmygrad.ml’s role as a Reddit alternative for tankies.
There is a bit of irony here because the research is about toxicity and insult.
I’m not going to read further despite being curious about how they make a backwards attribution of anti-Ukraine to left-wing. It’s the right-wing conservatives who tend to love Russia or at least convey the most tolerance. And Russians tend to align with US right-wing movements and politicians. Liberals support Ukraine.
Now it’s a 404 error. I think I would have mentioned that before, so I guess it vanished without a trace out the blue. All data is lost.
(update) It’s back up. I guess a 404 is not as alarming as I thought.
Corporations certainly would bend to consumer demand if consumers were wise enough to boycott and make demands. But the question is whether consumer wisdom would ever advance on a scale to make that happen. I think I have little hope of seeing it in my lifetime.
There are 35 million Mexican adults (38%) without a bank account. So living unbanked is at least an option, and more than ⅓ find it viable.
Nonetheless, it’s interesting to hear that all banks in Mexico are digital and that not a single one offers offline service. And that not a single digital bank offers logins w/out 2FA, or 2FA by SMS (which includes feature phones), or 2FA by using a card reader. If all that is true, consider posting about it in !smartphone_required@lemmy.sdf.org.
This is extremely reductive and oblivious to the actual realities of banking in various countries.
I think you will be hard-pressed to find a country that does not have a single bank that can serve those w/out smartphones. If you find such a country, plz post about it in !smartphone_required@lemmy.sdf.org and send me the link. Then we may be able to make a case for ppl in that specific country not being boot-lickers, if at the same time being unbanked is illegal.
If you think it’s easy to be “unbanked” then I would suggest that you try it yourself first.
I have been simulating an unbanked life for years now. 5 creditors are threatening lawsuits for non-payment after refusing my cash. One took me to court and it was an easy win for me. I just appeared without a lawyer and pointed to the law.
It’s also worth noting that unbanked is more extreme that simply choosing a bank that does not require a smartphone.
It’s banking:
https://slrpnk.net/post/28294479
The army of corporate boot lickers in the mobile phone context is largely composed of people who think banking on a smartphone is wise, despite the attack surface and despite the bank being empowered to monitor their customers more closely. Banking apps are the most significant culprit for gluing people to Android.
We may never see the day when more than 5% of the population realises the importance of FOSS enough to shake free of their addiction to convenience.
28.2 is too old. I forgot which version it called for.
It would be easier to understand if you had been around in the 90s. In the 90s we were accustomed to text UIs with little use of the mouse. The keyboard is faster and the mouse slows us down. Usenet was the universal forum platform of the time. We had a very rich set of apps which were very well developed because phones and GUI browsers were not competing for developer labor.
And because many people actually were offline, apps were designed for offline use. In Gnus you could fetch all headers for all the forums of interest. When offline, you could tag the topics that look interesting. The next sync would pull them down. Users automatically had their own local copy of everything.
A web browser is not half-assed, even less so compared with most apps.
A web browser is inherently shit software because it tries to be a jack of all trades which makes it a master of none. It has a huge attack service because it tries to suit many purposes. Browsers were meant to be document viewers. They were never meant to be an app execution platform. It’s rife with compatibility problems that plague them.
As I write this, I cannot see any of the comment interaction icons because the 3rd party app (Alexandria?) doesn’t play well with Ungoogled Chromium. The stock app is even worse which is why I started using Alexandria. Web browsers are a total shit show. It’s a duopoly between Google and Mozilla, and Mozilla has proven to not have the users interests in mind.
Browsers are bloated. Electron turns any app into a bloated garbage. It’s such a shit show. It’s much better to have a dedicated app for a sprecific purpose. Not a single thing trying to be many things.
Yep. Which is why I also use a personal website for the stuff I don’t want to see go away without me having any control over it.
How is your workflow setup? Do you run a piefed instance that syncs with piefed.social? Or is piefed.social your instance?
I suggest this community for a survey of the situation:
!smartphone_required@lemmy.sdf.org
IMO, one of the most perverse situations was the guy who was denied healthcare for not running a phone app.
On the desktop? A web browser. Why use an app?
To be clear, the web browser /is/ an app b/c it’s JavaScript. The browser is just a vessle for the stock Lemmy JavaScript app which does not work on terminals. Since the app is JavaScript it does not have decent local drive access, which means all the data is kept exclusively in the cloud. The moment an instance goes down, all the users are fucked. User’s history and comments are gone.
There are a couple desktop apps that liberate us from JavaScript and the GUI:
The selection is a bit poor with at least one of them being ½ baked. This would not be the case if there were not this frenzy of smartphone addicts.
We are losing our human right to self-determination and autonomy
Because some banks require phones? Find another bank.
No, banks are just the catalyst. It’s because apps are being forced on us regardless of banks.
The banks are the cause of masses of people deciding it’s a good idea “chase the shiny” and continously buy new phones, w/data plans and GSM. With so many Google boot-licking people running recent phones, countless corps and agencies have decided it’s okay to marginalise the few who do not.
I vaguely recall that there are good and bad ways to dump it in a landfill. You can bury it well, but the rot creates methane gas pockets just below the surface which escape into the atmosphere when dug up. When it’s rotting on the surface, it gradually leaks methane as it’s produced. Though I think it’s less rot when aired out. Mulch likely has ~½ the surface area against the soil and rotting there, so I would expect notable methane in that case.
Anyway, I’ve read nothing specific on it but conjecture that it should be studied. All that work capturing the carbon into tree wood only to cause the emission of a much worse GHG.