This place is pretty. Stupid?
If Santa didn’t give us the opportunity to choose to do good or choose to do bad, how would we earn the chance to live in heaven with Santa for eternity? Santa never gives us more than we can bear, and he works in mysterious ways. Yes, we can come to Santa with our earnest request, but sometimes the answer is no. Remember the abominable snowman is always on the prowl for boys and girls whose faith is weak
I don’t know exactly. That site says 437,146 people make below $30k/yr, whereas $7.25 works out to about $15k/yr.
You’re right. I would love to see legislation that ties the minimum wage to cost of living.
I mean, I guess there’s hurricanes
Kids these days are too soft with their avocado toast and their graphical user interfaces
No, I don’t expect a company’s website to be open source, just their primary product or service
It makes a difference for the person hosting an instance. Suppose you’re hosting an instance with ten users, and you run into some kind of configuration issue, and stuff isn’t working right. Or maybe the server cost is more than you expected. You might just decide to let it shut down. If you have ten thousand users you might decide to stick it out because people are counting on you. Or you’re getting donations from a hundred people, so you decide to make it work because so many people are counting on you, or maybe there’s a specialist who’s also a user, and they help you figure out the issue.
What these lists are missing is a word for a person who is doing something bad/unwise.
For the same reason cities form: the larger they get the more benefit there is to being there, so they keep getting larger.
I like the federation model and have switched from twitter/reddit to mastodon/lemmy. Still, we should expect and plan for massive instances, because of their inherent advantages. (More users = more content, more referrals to new users. Lower cost per user in terms of servers/resources)
Ultimately what I’d like to see are democratically run instances. Right now each server is essentially a benevolent dictatorship, which is fine when they’re small and/or you don’t have much invested in an account. Once they start to get big and making a change is a lot of work, it becomes more problematic.
Social.coop on mastodon is cool, however not necessarily geared to scale. I think if there was a multi-stakeholder coop where employees can make a living and users get input on how it’s run, that could really take off.
This is a really dumb take. Yes, there’s plenty of psychopaths in Russia, and I’m cheering for Ukraine to kick them out. Still we know there’s plenty of people who don’t want to be fighting.
I’m using your tools right now, and there’s nothing you can do about it
Thanks for sharing. Have you played games in the Civ series? If so your description makes them sound similar, would you agree? I’ve been poking around other “4X” games, but don’t have the best laptop so while I’d love to play more recent games they don’t all pan out. Civ V works but Civ VI won’t, for example. I’m also using steam on Ubuntu so I’d guess that might contribute to the issues.
It’s fine if you don’t have a need for invites. But question was why are they integrated, and that’s why. For work I’m sure I send or receive a calendar invite every day. If my calendar wasn’t integrated with my mail client it would add a lot of friction to that process.
If you owed $1k then $1 wouldn’t save you
I’d like to see this feature. People here are right that there’s probably not a huge need, but also seems like a relatively low effort feature to add.
Not sure I follow, I don’t think this problem is inherent to Linux. Just the solution described uses Linux.
Oh man, as soon as I saw “there was a French guy” I thought this was about Tarrare. He was even more unbelievable, but at least the fart maniac isn’t as unsettling
Reminds me of this tweet from Merman_Melville: “Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it’s probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day” The experience itself is probably harmful and changes the person.