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Cake day: April 4th, 2021

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  • As a scientist, for me this gap was bridged by doing a master’s and PhD.

    In my field, learning involves performing experiments using very expensive equipment and potentially very expensive failures. We need to spend a lot of time doing things that will build our own value (like reading papers and manuals and performing failed experiments) without necessarily producing a valuable output in the short term. It is difficult to do these things on our own without help and financial support from academia or industry. One would need to be in a very privileged position to be able to bridge the gap on their own.














  • With a culture like this it makes sense that they would want to protect their rights to own a gun. If receiving their first gun is a special milestone during their youth, and the person grows up shooting guns with family and friends, I can see how guns can become part someone’s identity.

    Most of my life I have lived in countries were guns are banned, so from my perspective it is easy to say “No, of course that I don’t want it to be easier for the people around me to own guns!”. But I can appreciate that it is different when you talk about removing a freedom that is accessible at the moment.


  • Federation is currently off for that instance, is that on purpose?

    It can be turned on by adding the following to the lemmy.hjson file:

    federation: {
    enabled: true
    tls_enabled: true
    # allowed_instances: lemmy.ml,other_instances
    }
    

    If you don’t uncomment #allows_instance, then you have open federation.


  • I prefer bow and arrow in the shooting range and a camera for wild animals.

    As for control. I am sure that there are people who have very good reasons for owning a gun, and I do not like blanket bans. I am in favor of a process that allows a citizen to obtain a gun legally. However, it is my understanding that it is easier to obtain a gun than a diving certificate in the US, and that to me seems like an incredibly low bar.


  • When you do delete your account you have 30 days to restore it. I think that their reasoning behind this is that it gives you time to regret your decision and come back.

    But you can use the psychology of this feature in a different way: Delete your account while giving yourself explicit permission to restore it if you need it within the next 30 days. I did this and, well, it’s truly deleted now :-)

    You can also export all of your photos to another cloud storage service automatically.