The issue is the fragility of religious nation-states vs their ancient artefacts. If (say) the UK is happy to protect ancient artefacts against insane religious zealots of X country against destruction of XYZ,, the I’m 100% behind the UK.
Could they give the kid some radical surgery to make his eyes extra big?
What happens to the spiked concrete? Can they add something else to counteract the sugar later?
That’s a big ole’ desert that state has. Wouldn’t it be nice for those fake electors to be given a courtesy tour, to show the state’s appreciation for their misguided efforts but no hard feelings, of the deep wilderness?
Very good for tenderising meat at the ole’ half-time trenchfoot BBQ Bonanza.
Trying to land on the sun sounds like a GREAT way to spend the money that you could be using to fix the social ills in your country. Way to go India!!!
I started drinking lots of alcohol. It didn’t really help in the long run.
It’s like liquid therapy.
Then you lose your family and job.
It’s great!
God forbid that they concentrate on the quality of the basic vehicle instead.
I slightly chipped my fingernail polish.
Xmas is fucking RUINED.
Because all other langauges are inferior.
I heard a great podcast on the origins of the cultural trope of Davy Crocket as a Disney invention.
UI and lack of control is shitting me off.
I’m really disgusted with the lack of control to dismiss recommendations etc. as a PAID subscriber.
The only recommendations they give is to listen to MORE to change the nature of the advertising.
I don’t want to see (insert some brand of shit podcast) on my home screen but there’s no way to make it go away!
searching for communities.
Apologies for yet more dumb questions. Not sure if it’s a Thunder thing or a Lemmy thing.
When I go to search for new communities, I only get the option now to search within the instance I signed up on (Aussie.zone) instead of everywhere. Have I accidentally changed a setting somewhere?
Does anyone else resent the links to Reddit?
I keep seeing communities which seem to consist of nothing but a bot that reposts stuff from Reddit.
What’s the point? Really? I ain’t posting a comment about a funny thing there. No one seems to post about the the second-hand funny thing here.
Can we please just sever ties with that shithole altogether?
vegan whackiness
I’m not some out-n-out rampant meat evangelical. I eat some. I eat most things.
A post came up in my ‘all’ feed which happened to be from a vegan community. I didn’t even look at the community, I just added a quick reply to the post.
It was something like “Another benefit of being a vegan is not worrying about contaminated chopping boards”.
I said simply “Thank goodness hot water and soap exists”. Or something like that.
I got banned instantly and couldn’t even reply to the person who posted after me along the lines of “you are clearly outing yourself as a Carnist and you’ll find no love here.”
I’ve got nothing against vegans as such and have enjoyed many a vegan meal. I find this knee-jerk banning and blocking a very sad and pathetic reaction. No wonder ‘The Left’ in all its forms is so easily targeted as ‘cancel-happy snowflakes’.
I say this as a rock-hard Lefty.
extra blocking button?
Hi,
There’s a community I’d like to block from my feed but the name is so long that when I hit the info circle, the palette isn’t high enough to reach the ‘block community’ option. There’s no way to scroll down to it either.
Can we have another way of blocking communities please?
clearing message notifications?
Hello, I’m just wondering how I can clear the message notifications? The little red icon says 20+ no matter what I do to read / click them.
Thanks.
advice needed
Hi, I’m not a coder etc but I’m not a complete noob with computers.
My FIL has apparently been scammed / hacked by some shithead (according to wife) who has apparently managed to get control whenever he turns his laptop on. I don’t know much more than that right now. The situation is pretty shityy because the poor old man lost EVERYTHING in recent flooding; all possessions, personal documents etc. He was given this laptop to help him get his life back together, personal admin etc.
He’s actually an OG coder and mathematician but is old enough to be vulnerable to the crap that these scum pull on the unsuspecting.
I’m wondering if there’s a way (rubberduck?) to quickly delete teamware etc as soon as the pc boots. Not sure how much admin control he has anymore.
Is there a safe mode (?) way of getting back control / kicking external admins?
Many thanks for any advice.
Interwebs ELI5
Could someone explain why we can’t just plug the average PC etc into a ‘raw’ internet line (like just entering a house) and have a mini modem on the motherboard do the translation work?
I know there’s a limit to IP addresses, and that it’s maybe easier to have a little box do the work where it enters a building.
… but apart from that?
Lemmy Improvement Queries
New Lemmy user here. I have two points of improvement I’d like to note, but am not sure where the actual ‘responsibility’ lies.
- It would be great to be able to mass-block communities from lists, rather than tiresomely do them one -at-a-time from ‘All’.
It would also be useful to see the list for subscribing, as I don’t know what’s out there until I see it. Sometimes I can’t think of something to search for until I see it.
Perhaps this lies more with individual apps/ clients rather than the Lemmy ecosystem…?
- May I suggest that communities entirely consisting of bots re-posting Reddit links is, uh, unhelpful?
Anyone?
(BTW I’m sorry that I posted this also a reply to an earlier post. I cannot figure out how to delete it.)