It's not actually that crazy, it's just that all these words like "liberalism" are thrown around in an utterly meaningless way.
The pillars of liberal philosophy are (1) fundamental rights are inviolable by the state (2) the right to privately own property that is exchanged through markets (3) egalitarian democracy (one vote per person) (4) the rule of law cannot be ignored and due process must be pursued.
People on the left see these as the policy points "conservatives" obsess over in their rhetoric, so they call it conservative politics. Entirely ignoring the fact that conservatives throughout history care little about fundamental rights, egalitarianism, or rule of law... Ignoring the fact that the original "right" opposed a "left" that WERE the liberals, when liberalism was the new progressive politic.
Socialism is a quite different thing from liberalism. Both liberalism and socialism are opposed by conservatives (the right), but liberalism and socialism have some serious, fundamental tensions and reasonable people may argue they are fundamentally incompatible. I personally think they mostly are, though tools from each are going to be part of making a more just world.
Communist philosophy has a lot of really useful analytical tools. It describes and criticizes society, especially capitalist society, in a very sharp and insightful way. People should read and learn it because it's interesting, useful stuff that is easily applied to modern politics.
Communist philosophy also calls for a (typically violent) revolution involving an authoritarian transition to get rid of capitalist society and usher in the future collective state. When a violent revolution is being called for in (mostly) functional democracies, that should usher in some skepticism from a normal, reasonable person.
The tankies reallllllly seem to like the violence, though, and are extremely supportive of any state that claims to be communist regardless of what atrocities that state commits along the way. They will be intensely defensive against any criticism (criticisms like "maybe Stalin shouldn't have starved millions of people to death through incompetence and genocidal inclinations", "maybe Mao shouldn't have wiped out all the doctors and artists", "maybe Putin shouldn't be allowed to try and annex Ukraine", etc.).
At some point, it becomes hard to properly separate these supposedly "authoritarian left" types from the "authoritarian right" fascists. Political compasses are stupid anyway.
"Fiscal conservative" is a nonsense term anyway, I suspect. It doesn't really mean anything. I'd venture nearly everyone who uses it is either philosophically confused or else is a genuine conservative that thinks if they say "small government" enough it will cover their genuine desire to crush civil rights of people outside of their tribe.
The smallest and most efficient government possible that delivers the services of the government is what nearly everyone wants. The only people who don't want this are the fascists who want the biggest and strongest government possible in order to bully everyone else.
@pterodactyl Remember that any subs which are still dark, you cannot see/delete. So you'll have to keep checking, at least until the API is turned off, to make sure you got everything.
So it's well known now that the developer of Apollo estimated the new API pricing would cost $20 million a year. For a source, see the title of https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/31/23743993/reddit-apollo-client-api-cost...
Spez specifically said the pricing was based on the opportunity cost of users being on 3P apps, not the infrastructure costs. The Apollo dev fully understood this, which is why his calculation for determining why it was gouging was based on industry estimates of Reddit's total revenue vs usership.
They were going to charge 3P devs many times what a user of just the reddit.com site is worth to them. Either it was a "fuck you" price to drive away the devs or it is a sign of deep and dire internal financial woes which they were hoping the more competent 3P devs would somehow bail them out on. Likely a mix of the two, though the former is definitely the dominant note I hear.
Benzene is among the pollutants gas stoves emit into homes, Stanford University researchers show. The toxin is linked to a higher risk of leukemia and other blood cell cancers.
Induction woks can do absolutely everything a typical home wok on a range can do.
If you're talking about the massive jet engine cookers they have in commercial restaurants then sure. But we're not talking about commercial gas stoves, we're talking about home stoves.
Just the ease of cleaning 100% justifies switching from gas to any flat-top electric. Even modern resistive ones. You don't even need arguments over which heats a pan faster or subjectively cooks "better", nor arguments about the danger of inside-the-house gas infrastructure or the possible health effects of the combustion.
Let's be honest, nearly all of the home cooks who swear that the gas ranges cook things better don't have a fraction of the expertise and authority to confidently make such a claim.
The new place I moved into a few years ago had a modern, cheap electric cooker with a resistive range. It has one 5000W electric burner. It works absolutely as well as my gas range in my old house did for cooking and possibly better -- it boils a pot of water faster and doesn't make the room hot. But the thing I notice and think about all the time is how I basically never cleaned the gas range because it was difficult and miserable. But I keep this electric one spotless with just a few swipes from a damp towel when I am done cooking.
To achieve wok hei requires WAY more heat than you get on any conventional range, gas or otherwise.
To do it with a portal butane range, you'd need to modify it for much higher output. He's right to recommend this for a home cook, but you aren't going to get the kind of wok hei a cantoneese pro chef talks about on it -- it will just be easier to use a real, proper, round-bottom wok than on the typically-flat tops of gas ranges.
Look up what actual wok burners look like. It is not similar to the flame you get on a gas range. It's a totally different thing.
There's some interesting stuff happening in appliances that include batteries for these situations. Impulse Labs, for example, though I am not sure that one has any real commercial future.
The price tags are super high, but when you think about the cost of running that additional circuit, plus the added advantages of the built-in, very large battery backups, the idea has legs.
The idea is that you can slowly charge up the large battery off any conventional outlet, then power the cooker off the batteries, since probably 18+ hours of the day you aren't using the oven. And the ~1500W of a typical outlet is plenty for running most smaller cooking tasks outside of a few big, short peak loads.
It's not the fediverse's job to do that any more than it is HTTP's job to make sure that the person posting on Instagram and the person posting on TikTok are the same person.
Individual instances can choose whether or not to implement identity verification.
And yeah, I can "try" to impersonate you, just like I could with email. I could spin up a cheap domain and make an email address PabloDiscobar@impersonatePabloDiscobar.site .
I would like to see folks from outside of the instance more clearly marked with where they came from, though.
What should bother you is not the particularities of the pricing. It's the overtly dirty dealing. Even the Apollo dev said he might have been able to make the pricing work, but certainly not in just 30 days. Admins said there would be time -- months of it -- and only gave 30 days. They said pricing would be based on reality, but no sensible analysis indicates that it is. Admins told the users they were worthless and literally defamed devs that were trying to work with them.
There were tons of ways they could've gotten ads in front of people. This wasn't about ads. This wasn't about some particular price point. This is about getting users onto their official app or website, presumably to mine data and control conversations.
The infinite free VC ran out when interest rates went up. Suddenly, real financial pressures they had plenty of time to address and never bothered worrying about were at the door. So they revved up the enshitification engine and got to the hard work of destroying the only source of value the site had.
If they came out tomorrow and declared they would keep the API free and that Spez was fired, it oughtn't change how you feel. It's time to be off that site.
Not even "fair pricing", because no one can know what is truly fair unless they have access to the P&L statements. Maybe this pricing really is based on the lost opportunity cost Reddit is paying as a result of third-party apps -- we honestly don't and can't know for sure, even if it seems completely absurd.
The devs and users of the site were lied to. Repeatedly. We were told one thing while the C-suite planned something else. We were gaslit and lied to about timelines, pricing, and intentions, and more. We were told our opinions are just worthless noise and that the only goal of the site is profit, not community.
It's our job to believe they don't want us, at this point, no matter how much they do or do not backtrack in the coming days, weeks, and months.
@w7voa Not the first genderqueer thing from Guiliani. Conservatism really forces people to deny themselves and suffer, as a feature. Maybe Rudy would be less miserable if that particular Kool-Aid hadn't been drunk. Or maybe it's just some silly, meaningless, circumstantial nonsense.
I nuked my Reddit accounts today. Deleted all comments and posts, then the accounts themselves. The tool I used showed each comment as it was deleted, and it was bittersweet....
You need subs to not be private to see/delete comments on them. So I'd recommend waiting for those are are going to come back to come back, then re-shred the posts. If that is your goal.
If you use Redact.dev, you can automate/schedule this process.
A Detroit-area community has banned LGBTQ+ flags from publicly owned flagpoles. The unanimous vote by the Hamtramck City Council came during a tense meeting that raised questions about discrimination, religion and the city’s reputation for welcoming newcomers. The council voted to display only certain flags, including the...
Political speech is the most protected form of speech. A ban allowing a Russian or Saudi flag but not a Pride flag is unlikely to pass any constitutional muster. A complete flag ban might be able to, though it would still be awful.
But now we also know that Hamtramck near Detroit is a place full of people who do not want LGBTQ+ people to exist in public. Hamtramck, Michigan. A place full of bigots. Proudly bigotted. It's even part of their official Wikipedia identity now. Good for them, letting the world know their true colors.
Hard disagree. You're stating a subjective opinion about the experience you want to have as a hard fact about the experience everyone else should have. You don't get to tell other people what they like.
Being on an instance that is well-moderated without you having to do that work yourself is one of the selling points of fedi apps. I am sure a huge number of people who signed up on Beehaw wanted exactly this.
They literally are because being able to defederate is part of the fundamental architecture of fediverse apps. And defederating from instances that are putting the kind of content into your community that you don't want is... like, that ability is one of the core selling points of fediverse apps.
I disagree with that assessment, and it doesn't match with what they said in the post. 4 bullets justified the decision, all of which outlined philosophical differences to my eyes.
It's true that in the future, they may have sufficient mod tools/capacity to overcome these philosophical differences with brute force. But at minimum, it is a union of both practical ability and philosophical differences that led to this decision and that is totally in line with the decentralized nature of the fediverse.
I don't know if it was the right decision for them. Time will tell. But being able to make those decisions on their own judgment is crucial to the longterm health of the system. We're two outsiders to Beehaw. I can't speak for you, but personally, I chose not to register at Beehaw because I didn't like the sound of a more curated safe space. I also chose not to register at Lemmy.world, because there are things about it that rubbed me the wrong way, too. That's a crucial part of how the fediverse is supposed to work.
Hard to say since it's totally subjective. I'm not in love with Lemmy as an ActivityPub service to start with. Devs have enough closet skeletons and the UX just seemed... not my style. Lemmy World, at least from the join list, had zero personality. It also expanded incredibly quickly, to the point that I truly am skeptical any kind of local moderation is going to be possible for a while. I have a feeling I am going to have to start filtering content from it myself -- my front page is being absolutely assblasted with porn, stupid memes, and low-effort posts all coming in from LW already.
Long term? Probably not a big deal. But in these early days, it is a turnoff. LW is a firehose right now, and the mod tools available are not yet up to that task.
So I notice that KBIN and BEEHAW and LEMMY all have duplicate pages dedicated to the same content. Are we as a community going to have to decide which page will be the 'main' page, will we have to subscribe to each magazine for each instance, or will they consolidate eventually?...
Or just find a post that is already on that place, click the community/magazine name to go to its landing page, and click the subscribe button -- realistically, this is going to be the workflow for most.
Odds are if you are interested in subscribing to content on another instance, it is because that content already went under your nose and you liked how it smelled. Click click is very intuitive.
r/WellThatSucks only.Vaccume cleaners (lemmy.world)
The Subreddit WellThatSucks has changed their rules so it's now only accepting vaccume cleaners
a community for anti-authoritarian leftist firearms enthusiasts (lemmy.world)
https://lemmy.world/c/jbrc...
What the fuck are you talking about? (rule) (lemmy.world)
They're always like 👀
Just realized the lie about reddit api pricing
So it's well known now that the developer of Apollo estimated the new API pricing would cost $20 million a year. For a source, see the title of https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/31/23743993/reddit-apollo-client-api-cost...
Gas stoves pollute homes with benzene, which is linked to cancer (www.npr.org)
Benzene is among the pollutants gas stoves emit into homes, Stanford University researchers show. The toxin is linked to a higher risk of leukemia and other blood cell cancers.
Is there any notion of unique identification in the fediverse?
I mean between tools, no instances....
/r/pics is voting on whether to make the sub solely for sexy pics of John Oliver (www.reddit.com)
now you can tell Reddit to get fucked, democratically
Reddit threatens replacing moderators from privated subreddits, citing vandalism and squatting.
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: Reddit “was never designed to support third-party apps” (www.theverge.com)
Thousands of subreddits are still dark.
I just deleted 12 years of content. Feels weird
I nuked my Reddit accounts today. Deleted all comments and posts, then the accounts themselves. The tool I used showed each comment as it was deleted, and it was bittersweet....
Detroit-area city bans LGBTQ+ pride flags on public property (apnews.com)
A Detroit-area community has banned LGBTQ+ flags from publicly owned flagpoles. The unanimous vote by the Hamtramck City Council came during a tense meeting that raised questions about discrimination, religion and the city’s reputation for welcoming newcomers. The council voted to display only certain flags, including the...
Beehaw* defederated us? (sh.itjust.works)
Beehaw defederating effective immediately from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works (beehaw.org)
Duplicate Pages Across Fediverse
So I notice that KBIN and BEEHAW and LEMMY all have duplicate pages dedicated to the same content. Are we as a community going to have to decide which page will be the 'main' page, will we have to subscribe to each magazine for each instance, or will they consolidate eventually?...