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submitted 5 months ago by roastpotatothief@lemmy.ml to c/ireland@lemmy.ml

What's the best way to mark it?

[-] roastpotatothief@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

This is a great project. I had the same idea myself, and posted about it, but never did anything about it! It's great that people like you are here, with the creativity, and the motivation and skills to do this work.

I think this project is as necessary as Wikipedia itself.

The criticisms in these comments are mostly identical to the opinion most people had about Wikipedia when it started - the it would become a cesspool of nonsense and misinformation. That it was useless and worthless when encyclopaedias already exist.

Wikipedia was the first step in broadening what a source if authoritative information can be. It in fact created richer and more truthful information than was possible before, and enlightened the world. Ibis is a necessary second step on the same path.

It will be most valuable for articles like Tieneman square, or the Gilets Jaunes, where there are sharply different perspectives on the same matter, and there will never be agreement. A single monolithic Wikipedia cannot speak about them. Today, wiki gives one perspective and calls it the truth. This was fine in the 20th century when most people believed in simple truths. They were told what to think by single sources. They never left their filter bubbles. This is not sustainable anymore.

To succeed and change the world, this project must do a few things right.

  1. The default instance should just be a mirror of Wikipedia. This is the default source of information on everything, so it would be crazy to omit it. Omitting it means putting yourself in competition with it, and you will lose. By encompassing it, the information in Ibis is from day 1 greater then wiki. Then Ibis will just supersede wiki.

  2. There should be a sidebar with links to the sane article on other instances. So someone reading about trickle down economics on right wing instance, he can instantly switch to the same article on a left wing wiki and read the other side of it. That's the feature that will make it worthwhile for people.

  3. It should look like Wikipedia. For familiarity. This will help people transition.

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submitted 7 months ago by roastpotatothief@lemmy.ml to c/youtube@lemmy.ml
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submitted 8 months ago by roastpotatothief@lemmy.ml to c/science@lemmy.ml
[-] roastpotatothief@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago

For private business the tickets are to fund the business. But for public transport they are never expected to cover the costs of the business.

It is run as a public service, not to make money. The function of tickets is to prevent overcrowding.

That's why in well designed systems, the price is different at rush hour, and for high traffic routes and times.

I don't know anything about montpellier specifically though.

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by roastpotatothief@lemmy.ml to c/ireland@lemmy.ml

It looks like the current government will not take action on the urgent issues of our time. The most urgent is climate change but it's not the only one.

Any maybe no future government will take action either. It's the nature of our political system that governments ignore long-term problems.

There is only one way to force them into action.

We must find a single issue with overwhelmingly popular support. Then we organise a national strike over it.

It must be a specific actionable realistic issue. For example

  • A fair sales tax on all products which produce carbon dioxide or methane, in proportion to their global warming effect per kilo. This would include concrete, beef, fertilizer, fossil fuels, steel. The money shall be used to fund a cut in the general VAT rate. So these products rise in price and everything else, every less polluting product, drops in price.
  • A boycott on Israel until it grants non-Jews in territories it controls equal civil rights.
  • A ban on vulture funds owning housing.

First we need a public figure, or anyone influential or persuasive, to spearhead this action.

Who can do it?

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[-] roastpotatothief@lemmy.ml 25 points 10 months ago

actually i have no idea where i am! the community is called [ ]. the sidebar sounds like total gibberish. this is a place i don't understand.

what does this even mean?!

Banned? DM Wmill to appeal. No anti-natilasm posts. See: Eco-fascism Primer Vaush posts go in the_dunk_tank

[-] roastpotatothief@lemmy.ml 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

because the system selects for people like him. in a working democracy people like him would be licking stamps, or in a nursing home. you can't change anything by changing the man, only by changing the system.

[-] roastpotatothief@lemmy.ml 15 points 10 months ago

It's not his fault though. If you could sack your president and elect a new one tomorrow, the new one would do the same. Your electoral system ensures it. You need electoral reform to have a chance of fixing anything.

[-] roastpotatothief@lemmy.ml 45 points 10 months ago

polar bears. it's the only animal that likes to eat people. daily life is just too safe and dull.

[-] roastpotatothief@lemmy.ml 207 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It is useful to have lots of stupid laws. It makes people feel powerless and frustrated. It means the police can always find excuses to persecute you.

The technicalities of the individual laws are not important. It's the psychological effect of the whole body of laws on a people.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by roastpotatothief@lemmy.ml to c/science@lemmy.ml
[-] roastpotatothief@lemmy.ml 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Git is a great invention but it has a few design flaws. There are too many ways to confuse it or break it, using commands that look correct, or just forgetting something. I ended up writing simple wrapper script codebase to fix it. Since then no problems.

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with artistic training or brain stimulation we could look beneath the intrinsic nature of qualia to see the raw associations that make them up, just as a musician hears the individual components in what, to most fans, is a wall of sound. “It should be possible to experience parts of those underlying structures directly, just as we can learn to experience the individual overtones of a sound,”

The proposition, then, is that redness, pain, and the other qualities of experience are a blurred view of a dense thicket of relations. Red is red not because it just is, but because of a vast number of associations that we have learned or been born with.

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submitted 11 months ago by roastpotatothief@lemmy.ml to c/europe@lemmy.ml

Israel has cut off food from a region under its control, and has started bombing its towns. Israel has selected the people of this region for this treatment only because of their race and religion, which they share with Hamas.

Ursula von der Leyen says she fully supports Israel. She explicitly supports genocide.

Somebody like this does not represent the EU, and should not be allowed to hold any of its offices. She represents only the most despicable part of the EU's history.

Is there any mechanism to sack an EU official, given an outstanding demonstration of ineptitude for the job?

If not, several races of people within the EU are in grave danger.

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[-] roastpotatothief@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

Just use schwalbe marathon. They are puncture proof and last forever. I once got home and picked a shard of glass as king as my fingernail out of one.

[-] roastpotatothief@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

is there any evidence that this actually happens, or would happen?

all i ever see is humans being blocked or frustrated by the bot. i have never seen any kind of malicious spamming that could have been prevented by such a bot. spammers are normally thwarted by human mods.

the bot seems obsolete.

[-] roastpotatothief@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

it's in the article. diverting around weather patterns where an AI said contrails were likely to form.

it's hard to judge how real the result is. it's early days.

[-] roastpotatothief@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 year ago

The "slur filter" was causing so much arguing that the devs stopped hard coding it. Now the whoever is running the instance can choose any or no filter.

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