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  • Yeah, I live in a neighborhood that’s kinda in-between suburban and rural. I.e. a neighborhood of 1/4 acre lots surrounded by mostly protected shrubland. The deer seem to have learned to stay in the neighborhood where they can’t be hunted. They often sleep in people’s back and sometimes even front yards. I don’t really mind them, except for the fact that they’ll eat almost anything I try to plant, and even jump my backyard fence to eat their favorite plants.


  • 31337tomemes@lemmy.worldWe're RIGHT HERE :(
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    Some people’s aversion of algorithms on the fediverse kind of reminds me of people’s aversion of GMO food. Genetically modifying rice to contain more vitamin D is probably good; genetically modifying vegetables to contain more cyanide would probably be bad. Algorithms don’t have to be built to maximize “engagement;” they can be designed to maximize other metrics, or balance multiple metrics, or be user-customizable.

    IMO, Mastadon is much worse off for their refusal to implement any kind of algorithm outside their “explore” feed. When I tried using Mastodon, search was unhelpfully in chronological order, and my home feed just got overtaken by the people that post the most. In contrast, Lemmy’s handling of algorithms is pretty good, imo.

    As bad as search engines are now, they’d be even worse if they just gave you results in chronological order.





  • 31337toFediverse memes@feddit.ukNothing personnel, kid
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    Easy enough to scroll past. Hexbear was a bit annoying with what looked like brigading sometimes. Don’t recall anything too egregious from lemmygrad and don’t recall beehaw being tankie. Awful.systems is very toxic, but I’d rather just choose not to participate myself than my home instance making that decision for me. On that note, lemmy needs tools so users can block users/communities/instances; I think some proprietary apps support it, but I’m not going to use proprietary software if I don’t have to.





  • Dunno, they’d probably have a hard time suing European instances, but they can’t outright block, as that would be unconstitutional. U.S. states have recently been using lawsuits to get around constitutionality. I.e. Texas also has a “bounty” law, where if you know a woman went out of state to get an abortion, you can report it, and the state will sue them and give you $10,000. I think another state has a similar law for if you see a trans person using a restroom that doesn’t match the genitalia they were born with.





  • Worked manual jobs (assembly line) right out of highschool (well fast food during highschool too), and absolutely hated how boring it was to me. I’m not a social person, and used to have really bad social anxiety. I’ve always had an interest in computers, for whatever reason, so after a few years of manual labor, decided to go to college for that. Also, I lived in a very depressed area, and the jobs I had were very low paying, to the point I couldn’t afford to move out from my parents, so something had to change.

    Anyways, I made the right choice, because I’m pretty good at what I do, and I love encountering and solving difficult problems.

    While in college, I did work at a metal fab shop for a summer, and I could’ve totally seen myself doing that as well. It wasn’t mind-numbing like assembly line work, did involve problem solving, and the tools and machines were “cool.”


  • 31337toFunnyFavorite superheroes!
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    I’m unfamiliar with that delivery uniform, maybe it’s another country’s postal service, but the USPS has had a kind of “higher purpose” associated with it. E.g.

    The Postal Service shall have as its basic function the obligation to provide postal services to bind the Nation together through the personal, educational, literary, and business correspondence of the people. It shall provide prompt, reliable, and efficient services to patrons in all areas and shall render postal services to all communities.

    Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.