It’d be freakier if it was taking on air.

Businesses make decisions based on money. People make decisions based on vibes.

Phew, glad my psychiatrist prescribed me Ritalin.

Which would be a pull, not a push.

The arrows aren’t “chasing”, they’re “following”. It’s different.

Little bit of A, little bit of B.

In China there’s a lot of big coastal cities with very little open land for development. Putting small amounts of solar onto 1000 skyscrapers vs one big ocean plant, and the additional costs of ocean maintenance start to be less significant.

Similarly, in some places there may be opportunities to align the deployment of the panels with other systems, e.g., a kelp farm or ocean fish farm where you can collocate ocean structures.

There’s likely to be lots of new challenges faced by these structures, but it’s still good to work the kinks out now with some pilot projects

This is an ego fluffer app, not a scientific study. The accuracy is “good enough” to give you a rough idea of your performance, and if youre really into optimizing WPM, give you a way to track progress or the impacts of using different keyboards.

Getting a high score doesn’t actually mean anything except you probably use your phone too much.

Yeah, I’m sure AG Gaetz will get right on that

Idk why I’m going to bat for the dude, because he’s clearly a tool, but my phone probably has a photo of my SO’s ID if you dig hard enough

Woulda been something like a “I’m buying plane tickets for our vacation, what’s your passport no.” kind of situation. Or, SO: “left my wallet, what’s my DL# so I can pay this parking ticket”.

Not certain anything is there, but we’ve been together long enough, I’m not certain it’s not there either.

ETA: Maybe also “we’re going on vacation abroad, State Department recommends keeping a separate copy of our passports in case something happens”

I recognize long term relationship is different from mistress, but still

Look I want to hate on overwatch because they definitely destroyed that one in pursuit of money, but that Torb at the end sitting with his turret and getting potg hit home hard.

Probably still won’t play, but right in the feels man.

Maybe they can bring it back to fun.

Lol wut?

The core focus of early crypto was decentralization, not anonymity. Bitcoin is totally decentralized, but the entire premise is the blockchain contains a permanent irrefutable ledger of transactions. Basically everyone knows if Wallet A paid Wallet B. If you refill your wallet with anything remotely traceable, that means everyone knows YOU paid Wallet B, and similarly if wallet B has any ties to the real world, the lines are easy to connect.

That’s not to say you can’t use it anonymously, but that was not the intent and thus it does anonymity poorly.

“Crypto” is such a vague term it’s almost comical to imply it’s private. Sure there are ways to use crypto privately, but it takes a lot of steps.

Some people really don’t grasp the concept of the trolley problem.

A train is headed towards 5 people, you can pull a lever and switch tracks to kill 1 person. What do you do?

Naïve/entitled people fail to grasp the concept of compromise.

Sure, there are things you can do to be safe on Lemmy/the fediverse, but most of those things aren’t inherent to the platform, they’re just good safety practices, and most importantly none of them are mentioned in this “PSA” about “safety”.

I think it’s pretty murky, ignoring a subpoena is a crime, so US may be able to charge them with obstruction and request extradition, it’s then on their home countries to decide whether to accept the US’s requests. Either way I’m sure it would make them ever traveling to the US very tense.

See: Julian Assange

Remember though, these instance admins are generally doing this out of the kindness of their heart on shoestring budgets, it’s so much safer and easier for them to just comply with legal requests. They’re nice people, but not political martyrs.

I generally agree, but that is not conveyed in your image, it just (basically) says “come to Lemmy, you’ll be safe”. There are critical extra steps you should take if you’re worried about safety - this just feels more like an advertisement.

I appreciate the intent of this message, but how sure are you that federated social media like Lemmy is really any safer than Reddit? Not much on here is encrypted, to my knowledge, and instance admins need to respond to subpoenas just like anybody else… In the event of hostile government action, you’re much better off communicating on E2EE platforms, and unfortunately, posting on public social media platforms is a risk.

You can mitigate much of that risk with a burner email and VPN, but you can do that on other platforms too.