Oh yay now someone is trying to draw right on top of our work?

Getting a bit more filled in around the sides now. I’m gonna head to bed, and hope someone works out how to merge the corvid and the Voidpunk flag while I’m sleeping 😅

Great job everyone! I saw heaps of LemmyNZ users in the mix, including newer members that may not have been in previous events. Also saw a bunch of friends-of-LemmyNZ helping as well 🙂

I’m working on filling in gaps now, around our area at the moment but will branch out to try to help fill out the canvas.

I think we are done! It only took us 24 hours out of the 48 hour event!

Feel free to add stuff to the gaps around us. There is also a master template if you want to help others, reset your template to coordinates 0,0 and don’t have a size, then add this URL. It should match up with ours as well as have a bunch of other people’s templates: https://chocolatecakecodes.goip.de/cotemplate/api/templates/20260520-Canvas26_main/template?images=all#1784434131037

It comes from here: https://chocolatecakecodes.goip.de/cotemplate/ui/template/20260520-Canvas26_main

There is a link to copy the URL at the top of that site.

Wow did it look that red in real life?

A bit of a team effort! But having that new logo gave us a great starting point 🙂

Time zones! We got a nice 4pm start while most of North America has been or are currently sleeping. I have no doubt it will come together.

We’re doing great! We have until 4pm Monday. That gives us all day tomorrow and most of Monday if we take the day off work 😋

Hey don’t get me wrong, if we could live in a world where all research could be paid for by those that don’t stand to gain from particular results, I’d be there! But yeah, it’s not this world.

In this case though, the more I hear about this (over what must have been at least the last 10 years) it just seems to get worse. I would not be surprised if this turns into one of those situations where it’s actually way worse than we know and the manufacturer knew all along.

Damn how? The exact same image is at the exact same coordinates…

Anyway, I adjusted the coordinates to be out by 2 on the master template so if you re-pull it the template should now match.

Yip and you get one per 30 seconds, but they are having trouble with it showing the wrong countdown.

And we are go!

It’s not uncommon for studies to be funded by industry. It works like this: There is a limited amount of funding available for studies. Some small scale stuff gets done to identify opportunities. If one of these finds e.g. that milk potentially reduces hair loss (made up example), then the researchers will want to explore this further in a large scale trial, which needs a lot more funding.

Along comes the dairy industry, keen to support further research because it could help them sell more milk. On the other hand if the exploratory stuff showed hair loss caused by milk, then the dairy industry won’t fund further studies, and chances are it won’t get done at all because there is no one to fund it.

We shouldn’t discount all industry funded studies because there’s a good chance they are done properly, but we should treat them all with a grain of salt because of what is not studied. For example if milk reduces hair loss but also causes your toes to fall off, chances are we will only have the large scale study about reduced hair loss and people would discount the study about toes falling off because of it’s small scale.

In this case it’s a bit more clear cut. Does Roundup cause cancer or not. Lots of researchers will want to study it, but only the studies saying it doesn’t will get funding from the manufacturer so this seems a lot clearer that we probably can’t trust those studies alone.

This is why we need a lot more government funded science and research. That money is used to fund the studies that industry won’t fund, to bring balance to the research. We could try to publicly fund all studies but I don’t think that’s achievable in the short to medium term.

I am not sure that I have been to Auckland since this shift. I have for quite a while wanted to take the kids on the train from Wellington to Auckland, it seems like I should start that planning!

It’s probably highly dependent on what you want to do with your life. Are you trying to become an archeologist professor? Work in IT? Run a pub?

I’ve been looking at what to put in this year’s LemmyNZ census. I think last year’s was too long (both for people completing and for my doing the analysis after), and I’m thinking some questions might be ok to ask every second year instead of every year.

This will be our third so might be able to do some trends, happy to hear suggestions on what should be collected every year for trends and what is less interesting and could be collected every second year (or not at all).

Ah right, RES, plus all the apps had their own options. Man, I bit killing third party apps really cut the features for people.

It’s been three years so I can’t remember, but does reddit not have a way to block certain subs from r/all (at a user level)?

A key part of shaping your lemmy experience is that you can just block any community you aren’t interested in, while still getting the benefits of an All feed.

Thanks! For sure if there are people handing over money I’m gonna show where that goes. I’m always happy to answer questions about anything LemmyNZ anyway, I don’t have anyone IRL to geek out with lol.

After I made this post there has been another about $250 contributed which is awesome! Back in the black until the next 6 months is paid for next month.

Or maybe if you knew your own date you could do reckless shit. Although you might just spend 20 years in a coma before you die.