In my city cycling is faster even if you’re not stuck in traffic because you can take one way streets and shortcuts. During rush hour it’s not even comparable.
Just passing through.
In my city cycling is faster even if you’re not stuck in traffic because you can take one way streets and shortcuts. During rush hour it’s not even comparable.
I have a pretty comfy saddle, and if it’s too bumpy I prefer cycling standing up anyway. Don’t really get why people insist so much on sitting down all the time.
It’s not reasonable, but it is understandable. This is why FOSS is the only viable alternative for sustainable computing.
My favourite type of posts is the ones by people signed up in one instance, posting in a community hosted by another instance about how they don’t understand how they are supposed to make use of federation. And then often still not getting it when people from all over the web tell them that they already are.
It makes sense though - federation is sold as a feature for users, but when done right the users should hardly notice it at all. So of course people end up a bit confused.
Seems like a community that has it’s natural home at programming.dev.
That’s an interesting point. I guess the mental trauma soldiers faced on the battlefield didn’t really gain attention before Vietnam, maybe because of the general agreement that their sacrifice was worth it no matter how terrible.
I would love to learn more about all of it. It seems PTSD was not really understood back then, with shell shock being the preferred diagnosis. But what about war zones before shelling? Were they so much less traumatizing? How was PTSD understood before the modern era, and why were we so unprepared for it following the advance of modern warfare?
There’s a genocide going on with what appears to be more or less the full support of the countries that make up the defence union my country is a part of.
There’s war in Europe.
I find those topics worthy of discussion, and any social media where this is not actively discussed seems to me to be a smokescreen more than anything.
Of course tragic realities like the genocide we are complacent in, climate change, war in Europe, Russian propaganda and the rise of the far right is going to be actively discussed. It concerns more or less everyone who uses this platform, and they are the most important issues of our time. It’s not about negativity, it’s about coming to terms with reality and seeking to understand it.
That said, the communities I follow are largely apolitical stuff that interests me. Woodworking, knitting, gardening, owls, art, and the Fediverse. With the exception of [email protected] and [email protected], I let the political stuff come through the cracks rather than actively following it.
I also have a Piefed account on which I follow news communities but actively filter out Trump and Musk. I can see how Amercians still feel the need to talk about these men, but at the end of the day they’re just fascist attention whores.
At some point recognisability is also worth something. I can immediately read this graph, I understand it, it’s good.
Occasionally it’s used in a confusing way where people assume it starts at zero despite it not being the case, and sometimes intentionally so. But that’s just the case here.
Well, it does make sense, doesn’t it?
What we’re interested in is not the number of users, but the trends: whether the number is increasing or decreasing over time. Starting the axis at 0 would not be useful in this regard, as the trend would be almost completely obscured.
It varies everywhere, even from state to state in the US.
The US system is kind of broken - they ask you to vote for way too many things. Where I’m from I just vote for a party - I basically say “yeah, the green party are cool”, and then the party decides who to put in which position should they get enough votes. I can give a +1 to candidates I like personally, but I don’t have to.
In the US you might be asked to vote for school boards, a sheriff, and a bunch of weird positions. There’s no realistic chance you’ll make an informed decision for all of them.
Sadly, it’s very important you still vote, because the republicans are using this broken system to fill these positions with far-right lunatics. So basically seek out information as much as you can, but at the end of the day just vote for whichever Democrat is on the ballot whenever in doubt. They’re not guaranteed to be good - in fact they’re likely to be pretty bad - but they’re pretty much guaranteed to be the lesser of two evils.
Still might vary though - local politics are weird, and there are no rules set in stones. Some places you still have decent republicans on the local level (or so I’ve heard).
Yeah, I think the problem here is a lack of distinction between different types of bike paths. All things considered it could have been a lot worse than this.
How bad is it when you end up cycling into a pit like this, potentially at some speed? Has the water made the soil soft in the road leading the front wheel potentially getting stuck and throwing you off, or will you most likely cycle through with a significant splash and be on your way?
I guess a huge part of it might be the problem of not being able to see so well what’s under the water, in case the road has been damaged?
Sensationalist bullshit.
The pictured paragraph from the Atlantic leads up to the following, which concludes the article:
None of this excuses OCHA, which jeopardized its credibility by repeating dubious numbers, long after the reasons for doubting them had been explained. That credibility is a precious resource. The IDF claims to have killed “at least 13,000” combatants—lower than Netanyahu’s estimate—but refused to comment yesterday when I asked if it had any idea how many civilians it had killed. The correct answer is, well, a lot. It would be nice if, before the war is over, some trusted third party could verify this macabre estimate with greater precision.
What the journalist is basically saying is that the IDF is acting as if it has a lot to hide, comparing it to extremely unfavorable historical examples. Basically saying that if they’re any better than armies we demonize from the past, they should allow the scrutiny of international press.
Israel can argue until the end of time about their actions being “legal”, and whether they’re right or not doesn’t matter all that much: “legally killed children” are not that easily distinguished from murdered children. Because at the end of the day it’s the same fucking thing, which any moderately intelligent reader will manage to arrive to without having a public meltdown first.
“Legal” is a funny word. The Nazis were famously legal in everything they did. Legality does not presuppose morality. Even if Israel successfully argued they had legally killed thousands of children, the IDF is still child murderers. And the fact that they will not allow free press anywhere near their actions is more than a little bit of a red flag.
The article is not a defence of Israel or the IDF. Taking words out of context to try to sow division does not do us any favours.
Fascinating how the federated Bluesky spam came from Nostr. Dorsey’s lovechild vomiting crap all over his disowned brainchild. Clearly he bet on the right horse.
Netanyahu has timed his genocide to a point in history where he can still use the Holocaust as a smoke screen, but there’s hardly any Holocaust survivers left to call him out on it. It’s a shame we don’t listen more to the few who’s left that do.
I could read the full article, not sure what’s going on.
Anyway, the journalist is writing about the Verge and 404 Media, and the more general potential benefits for the industry. There’s nothing about Digiday.com following the same path.
It’s a nice write-up. The main things I learned is that the Verge is transitioning to WordPress, and 404 is using Ghost. Both hope to activate the ActivityPub capabilities of these platforms when they’re ready - the Verge when it finishes transitioning, 404 when Ghost implants AP support.
I guess the rules of the instance you’re posting from always apply, in addition to the rules of the instance you’re posting in. If you’re posting stuff that’s not tolerated by your instance it will probably kick you out, no matter which communities you post in. :)
Yeah, it runs like a charm on my T14s. No that I’ve tried much else.
A dominant market position will do that to you, it seems.
I’m just here because I hate capitalists.
I also hate stalinists, so the joke is on me I guess.