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Yes, both the settings and post language selections are multiselect. But it feels like there's a chicken & egg problem here: until something is done to encourage users off the default (which I would guess many don't even know is an option), changing post language will severely limit its reach.
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That I do not know for sure. But you can get the username by hovering over their display name.
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Yes. If you set a display name, it displays without the "@". If you leave the display name blank, it displays the username with the "@".
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And just like DEI teams, ethics teams will be easy to cut back on if a company runs into economic trouble.
www.politico.com
This is actually pretty significant - not just as Supreme Court "inside baseball" but because, coupled with the recent decision in *Allen v. Milligan*, it will likely result in several new Democratic members of the House of Representatives in the next election. With the House majority as tight as it is, this will be one of the key factors in who controls that chamber. [Image description: the front of the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C.]
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The dropdown lets you select the language of your target audience (or at least I find that the easiest way to think about it). If you select "English" then only people who select "English" in their settings will see that post.
But because most people leave their settings at the default "Undetermined" those people won't see a post that's marked as "English".
So for the moment, the best practice is to just ignore that dropdown and leave everything as "Undetermined".
The warning banner looks to be duplicated from the Settings page, where it actually makes sense.
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Sure, no argument there. There's a choice to be made between "post the second story as a comment to the first one" and "post the second story a a separate topic". I'm in favor of the first approach to keep discussion in one spot, but it's not something I feel super-strongly about.
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Avoiding dupes is, I think, an important one. We've had multiple instances on Beehaw of the same story showing up more than once. If you try to post a duplicate link, Lemmy will let you know (by showing the previous copies to you as crossposts). It's harder to make sure you're not posting the second or third story from a different source on the same topic. Perhaps we can just encourage people to search before posting.
I'd like the rules to at least ask people to add an image description in their original post. https://beehaw.org/post/686974 would be good to link to here.
And given the nature of many posts in the news, I think it would be good for this community to remind people to be(e) nice in their discussions.
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My own high school debate days are decades in the past. From that perspective, though, the fact that you can easily look up the judges' biases, and so prepare for them, is a huge advance that we would never have even dreamed of. To me that seems like explicitly addressing biases in a useful way.
I'd be interested in a more serious analysis that went through all 47,000+ paradigms and categorized biases so some non-anecdotal conclusions could be drawn. That would take a lot more time and money than picking out a few instances that the writer knows about.
And yes, if an alternative ends up being liked better by debate coaches, people will go in that direction. It's entirely possible that debate competition will end up being as fragmented as national politics.
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The article here takes a bit stronger stance than "losing debates because of tweets":
The NSDA has allowed hundreds of judges with explicit left-wing bias to infiltrate the organization. These judges proudly display their ideological leanings in statements—or “paradigms”—on a public database maintained by the NSDA called Tabroom, where they declare that debaters who argue in favor of capitalism, or Israel, or the police, will lose the rounds they’re judging.
The article calls out five judges for being biased. The NSDA site shows 47,168 paradigms. So, while there may be an issue, there doesn't seem to be much proof here. It could equally well be that the author is cherry-picking instances that fit his ideology.
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Note: U.S.-built buses at that. [Image description: A Lion electric school bus is seen on display in Austin, Texas, Feb. 22, 2023.]
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With Michigan being a pretty competitive state, and the unions being largely Democrat, I assume this is his pitch to try to pry some of those union voters away by scaring them about their jobs.
And yeah, decimate. "I do not think this word means what you think it means."
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I'm jealous. Mostly what I've managed to do with African violets is kill them. Probably overwatering, so perhaps I'll try again after our move next year - right now I'm trying to cut down on the number of pots we'll need to move!
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Clearly someone needs to figure out how to get an old Furby to interact with a new Furby.
(Of course, someone has already done ChatGPT + Furby)
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A sad reminder that the MAGA wing of the Republican party continues to be against most anything that can actually help turn around climate change. [Image description: former President Trump]
Not quite your traditional gaming, but with 600 responses to user actions at least as complex as some interactive computer games I've played. [Image description: two new Furbies]
www.scientificamerican.com
[Image description: Lead claimant Rikki Held, 22, confers with members of Our Children's Trust legal team before the start of the nation's first youth climate change trial at Montana's First Judicial District Court on June 12, 2023 in Helena, Montana]
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When I feel like bringing a luxury item, it's my Helinox Chair Zero. Every pound counts, but at my age being able to sit for a few hours without my back hurting too much helps a lot.
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Beehaw's community mods and admins have discussed this particular use case, and so far we haven't seen anything that we'd be comfortable having on Beehaw. The summary bots have (so far) too many problems with posting misleading summaries to make them a good addition to thoughtful conversation.
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Their web site is down, but their Github account is currently still available, with 3D printing files and software for their microlab.
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There are lots of B Corps out there these days, which I would say have at least some soul, but Dr. Bronner's is definitely something in its own class. I was surprised to discover Dr. Bronner's chocolate bars at the natural foods store the other day - honestly nothing special as far as taste goes, but the labels do have some of that classic vibe.
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So many, many choices.
I think my all-time dumbest came when I was about 22, so it doesn't fit here. In my teens...probably driving drunk at speeds up to 100mph on the mountain roads up above Pasadena with the headlights off at night.
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You appear to be unable or unwilling to distinguish between "preventing births" and "voluntarily choosing not to have children."
Not sure why you're quite so interested in escalating the rhetoric here (forced sterilization? in a thread that started with individual action to save honeybees? really?) but in view of the first rule of Beehaw ("Be(e) nice") I'm not interested in joining you.
www.sciencenews.org
Wild. I for one would not have guessed that we could detect even moderately complex organic molecules from 1.6 billion years ago. [Image description: Geochemist Jochen Brocks and colleagues report they discovered the earliest molecular footprints of eukaryotes, dating back 1.6 billion years, in this Barney Creek rock formation in northern Australia.]
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Telling one person that they can help out by not having kids is rather different from, as the dictionary says
the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group
Even suggesting to a whole group of people not to have kids is not the same as killing them.
So no, it's not a logical conclusion. It's illogical rhetoric. But you do you, I guess.
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Here in the middle of America, it's not SUVs - it's full-size pickup trucks. Just as much of an ecological and safety disaster though.
www.propublica.org
ProPublica strikes back. [Image description: Justice Alito with a salmon, Wall Street Journal editorial page, connected by circles, lines, and arrows.]
A longish essay, but it does a great job of capturing the conflicted feelings that I share about giving up air travel. [Image description: a jet plane in a forest of evergreen trees]
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/748817 > I spent most of the morning at [Mogan Ridge West](https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/hoosier/recreation/hiking/recarea/?recid=41576&actid=50), putting in about 12 miles in all. Basically, I hiked the outer loop, though I did bushwhack about a mile and a half for variety. > > We're definitely into summer hiking weather here, with high humidity, spider webs, gnats, and ticks. This trail also hasn't seen much use lately, so it's overgrown in grass in many areas. About half of it is gravel road, so you can combine unpleasant walking surface with increased ticks and chiggers. > > Still, it was a pleasant walk in the woods and decent exercise. I met one other hiker about halfway and we swapped notes on which local trails were worth revisiting. Fortunately we were hiking in opposite directions so we didn't have to have the awkward conversation about whether to hike together. > > [More pictures on imgur](https://imgur.com/a/A60PFyG). > > [Image description: trail marker post with area map and arrows pointing in many different directions]
I spent most of the morning at [Mogan Ridge West](https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/hoosier/recreation/hiking/recarea/?recid=41576&actid=50), putting in about 12 miles in all. Basically, I hiked the outer loop, though I did bushwhack about a mile and a half for variety. We're definitely into summer hiking weather here, with high humidity, spider webs, gnats, and ticks. This trail also hasn't seen much use lately, so it's overgrown in grass in many areas. About half of it is gravel road, so you can combine unpleasant walking surface with increased ticks and chiggers. Still, it was a pleasant walk in the woods and decent exercise. I met one other hiker about halfway and we swapped notes on which local trails were worth revisiting. Fortunately we were hiking in opposite directions so we didn't have to have the awkward conversation about whether to hike together. [More pictures on imgur](https://imgur.com/a/A60PFyG). [Image description: trail marker post with area map and arrows pointing in many different directions]
www.theguardian.com
Once again the conservative republicans seem to be better than anyone else at finding ways to "win" at politics. [Image description: a row of "OhIo Voted" stickers over a blank ballot.]
www.politico.com
[Image description: "Protect Trans Rights" and "Too cute to be binary" protest signs]
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Personally, I don't really want to interact with the sweat of a giant Chris Hemsworth on a ground-level billboard, but perhaps I am just out of touch with the culture. [Image description: Chris Hemsworth looking studly with a gun and a crashed small plane in the background]
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Another bullshit legal theory from Texas goes down in flames. Justice Alito dissented because of course he did. [Image description: Migrants wait in line adjacent to the border fence under the watch of the Texas National Guard to enter into El Paso, Texas, Wednesday, May 10, 2023.]
www.statnews.com
Actual evidence from actual scientists. [Image description: A patient holds bottles of medications for hormone replacement therapy as part of her gender-affirming care.]
www.opb.org
I suspect this lawsuit doesn't have much chance of winning. But: - the attorneys are apparently taking it on contingency, so no cost to taxpayers - the more lawsuits against big oil, the better the chance that one will eventually win - just rolling over for the people destroying the planet doesn't seem like a winning strategy either [Image description: Multnomah County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson speaks at a press conference June 22, 2023, announcing the county's lawsuit against fossil fuel companies in Portland, Oregon.]
I am fortunate enough to live mere blocks from a local CSA farm (they hung on to a few acres of farmland when their family sold most of the area for a housing development) and we're getting into good harvest season. Today's haul: radishes, carrots, turnips, basil, cherry tomatoes, kale, edible flowers, onions, lettuce, oyster & lion's mane mushrooms. Veggies for dinner tonight! (and yes, if you can find me, you're invited). If you have a CSA in your area, I urge you to check out the cost of membership. If you can afford it, it's usually a win both for small farmers and for the quality of your diet. [Image description: plastic bags full of vegetables on a kitchen counter]
www.adl.org
Sobering reading from GLAAD & ADL.
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Well at least: “The situation is not really getting worse, but it’s also not really getting better,” Steinhauer said. “It is not a bee apocalypse.” [Image description: honeybee on honeycomb in a hive]
Because we can all use a bunny today. [Image description: Small brown bunny hiding in some bush maple foliage]
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