ster Now • 61%
Plenty of proud Ukrainians are ethnically Russian. Plenty of Russian nationals, ethnically Russian, do not support Putin
ster Now • 66%
Defending your country from invasion is being a puppet now?
ster Now • 50%
Ukraine will not win this war. But neither will Russia.
ster Now • 80%
The point is to get rid of gun culture. Guns should not be a normality, whether they are banned or not. Restricting access could certainly play a role in changing the culture
ster Now • 100%
No, don't take out a loan. Just become a SpaceX TM AstroXplorer! For the small price of $5000 (and your human rights) you can get a free ticket to the planet Mars. There, you will be legally required to work a minimum of 24hrs a day, 668 days a year! Please note, your enslavement employment will be terminated if you do not meet the minimum expected workload. At this point you will no longer be welcome inside a SpaceX facility on the Martian surface, and thus you will need to relocate to an alternative premises, or buy a SpaceX Starship seat home for only $100000.
ster Now • 100%
Advertising is by definition sponsored. If I tell you I think a product is good, and I'm not getting paid, that's just called advice.
ster Now • 50%
Because it means there will be a fork, which will divide the development of the app in two and waste developers' time.
ster Now • 100%
If people don't want it, it should be possible to disable. It should probably be disabled by default.
ster Now • 83%
Sure, it's up to them at the end of the day, but I can still explain why I think it's a terrible decision
ster Now • 57%
No they didn't. Not bothering to implement it because you don't believe it's important? Fine. Throwing away the work someone else has done for you? Pathetic.
ster Now • 100%
Why not include a perfectly useful feature into an open source app? This just creates unnecessary division. By all means turn it off by default and hide the enable in settings, but don't just try to throw away someone's hard work.
ster Now • 66%
It's nothing to do with capitalism. Marketing is not an area unique to capitalist economies.
ster Now • 75%
Worst of all, driving people away from official releases puts them more at risk of downloading malware, and wastes the time of developers. By all means turn it off by default, but refusing to include a feature IS an anti-feature.
ster Now • 100%
When we read the news, we care not just about accuracy but relevance. It's no good presenting a bunch of true facts and reporting nothing about the most important issues of our time. In fact, doing so is misinforming people.
Advertising is the same. Just because a company has the most money doesn't mean their products are deserving of our brain space.
ster Now • 75%
Advertising is inherently biased. What you describe, "not made or paid by the seller" is NOT advertising.
Imagine I came to you and say "would you like this sandwich?". You might take it, if you felt hungry or liked the filling. Now imagine I come up to you and say "I'll pay you 100 (insert currency) to eat this sandwich". Suddenly, the sandwich becomes decidedly less appealling...
The sandwich is advertising, and eating it is exposing it to your brain. If it were really beneficial to you, no one would be getting paid.
ster Now • 90%
They can have their beliefs, but once it's available I'll be switching straight over to the sponsorblock-enabled version thank you very much
ster Now • 100%
It's unlikely that genetics play no role. One of the main factors is believed to be the conditions in utero. These are, of course, affected by the genes of the mother, at least in part.
ster Now • 66%
unproved and unconfirmed
Sure, but it's not relevant. It's unlikely that genetics plays no role whatsoever, and impossible that it is completely determined by genetics.
Raising a person does not give them genes
Yes, I know. That's not what the article is suggesting at all. The gay uncle supports his siblings in raising children. Those children share genes with the uncle, therefore the "gay" genes get passed on.
ster Now • 100%
Just because there isn't a gay gene doesn't mean genetic factors don't affect sexuality. It's believed to be a combination of genetic factors, conditions in the uterus (which are affected by the genes of the mother as well) and other factors.
Siblings share a lot of genetic similarities. A gay uncle who supports their siblings at raising children will improve the probability that those shared genes are passed on.
ster Now • 100%
I don't disagree with your conclusion, but why does that phrase indicate it's nonsense?
I'm currently preparing for exams which are very important to me. Some days I can work for 6 hours or more without stopping and I get loads done and feel great about it. Unfortunately some days I get up and I can't bear to work. On bad days, I feel like I can't focus on anything, and no matter how much it stresses me out, my brain just refuses to put any effort in. I have no motivation and just feel like going to sleep or giving up and doing something to waste time. Generally I find if I work a lot one day the next day is more likely to be a bad day. Does anyone else have this? How do you prevent this or at least cope with it?
Let f be a function. We are told that f^2 (f composed with itself) has a **unique** fixed point. How many fixed points could f have?
Yes, we're heading towards ecological collapse, but we're making progress.
Here is the Lean 4 documentation, it's still under development
This guy is fantastic
A worker-owned bicycle courier service. The software they use is open source, under an interesting licence that only allows use by co-operatives.
A video by Co-operatives UK on housing co-ops for students as an alternative to renting off landlords, who often treat their tenants pretty poorly
This is a community where people can discuss [the co-operative movement](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90FL_bBE4mw). I personally believe that worker co-operatives especially provide us with a peaceful and gradual way to turn our capitalist society into a socialist one, decreasing inequality significantly by replacing enormous wealth with social ownership.
Learn about the fantastic and beautiful community that has been created by a housing co-operative in the UK. This could be the future of housing for everyone, and this is something that is demonstrably possible *today*. Check out LILAC's website here: http://www.lilac.coop/
Here's a link to the PDF copy, with a short foreword explaining why he's done it and what the exact licence is. I think this a really cool book, I've got the paper copy and really enjoyed it. Hope you guys can too.
Talk by Benoît Molineaux. A really inspiring story of entrepreneurship and cooperation that has created a wonderful community from nothing.
A nice video by Co-operatives UK about what co-operatives actually are.
Surely there is no way to prevent vote manipulation if you allow votes from any instance to be counted. How does lemmy plan to get lots of vote information to help sort posts on small instances without being vulnerable to manipulation?