yay! 🥳

oh my goodness that’s a painting

i was scrolling idly and thought it was a mid smartphone photo

wow 🤯

it’s an example of simpson’s paradox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson's_paradox

a worked example: if england/scotland/wales all use heart ❤️ 49% and use tears of joy 😂 at 51%, and then northern ireland was to use heart ❤️at 100%, you can imagine this would tip the whole uk over

even more freaky, you could make all 4 constituent countries use heart ❤️ at 49%, make each constituent use a different unique emoji 👍😀🥰😼 at 51% each, and then the aggregate would show that heart ❤️ is still the most used across the UK

now consider for each place on this map, they are ranking more than just 2 emojis. the map itself says that tears of joy 😂 is only scoring 5% worldwide, and that’s 1st place. with margins of 5% and under to be deemed winner, it’s no wonder funky effects show up

aww it’s like hardstyle shuffle rave phat pants!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1yCZ_iHPfg

why would future humans bother bringing all these people back

i think it’s worth reminding why doctors treat people now, in this time and space. they do it mostly because they want to save people. maybe a few do it for money, but past a certain point, the money isn’t why you do it. i think it’s a safe bet that doctors of a future would see these corpses as patients, and act accordingly. an analogy - think how we see heart attack victims as patients, and not how our medieval ancestors would have seen them (as corpses)

…literally nothing positive to contribute to the utopian future…

true, but, a good chunk of patients in hopsital today have nothing to contribute to society, and cannot contribute any more, whatsoever. we treat them anyway, because that’s what we do. humans have consistently cared for others that are sick and have “nothing to contribute” throughout history, and that shows no sign of going away anytime soon

nice video, i’m glad i watched through the whole thing. it’s good to understand the perspective

i have a lot of major hangups with the concept, and i don’t see myself aligning anywhere close to these ideas anytime soon, but i think it’s positive to be shown the principles of anarchy from someone who believes them, rather than a strawman version of anarchy by someone who does not

thank you for posting :)

i’ll be honest, unless you’re at the west coast of ireland, probably give this one a miss. :(

okay, using the words listed at the start of this wikipedia article, here’s where i place myself:

analyze/center/defense/labour/organize/program

or, British 1, American 5, Canadian 4, Australian 2

it’s a nice litmus test to see where you’re at. i knew i used to skew NA in writing style, but i didn’t think by that much

i mean, i really dont want to be that poster, but he’s not being arrested for blocking with a scooter, he’s being arrested for protesting

there’s a separate discussion to be had about arresting protesters, but the way they’re trying to spin this as “they oppressed a disabled person for being disabled” is honestly insulting to the agency of disabled people that choose to protest, and whom accept the risk of consequences for doing so

in my mind, you can’t be both trying to normalize disability, and then also weaponizing it when it suits you for an opinion piece after being arrested. in particular, i take offense to the line in the article: “Now prosecuting disabled people to (sic) acting ‘socially responsibly’”, as if that’s magically a step too far?

a “fairer” title here would have been something like “activist prosecuted for deftly showcasing how climate risks disproportionately affect disabled people”. although, it wouldn’t have been as attention grabby, and so none of us would be reading it…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santería

japan should takes notes from vietnam, which is following the path to this outcome, but for different reasons. taken from vietcetera:

In the Nguyễn Dynasty (1802 - 1945), people with great merit to the royal family were awarded by being given the national family name. They would have the same surname as that of the royal family members.

apparently the royal family handed this name out a bit too freely, the end result is that 40% of the population now uses one surname.

this was a really good read, thank you for sharing

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if you mean this literally? then until the 28th of january, 2025

and before some of you pipe up and say “nuh uh, by convention elections are held on thursdays/held in summer/held whenever”, like, when has this government cared about convention 😅

the conservatives have zero reason to call it early. dont be surprised if it goes all the way to the legal limit

my headcanon on this is delayed leap-day bugs from february 29th, only showing up just now

request: can we get this open collective page link included in the feddit.uk sidebar?

currently, it says: “Contribution link coming soon to a wallet near you”

nice! i am now all paid up. feels gooood 🙂

thank you both for your hard work ❤️

and absolutely, don’t feel guilty at all for repaying both of your personal costs from the budget. the point of open collective is so that we can see that you are making payments within reason. in my opinion, that includes compensating yourself for the personal expenses prior to today, so that it retroactively restores the funding back to being equitable

if you could give us a rough idea of what that personal expense was, i’d appreciate that

it’s the same type of non-performative speech you see when any company says “we value our customer’s complaints”, or “we work hard to have a diverse and inclusive team”, as if by merely saying these things that it magically becomes true

ah but meta has cracked it this time; if they just say “we never sell your info” that means they don’t, right?

i will be truthful, i had lost complete confidence in the instance after seeing the crashes back in december. i had moved to using lemmy anonymously since then, to “wait and see” if i had to setup an account elsewhere.

seeing this though? full confidence restored. 👍

i am glad there is now more than one single point of failure. i hope that this adventure becomes a valuable lesson to other instances that have just one admin running everything. if you’re reading this, and your instance has one admin - you need to fix that, yesterday!

once you have an OpenCollective or something like it setup, i will be able to contribute. make sure to let us know when a fresh donation link is up (because i don’t trust the old ko-fi link in the sidebar)

thank you so much for your hard work. ❤️

i wanted to add my personal experience, as someone who tried kbin and then ended up on lemmy

when learning about fediverse, i was first introduced to kbin. i assumed that kbin was a close match to reddit, and this was why i was being introduced to it. turns out, nope! it also has some microblogging thing? active people? boost vs favourites? i was bamboozled to say the least.

i’m sure the dual-purpose threads + microblogging is good for some, but i’m really, really not into twitter. and i also found it to be confusing when i was tagged in something as to whether i was reading a thread, or a microblog. i.e, kbin wasn’t a good fit. then i discovered most of the actual content i was reading on kbin was being posted from some “lemmy” service? i clicked to find out more and… yeah, i made the switch pretty quickly.

basically, not all of us went back to reddit. i can’t speak for all former reddit users, but one of the detracting points for kbin was the mixed purpose. like, for example, if i was to list places like facebook, twitter, instagram, even mastodon - these are all “people” focused places. you post about people, and the focus is more skewed towards following individual people and trends. if i was to list places like reddit, hackernews, something awful, even… 4chan… - these are “things” focused places. you post about things, and the focus is on following things. lemmy is firmly in the “things” camp, whereas kbin is trying to be both “people” and “things” at once, and so it just wasn’t for me. 🙂