Who is this “user” you’re talking about? Near every choice in a social media platform design is an engineering choice between conflicting priorities.

The troll who wants to post garbage finds it easier, but the earnest poster now needs to filter out trolls on their own.

The person wanting to co-opt a community label finds it easier, but the person who wants it to continue as-used now has no recourse.

The pervert wanting to upload PG boob-shots definitely finds self-moderation easier, but your change would force rape victims with PTSD to let that smut into their already-curated set of communities.

If you wanted to add a new layer of moderation for posters beneath instance owners and community moderators that might be plausible, but “OP posted something dumb and is getting piled on” is a it’s own force your suggestion would abandon.

(And if you think just adding more random part-time moderators to a community would improve its moderation I would encourage to try Improving your next family dinner by giving orders in the kitchen. Especially one that you didn’t plan.)

If you diss “american cheese” but endorse “pepper jack” you must be either entirely non-American or just plain ignorant.

Many other countries lack America’s “standard of identity” laws that keep cheesse with too much oil or ice cream with too little dairy from being sold as such, and often label the former ultra-cheap food “american cheese” it’s not at all what you’ll find in the states.

The “American cheese” you can find here is a high-volume, mild, and smooth-melting cheese originally created as a blend of older European cheese recioies, which took off because it did exactly what it was meant to, and pair well with grilled meat patties put on cut buns.

Actual American cheese is perfect for a breakfast sandwhich where you want it to support the other flavors. Other cheeses can be good if that’s what you’re going for, but so are non-chicken eggs.

(“Pepper jack”, in contrast, is a simpler cheese meant to be eaten cold as a major flavor on its own. It’s absolutely sold in the USA too and can be great on breakfast sandwiches, although I think it works best sliced and paired with cracked and smoked meats.)

Like the woman who sued macdonalds for getting third degree burns because their coffee was too hot.

Please never mention this story without pointing out at least one of the following;

• The coffee was hot enough to cause crippling burns to her genitals.
• McDonald’s intentionally had their coffee too hot to drink to keep customers from hanging out
• the woman only asked for medical expenses and did not sue until her complaint was ignored.
• the eye-popping headline number was calculated as something like one day of the company’s coffee profit.

There literally isn’t an instance of a US company being sued by a customer more deserving of empathy and horror.

Yes, I know how one deals with bad moderators in lemmy. Mine is easier.

Easier for who? If every post is self moderated how does a semi-interested reader exclude trolling while still seeing interesting posts? If I want to avoid, say, a “vi v Emacs” flame-war, or keep a “DomeGuyFanboys” topic about me, how does poster-only moderation help me?

Also, my system makes moderation easier. Which makes for better moderators.

Easier for ***whom? *** The person wanting to post whatever they feel like, or the person who wants to browse funny cat pics at work without accidentally seeing porn?

You’re absolutely right that self-curated social media places are considerably easier to either post without fear or create your own pseduo-groups. That’s why famous people tended to be on Twitter and not Reddit.

But the people who want an ActivityPub Twitter already have Mastodon, and those who wanted an ActivityPub Reddit have Lemmy.

Maybe some hybrid interface would be worthwhile, but I don’t think we’ll find out by telling people on a topic-focused environment to be unilaterally person-focused.

If the moderators of a community are bad, you can leave or boycott that community. Nice and straightforward, easily understood, and unambiguous. Also exactly in line with how content is chosen on topic-focused social media like Lemmy or Reddit.

If you would prefer person focused social media like Facebook, Tumblr, Mastadon, and BlueSky, by all means use them!

Cop staffing is already below minimum levels.

In a world where a literal police strike led to a lower rate of violent crime, this is not a claim that should be accepted without extraordinary evidence.

At the very least, a city whose “cop staffing” is below their minimum should have an obvious increase in crime relative to comparable jurisdictions.

Oof, girl. (?)

While I’m not a doctor, I’d expect that 60 hours of fasting would have as great an effect on your brain as several alcoholic drinks. Of course you’d be struggling with impulse control afterwards!

It’s a huge accomplishment to just say “wow, I did something I don’t like having done and don’t want to do it.” I’d still have an older brother if fully grown adults were universally capable of saying “I should stop this” and then doing just that.

From your last several posts I’d guess that you’re trying a ketogrnic diet / intermittent fasting for weight loss reasons. If so, remember that the length of a fast or time-on-diet doesn’t matter nearly as much as your weekly caloric net. Maybe plan for how you want your fast to end, so you’re not figuring out something with a glucose-starved brain?

Whatever the case, you seem brave and strong and are definitely worth this. A setback isn’t a failure, just a discovery of some way that doesn’t quite work. :)

Trump had been saying that long before Kavenaugh’s dissent.

Based on the reporting I think beer-guy didn’t so much as say “Nah, just let him tarrif” as he did either "the ruling is moot and we shouldn’t bother " or "“we should have major-questioned it all and killed those other ways too”.

My hope is the latter, since SCOTUS has plenty of chances to change their mind and they all knew which way the ruling was going before any dissent (should have) been started.

You’re the first account I’ve seen endorse OpenOffice, and I’ve been casually looking for a better alternative to word since the copilot bullshit last year.

Do you have a good example of something they added since LibreOffice forked off that’s worth considering if choosing an alternative?

What matters is consistency.

“Why do you have a label that excludes me?” scales up and to a virtually universal group and down to a specialized category with only three members.

It doesn’t really matter if you say that men are right to critique the label “feminism” or if you allow specialization all the way down to “Midwestern small city non-theater trans-male part-African part-Irish demisexual furry feminism”. Just so long as you’re fighting bigotry and applying your principles consistently.

(I much rather spend effort arguing that a man arguing against anti-masculine sexism is a cause worth supporting than bickering over whether or not his cause counts as “feminism”, even though I would casually include him in the label.)

If you were in a jury box and were shown just this message and a note about how he was fired two months later for “not being a team player” you’d infer the intent and vote to hold the company liable for wrongful termination.

Corpospeak keeps a “work through lunch” message from being a self-evident labor law violation even if no adverse action occurrrd. They don’t disguise intent if those later bad actions occur

Any work that wouldn’t be done if we had a UBI should either be automated away or sufficiently well-paid that it would find workers even without the threat of poverty.

We don’t need to ritually kill a homeless person just so someone will pick up our trash any more than we need to do so for someone to tended to our elders dying of cancer.

Actually? Any cosmetic or medical action to augment someone’s identity as either man or woman.

To a transphobic bigot? Anything that deviates from strict gender alignment with sex assigned at birth.

The best filtering example is “breast reduction for cis boys in Texas”, since one study looking for underage “female mutilation” found that the exactly same surgery was more than twenty times as likely to be performed on a cis boy than trans boy.

It’s philosophically impossible to know if the world is “real” unless you reduce the word to an axiom. Just as it’s impossible to prove tbat all of existence wasn’t created yesterday morning at 1115z.

Much more useful is to accept both for the sake of contemplation, and then go on to ask the subsequent question “so what?”

That isn’t “religion”, it’s a tenet of a fraction of Christianity.

Many religions (Judaism, Islam, Shinto, Bhuddism) do not hold faith up as a virtue, and many Christian denominations (Roman Catholic, non-evangelical Protestant) assert that your faith must include good action and rational thought.

(We could have a conversation about the good things inspired by religion or the terrible things done by irrreligious folk who share your reverence for skepticism, but I really just wanted to point out that you were using an overly broad brush)

*Tell me you’ve never encountered a real courtroom without telling me never encountered a real courtroom… *

Our legal systems have long required things like “chain of custody” and “corroborating evidence” for essentially any claim. Because in essentially any instance where the opposing sides dispute a question of fact they need to convince a mildly annoyed rando that things happened a certain way while the other team is arguing that it’s all a hoax.

They generally skip all that in courtroom dramas and even broadcasted courtrooms, because the very first phase of any trial is discovery where both sides show some or all of their cards to try and convince the other team to fold.

AI slop is hardly the first time someone invented a new tool for faking evidence. Heck, we had a whole industry based on faking video evidence before the first surveilance camera was ever installed.

(There’s a huge possibility for slander and fraud that the general public should wise up to, but starting with an assumption that evidence is fake unless proven otherwise is kinda how things go.)

(And, yes, the big hole here is that “best avaliable” evidence is often nonsense. ACAB and all that. My point is just that fake evidence isn’t a dangerous new invention courts have never seen before.)

Sex is way too enjoyable for this to be a poorly coded simulation.

I think you just saw someone who needs either a break or some better mental health care.

And if you’re a kid, the job of keeping those people away from you is your parents’. They can either step up now or deal with never seeing you once you move out.

No, you don’t. Anyone who tells you that you must is pro-bigot and pro-rape.

Thanksgiving is a holiday about what you are glad for in your life. The only people you should deal with on Thanksgiving are those who you would thank God for putting (or keeping) in your life.

Everyone else should either take the hint, or not be surprised when you engage in the modern tradition of “tell off your racist uncle who can’t keep his mouth shut” day.

Causality is just determinists starting with “time travel is impossible” and finding a fancy name for it.

I don’t want to say they’re wrong, just that asserting casualty in a discussion about time travel being impossible is kinda like asserting Godwin’s Law in a discussion about whether or not Trump’s a nazi.