Annoyingly I've used them for a number of years as a good way to make internet comments flow a bit more. However I find myself doing it less and less now because I'm worried people are just going to think I'm using an AI if they see an em dash.
(You just long press dash on android to get to it, opt+shift+dash on Mac, and the admittedly Byzantine alt+0151 on windows. Can't remember iOS off the top of my head, but I think it's similar to android)
Why would they start telling the truth now?
Well a whole new genre of potential apocalypses has been unlocked then
This is how you start a war with Scotland
Oh so you're telling me that my storage unit is actually incredibly well optimised for space efficiency?
Nice!
Ah apologies, I missed that. STV is good too, the Scottish use that and it results in good representation for everyone
Go on Elon, just another line of ket and you'll get your revenge
AI datacenters are very far from the typical electrical load of a cloud datacenter, no existing data center has planned appropriately for this because we're only now discovering the bad effects it's having on the grid
Funnily enough AC usage is very easily modelled because it's a well understood distributed load, directly linked to weather. Plus large modern buildings should be built with grid aware AC that adjusts load based on grid demand anyway. I know Siemens and Ericsson both have commercial solutions for that, so I imagine there's more I don't know about.
Souls games.
I really want to like them too, but they seemingly aren't compatible with how I play games. I need to be able to put a game down for a couple of weeks and not feel like I'm back at square one because the specific muscle memory for that game has gone.
Just kinda kills the fun when the game is effectively telling me to get good, when I don't actually have the amount of free time IRL necessary to do that.
Versus FPTP, which funnels votes to 2 big parties, forces strategic voting and discards everyone else's opinions?
Ranked choice allows the politicians in a country to see what people actually want. There's been countless elections in my country where I'd have voted Green if I knew that vote would then be transferred to the party of my preference, rather than effectively being a vote for the party I like least (as a third party vote is in FPTP).
If the incoming government knows the only reason they got in was down to a load of transferred green votes, they would be pressured to push for a policy agenda more skewed in that direction and in theory should result in a government more representative of the people that voted for it
Funny, we had similar in our ostensibly actually left wing party in the UK a few years ago. We have a democratic leadership process and the labour membership elected an actually left-of-centre leader
Reports followed Jeremy Corbyn's run as leader of the party that the BlaIrite wing (centre right part of the party) did everything in their power to sabotage him.
Social liberals are almost as megalomaniac as standard conservatives, it sadly seems. If they don't get to be in charge, no one does, in their eyes.
Cede conservatives a fraction of an inch and they will take a hundred miles.
First they came for...
And several friends at the festival have just confirmed that the Prodigy was a ridiculously strong finish for the weekend.
Peak FOMO right now
As the festival draws to a close, and I've been sadly watching from home this year—what's everyone's highlights?
I might just be still in shock, but holy shit The Prodigy just absolutely demolished it.
Biffy, Franz and Scissor Sisters being the other most memorable shows I've seen so far. I've enjoyed a lot of what's been on West Holts as per usual.
A little disappointed in Neil Young's set, he felt a bit lacking in energy to me, but maybe I set my expectations a bit high. I think Pulp put on a great show, but I'm not sure it deserves the lauding it seemingly got in this morning's press.
I found out about them about a year ago thanks to Lemmy, funnily
I was wondering why one of the Aussie instances was called quokk.au
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
That's not at all how any of this works.
The petition only makes legislators aware of the issue
They will then come to their own conclusions, through outreach and research.
There is no way in hell that any legislator just takes the words of a petition without thought or any further research.
Petitions are about numbers, not words.
The wording of the petition has zero impact on any legislation that may follow.
A petition's purpose is literally only to alert the governing body that enough people give a shit about this that they should have a discussion about it. It has no additional power beyond that.
That discussion might end up going nowhere, it might end up convincing some politicians that maybe we need some legislation in this area. What they will then do, is talk to everyone they can about coming up with legislation that's practical and works for everyone involved.
The wording of the petition does not matter, because it has no bearing on any subsequent action whatsoever. All a petition can do is force a conversation between politicians.
Your comment is a fantastic example of how he has muddied the waters, none of what you have said is relevant at all to the petition process.
We are not a direct democracy, legislators write legislation. Petitioners don't.
All this guy is doing is silencing people.
From what I've read, his criticisms aren't valid because this is a petition to legislate, not legislation. He seems to think the wording of the petition is important when it isn't, the number of signatures it gets is
Best case scenario he's got no idea what he's talking about, worst case, he's deliberately muddying the water.
All the fun of the larger New York Times Crossword, but you can solve it in seconds.

I finished work a bit early today, went for a walk, met a friend at a newly opened pub, watched the football with a few pints and just got back home.
Another fun Friday to put into the box of fun Fridays
What's going on in your corner of the world?
Station overlooking Liverpool hosted most pop stars coming through the city – except those with a fear of heights

> It is known across Liverpool as the Radio City tower but that moniker may not be around much longer as the structure hosts its final live broadcast on Christmas Eve.
> Microphone cables are being bundled up and heaving contacts books packed into boxes, leaving empty what is arguably the most famous building of the city’s skyline – St Johns Beacon, to use its proper name.
> Built in 1969, originally as a luxury revolving restaurant that was one visited by Queen Elizabeth II, the tower was listed Grade II in 2020, with Historic England describing it as “embodying the technological bravura and spirit of the space age”.


What would you add/change for next time
I know I could do with a sweeter red vermouth
Uefa warns ministers that England could be excluded from Euro 2028 over "concerns" that an independent football regulator could mean "government interference".

> Uefa has warned ministers that England could be excluded from the European Championship it is co-hosting in 2028 over "concerns" that a planned independent football regulator could lead to "government interference" in the sport.
> A bill to establish a body to oversee the top five tiers of the men's game in England was reintroduced in July.
> The UK government has said the football watchdog will "protect clubs" by "ensuring their financial sustainability".
> But in a letter sent to Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy and seen by BBC Sport, Uefa general secretary Theodore Theodoridis wrote: "We do have concerns remaining... as normally football regulation should be managed by the national federation.
We ask 30 BBC Sport football pundits to predict who will win the Premier League title, and which clubs will finish in the top four this season.

Rocky start, but we’re here! also making this almost an hour late due to the rocky start # What’s Canvas? Canvas is a collaborative pixel canvas similar to Reddit’s r/place, except it is open to (almost) the entire Fediverse! The event is going on from July 12th 4am UTC to July 15th @ 4am UTC (72 ho...
So canvas is on again this year! We could try and be a bit more organised this time if people are around
I've not started anything yet
Honestly, I will never wrap my head around how people can happily bring infants on any flight where you can expect people to try and sleep, it's incredibly lucky if they don't spend some of it screaming their heads off—I would be mortified if my choices were preventing hundreds of people from sleeping. But I'm not going to rant too hard about that.
Why on earth hasn't any airline started marketing adult-only flights?
It seems like a complete no brainer to me, I would choose it every time and pay extra for it.
Disclaimer: I may or may not be on a 36h day with only an hour of sleep right now
It has been 12 months since the administration event that saw WASPS relegated from the RFU - and that was the day that we planned our return. You will know our journey through the fit and proper process of the RFU and the difficulties we faced on funding and acceptance to enter the Championship.
As someone who's been a wasps fan for decades, this is finally some positive news after what has felt like a very long silence!
Now I wonder where the ground they mention is going to be
I've just started Return to the Obra Dinn, so far really liking the art style and the main game mechanics. I'm interested to see how the story unfolds as it seems to be taking a "memento" style reverse chronological approach to telling it.
Also still playing Halls of Torment as ever since Vampire Survivors, one of these top down roguelite shoot-em-up games has been in my rotation.
Oh and I nearly forgot, also started pizza tower, but only dipped my toe into that one so far. Really enjoy the art and platforming mechanics so far.
Let's kick off some slightly low effort content here:
Which is your favourite game in the series?
For me it will always be between Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert.
I think the story of TD is what pulled me into the series in the first place, and RA on Westwood online is what cemented me as a fan
Hey, I've been trying to subscribe to !audioproductiondeals@lemmit.online for a couple of days now and know the drill about searching it first and waiting for it to sync, but it doesn't seem to be doing the job.
It looks like other lemmit.online communities seem to work fine, but this one seems to stubbornly refuse to show up.
Is there something I'm missing here?
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So I browse on the desktop using the mlmym/old.lemmy client (e.g. http://old.lemmy.world) because old habits die hard.
One of the many things I found myself missing from RES & Reddit was the ability to customise the community bar at the top of the page to contain some links to my favourite communities. I had a spare minute this morning to throw together a userscript for just that:
Here's a pastebin with the script. Create a new userscript in tampermonkey (or whatever userscript plugin you use), drop the code in, change the array of communities at the top to be the ones you want prepending to the list, and you should be good.
Make sure to add the server suffix to any communities from other instances and if you want to use this on another instance other than lemmy.world, just change the match rule in the userscript header comment.
I didn't host on greasyfork as I'm probably not going to make any further changes, and I'd need to come up with something a bit more sophisticated than an array of communities. I'll update this post if I ever change my mind on that
Update
So I guess I wasn't happy with leaving it alone:
Here it is on greasyfork https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/474756-lemmy-mlmym-community-bar-customisation
I added localStorage and a simple config GUI to configure the list of favourites now, no reordering yet (without just removing and re-adding in a different order), but I imagine I'll end up adding that in time
Update 2
And another update:
I've just updated GreasyFork with 0.3
- Added reordering
- Added background fade and background click to close
- Added favourite/unfavourite button to the community sidebar