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  • That genuinely would be a funny troll

  • UK and Irish Cheeses Map
  • Actually I can imagine it being quite suited for cookie cutting

  • UK and Irish Cheeses Map
  • There will be a bloke somewhere on that map that has travelled all over the country to taste all of them.

  • Eatin’ on the roof
  • Average Ukraine experience

  • sterile rot
  • Honestly 'the helicopter virus' sounds like something from a terrifying sci-fi

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  • Achso. Das macht Sinn

  • lemmy.ml: 403 Forbidden

    Does anyone know why I'm getting this when making requests to the lemmy api?

    <html> <head><title>403 Forbidden</title></head> <body> <center><h1>403 Forbidden</h1></center> <hr><center>nginx</center> </body> </html>

    The request in quesiton is a GET request to https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/post/list?community_name=asklemmy. It only happens when making the request to lemmy.ml, not to other instances. When I paste the url into my browser address bar it works.

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    Horse goals
  • Great minds think alike ;-)

  • Don't forget your Tactical C4 Explosive on your next flight!
  • I've wanted to work for this company. Their designs are just so cool.

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  • Ich sage mir, wovon genau der Abdruck ist đŸ€”

  • NFL updates 'No More Racism' end zone message by removing the 'No'
  • you tried to use the Republican talking points

    There was no hidden motive behind my comment. But 'political' was not the right choice of word.

  • NFL updates 'No More Racism' end zone message by removing the 'No'
  • 'political' was probably a bad choice of word on my part because I agree that whether racism is bad needn't be up for debate. The point I was trying to make was more that this proclamation has nothing to do with football. They could plaster a hundred other agreeable slogans like 'end fossil fuels', 'tax the rich' etc. across the pitch but I don't think it's something the football goer would appreciate.

  • NFL updates 'No More Racism' end zone message by removing the 'No'
  • Exactly, that's why I don't see the point of such a sign being displayed at a football pitch where people go to watch football (and not to think about racism) – because it should be obvious that racism is bad wherever.

  • Oauthor on why they think a Solarpunk economy is an economic inevitability
  • If I had time and motivation I would write an parody on this article from the view of the late Roman empire where a person complains about how society can not survive without slave labor

    Hahaha. I think they sorta acknowledge the existence of an equilibrium by saying that the 'collapse' wouldn't happen overnight but over several decades

  • Do you also get 'stuck' in the shower?

    Turning the tap on that nice bed-like environment is a real dopamine hurdle. And I keep getting lost in my thoughts. Bathrooms are practically stimulation-less spaces.

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    How to find dynamic jobs?

    This quote captures a rule I'd like to live my life, and by extension my career by. I'd like to have a job where every day looks different because you respond to whatever eventualities arise. What is a good way to find these?

    I'm not asking for specific job positions (although feel free to suggest some) because I imagine such positions exist in most fields — I'm rather asking for ways to find these/filter for these in a given field.

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    Stuff Explained From First Principles
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    What's inside the top floor of commie blocks?

    Since it spans the whole floor space there must be a massive cavity in there

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    Presenting: FPTP on steroids

    Put simply, it's like FPTP but instead of being confined to voting on the seat allocated to your constituency, you can choose which seat in the parliament your vote should be counted towards. Parties can still run in as many or as few of the seats as they see fit. The system incentivises a party that thinks it has 10% of the vote to only run candidates in 10% of the seats.

    What differentiates this from FPTP is that under this method, speculation about the results has to happen on both sides, as both sides have the potential to influence how many votes get wasted.

    Under FPTP

    • Voter risk: that splitting their votes between too many political parties will mean that none of them will win.
    • Party risk: none

    Hence,

    • voters have to speculate about which parties might realisticly win

    Under SNTV

    • Voter risk: that splitting their votes between too many political parties will mean that none of them will win.
    • Party risk: that splitting their voters between too many seats will mean that they won't win in any of them. (That running in too few seats means they win by high margins, and the superfluous votes could have been used to win extra seats.)

    Hence,

    • voters have to speculate about which parties might realisticly win*
    • parties have to speculate about how many voters they might realisticly get

    Some thoughts:

    • It feels like it's PR, except instead of being based on maths it's based on pre-election speculation, which is vulnerable to bluffing and media manipulation.
    • under FPTP, it is on the voters to organise amongst themselves (this usually just means reading the hivemind). Under SNTV, it is in the interest of the voters to cooperate with the parties they intend to vote for.
    • whilst FPTP incentivizes smaller parties to bluff about the size of their voterbase (so that voters don't feel that voting for them is futile), the two-way speculation under SNTV forces parties to find out how large their voter base actually is (to calculate how many seats they can afford to split their vote between and still win).

    *(EDIT: do they? A fringe party might be able to get in if they only run in a single seat – this wouldn't work under FPTP)

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    To what extent is this accurate?

    So I'm 20 and I've started looking at the salaries of jobs/careers, and this is the impression I've gotten. Like that you could spend years cramming a ton of knowledge about a very niche field, and still only get 2-3x what a run-of-the-mill job makes. Is this true? If yes then I guess this route to wealth would only make sense (due to the diminishing returns) if the topic truly spoke to you, right? Are there alternative career paths to good pay than being really good at something really specific?

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    Is there a Lemmy app _without_ infinite scroll?

    ie. that paginates the feed? I realise that Lemmy clients modeled their design after the for-profit apps, but the incentives that lead to infinite scroll are now gone.

    Edit: while I'm at it, I wanted to say that I think it'd be a cool feature if apps supported sharing your blocklists.

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    F*&#%&

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    \> thirsty \> mug is empty \> take it to kitchen \> drink

    \> thirsty \> no mug

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