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Emoji Rule
  • 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

  • Soup
  • 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

  • How Anarchy Works
  • 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 :)

  • And so it begins...
  • citing abc news (link here), us official says 400 to 500 drones

    unconfirmed reports of ballistic missiles in the air too, it's all osint right now so no good source on that yet, if i get one i'll add it as a reply

  • Have you replaced any British words with their American versions?
  • 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

  • A disabled man is being PROSECUTED for blocking parliament with his MOBILITY SCOOTER
  • 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...

  • I'M SORRY
  • REMEMBER, YOU ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE OTHER PERSON'S ANGER. WHEN SHOUTING HAPPENS, DISTANCE YOURSELF TO SHOW THAT IT'S NOT OKAY

    OR JUST CRANK THE HOG LOUDER, AROOOOOOO

  • Population tipping point could arrive by 2030: global fertility will drop below replacement level years earlier than expected.
  • yep, you're entirely right. for your area, it's more effective to run wells for each person. the frustrating part being that, it implies that the city has been designed so, so badly, that individuals can't actually share resources, without the per capita price going up if they do so.

    even without depopulation, that's a huge governmental failure. if individuals are having to run all their own utility setups and infrastructure, is that even a "city"? it sounds more like rural living but it's all vaguely connected. presumably as a result of this low density, you have higher ongoing costs elsewhere? i.e commutes to work, cost of food, etc

    if not, then it could be one of those taxpayer-subsidised things, where it feels cheaper for each resident, but the reality is that someone else is paying for it. i'm not good at wording what i mean in this case, but i will pass you to this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6qyyrTeI) to show it instead, he does a better job of explaining what i'm talking about

    anyhow... that's crazy! it's entirely the thing i'm worried about seeing replicated large scale as a result of a reduction in population

  • Feature Request - old reddit frontend

    https://feddit.uk/post/684783

    take a look at what's available at this post on lemmy.world, accessible at https://old.lemmy.world

    this is so amazing, it's like a timewarp back to the good days

    sourcecode is here https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym, major thanks to @nnrx@sh.itjust.works

    if it's not easily implementable, i understand

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    Chris van Tulleken on how our diet is killing us

    i want to eat healthier but i am a kitchen menace lol

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    The commit 5fb537bd50 lifts several classes straight from [Postmill](https://gitlab.com/postmill/Postmill/), a non-fediverse forum with voting and threaded comments that predates Kbin by approximately 5 years. For instance: * src/Markdown/Listener/CacheMarkdownListener.php * [Postmill](https://gi...

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    [Guide] Accessing an outside lemmy community from within feddit.uk (and vice-versa)

    so, i was wondering why i couldn't find outside communities by typing a direct URL (example: feddit.uk/c/<community>@<instance>

    https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/federation_getting_started.html

    from the docs, i quote:

    > Fetching communities > > If you search for a community first time, 20 posts are fetched initially. Only if a least one user on your instance subscribes to the remote community, will the community send updates to your instance. Updates include: > > New posts, comments > Votes > Post, comment edits and deletions > Mod actions > > You can copy the URL of the community from the address bar in your browser and insert it in your search field. Wait a few seconds, the post will appear below. At the moment there is no loading indicator for the search, so wait a few seconds if it shows "no results".

    i have found that to correctly "link" a community across from another instance, i need to be:

    1. logged in on feddit.uk (this part is important)
    2. type !community@instance
    3. wait 5-10 seconds, even if it claims "no results". it will populate eventually

    but i have also realised an important implication. this must work both ways! i was also struggling to figure out why feddit.uk communities weren't showing up on other instances, and this is why.

    this means that if we want feddit.uk communities to be indexed on other lemmy instances, we need to be logged in on that instance, and then type !community@instance in that instance's search bar, and then our communities will be indexed. this could also be the case for kbin and other software

    in other words, gogogo! get out there! our communities will not be seen if they have not been indexed by at least one user from that instance - and as a result, wont show up in other instances search bars until this is done. and we won't see outside communities either until we index them here too!

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