No problem. And just to make it clear, if you haven't done so before, if you find a community you like on lemmyverse.net, you'll want to copy the text with the leading exclamation mark, which you can do by clicking on that text on lemmyverse.net --- say, for example, !foodporn@lemmy.world --- and then paste it into the community search on whatever client or Web UI you use. That'll make your home instance connect to the instance where the community lives and learn about it, if it hasn't already. Your home instance is sh.itjust.works, which is decently-sized, so it's not as much an issue for you --- for many communities, some user on sh.itjust.works will have already done this and subscribed to the community --- but for users on smaller instances, it's more important.
Eh. It sounds like the thing is likely going out of business, and people are just batting around ideas to try to bring it back. Probably good odds that it won't happen.
Craigslea community kindergarten, a local childcare centre in Chermside West in Brisbane’s north, made national headlines this week after a series of emails to parents. The centre has been in turmoil for weeks and was closed after a mass exodus of staff before the school holidays.
On Sunday, the management committee sent parents a 1,000-word email claiming the centre was “insolvent”, owing more than $40,314 to the tax office and employees. It proposed to “wind up” the centre, which has been placed into voluntary administration.
The next day, in a second email the management committee proposed to charge $2,200 for a scrapbook of artwork produced by their children and photographs of them to help pay off the debt.
I think that if I were Google, Meta, and Vodafone, I'd go build an app to measure a phone's lifetime playing video and then promote that as a benchmark. Things that are the path of least resistance to measure tend to get measured more than those that are a pain to measure.
I mean, there are more options to spend money on. But it's not like you're obligated to exercise those options.
If you live out on a farm in North Dakota, and there isn't much by way of eateries near by, you probably don't eat out much. You don't have to eat out in a city, either. Just more options for it.
EDIT: Honestly, a lot of people known for being in a meme probably do a pretty good job of fitting into this camp, outside of maybe where viral marketing campaigns have managed to intentionally create successful memes themselves.
Looks tasty! I'm a sucker for buttered and toasted sourdough or rye.
This culture isn’t nearly as sharp as a San Francisco germ
Apologies if this is obvious to you, but IIRC from past reading, commercial sourdough achieves a higher acidity without needing to use the specific yeast via just adding acid directly. If you aren't dead-set on authentic, "the yeast do everything" sourdough, you could probably tweak sourdough to taste that way.
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Okay, this isn't talking about what commercial producers do, but it is directly talking about increasing tang in homemade sourdough via the "directly-add-acid-to-the-dough" route:
I kind of feel that on the whole, if the Democrats are going to choose a battlefield, "who can more-effectively misrepresent the other side as communist" may not be the most favorable one.
Fandoms and their capacity for collective action were also one of the largely untold stories of China’s fight against the COVID-19 epidemic in its early stage. In January 2020, as it became clear that an epidemic had emerged in Wuhan and surrounding areas, the government response was far too slow in many key areas, including the provision of protective equipment. By contrast, the networks already formed within fandom culture—the same that allowed mobilization in support of chosen idols—enabled the rapid marshalling of resources. On Jan. 21, 2020, one day after China confirmed human transmission of COVID-19, the fan network of Zhu Yilong, a young actor originally from the city of Wuhan, mobilized funds to purchase more than 200,000 protective masks. These and other supplies were delivered to Wuhan within 24 hours, offering much-needed support for medical personnel and others on the front lines. The aid offered by the Zhu Yilong network is just one of many examples of how online groups provided a crucial means of support amid a rapidly unfolding crisis.
Perhaps more worrying for the CCP has been their potential for mobilization on a global scale. Within 10 days of China’s formal acknowledgement of the coronavirus outbreak in January 2020, a group of 27 fandoms from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan known as the “666 Alliance,” had sourced nearly half a million-yuan worth of medical supplies for use in Wuhan. As one Chinese scholar wrote of fandoms in 2020: “They are a huge population, are well-organized, and have a clear division of labor, giving them an explosive power many would find astonishing.”
Oh, for Pete's sake.
"Here, have a nice state-approved idol to be a fan of."
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