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by romwell 4y ago
Sure. Thanks for the corrections. From the link: >This does not mean that nicotine is completely safe. The U.S. Surgeon General has found that nicotine exposure during pregnancy can harm the fetus and have lasting consequences for brain
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Nicotine is carcinogenic; so close, but no cigar.
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Questions to you: 1. Do you run your own email server? 2. How do you feel about your email provider reading your messages and banning you based on what you write? 3. How do you feel about not being able to email your friend because their em
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>You can literally run your own personal Mastodon instance with just 1 account in it and take part in any discussions on the "fediverse". Yeah, and I can literally just run my own email server too. I don't, and chances are
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Translation: Louisiana wants to keep tabs on who watches what porn, and create a wonderful grift by having a private company issue "anonymous" porn viewing licenses. I hope Pornhub gives them a finger by hosting educational conten
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by romwell 4y ago
Do I agree with a totally unrelated concept? Maybe yes, maybe no, it's irrelevant. You don't get cancer from porn, and you can't porn yourself to death. Information and substances aren't equivalent, so let's move on
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The Fediverse is a misnomer. A better name would be Feudiverse , since it's feudalism by design — complete with instances feuding over control of how the entire thing is run. The admins of the instance have absolute control over accou
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Being friends with the household cat was very important for such strategies ;)
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The obscure, but extremely relevant concept is the English QWERTY keyboard layout, which places U, I, and O next to each other and makes typos like this more likely when you touch-type with two hands :)
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>The accuracy is implied in the number of digits usually. >So 37 is +-1C Yeah, but this doesn't work for human bodies when you round 36.5 either up to 37 or down to 36. * 38C is surely fever, 37 is mild fever for most people; * 3
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Same in Russia, Ukraine, and other former USSR countries AFAIK
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Of course it's not. I just wonder how common it is with people who frequent HN, which is a very unrepresentative sample of the population.
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>The most common solution to this on Reddit is to have multiple accounts. This isn't a solution to "this" because this problem doesn't exist on reddit. You don't get banned from reddit because any single sub
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>your identity also isn't tied to your account Right, because reputation isn't a thing, having people know that this account represents you isn't a thing, and so on. There's a reason Elon Musk messing with verifie
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That's not the example that either I or the article are considering. We are talking about getting banned from the instance you are federating with . You can't get booted off of reddit for violating rules specific to a subreddi
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>I don't really see the issue? The issue is that the instance you join dictates what "being a responsible member of the society" is, and if you don't fit into the restrictions of that one particular instance , you ca
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Incidentally, I've just been unpacking moving boxes, and put the beautifully illuminated [1] print of Mutual Aid on my "to-read" bookshelf. I wonder how often this particular instance of Baader-Meinhof phenomenon happens on H
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>De-federating based on association is not common As long as it's possible , it will happen.
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>This is the dumbest assessment of the fediverse I've seen in a month full of dumb assessments of the fediverse. >Just a really, really dumb assessment. Your argument boils down to "run your own instance", which has sp
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>Reddit doesn't actually solve that problem because subreddit moderators often run ban scripts that check which subreddits you have interacted with. If you happen to talk to the wrong people, you wind up banned and need a new accoun
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>This is not a bug. It's a feature. [...] I'm one of those people that ...that didn't read the article fully, because it addresses this point exactly. Small communities aren't a problem. Having your account linked wit
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Yeah, but that didn't prevent you from posting on r/wallstreetsilver, nor was your account tied to r/wallstreetsilver in any way.
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>Roblox does allow you to make a game from scratch ...with the caveat that once Roblox (the company) folds, all the games will be gone. ...and that since Roblox changes the code all the time, you have no idea whether your game will look
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The policy is bad because it results in unfair outcomes.
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>No IDs in an election are a culture war issue in US and lefties argue irrationally on the topic. Do you live in the US? If not, looks like you're missing the important context that the Republican party makes access to facilities th
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>I’d agree with you except that linktr.ee was also referenced as a violation. It was listed as a forbidden platform. Paul Graham's personal website was not listed as a forbidden platform. * We can't infer from the policy that
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Of course Tiddly Wiki can save. Otherwise, how would one edit it? Aside from the HTML quine saving mechanism, there's a Node.JS auto saving version, Tiddly Desktop, and multiple other versions tailored to specific needs
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>I made that decision around the Thai rescue. To anyone who missed it, this is in reference to Elon Musk slandering a rescue diver, who called BS on Musk's grand idea du jour, by saying the diver is a " pedo guy ". PSA
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>That's basically just posting a link to your Mastodon account, but with an extra step. No it's not, and it's absurd to equate the two.
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>No, it's not clearly a violation. From Elon Musk: >> Casually sharing occasional links is fine, but no more relentless advertising of competitors for free, which is absurd in the extreme. Also, something Elon Musk says isn&#

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