Thank you for creating it! Honestly, I enjoyed this one more than r/place.

"we are just looking out for ourselves in a 'better safe than sorry' fashion while we find out more."

This is an unfortunate aspect of individuals/small groups housing the fediverse vs big companies. Big companies have lawyers and the capital to back them, individuals do not.

If I was in your shoes, I'd do the same thing. I appreciate your wish for thus to be temporary. I hope you will share your findings once you come to a final decision; information like this is relevant to all those managing servers.

Thank you so much for all of the effort and time all of you are putting into this situation. Having to deal with bad actors is one thing, but you are now dealing with images that are traumatizing to view.

Please, for your sanity and overall well being, PLEASE take care of yourself. Yes, it sucks about having to close !lemmyshitpost, but self-care and support are of the utmost importance.

Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good.

As an American, I am super jealous!

I always thought the universe did a nasty by making the ideal breeding age for humans to be when it really is one of the worst times mentally/emotionally. 20 or so yrs later when more experience (and hopefully wisdom) has been gained, the eggs are shrivelling and the bullets are misfiring.

So what's a better quality option?

Which is exactly WHY republican politicians are trying to destroy libraries, school curriculum, etc. Uneducated people are easier to manipulate.

I wonder if this would be such an emergency if it wasn't for the world cup and the Olympics.

Don't get me wrong, bed bugs suck (I've dealt with them myself), but closing schools? Maybe it's just because I'm American and I know our country wouldn't do shit like that for us.

I microwave my ice cream. Not until it's completely melted, but till there is just the right mix of melty and firm. Even better is eating microwaved ice cream in the middle of winter while cuddled under and electric blanket. Pure bliss!

Because Windows 11's primary new feature is SOC level DRM.

Can you please what this means in idiot proof terms?

I also discovered you can report at home tests at https://learn.makemytestcount.org/.

He thinks he's being defiant and intimidating with that expression.

I wish I had never gotten rid of all my dvds

If I understand the fediverse correctly, if the instance dies (meaning all the background servers are taken away), everything on that instance is gone; accounts, communities, posts, comments. Since the instance is the host, they are the ones holding the data; if they decide to stop, it's gone.

However, the creator of the community and its members could create new accounts on another instance to rebuild the community.

I'm sure to eventually be replaced by even more invasive CoPilot. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/windows-11s-copilot-brings-ai-chat-to-desktops-in-first-public-preview/amp/

Chastity belt... CLANG!

It's not so much being the "product" that bothers me, as it is the whipping-horse manipulation to force us to give more more more with while they give less less less.

That IS really interesting, but OP said "someone", not "something".

It's kinda looking that way, but I'm not counting the chickens before they hatch. https://www.newsweek.com/rfk-jr-lesson-maga-world-careful-what-you-wish-opinion-1833086

Off the top of my head, the cdc does track flu. How they track and calculate is beyond me. It confuses me as to why stuff like this is tracked, and yet the government is so determined to leave people in the dark.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/usmap.htm

To your cheese sausage I would reply "And for you, I have tuna patte."

This and the constant lying while doing it!

Discord increases engagement, and social media uses that to make more money via increased advertising views.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8256037/

Should have been a baby, since ai is still in its infancy.

They say that, but it likely won't be widely available till early October.

After a big Firefox update last year, Chase kept telling me they wouldn't allow acces via "outdated" web browsers, then redirected me to download another browser which included Firefox. This went on for several months until Chase finally updated themselves. During that time, if I wanted to access my account I had to use a different browser.

Yes, this was temporary, but another issue I have is Firefox on my Samsung phone. I am not tech savvy; I do my best to protect myself, but past the basic protections I am overwhelmed.

I would LOVE to use Firefox on my phone instead of Chrome, but every time I have tried, Firefox has been slow as fuck as compared to Chrome; slow enough to be practically unusable. I never found a solution and ended up going back to chrome while trying to adjust all my phone/browser settings to request as much respect and privacy as possible.

It could have been so much better, but The Black Cauldron with the oracular pig is a favorite.

Edit to add: and The Goonies!

Even if I'm angry or frustrated at you, it doesn't mean I care about you any less.

Yrs ago this would have (foolishly) increased my trust in the companies, but I've long since learned that companies building a "coalition" doesn't mean squat unless it's actually utilized to create positive change.

"some images, many depicting graphic scenes of violence, self-harm, murder, rape, necrophilia, child abuse, bestiality and incest."

Yes, people should absolutely be paid more, but there is no amount of money that can shield a person from the trauma caused by seeing such images.

I think there should also be some hard core investigating into how the companies got such material.

You may jest, but pet food companies know it's not just about what a cat wants, but what is also appealing to the owner. Plus, companies know pet owners will spend more if they feel like they're spoiling their beloved companion; mouse fricassee doesn't have the same connontation.

any federal laws are being broken legislatively by Congress as a result of baby hands in 2019, not the Biden administration.

How can congress legally break federal laws? I understand that the money is allocated, but how can the money have even been allocated toward something that was breaking laws in the first place?

Such a load a' croc.

Despite Black families experiencing the largest growth in median net wealth — a 60% bump from 2019 — their 2022 levels remained the lowest among all other racial or ethnic groups, and they also saw incomes falter.

The 37% rise in net worth, which was more than double the next-largest upswing on record, was largely fueled by asset growth — specifically home values and stock market gains that far exceeded consumer price inflation, Fed researchers said.

Figured_ I would add a bit more context to your argument. You can't gain in net wealth if you have nothing to gain with. Emphasis in above quote is mine.

Oooh! I didn't realize there was an old. Please enlighten me.

It can't be any worse than what I did. TMI alert.

I was in a psychiatric ward in my teens. Around that time, I also had major issues with pooping in strange places. I didn't poop for 11 days! Don't ask me how I wasn't in pain, but somehow I just shut off my rectum. Mom finally came to visit me, and we went to a restaurant for lunch. I guess I felt safe enough with mom near by (no, not in the bathroom with me), because I finally couldn't hold it. I crapped so much it was literally piled over the top of the water. Plus add toilet paper, of course it clogged. And it was the only toilet in the place. And when I came out there was a HUGE line of people waiting (no clue how long I was in there). I told the person in front of the line to wait because the toilet was clogged, then went to ask for a plunger. The counter person said they would take care of it, so I went back to the table. I don't have the slightest clue what happened after, but I thank God this was before everyone had cell phones. You know that shit would have been all over the internet!

Made all the better. Dark fantasy at its best.

Done.

Thank you for the reminder!