DougPiranha42

joined 3 months ago
[–] DougPiranha42@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

After a while I realized that Word (the web app) does not render lines of text in the same position as Word (the desktop app), in the very same file. The former seems to use a pseudo random line spacing.

[–] DougPiranha42@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

I just set up I hate money a couple weeks ago. Works fine. Not a perfect drop in for splitwise, but works for us. You log in by entering the project name and password (not separate user accounts), then select who paid and for whom.

[–] DougPiranha42@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don’t know man, the admins of this instance don’t owe anything to the users over there, and the defederation doesn’t meaningfully impact anyone over there as far as I understand.
If I was regularly chatting with people who call for killing me, I would have a very high blood pressure.

[–] DougPiranha42@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Who’s in charge of that instance. Are you suggesting that admins are never responsible for what they say because every admin is a single individual? The admins of this instance have complete discretion over who they want to federate with.

[–] DougPiranha42@lemmy.world -2 points 5 days ago

Sure, that’s a great idea! Here’s a quick step by step guide to get started:

  • Wait until AI CEO visits the restaurant where you cook
  • Add poison to food
  • Wait for CEO to die and company collapse
  • Get IT job.

Would you also like me to prepare a list of potent poisons available in your area?

[–] DougPiranha42@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You will get very different responses from Denmark, Albania, Switzerland and Belarus. Ancient greek democracy would look bad today with slavery and no women’s rights.

[–] DougPiranha42@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think what OP is referring to is that many supporters of “gun rights” like to use the argument that the second amendment is key to the freedom of America because an armed populace cannot be controlled by an authoritarian government. I don’t particularly care for that argument, but if you run with it, it would make sense that the right of the populace to organize armed rebellion is just as important as their right to own and carry weapons.

[–] DougPiranha42@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

What an excellent meme. The look on the face of the guy in the back is just perfect for the occasion.

[–] DougPiranha42@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I don’t understand. If your work can be done quickly and well with a tool (AI), why don’t you use that tool and be done with your work quickly? Why does your heart break?

[–] DougPiranha42@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Can we have an !explainthejoke?
(No fr that sub was the strongest proof of dead internet theory)

[–] DougPiranha42@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Right. It’s not like they can on paper move their assets to whatever organization, estate, jurisdiction, subsidiary, shell company, offshore account, or arcane vehicles we never heard of, to avoid paying wealth taxes!

[–] DougPiranha42@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

I’m in Neuroscience. My favorite way to keep up is rss feeds of the 5 best journals (100-200 titles per week), rss feeds to the relevant pubmed search terms (20-50 titles per week) an google scholar email alerts to some of the most relevant researchers in my field, auto forwarding to kill the newsletter, and read through rss (50-100 titles per week, lots of duplicates). So every day I aim to open the rss reader and burn down the unread count. Papers that are really relevant to my research tend to show up 4-5 times over 2 weeks this way, so it’s hard to miss it. Which journals: you know that if you have been in the field for a while, if not, ask your colleagues and mentors where they publish and what they read.
Bad papers sliding through the cracks: it happens, you don’t know unless you read it.

 

I came here a few weeks ago after many years of reddit. Altogether I find discussions I enjoy, however, the posts and comments noticeably lean, well, tankie (I didn’t know that term before I came here). It’s not that I am looking for an echo chamber, but I also don’t want to spend my time reading propaganda. I’m really curious about a lot of things outside politics, as well as the opinions and arguments of reasonable people across the political spectrum, but I don’t want to listen to the boring canned lies of fascists and tankies. I realized that people celebrating communist dictators trigger me, and this is something I didn’t have to deal with before I started reading lemmy, I didn’t even know this type existed.
I also notice that accounts created just a few hours in advance come from other instances to brigade political posts. Because of how lemmy works, I can block individual users or communities, but not individual instances. Is there an instance that could be a “safe space” from this kind of brigading and tankie spam? Or a way to use the internet to read interesting things now that blogs died and then Reddit became whatever it became?

Edit: Thanks everyone for the helpful and wholesome comments. Of course, some trolls/wackos showed up as well to say hi.

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