Glad to see more people leave it, but at this point it’s almost more embarrassing to have taken so long.

“If you had just picked a better water bucket, we wouldn’t be in this mess. It’s your fault if the house burns down.”

Humans (and most other animals) see better side-to-side than up-down. Your eyes are spaced horizontally, giving us a wider horizontal field of vision. People generally prefer putting things side-to-side in work environments, maybe also reflecting how much easier it is to move and work within a horizontal plane than a vertical one. So the upper threshold for monitor width would be longer than the upper threshold for monitor height.

That being said, I know reading is best done in narrower columns, to reduce the amount of left-right movement your eyes need to do which can cause you to lose your place when skimming lines. Three columns of text on a 16:9 monitor is way more readable than one column of text that spans the entire monitor.

And then why do we make an exception for phones which are predominantly used in portrait mode? I guess maybe just for easier 1-handed use? Maybe also to give us more peripheral vision of potential hazards and other things happening in the background when using them, since they’re mobile devices.

Ending it as quickly and painlessly as possible then, I guess. I stick by the opinion that a life without agency and with no means to obtain it isn’t really living at all.

It sounds like you have no agency either way, then, which still sounds like a bad deal to me. I’d rather die at 40 living a life of my choosing than live to 400 with essentially no free will.

I’m not sure I understand the question. If the premise is that you become physically incapable of doing any action that introduces greater risk than some alternative, which isn’t even a guarantee of “immortality” as described, then it’s basically a life not lived at all. The safest option would always be to go nowhere, do nothing, speak to no one.

Imagine living life as if everything was covered in California Prop 65 labels saying “This action can expose you to risks which are known to future you to cause premature demise or other bodily harm.” It sounds awful, I’d never take that bet.

I meant more that I know there were other protests outside of the Boston area, too, mainly driven by university students with concerns about similar happening in their communities.

I barely know my neighbors, so I don’t think I’d recognize one if I saw them, and a lot of folks including myself were masked up, so I don’t think anyone would recognize me in a photo either.

Also just need to say that AOC quote is good, but also that “Yankee” is a dirty word here around Boston, haha.

I went to the one in Somerville near the university, was pretty lively. Couldn’t stay for the whole thing, but it was helpful to have a reminder that this is a community of like-minded folks who don’t take this sort of thing sitting down.

I hate to come across as an Apple shill, but specifically for tablets, I may reconsider them and look for an affordable used iPad somewhere. From my own experience, theirs is the only OS that is designed tablet-first and they accordingly have a larger ecosystem of apps that are tailored to that experience. I don’t think you can find a more accessible tablet UX in the general consumer space.

Windows and Android tablets are fine, but you’re going to have a lot of compromises. In particular with Windows, you’re either going to get the x86 OS with short battery life, or the neutered ARM version that barely anything is compatible with but gives you a few hours more per charge. Android at least is more mobile-oriented and is built for ARM by default, but it makes no real distinction between phone apps and tablet apps, so most of what you’ll get is phone interfaces blown up/stretched into tablet ones. Both of these OSes are also privacy nightmares, so pick your poison there.

There are some Linux tablets out there, too, but they’ve got the same core problem as Windows, where for tablet-first experiences you’re looking at pretty small/specialized ecosystems unless you’re up for building something yourself. Starlabs makes a tablet that you can put just about any major distro of Linux on, but it’s also x86, and it ain’t cheap. There is probably cheaper out there, but you’re essentially getting what you pay for.

Blocking users would actually probably be more efficient because the majority of those posts come from just one or two accounts.

They are definitely eyeing Moldova, Georgia, and Estonia.

I think the previous user is speaking out of emotion more than logic, but I would say they are correct at least about the hypocrisy. China has been supplying Russia with arms and intelligence all throughout their invasion of Ukraine.

On its surface I think the statement in this article is good but I can’t help but wonder if the underlying meaning is that China just doesn’t want to be left out of the conversation, since they have basically been doing for Russia what the US was doing for Ukraine.

That’s basically his entire stance on Ukraine, at least. He parrots the Russian stance that the war is Ukraine’s fault, because they could have just rolled over and given up after a few days.

Man, we’re going to have people in 100 years cursing Putin this way too, huh?

The million drachma question, though, is how.

The entire Internet will need some way to validate that a given user is a human and not a bot, but in practice it’s becoming increasingly more impossible.

I don’t think their concern is necessarily where the products themselves are made, but just where they are sold from.

Big box retailers have been known to crush local businesses because they offer convenience and have more financial resources to throw around. But they don’t have investment in their local communities outside of the wealth they can extract from them, so they can be detrimental influences within the communities where they operate. They cause local businesses to close and offer only the bare minimum to employ local workers.

Local businesses can still carry mass-produced goods, but money spent there largely stays in the community. Rather than the profits going to enrich some C-level execs at a corporate office located who knows where, it helps the local business owner who is more likely to either reinvest in the quality of their business or put the money to some other purpose within the community.

Those are typically the reasons people are thinking of when suggesting that folks buy local. But having local business more easily able to stock locally made goods is also a bonus, which would not be done at a larger retailer.

If you got banned from /r/conservative, well, easy to see why. Snowflakes don’t like to have their feelings challenged.

If you got banned from Reddit as a whole, guessing there was some automated filter that picked up the words “kill yourself” and a bot decided that was close enough.

You wouldn’t see any billionaires.

Not a bad strategy, though for as bad as the native search feature is on Reddit, the native search feature on Lemmy is 10x worse. Basically, if it’s not indexed by Google, there’s no way to search for something specific.

I go out of my way to save content locally that interests me because I assume if I don’t, it is effectively lost to time.

I never deleted my Reddit account precisely because I go in there periodically and find some of my comments became un-deleted, so I have to go back in and scrub them again to try to keep my content off the site.

That, and when I am Googling something and find a relevant thread on Reddit with the answer, I hate being defaulted to New Reddit, where half the comments are also buried and need to be manually opened to read more. Having an account logged in with the Old Reddit toggle is the simplest way around that (though wouldn’t surprise me if someone made a browser extension for that).