world World News Wagner mercenary chief calls for armed rebellion against Russian military leadership
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mildlyinfuriating Mildly Infuriating AirBnB bans host for knowing the wrong people
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    They couldn't profit from it because of a bot. That issue is going to get more widespread and someone you know will be affected by it.

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    1 year ago 100%

    This is some boringdistopia shit. Some bot damn near ruins a family and won't even tell them why.

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  • technews TechNews [HN] Reddit says it won’t overrule mods and force subreddits back open
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    Headline: Reddit won't overrule mods and force subreddits back open

    Article: Reddit will remove moderators and install new mods who want the subs open.

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  • technews TechNews [HN] Amazon confirms it locked Microsoft engineer out his Echo gear over false claim
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    asklemmy Asklemmy A modest proposal: roundtable on defederation
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    1 year ago 75%

    The Beehaw mods explicitly said that the defederation was due to lack of good mod tools combined with lack of time to moderate manually, and that they didn't really want to defederate but didn't know what else to do.

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  • california California ‘Pretty staggering’: Thousands of California police officers could be stripped of their badges under new law
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    Is the police union really that powerful?

    Yes.

    I remember when Arnold was governor and was trying to balance the budget. He found out how much we were spending on prisons, and how many prisoners were there for nonviolent drug crimes. He publicly suggested letting specifically those people out. Within a couple of days, wall-to-wall radio ads started running... "Little Suzie was raped and murdered by a PAROLEE!!! Schwarzenegger wants to let PAROLEES JUST LIKE THAT loose in YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD!!!!". He dropped the idea.

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  • usa United States | News & Politics Georgia voting software will not be updated until after 2024 despite vulnerabilities
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    lemmyworld Lemmy.World Announcements Beehaw defederating effective immediately from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works
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    chat Chat What artist(s) had a radical change in musical style?
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    politics Politics The Supreme Court sided with corporations over workers—again
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    My understanding is that workers loaded wet concrete into trucks and then walked off the job without telling anyone. They're getting sued for the thousands of dollars of damage to equipment this caused, not the economic damage caused by not working.

    Edit: the article linked says there was no equipment damage, and the dispute is over the value of the wasted concrete.

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  • gaming Gaming Overwatch 2 is charging you for the PvE it didn't cancel
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    I was excited for OW2 as well. I left because of locking heroes behind the battle pass.

    Greed has killed Blizzard. They're like Zerg Kerrigan... they look familiar but they're corrupted to the core, and everything they do is tainted by it.

    I've already done my mourning, but it felt awful at the time. Sorry you're dealing with it now.

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  • technology Technology Here's what the internet might look like without Reddit
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    They could always pay the API fees and get ChatGPT to write some Reddit-like comments for them to report on.

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  • lemmyworld Lemmy.World Announcements Popular subreddits plan to extend blackouts indefinitely | Engadget
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    Being a mod is a labor of love. If they don't love it any more, they'll leave. They're currently trying to save Reddit from making that happen.

    The execs don't seem to understand this.

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    1 year ago 100%

    Slugs eat my garden. They gotta go.

    I'd feel the same way about moles, but I don't actually have those, so they can stay cute.

    The rest of em are fine.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy Anthony Bourdain once said "There's a guy in my head, and all he wants to do is lay in bed all day long, smoke pot, and watch old movies and cartoons.
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    asklemmy Asklemmy With all of the negative headlines dominating the news these days, it can be difficult to spot signs of progress. What makes you optimistic about the future?
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    Someone did, but there's not much there atm. Couldn't figure out how to link it, but I think it'll come up on search.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy What is the point of using screws with a Phillips head, flathead, allen, hex, etc. instead of just having one universal screw type?
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    Different types have different advantages and disadvantages.

    Slot can be opened with stuff that isn't screwdrivers (keys, coins, etc). They can take more torque than Phillips and are cheap to make. They kind of suck to use though, the screwdriver/bit likes to slip off.

    Phillips self-centers the bit, and is pretty tolerant of wrong-sized driver for the screw. It strips easily though.

    Torx, square and Allen are more expensive to make and require the correct size driver, but they're higher torque and the driver doesn't slip out of the screw.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy People who knew someone who died in a freak accident, what happened?
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    I knew a guy that was fishing on a calm summer day when a tree branch fell on him and killed him.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy For people that still want to use reddit, why?
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    I'm not here because I don't want Reddit, I'm here because I do want Reddit, but it looks like the Reddit Corp is going to break it.

    I don't think I'll leave Reddit until it goes to shit, but if mods leave, communities will fall apart and I won't have any reason to be there any more. We'll see what it looks like tomorrow.

    Lemmy seems like the most likely to rise up and take Reddit's place, so here I am. My only major complaint is the lack of user base, so I'll stick around for a while and contribute my +1 in the hopes that enough others do the same thing to get the critical mass needed for niche hobby groups to form.

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  • gaming Gaming GTA Online Fans Furious As 180+ Cars Are Removed, Some Now Paywalled
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    This is a new low for R*. Many of the removed cars are the "street cars" which could be stolen for free by new players.

    Trying to monetize 10yo base game assets... smh

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    Is this a good beginner guitar?

    I asked on the guitar reddit but I guess that's not allowed and the mods took the whole site down.

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    tifu TIFU It's officially a party! TIFU HITS 6000 SUBS
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    Cheers!

    I just got here yesterday, and it's amazing how much growth I've seen since then, not just TIFU but everywhere. There's clearly a demand for a new digital town square. Hope it continues to grow.

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  • music Music Do you listen to any new bands? Or just same as 10 years ago?
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    I have this beef with people who say new country music sucks

    Aren't the decent guys calling themselves "Americana" nowadays? Coulter Wall, Tyler Childers, etc? The pop-with-fiddles they play on the radio is mostly terrible.

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  • bayarea Bay Area Cruise self-driving car stops in middle of S.F. mass shooting scene, company now facing backlash
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    Lol, Cruise claims their vehicle didn't obstruct emergency crews, but police had time to set up a police tape perimeter around the car in the half hour it took Cruise to move the thing.

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    You’re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, it’s crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t, not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that?

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  • guitars guitars Do you feel like getting an expensive wah pedal is worth it?
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    I'm a big fan of Morley wahs. They're spring-loaded and turn on automatically when you move them from their rest position, then turn off automatically when you take your foot off. Best feature ever, imo, and I'm never going back. Ymmv.

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