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new_guy, in How is your part of the world doing?

Brazil.

60 years ago we entered in a military regime that destroyed our economy and lasted for about 30.

Last year we almost did the same thing again. So yeah… Things looking nice since they weren’t successfull this time.

Everythingispenguins,

It is the little wins that keep life worth living lol

Seriously I was pretty happy to see you all pull that one out of the fire. I really hope that it can stay that way for you all.

slazer2au, in yesterday I posted a funny picture, and without any message, it got deleted from my profile.. how censure work here?

Did you call the post “the average lemmist”?

Of so the post was removed by a mod a couple hours ago.
lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&userId=1212245

ooli,

Yeah that was it. So they remove stuff, without explanation. I bet this must work well. Thanks for the link… I will store that , to check what is happening behind the curtains

superb,
@superb@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

That’s how moderation has worked like always? Most of the time you get no explanation

Karmmah,
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You don’t even have to save that link. In the online version of lemmy at least it says “Modlog” at the bottom of every page.

backhdlp, in Suggestions for an iOS News app (or way) that doesn't track (much) data ?
@backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Does a RSS feed work for you?

whynotzoidberg,

I’ve been absolutely loving my FreshRSS and NetNewsWire set up. Even my local news is easily accessible in a feed for me, now.

Got my non-tech spouse on board, too. She’s been liking it.

DudeDudenson,

I’ve never looked into RSS feeds, is it necessary to host your own? Can’t he just use NetNewsWire and subscribe to a public RSS?

Hosting a server doesn’t seem like a proper option for someone that is looking for a news app for their phone

whynotzoidberg,

NetNewsWire supports multiple methods for accounts – local, various cloud services, and self-hosted. And it is free. I highly recommend someone interested in RSS check the app out and subscribe to a few feeds.

Looking for some starter feeds to sub? Check out Feedspot’s RSS directory.

Hosting your own FreshRSS instance is totally optional, and is absolutely a proper option for someone privacy-focused. It doesn’t have to be a big, scary monster – simple options exist, e.g., using fly.io to host FreshRSS, as someone wrote about on this blog.

Gorgeous_Sloth,

Would work, but only with sources I register. I’d rather have something that suggests sources I don’t necessarily know

Tom_bishop, in Who's going to pay for the reconstruction of Gaza

Israel is gonna pay for the for the reconstruction willingly & proudly. They’ve been doing it for more than 70 years. All the Palestinians’ apartment buildings that was destroyed for the past 70 years, Israel rebuild it, and then the Jews moves into the new area. Rinse and repeat until no more Palestine

stolid_agnostic, in What's the most unique role model you've heard that was a green flag?

I’ve never thought in terms of “green flag” but really like that concept.

I’m going to go with Levar Burton. Reading Rainbow ran for like 35 years and encouraged millions of children to read.

x4740N,
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Thinking of star trek would gene Rodenberry’s philosophy be considered a green flag

I personally think it is

TheAlbatross,

It’s not really here or there, but when I was a young child, I saw Star Trek: The Next Generation before Reading Rainbow, so my parents had to explain how actors worked when I was baffled how the blind man was teaching me how to read.

I did love Reading Rainbow, though, and still read regularly, probably in part thanks to Levar Burton.

SzethFriendOfNimi, (edited )
@SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world avatar

Man I loved the episode of reading rainbow where it showed behind the scenes of TNG

Found it

youtu.be/PaG6evVcd-w

stolid_agnostic,

That’s a great story! I was…maybe…11…when STTNG came out, so I had already seen RR prior. I was super excited to see an actor I knew appear on the show.

ericbomb,

Oh that’s a great one!

He’s still doing stuff trying to get more books and reading to children.

So he’s a wonderful answer.

paddirn, in How is your part of the world doing?

Well, we’re not in Gaza, so we’ve got that going for us at least.

ToroidalX, in How is your part of the world doing?
@ToroidalX@lemmy.world avatar

I’m in Argentina. Help…me. Although we have been in trouble since I’ve been alive so there’s that P.S.: Don’t send prayers, send money lmao

Everythingispenguins,

Sadly I have no money and based on how well they work for me my prayers are pretty worthless too. 😂

son_named_bort, in What popular quote are you tired of hearing?

“This hurts me more than it hurts you”

No, I’m pretty sure being spanked hurts more than doing the spanking.

MimicJar,
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Being spanked is physical harm, vs doing the spanking is emotional harm. The argument is that emotional is more harmful than physical.

Of course this ignores that being spanked very likely also inflicts emotional harm. It also ignores that emotional harm isn’t a scale.

Pyr_Pressure, in Can anyone recommend terrible horror films?

Army of Darkness

PvtGetSum,

That’s a fantastic movie

Vaginal_blood_fart,

Oh baby that was just pillow talk

EdenRester, (edited ) in How is your part of the world doing?
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Togo.

We are still waiting for at least an alternance at the top of the country with the governance of a family for more than 50 years. Since 2020 and the last elections, life has getting more and more difficult for the population and you can feel the frustration in people. Opposition parties are not credible anymore and can't really lead the fight anymore. Just a minority is keeping the money of the country; it's not my words but the president's ones but he can't do anything about it because he is also a pawn in the system and can't do nothing again those who put him there.
Just tired. I can talk about a lot of things but I don't have energy for that. Seems like we are waiting for something, some are talking about revolution. It can happen when the population will say enough is enough but togolese people are too much patient and don't want to die in vain about politics. Also, the last time things got serious, it was with a lot of deaths but it brings a sort of democracy, at least some rights but now we are getting back in every right we got. We were close to changes in 2017 but the opposition parties didn't handle it well and here we are now. The system has weakened them also. They even shut the mouth of university movements and associations that fought for changes for us students.
For the future, only God knows!

JIMMERZ, in Can anyone recommend terrible horror films?

Splatter Farm. A cheesy as it gets. Looks like it was filmed on a camcorder in the 80’s.

https://youtu.be/ioY6JbmLXk8?si=L4bgRHgA1G6E5htg

DreamySweet, in yesterday I posted a funny picture, and without any message, it got deleted from my profile.. how censure work here?
@DreamySweet@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

It seems like the only one who censured you was yourself?

ooli,

I didnt

DreamySweet,
@DreamySweet@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

For information, it was a pic of a funny man draped in an ukrainian flag with david star in the middle doing a nazy salute… so yeah not the most tastefull

I thought that was like borderline censuring.

ooli,

Censuring what?

DreamySweet,
@DreamySweet@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Yourself, for what you posted.

ooli,

No. It was a picture. Yesterday. That pic is nowhere in my profile anymore. I didnt delete it. I did nothing, received no message, it is ,just nowhere anymore. I wonder what happend. Is there a moderator doing something, is there a downvote rule on lemmy… what is happening

DreamySweet,
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I am very confused. Did someone else send the text in the spoiler to you?

ooli,

I put the spoiler, to not offend anyone. Since the pic was removed, I assume people got offended by it.

radix,
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Sounds like censure but not censoring :P

xenomor, in Who's going to pay for the reconstruction of Gaza

As an American, I am dismayed to report that the bloodlust and empty-eyed support for anything Israel does is basically the only widely bipartisan issue that exists here. It is absolutely grotesque and disheartening. So, I expect that once the fascists have completed their final solution, the US will gladly help fund the reconstruction of the area, to make it shiny for a wave of American and Israeli settlers and for the sake of business relations. It makes little difference which party has the presidency.

RoryButlerMusic, in How is your part of the world doing?

UK.

Everyone’s struggling. I can only speak for shy of 30 years ago (30 years old). But people can’t stay afloat or get started.

Jobs are fucked. They’re either entry level/service/retail jobs that pay nothing. Qualified or technical jobs that are paid less than 25k (I saw jobs requesting experience in coding languages and complex IT functions for around 23k) Then anything that pays more than 28k (still not enough to live on) has “senior” or “managing” in the title, requires experienced or qualifications that could single handedly run a business.

It feels like places are forcing more work onto individual people rather than hiring more people and spreading the work around.

I’m only at 24k and doing administrative work, Web dev, marketing, data management and some more technical stuff relating to the industry. But look at what’s available and I’m not suitably equipped to get anything with a higher salary. Even when I am, the response tends to be a negative despite being quite strong at applying. Presumably the competition is that strong.

Otherwise, collectively with my partner, we have nearly 60k income. We could secure a mortgage, but we can’t scrape together a house deposit. Even then the monthly repayments would be crazy high and inflation would screw us.

Both firm adults and living with parents despite having secure and intensive jobs. Can’t get anywhere even with budgeting so tightly that enjoyment money is very limited. My savings have started being eaten into for the first time as of this past month, so I’m walking into living off negative money.

When I look around I’m actually not in that bad a situation compared to some. But then others are living the dream.

Feels like the lows and the highs are so wide here right now. Where when I was growing up, my dad was a postman then a private courier and my mum a cleaner and we were fine, not well off, but didn’t live that differently to our middle class friends.

Moving on my mum took three menial jobs when we left my dad, but still paid rent and we never went without.

Don’t really understand it all, but it seems that its all going to shit.

DrOfMoo,

This pretty much sums up the United States as well.

RoryButlerMusic,

Seems its the case in a heck of a lot of places frustratingly

SinkingLotus, in What popular quote are you tired of hearing?
@SinkingLotus@lemmy.world avatar

“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind”.

No it doesn’t. At most the world no longer has depth perception.

Obi,
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Isn’t the idea that you’ll keep taking more eyes until there are none left? No mentions that it’s limited to one eye per person.

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