Pons_Aelius

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Pons_Aelius,

since athletes can’t be paid,

Remind me again, what is it called when the people generating the wealth are not compensated?

It can actually be a problem for the schools, since athletics isn’t allowed to be profitable. They have to spend all the money athletics brings in on athletics, which is why the athletics department ends up with all the fancy new buildings.

Ah yes, that sounds like a great benefit for students getting an education. Also for the academic staff. Must be great to work at a university as a lecturer and know the football coach earns multiples of your salary.

Pons_Aelius,

Please get your medical advice from doctors and not social media.

Pons_Aelius, (edited )

Please get your medical advice from doctors and not social media.

Please get your science information fro text books not youtube.

You live in a house that is lined with electrical wires but for some reason they are not an issue to you because no one has told you to be scared of them.

Pons_Aelius,

The chief is politely saying that someone has shit on their shoes.

Pons_Aelius,

No. That is beeper.

Beeper mini is a stand alone app that was acquired by beeper that does not do the MITM shit.

See the comment by @cm0002 for details.

Still don't think it is a good idea. As another comment stated I expected apple to block it in the near future.

Where to turn to if I need books that are paywalled behind overly expensive academic portals?

I need some books paywalled behind Oxford Politics Trove and they aren’t on Anna’s lib, Zlib, Libgen, Memory of the World, Aaarg, or the Internet Archive. Not sure to whom else to turn to. I hate that knowledge like this is paywalled, and I highly doubt the authors will be paid if I pay the highway robbery of a price.

Pons_Aelius,

IIRC: The Oxford Politics Trove is more text books than academic papers.

Pons_Aelius,

I frickin’ love lamb dishes

If you ever get a chance, try goat curries. They will rock your world.

Pons_Aelius,

No one has the right to your company.

I allow myself to spend 4 hours per year in the presence of my brother. I do it so my parents can have the family together for Christmas dinner. Other than that we have not communicated in 5 years.

When mt parents pass away, so will those 4 hours.

Pons_Aelius,

The only way to have complete privacy online is to never go online.

Anything else will always be a compromise.

Banning still occurs.

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Create your own instance.

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Create your own instance.

Though if you do, enjoy having the trolls flock to your instance, use it to spam the fuck out of everyone else and be de-federated in short order.

How does wiremin deal with illegal content?

How does wiremin deal with spam?

How does wiremin deal with trolls?

Pons_Aelius,

The digestive system actually has a high number of neurons.

Think Twice: How the Gut's "Second Brain" Influences Mood and Well-Being

It has the second highest concentration in the body, after the skull. Since the human bite force is not strong enough to penetrate the human skull the zombies are actually targeting the next best area to eat brains.

Pons_Aelius,

The public square doesn’t have moderators.

Yes it does and it always has. There has always been social group control in the public square

I also see no reason why there couldn’t be a way for the community itself to deal with disruptive actors through some mechanism that does not put any sole individual in power.

Cool. then create you own lemmy instance and run it the way you want.

Good luck.

one question, if the majority of the accounts on your instance vote to allow CSAM, what will you do?

While you may be an anarchist, someone (you, as the one running the instance) will be legally responsible.

Pons_Aelius,

I feel this problem requires cryptography of some sort and the ability to establish identity for users without de-anonymizing them. idk if that makes sense to you

Sorry, but that is laughable.

You want people to be both responsible and anonymous at the same time.

You are dreaming.

Pons_Aelius,

Fellow Lemmings how can we create social media were the users are king/queen?

I doubt you can. Every forum I have been involved with that tried this quickly descended into a shitshow.

It is the tragedy of the commons every time.

post Scriptum: just having a voting mechanism, might be gamed by unsavory charcters or groups to game such a system, unless voting requires your clear name id, which comes with other issues of course.

This does little, to nothing. Even when you have to put you account id to a vote it does nothing to people who want to be disruptive and if you can create multiple accounts (which you can here...), vote bombing will happen.

Pons_Aelius,

If you are on salary and your Boss pulls this shit on Friday afternoon. It time to find a firm that actually respects your skill-set.

Pons_Aelius,

He is as much a marxist and China as communist as Nth Korea is a Democratic Republic.

Not at all.

Pons_Aelius,

I'm sorry you have that and truly hope you find an effective treatment, but the vast majority of people who are sleep deprived do not suffer from medically induced insomnia.

Pons_Aelius,

Now that is what I call setting firm boundaries.

Pons_Aelius,

I agree but this is not the way to do it.

Oil companies pumping it underground is just a way for them to justify business as usual.

Removing co2 from the atmosphere requires energy input, If that energy comes from a co2 producing source it will never work.

Developing nuke/wind/solar co2 extraction is possible but this is astroturfing of the highest order.

[Request] How to get a tiny multitool past airport security?

First off: This post is about a tiny Leatherman multitool. Not a gun, not a sword, not something that can actually hurt someone. Just a small, harmless tool that is unfairly banned from planes because of onerous TSA regs. No one is going to do 9/11 with tiny pliers and a fingernail-sized screwdriver....

Pons_Aelius,

Put it in a bag that is checked in, not carry on.

Pons_Aelius,

Just make sure you strip the meta data from the picture before you send in your evidence.

Pons_Aelius,

Most people expect gradual change when many things in life are more like punctuated equilibrium.

Stable state despite gradual change in underlying conditions.

Then rapid change to new stable state.

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