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BitOneZero @ .world

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Supporter of the art work of James Joyce, "World Wide Wake" as in year 1924 Irish Dublin story "Finnegans Wake"!!! Year 1923 "Finn's Hotel"

Joy to you!

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    Every night, all over the world, hundreds of people see this face in their dreams.

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  • The meme itself is a kind of evidence, regardless of the underlying truth of the claims. Popular actors and what's used in commercials is often run through A/B testing to find out what people react the most to.

    Trump as an icon very much was crafted just like this artists story;... he has crossed into the key spotlight point several times in his life. As much as almost anyone in human history. My concern isn't just that people dream of icons like this, but that they can't seem to tell when it is a nightmare and negative - and they are drawn to it. Which Trump isn't a novelty meme or art project.

  • God, wouldn't that be nice?

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  • Yes crazies are getting crazier and louder

    It isn't just their words, since 2014 they believe all kinds of wild things, and the pandemic was just one example of how they act out on these belief as business owners, neighbors, organizations. It isn't just politics.

  • God, wouldn't that be nice?

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  • Already evidence that they didn't understand what Hitler was and just symbolically associated black color with bad things.

  • God, wouldn't that be nice?

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  • I wouldn't be concerned about trending itself, it's that people seem to be favoring trends that are objectively bad. The pandemic people kept saying it wasn't real and would go away when summer of 2020 came... but that proved wrong, and so few seem to want to learn from the lesson of going against science in favor of Fox News or whatever other negative trend that crowds keep following. If we were trending towards building affordable houses for more people and sheltering the homeless and not making rent lock people into jobs they don't want - I'd thing it was progress. But right now, the crowds seem to be flocking to some negative-oriented Nazi kind of shit.

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    Every night, all over the world, hundreds of people see this face in their dreams.

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  • This isn't shitpost material, this is reality of how the human mind works, and www.thisman.org that you linked is another example of the human brain works. This s the very meaning of 'Demon-Haunted World', where people compulsively flock and put their faith into someone without scrutinizing the actions the person or system is taking. People read a book and say they personally know Jesus... if you haven't met such a person in your lifetime if you have lived in North America, I'd be surprised.

    This isn't shitpost material, this is the nightmare of reality that's trending towards self-destruction. Since 2014 crowds have been flocking to icons and symbols of things that are objectively bad.

    Ok, I've got it wrong, you said hundreds, this is a shitpost.

  • lemmy.world API for communities list returns a page of results even if no such page exists, behaving different from other version 0.18.3 servers

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  • shame.

    Yha, I feel it too. I wish the code were able to cope with some internal performance problems, but so far it isn't there. Have a good day.

  • 'It's a cult': Former GOP lawmaker blames Republicans for contributing to the cult of Trump

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  • I tend to witness it like you describe too. I do not see people saying "oh, we were wrong, the pandemic wasn't going to be over by Easter 2000 and it went on for years"... or really kind of admit that Fox News mislead them, or Alex Jones is a liar and they want to make sure that skills like his don't keep influencing the next generation.

    Why can't people blame advertising for being fat... do you really need McDonald's and Burger King reminding you all the time that they have food? At what point do you realize the influence that can be scientifically measured with advertising is real. What would the side-effects be of too powerful of advertising, Donald Trump? Obesity icon? If an advert does not work, they change technique, media outlet, agency, or they run it at a different time, they very much measure the increased sales. At what point do you look at your brain and go - oh, I can't defend against weaponized snack food and soda. It's engineered to make me crave it.

    It's a very personal experience. It really doesn't take long to be exposed to something, maybe even a movie, through advertising instead of a friend actually recommending it to you personally based on experience.

    why would you want to live knowing there are profiting manipulating you to purchase things you don't really want and vote for people that don't deserve it, etc. At what point do you stand up and realize that those people are organized and learning what other people will accept and using it on you? What kind of freedom is this, and why do you want everyone else to be treated this way too.

    it is a sort of bug and deep down I think these people either want a rigid hierarchical society

    sigh.

  • 'It's a cult': Former GOP lawmaker blames Republicans for contributing to the cult of Trump

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  • It’s quickly stomped out by groupthink.

    that's my observation too. Having lived in several parts of the world with very different religions and values... conformity is incredibly important to many people. The proven structure is to market some other group to hate.

  • 'It's a cult': Former GOP lawmaker blames Republicans for contributing to the cult of Trump

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  • But if you’re basically mentally healthy, the signs of cultdom seem so obvious to me that I have a hard time understanding why they don’t see them.

    I spent a lot of effort facing the history of humanity was all over the globe people were cultist towards stories that had no basis in realty. They set food laws, clothing rules, marriage - all based on childhood stories they are raised on - much like the spoken/written language they were raised on.

    I think people raised on Rush Limbaugh, Alex Jones, Fox News - aren't much different. It seems the human pattern is global and people who actually want to take a science thinking attitude of sincere facts and honest leaders.

  • lemmy.world API for communities list returns a page of results even if no such page exists, behaving different from other version 0.18.3 servers

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  • it's exclusive problem to lemmy.world's DDOS prevention attempts as far as I know, so no idea.

  • Ex-Trump Aide Says Trump’s Use of ‘Riggers’ Isn’t a Racial ‘Dogwhistle – It’s a Bullhorn’

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  • he’s popular as a speaker for a reason

    I think he has a natural talent to listen to what gets a rise out of people, what gets a reaction, and then copy that in his own way. What he says, once transcribed to written form, is often not very intelligent. It's his mannerism and even his unique makeup and hair - that people listen to far more than his actual meaning. I find people who think Trump is a great person often have serious difficulty interpreting and understanding hard sciences like chemistry and physics... and are influenced by advertising techniques in particular ways.

  • Lemmy.world announces blocking communities via Discord [update]

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  • But lemmy.world should primarily communicate via lemmy imo…

    I find the same attitude holds for developers who like to hang out in real-time Matrix chat and don't seem to use Lemmy itself very much and things like code blocks ruining greater-than and less-than slip right into release without much concern.

  • Lemmy.world announces blocking communities via Discord [update]

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  • I've found there is a culture within Lemmy developers and long-time operators to discuss in Discord or Matrix chat instead of "eating their own dogfood" and using Lemmy itself to openly discuss Lemmy technical and project issues. These chat services are legendary for keeping things away from search engines and newcomers getting up to speed. Lemmy itself isn't nearly as search-engine friendly as Reddit was traditionally, it seems like feedback needs to be given as to how important it is to keep things about Lemmy in the eyes of those who actually use Lemmy...

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  • You mean "comment context" links? It's been that way for 10 days that I've noticed. There are previous posts about it, from 4 days ago: https://lemmy.world/post/2697806

  • Man reviews Whiskey while his wife is packing her stuff and leaving him in the background

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  • I can't find it, but a dozen plus years ago I was reading an interview with Phillip K Dick, who was married 5 times, and during the interview one of his- wives was packing things - and he commented to the interviewer to just let them take what they wanted as he has already experienced this multiple times.

  • Daily Lemmy comments up from ~7m to ~11m following the launch of Sync?

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  • Some people seem to be interpreting this to mean 11 million comments per day. I think it means the numbers are updated daily.

    The numbers also don't make a lot of sense to me. Front page of lemmy.world says 620,000 (local origin) comments. And Lemmy sequentially numbers the comments for an instance, mixing both local and federated and the recent numbers look like 2,122,067. Lemmy.ml says 253,000 on the front page, and their index key is showing 2,321,959 for a comment made today. I have to imagine that these two servers are subscribed to a lot of stuff (including each other). I'd be surprised if there were more than 4 million unique comments in Lemmy. And there would be some kbin messages in the Lemmy.world index.

  • Idea: Automatic Distribution Encouragement

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  • Thoughts?

    I haven't tested with 0.18.3 to see if new features were added to front-end lemmy-ui, but based on my experience with earlier 0.18 releases... the "Sign Up" page of Lemmy needs to have a custom message added for each instance basically introducing the instance from the admins. The experience is pretty bad... on my instance I have registration closed and lemmy-ui still just presents "Sign Up" links and even the form. I think it's pretty important to get this in the back-end now so that the evolving independent front-ends all support the custom message shown above/below the Sign Up form..

    Seems like something that shouldn't take a lot of coding to get added (admin screen has place to create custom messages like "Legal") that would be a good lemmy network-wide focus on the newcomer experience.

  • Direct comment links seem to have stopped working in some situations

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  • I can confirm the problem, it's been gong on all week. It really impacts anyone on another instance with a link, they will fail.

    As I understand the situation, Lemmy.world has been suffering from performance problems and certain comment links were being attacked by distributed clients. So they basically have firewalled /comment links for everyone (I assume using nginx based on behavior, or maybe the front-end cloud distributor).

    Personally I'm interested to know which specific comment links cause the PostgreSQL performance problems as I'm trying to track down and fix those issues. But I haven't seen anyone detail which specific post/comment threads cause the problems... I've just seen the developers reduce loading to 50 and 300 without creating testing scripts to reproduce the issue for other developers to study.

    I'm hoping lemmy.world can implement a less-drastic solution than 100% block of comment links from non-local referral origin... such as a rate limit on those links of 3 per 5 seconds or something low like that. Anyway, I hope you are having a good weekend.

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    Would a re-elected Donald Trump ruin Democracy across the globe in a domino effect?

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  • Fox allowing him hours a day of direct speech....

  • Drama in the Fediverse @lemmy.world
    BitOneZero @ .world @lemmy.world

    Beehaw suppresses Technology News that Lemmy.ml had a major 2-hour outage. Removed posting. "Rumors" are encouraged in sidebar of !Technology@Beehaw.org

  • Lemmy Mods @lemmy.world
    BitOneZero @ .world @lemmy.world

    PLEASE help test Lemmy 0.18 fixes, enterprise.lemmy.ml is the testing server with latest code

  • Lemmy Mods @lemmy.world
    BitOneZero @ .world @lemmy.world

    PSA: federation between instances showing many comments not replicating. GitHub Issue #3101 · LemmyNet/lemmy

    github.com /LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3101
  • Svelte Programming @lemmy.ml
    BitOneZero @ .world @lemmy.world

    Anyone want to collaborate on a new Lemmy UI? Built in Svelte

    github.com /ando818/lemmy-ui-svelte