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roastpotatothief

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  • Death Cab for Cutie - President of What?

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  • Great song that I'd nearly forgotten about.

  • Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative

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  • This is a great project. I had the same idea myself, and posted about it, but never did anything about it! It's great that people like you are here, with the creativity, and the motivation and skills to do this work.

    I think this project is as necessary as Wikipedia itself.

    The criticisms in these comments are mostly identical to the opinion most people had about Wikipedia when it started - the it would become a cesspool of nonsense and misinformation. That it was useless and worthless when encyclopaedias already exist.

    Wikipedia was the first step in broadening what a source if authoritative information can be. It in fact created richer and more truthful information than was possible before, and enlightened the world. Ibis is a necessary second step on the same path.

    It will be most valuable for articles like Tieneman square, or the Gilets Jaunes, where there are sharply different perspectives on the same matter, and there will never be agreement. A single monolithic Wikipedia cannot speak about them. Today, wiki gives one perspective and calls it the truth. This was fine in the 20th century when most people believed in simple truths. They were told what to think by single sources. They never left their filter bubbles. This is not sustainable anymore.

    To succeed and change the world, this project must do a few things right.

    1. The default instance should just be a mirror of Wikipedia. This is the default source of information on everything, so it would be crazy to omit it. Omitting it means putting yourself in competition with it, and you will lose. By encompassing it, the information in Ibis is from day 1 greater then wiki. Then Ibis will just supersede wiki.

    2. There should be a sidebar with links to the sane article on other instances. So someone reading about trickle down economics on right wing instance, he can instantly switch to the same article on a left wing wiki and read the other side of it. That's the feature that will make it worthwhile for people.

    3. It should look like Wikipedia. For familiarity. This will help people transition.

  • Dog control

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  • That's probably what will happen in the end. Using old familiar idea, because it is familiar.

    But that's not what I'm doing here. I'm interested in new and more effective plans, even if they are not familiar and are unlikely to be used for that reason.

  • Dog control

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  • How could that work, on a practical level? Would it work better than what I have proposed?

  • Ireland @lemmy.ml
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    Dog control

  • Ireland @lemmy.ml
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    The government incentive to leave homes empty

  • Ireland @lemmy.ml
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    The right way to fund the RTE

  • Youtube @lemmy.ml
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    Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED

    yewtu.be /watch/
  • medicine @lemmy.ml
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    Your appendix is not, in fact, useless

    www.npr.org /sections/health-shots/2024/02/02/1228474984/appendix-function-appendicitis-gut-health
  • random @lemmy.ml
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    Courtney Dauwalter: Step inside the 'pain cave', where rules are remade

    www.bbc.com /sport/athletics/67945344
  • Science @lemmy.ml
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    Ultraviolet light can kill almost all the viruses in a room. Why isn’t it everywhere?

    www.vox.com /the-highlight/23972651/ultraviolet-disinfection-germicide-far-uv
  • random @lemmy.ml
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    Is This the World’s Highest-Grossing Photograph?

    www.nytimes.com /2023/11/21/business/gigli-photograph-girls-in-the-windows.html
  • Policy Peanuts @lemmy.ml
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    Inheritance tax

  • French city of Montpellier makes public transport free for all residents

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  • For private business the tickets are to fund the business. But for public transport they are never expected to cover the costs of the business.

    It is run as a public service, not to make money. The function of tickets is to prevent overcrowding.

    That's why in well designed systems, the price is different at rush hour, and for high traffic routes and times.

    I don't know anything about montpellier specifically though.

  • Articles @lemmy.world
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    The Rule of Compounding: Why Small Steps Lead to Big Gains

    getpocket.com /explore/item/the-rule-of-compounding-why-small-steps-lead-to-big-gains
  • Policy Peanuts @lemmy.ml
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    the future of the over-employed

  • Nash equilibrium

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  • Yes that's the value of game theory. It's not really about the silly games. It's a way to understand real life, using silly games as examples. It helps us think of ways to understand our problems and to change the world, that we would not have thought of otherwise.

  • Nash equilibrium

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  • Yes that's it. If we all did it together, we could change the world. But as individuals there is no effective action we can take.

    Things like effective democracy, or powerful protest groups, could someday change the rules of the game. They could provide a low effort path for each individual to improve the collective (and his own) outcome.

  • Ireland @lemmy.ml
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    Forcing the government to take action

  • Economics @lemmy.ml
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    Nash equilibrium

    www.dicebreaker.com /categories/board-game/feature/how-a-card-game-helped-avoid-nuclear-war
  • Antiwork @lemmy.ml
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    Inside the strange, secretive rise of the 'overemployed'

    www.businessinsider.com /overemployed-workers-secret-two-multiple-jobs-salaries-tech-tips-2023-11
  • Policy Peanuts @lemmy.ml
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    The good panopticon

  • "I’m endorsing no presidents no more,” Cardi B warned. “Joe Biden is talking about, ‘Yeah, we can fund two wars,’ … talking about, ‘Yeah, we got it, we’re the greatest nation.’ No … we’re not."

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  • There is democracy in several member states of the USA. It could trickle up. There are mechanisms to make that happen. I think is even an ongoing campaign to replace the electoral college. I forget the details now.

  • "I’m endorsing no presidents no more,” Cardi B warned. “Joe Biden is talking about, ‘Yeah, we can fund two wars,’ … talking about, ‘Yeah, we got it, we’re the greatest nation.’ No … we’re not."

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  • actually i have no idea where i am! the community is called [ ]. the sidebar sounds like total gibberish. this is a place i don't understand.

    what does this even mean?!

    Banned? DM Wmill to appeal. No anti-natilasm posts. See: Eco-fascism Primer Vaush posts go in the_dunk_tank

  • "I’m endorsing no presidents no more,” Cardi B warned. “Joe Biden is talking about, ‘Yeah, we can fund two wars,’ … talking about, ‘Yeah, we got it, we’re the greatest nation.’ No … we’re not."

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  • because the system selects for people like him. in a working democracy people like him would be licking stamps, or in a nursing home. you can't change anything by changing the man, only by changing the system.

  • "I’m endorsing no presidents no more,” Cardi B warned. “Joe Biden is talking about, ‘Yeah, we can fund two wars,’ … talking about, ‘Yeah, we got it, we’re the greatest nation.’ No … we’re not."

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  • It's not his fault though. If you could sack your president and elect a new one tomorrow, the new one would do the same. Your electoral system ensures it. You need electoral reform to have a chance of fixing anything.

  • Policy Peanuts @lemmy.ml
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    Argentinian inflation

  • Policy Peanuts @lemmy.ml
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    Farming without fences (a new ethical farming model)

  • What non-native animal would you really really really like to introduce into your local habitat ?

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  • polar bears. it's the only animal that likes to eat people. daily life is just too safe and dull.

  • What's your favorite Christmas movie, and why?

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  • die hard

  • Rain Water Rule

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  • It is useful to have lots of stupid laws. It makes people feel powerless and frustrated. It means the police can always find excuses to persecute you.

    The technicalities of the individual laws are not important. It's the psychological effect of the whole body of laws on a people.

  • Ireland @lemmy.ml
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    Analysis: Suspicions grow that government schemes are pumping up new build house prices

    www.thejournal.ie /house-prices-new-builds-ireland-6225785-Nov2023/

  • I'm going to sit down and actually learn git this week

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  • Yes you couldn't change something so widely used. Look what happened with python 3.

    Fortunately there's already a tradition among Git users of building a UI on top of the git UI. My project is just a slightly better version of those. It lays a simple sensible interface on top of the chaotic Git interface.

  • I'm going to sit down and actually learn git this week

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  • Git is a great invention but it has a few design flaws. There are too many ways to confuse it or break it, using commands that look correct, or just forgetting something. I ended up writing simple wrapper script codebase to fix it. Since then no problems.

  • The Girl in the Kent State Photo

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  • That seems to be normal over in the USA. The authorities are totally willing to do this whenever it suits them. But fortunately they are aware that more people have cameras these days.

  • Bike tires made from NASA’s bizarre shape-shifting metal are now available to buy

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  • Just use schwalbe marathon. They are puncture proof and last forever. I once got home and picked a shard of glass as king as my fingernail out of one.

  • Zelensky dismisses compromise with Putin, pointing to Prigozhin’s death

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  • Most people haven't. We all have a filter bubble.

    Here is a first draft, my attempt to provide the missing context. Please leave comments on anything bad or missing you notice. https://lemmy.ml/post/4848742