You can easily be an environmentalist and still believe in the Star Trek paradigm. While we, that is mankind, might have the ingenuity to find technological solutions to most of our problems, we do not have the political or economic systems necessary to actually put these solutions into reality.

Sadly, they only knew only one song. After singing “7 AM, waking up in the morning, Gotta be fresh, gotta go downstairs, Gotta have my bowl, gotta have cereal, …” every day over and over again, they eventually collectively committed suicide.

Might have something to do with the respect, recognition and pay different professions receive by society.

Did I just get an unsolicited dick pic from a snake?

Jokes have to be precise to be funny /s

East, West or North Frisia?

Which Frisia?

I share the same experience. Lemmy imitates Reddit, Mastodon imitates Twitter. The concept of Twitter might be more reliant on algorithms than that of Reddit, algorithms that Mastodon mostly lacks. Bluesky is a Twitter alternative designed for federation that has algorithms, and it appears more lively to me. The same might be true for Threads but I won’t test this out.

Still, you wouldn’t say that Kafka was born in the Austrian city of Prague, even though in 1883 Prague belonged to the Austrian part (Cisleithania) of Austria-Hungary.

I think you’ve just insulted a bunch of poles.

There are four, actually. I just didn’t want to overwhelm my list of Northern cardinals with just one nation.

It’s apparently not everyone’s humour

• Thomas Collins from Ontario
• Gérald Lacroix from Québec
• Jānis Pujats from Latvia
• Anders Arborelius from Sweden
• Arthur Roche from Yorkshire

He’s nervous, but on the surface, he looks calm and ready
To drop poop, but he keeps on forgetting
What he wrote down, the whole flock goes so loud
He opens his beak, but the chirps won’t come out
He’s chokin’, how? The worm’s sticky like dough

I’m rather sceptical that this can work as a good alternative to Wikipedia. Wikipedia’s content moderation system is in my opinion both its greatest strength and its greatest weakness. To create a better Wikipedia, you would have to somehow innovate in that regard. I don’t think federation helps in any way with this problem. I do though see potential in Ibis for niche wikis which are currently mostly hosted on fandom.org. If you could create distinct wiki’s for different topics and allow them to interconnect when it makes sense, Ibis might have a chance there.

Hey, was suchst du denn hier?

You’re probably the kind of person who complains that they don’t teach complex numbers when first introducing square roots in school.

Freezer bag sealing clips like Ikea’s Bevara

That appears to be just a regular interview, alternating between the interview questions and the answers of the person interviewed.

Do these Indian interview-transcript style news reports feature the same very frequent switching between report and interview? That’s what I found so confusing.