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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

except Australia is a lot bigger than PNG

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago (7 children)

not from the bottom (i.e. south)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I am not American, but Austrian. I earn way more money than I spend each month, causing my bank balance to rise over time; I am not going to say exactly how much I have, but €1000 (which is about the same as $1000) is no problem for me to afford when I need it.

While it's better than the alternative, it still doesn't make me very happy because this only helps fulfill the bottom two levels of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. I wish I could easily earn less money, but have more free time to travel and pursue hobbies, but the system of wage labor is not flexible enough to cover the needs of someone like me.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That isn't shadow banning, it sounds more like a server (performance?) issue on your instance.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago (5 children)

How were you "not able to post anything"? If you noticed you weren't able to post anything (e.g. got an error message), that was (by definition) probably not shadow banning.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago (1 children)

On September 19, 1990, the IANA created and delegated the top-level domain .su to the USSR. Just six weeks later, the Berlin Wall fell

wot

the Berlin Wall fell in November of 1989, something is definitely wrong with the chronology here

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

A lot of FOSS projects have succeeded in approximately this way. I think it can only be a matter of time until this happens even in this area.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Lemmy doesn't have any code in it whose only purpose is to maximize profit (e.g. code for showing ads) but isn't necessary for functionality. Also, the decentralized nature means that any given instance has to serve only a subset of users, not all of them like reddit does.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Red is associated with social democracy, socialism, communism in most countries; almost only in the US is it the color of the conservative party.

 

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During the day it also activates for neat clouds and pretty sunsets.

https://explainxkcd.com/2979/

PSA: This xkcd was released 6 days ago and nobody posted it. It is in fact allowed for other people to post new xkcd comics to this community too, you don't have to wait for me to do that.

 

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At least they're not alone down there.

https://explainxkcd.com/2978/

 

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The secret fourth kind is 'we applied a standard theory to their map of every tree and got some suspicious results.'

https://explainxkcd.com/2977/

 

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Many a hungry time traveler has Googled 'trilobites shellfish allergy' only to find their carrier had no coverage in the Ordovician.

https://explainxkcd.com/2976/

 

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Personally I think mercury is more of a 'wet earth' hybrid element.

https://explainxkcd.com/2975/

 

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We're considering installing a pressurization system to keep the tanks at constant pressure solely to deter them.

https://explainxkcd.com/2974/

 

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They left the belt drive in place but switched which wheel was powered, so people could choose between a regular ride, a long ride, and a REALLY long ride.

https://explainxkcd.com/2973/

 

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Our lawyers were worried because it turns out the company inherits its debt from the parent universe, but luckily cosmic inflation reduced it to nearly zero.

https://explainxkcd.com/2972/

 

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If we can get a brood of 13-year cicadas going, we might have a chance at making this happen before the oceans evaporate under the expanding sun.

https://explainxkcd.com/2971/

 

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If you hold the meteor too long, it may imprint on you and form a contact binary, making reintroduction to space difficult.

explanation: https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2970:_Meteor_Shower_PSA

 

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[Political pundit on the ScrabbleTV News channel] "After four years of defying orthographic pressure, Joe ceded the top of the ticket to Kamala, who--after considering Josh, Mark, Andy, Roy, and Pete--picked Tim."

explanation: https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2969:_Vice_President_First_Names

 

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This only makes it more urgent that we adopt my roadmap for the next 10 years, which should put us solidly in the lead.

expl: https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2968:_University_Age

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