The image is a cropped xkcd with the text replaced but the same joke.

There is “not financially viable” and than there is spending 12 times the gdp of earth each year.

Generally, forcing developers to code something has been considered “compelled speech”

I’m European so I don’t quite understand.
Say person A paid person B to say X and had a valid contract. If B didn’t say X can person A sue person B to compel performance of contract or just money back/damages?

At least for new games wouldn’t it just be an implied part of the purchasing contract, meaning money back at least.

As a climber I have to disagree, figure 8 knots are the best, especially when double back.
It’s the one knot I trust my life to on a weekly basis and I have rarely encountered a situation where they weren’t part of the solution.

Inline code in `back ticks`

Multiline code
in 
` ` `
triple back tics
` ` `

I don’t know how to escape triple back tics inside a code block, just ignore the spaces

I had quite the opposite experience in the alps, we have hiked within meters cows because the heard was laying and standing on the path. I have never seen very young calves or bulls on the mountains.

It needs to happen twice. I would help you but I still poses the indestructibility of youth.

What does defederation imply? Feeds aren’t aggregated, or users are not allowed from the other instance?

Iirc no activity from one instance is available on the other. No posts in their communities, no posts/comments from their users.

Also one other major question. I thought lemmy was its own thing, but I guess it’s part of the Fediverse? The Fediverse is just a set of protocols? What is lemmy then?

The fediverse is a group of social media platforms that use the active pub protocol to pass along user interactions between instances (servers run by different people).

Lemmy is the reddit of the fediverse, meaning posts in communities and comment in a trees structure.

Kbin is also the reddit of the fediverse, but with some less features (manly on the moderation side). Because they both use active pub in a reddit style they can easily interoperate.

Mastodon is the twitter of the fediverse meaning their content (mircoblogging) doesn’t fit the lemmy format but you will only sometimes see some posts like ‘If you can read this I have managed to post from mastodon to lemmy’.

Yes, I just wanted to expand on some details.

The people who would actually launch the missiles would be the same people who told Putin that the Ukraine invasion would be a walk over.

They where told it wasn’t going to happen, just some postering before going back to normal. They said ‘yes, we could theoretically walk over Ukraine’ believing they wouldn’t have to follow up on that.
They know dam well there is no theoretically winning a nuclear exchange, meaning they won’t tell their superiors they can do it and no superiors that would believe them if they did.

Apart from the alignment problem*, having unchangeable laws can be really bad. The bill of rights shows that for tye US constitution, now what if a ‘new’ need arises for the law shows it self.

* the alignment problem is the still unsolved problem of getting even simple machine learning models/AIs to do what we want.

One of the closest things to a large anarchist society exists in the middle east, yet it doesn’t get bombed by the US. This is because the kurds are fighting with the US against isis.

I generally agree with your opinions otherwise. Also, recommending multiple books/authors before giving general explanations will scare most people of.

More bike lanes in the center, especially for long distances

More rail infrastructure in the outer parts, especially an outer ring by light rail or subway

Better funding for Schools and stuff

“Land of the free”, doesn’t have right to roam…

Ah yes, the song against taxes and welfare, with capitalist realism and confederate undertones will liberate the masses.

I like that the sikh representative said that dehumanizing any group is bad.

I generally dislike religions but the sikhs are always on point.

Iirc they didn’t actually make any progress in the field of neuroscience and all the neuroscientist quit long ago because Musk rushed everything.

Conservatives seem to be conflating neo-nazis with conservatives and acting like neo-nazis.

I don’t know if it has been translated but I would recommend “Die Känguru Chroniken”.

It’s a humourous book about a communist kangaroo moving in with a comedian. Many great jokes have established themselves in left leaning german meme culture as a result.

The book mostly has standalone chapters, but the sequels have more of a narrative throuline.