figaro

@figaro@lemdro.id

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Texas congressman won’t stop wearing combat Infantryman Badge that was revoked ( www.military.com )

More than a month after a news report revealed that the Combat Infantryman Badge Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, wears on his lapel was revoked since he was never eligible for the award to begin with, the congressman refuses to take the pin off....

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But if it were, we would be ready to throw him under the bus in a heartbeat. Bad behavior is bad behavior. We're not in a cult

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Yeah honestly space x is rocking it because of the immense talent of the team that exists there. They do over 100 successful launches per year now. It has transformed the space industry as humanity has ever known it. That's fucking cool.

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Yeah honestly let's make an example out of that horse

Lemmy.ml tankie censorship problem

I feel like we need to talk about Lemmy's massive tankie censorship problem. A lot of popular lemmy communities are hosted on lemmy.ml. It's been well known for a while that the admins/mods of that instance have, let's say, rather extremist and onesided political views. In short, they're what's colloquially referred to as...

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I'm all for defederating from tankie instances. They suck.

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Exactly. Why are we federated with people who deny genocides? Fuck all of that

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Defederating sends a message that the world doesn't like tankie bullshit

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Is genocide denial not racism?

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Battery was running low. If he could have lasted another 3 minutes or so he would have survived.

I've actually played this game with my brother before (with a small drone, no explosives lol). It is actually surprisingly fun.

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I actually fly these things as a hobby 😅 it's telemetry data sent directly from the drone. The reason they are always low battery is probably because they fly them pretty far out to avoid getting detected and killed.

Once the battery hits 3.2V or so, you can really start feeling it in how the drone flies. It just doesn't have the power draw remaining for much else. Usually you land at that point to avoid destroying the battery, but in this case... You can fly it down to 2.8ish and still be in the air, but it won't like it and the battery will be damaged.

figaro ,

Hey! So you may have noticed that you got downvoted into oblivion here. It is because of the unnecessary amount of negativity in your comment.

In communication, there are two parts - how it is delivered, and how it is received. In this interaction, you clearly stated your point: giving yourself the title of pro oftentimes means the person is not a pro.

What they received, however, is far different. They received: ugh this sweaty asshole is gatekeeping coding.

If your goal was to convince this person not to call themselves a pro going forward, this may have been a failed communication event.

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The Fedi is good and all but just .... Fucking brace yourself lol

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Do you think that writing angry words at them is going to change someone's mind?

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Do you think that insulting people is going to be effective in helping them change?

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Funny! But like Palatine isn't actively trying to end the voting system so am going to vote for him for the sake of the future

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Welcome to Lemmy, where we wonder why we aren't growing very quickly

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Bro this sort of thing is actually racist. Jewish people I know aren't for genocide. It's like the US - the government sucks, yes, but most people are just living their life trying to be happy, and don't want to harm others.

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That last take comes off as weird, ngl. Just let people do what they want.

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Doubtful

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It will be a tug of war between the right and the left, leaning slightly right on economic issues pretty much forever.

America is basically run by large corporations. I don't see them just willingly changing course. We will get small wins here and there, but nothing drastic for a long time.

Edit - the spice must flow

Is it worth the solar panels I'm getting? ( lemmy.world )

I'm sorry for posting this here. There isn't a solar panel instance, nor did I see anything for electricians. I know there's been a lot of gripe with certain solar companies (solgen being in litigation, and others) but I didn't hear much about freedom forever, since they're new to Seattle area where I'm doing this. Reddit seems...

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Anyone know why this doesn't open in Sync?

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I mean for this sort of thing I'd check reddit. I'm sure there are some good ideas about this there.

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Dang still not working. Oh well ¯⁠\⁠(⁠◉°◉⁠)⁠/⁠¯

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Interestingly, no punctuation has become a form of punctuation. Ending your statement with no period has the effect of creating a softer landing for the sentence. With a period might come off too hard.

Facebook designates Grayzone journalist Kit Klarenberg a ‘dangerous individual’ - The Grayzone ( thegrayzone.com )

Multiple Facebook users have reported being banned, or having their posts censored, after sharing an investigation by The Grayzone’s Kit Klarenberg into CIA and MI6 involvement in the creation of ISIS. Readers who post links to the piece on the social network find themselves frozen out of their accounts, on the apparent...

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Let's agree that both are bad!

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So I know everyone will hate this suggestion, but the most battery efficient and privacy-oriented option is to use Google maps location sharing. Google already has your location through Google Play services, and uses that to update it. It is essentially real time, and you don't need to give your info over to a random new company.

Unless you have fully de-googled, this is probably the best and easiest option.

maegul , to Fediverse
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People are actually on BlueSky

There's now a decent measurement of user numbers (https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/edavis.dev/bskycharts.edavis.dev/bsky_users_total.html) ...

They've got about 1.6M MAUs ...
& 0.8M Weekly unique users & 0.340M Daily.

That's not nothing!

Roughly double mastodon and 60% more than the whole fediverse (by MAUs, see fedidb.org).

Bluesky is quite "international" with large Japanese and Brazilian popltns, and there's real attrition happening IMO.

Still, let the protocol wars begin I suppose?

@fediverse

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No

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Yeah no you are completely right, we don't deserve this comic, but somehow it just keeps on appearing. It's crazy

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Ah yes, the highest degree of the celestial kingdom, reserved only for married (m-f) Mormons, where polygamy is allowed but only for men to have multiple wives, not vice versa.

Much better than those telestial peasants. Muahaha

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What is it

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People who watch literal recordings of movies from inside a movie theater are psychopaths who really, really don't care about quality. I highly doubt they are the target audience of movie ticket sales.

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... It's pied piper

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At this point it's just a meme. I mean I definitely don't get it, but I have nothing against you as a person lol.

figaro ,

Hey! I just happened upon this post and saw a few of your comments. It sounds like you have experienced some stuff that isn't fair, and it makes sense to feel hurt. That is not an uncommon experience.

Do you have someone to talk to about all that? It legit helps.

Not trying to push you to do anything you don't want to do btw, just checking in on ya :)

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Christina be cray

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Mormons think we are all going to be gods, and that God was once a man on some planet like we were, and therefore there are literally billions of gods out there. Our God just happens to be the one relevant to us.

Source - Grew up Mormon, am not anymore

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Ask them about kolob while you are at it lol

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Lol

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Good question, it all actually comes from the great predecessor moth who imbued its children with the energy needed to carry on for generations. This singular imbuement of life has carried them for the last four thousand years, and it is unknown when it will run out. When that time comes, the Luna moth will be no more.

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You know at first I thought this account was a joke, but it's been months and it's still going on. Honestly I'm convinced

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Door to door free cookies? Yes?

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Idk man I'd say wikipedia is probably 95% great. The political stuff will always have it's issues, sure, but most of it is quite good info.

I'm all for competition though. I hope this one takes off as well.

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Oh man I can't wait to see what hexbear will do with this, I'm sure people will love to use a platform that actively denies genocides and supports dictators

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Moderation tools. They need to drop literally everything else they are working on and build robust moderation tools for community owners. Nothing else matters more than this.

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Bluetooth Xiaomi headphones because convenience is king (and I can't afford to pay more than $200 for audio equipment lol)

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I can't throw a grenade 5 miles though

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I used to be able to throw it clear over them mountains

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Ah ok. This is a very sensible change. I never post, but I interact probably once a month or so.

White Rural Trump Supporters Are a Threat to Democracy ( www.thedailybeast.com )

In the popular imagination of many Americans, particularly those on the left side of the political spectrum, the typical MAGA supporter is a rural resident who hates Black and Brown people, loathes liberals, loves gods and guns, believes in myriad conspiracy theories, has little faith in democracy, and is willing to use violence...

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I support this entirely, but good fucking luck

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