No. Outside the environment.

https://phys.org/news/2016-04-mammal-like-reptile-survived-longer-thought.html

The only emojis I usually see now are exclusively in slop posts.

The opening comments are overshadowed by the Solow Productivity Paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox

The turret on those things will fall straight up, too. The engineering on T-72’s is absolutely astounding, but why they put the anti-grav plates on the turret is beyond me.

sometimes lemmy communities are just dead - no content, no nothing. at least lets have content.

Lemmy communities that start and stay dead are generally because there isn’t broad interest in that community and it’s about the math, unfortunately.

Reddit has about 765,000,000 active monthly users so even if 0.001% of those users have an interest in a niche topic (7,650), and only 25% of those users participate (1,912), you can still have a fairly active community. (You really only need about 5-6 active users posting content to drive broader participation. It just “feels” more organic and people tend to prefer that.)

I don’t know current Lemmy stats, but there are roughly between 100k and 200k monthly active users, discounting lurkers. If a topic only has 0.001% interest, that is a total of one user that cares at all, assuming I didn’t fuck up my decimal places too badly.

Add multiple instances that host identical but independent communities, the small user base may become even more fragmented. This is problematic since Lemmy users have the ability to completely block instances or admins can completely defederate instances as well. (I don’t disagree with blocking/defederation, but it does hurt communities, unfortunately.)

So for now, at least, Lemmy is likely better served by users contributing to larger communities. Content variety does get limited a hair, but it prevents a new user from getting let down by what effectively are ghost communities.

If you don’t see things this way, that is totally cool. I 100% support any contribution to Lemmy that attempts to expand the user base regardless if I agree or not.

I don’t think you know how nicotine/tobacco products are used for money laundering. Just Google it.

You seem hell bent on trying to prove these are pointless raids. Maybe they are, but your arguments are just bad.

The core of this is anti money laundering and that, in many cases, is not victimless. You also point out that they have limited resources, but try to roll into an argument about how trying to preserve those resources is pointless?

Also, law enforcement isn’t exactly a “massive resource” spend when the cost of that should already be baked into yearly country expenses. The only real expenditure is time for investigation. If this really is tied into luxury construction money laundering, we could he talking about hundreds of millions of dollars saved or recovered by only paying the salaries of a few law enforcement officers that will need to work anyway.

Again, I think you missed a few words in the article. It’s an article about black market nicotine and the issues most countries have with controlling substances that are regulated.

Careful online though! With your interpretation of this news article, it seems you might easily be swayed by heavily biased or misleading information sources. Here is a good explainer of how to spot such things: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/en/article/20250227STO27081/spotting-disinformation-six-tactics-used-to-fool-us

No, they aren’t. OP even copied the summary for you.

While this is technically “vandalism”, I know it’s “triggering” the same “snowflake” conservatives that were doing the same shit a couple years ago. (It’s even funnier of the people that would complain about these stickers supported the original version in the first place. Alas, the full context of this is probably lost on them.)

In before some sarcastic “just walk” comments about Uber, so I’ll answer seriously. The only alternative is basically walk to public transportation services or drive yourself. I live in the Denver area and our public transportation is decent enough and it does extend to many suburbs. It also requires an intimate knowledge of service schedules and how possible it is to walk to your final destination.

Any alternative to Uber is totally based on where you live and unless you live in a city, it’s not always as easy as “just walking”. The U.S. isn’t really the best when it comes to non-driving alternatives and it kinda sucks.

For Amazon, this is also going to sound sarcastic but it isn’t: Buy somewhere else or directly from the vendors if possible. Amazon is basically just a second store front for companies that also will sell directly to you. Unfortunately, you may need to be prepared for additional shipping cost, lack of Amazon “protections” and maybe higher prices.

While mom-and-pop store fronts are almost gone, it is possible to find online sources (and maybe real physical stores) that sell similar products to what you need. Electronic components are the easiest and it may be worth your time and money to order from legit distributors like Mouser or Digi-Key.

Depending on what you need and when you need it, bumping up your standards for product quality may help. Do you need something cheap and disposable, or more expensive and durable? (Example: Harbor Freight has its own reputation and mostly the exact same manufacturers as what you may find on Amazon, it is an option. It boils down to what tradeoffs you are willing to make.)

Basically, a big part of not buying from Amazon is actually a shift in perspective. Do you actually need a “thing” and do you have the time to find and buy that “thing” somewhere else?

Admittedly, these are non-answers to your direct question. It takes time (and maybe more money) to find alternatives. This is exactly why services like Amazon and Uber were successful to begin with, IMHO.

There is always on-again, off-again drama with Bandcamp. While it’s generally not as bad as services like Distrokid or others, it’s always worth a bit of digging (and reading fine print) if you leverage any third-party service. They were also bought out by Songtradr some time last year or so.

@topsongattourney has a review of their TOS here: https://youtu.be/EywCOmOUreQ (probably a bit dated by now) While her style is a bit drama focused/click baity, she has worked with Benn Jordan and Venus Theory in the past which is a major plus for her reputation for me, IMHO.

(OP, I am not sure if the list of service providers you listed were in a positive or negative context by the way you worded the description, but that is probably just a “me” problem… Regardless, I 100% agree with the purpose and motivation of this post.)

Music services are always in a state of flux, so review everything before you distribute or sign-over any works. It seriously sucks that new producers have to basically be lawyers as a side-gig these days and has absolutely prevented me from releasing anything at all.

It’s called an Arūsat al-Burqa, from what I could find.

https://thezay.org/28457

Her wallet probably feels fine though.

I have woken up during a colonoscopy, so it does happen. They don’t really need to put you under as deep as some other kinds of surgery. A few days ago, I had a septoplasty and it was a much deeper anisthesia than I have ever had for a colonoscopy, so I know there are some differences. It took about 30mins or so for me to be able to talk without slurring and start to sit up properly, where as I am almost immediately awake after a colonoscopy.

When I was on the table right before my last colonoscopy, I asked the anesthesiologist why I might have woken up last time. While she didn’t go into detail, she mentioned that it might have been for the last doctor to check my responsiveness and it likely wasn’t a mistake.

Most of TNG painted a picture of a perfect utopian Starfleet and how humans had grown up, like you say . (Obviously, humanity is never perfect but the messaging is fairly clear: They try.)

I can chime in more about VOY and ENT though…

VOY is my favorite and also when you start to see a little more of humanity in Starfleet. We learned a few things like: The Prime Directive/Temporal Prime Directives were always just suggestions, murder could actually be justified, you will never get promoted past ensign if you play the clarinet and chemical addiction is still a key driver in human decisions and behavior.

ENT is just the human transition out of a military focused race to a race focused on exploration. (I am not sure why Archer always seems to have serious case of constipation, but it is what it is.)

I would go to that shoe market just to ask about where to get those sick umbrella hats.

This has been attempted multiple times over the last few years and has had many forms. It never quite works as the posts still end up being very bot-like as it’s never managed correctly.

The worst iteration was someone who went so far as to create mirror accounts for the commenters and also copied over the comments as well. That was absolutely horrible and actually pissed a lot of people off when they realized they were replying to “ghost” accounts.

I honestly already want to block all posts that this plugin might create. They always just turn out being noisy and irrelevant. Posts aren’t “published work” and kinda need to happen organically. Also, one of the reasons many of us like Lemmy is because of the lower traffic and (generally) better quality posts.

Magnets, maybe.