I don't speak Chinese so it's a little bit confusing to see this pop up on my feed in GrayJay. Was LeBron James some kind of idol in China?

I'm going to use three examples.

1. Reddit, High Moderation the absolute worst: I've seen many people including myself get wrongfully banned from that website, It has the strongest moderation possible that feels a bit authoritarian. It tracks your device with an ID and your IP albeit for 100 days. I've seen people getting banned because they were protesting against "ICE" as "Violence" I've known people getting banned on r/suicidewatch because when someone reports you on Reddit sometimes there's a bot saying "Hey, we are here for you" which is again crazy ironic that they don't have a team handling these sort of issues, not that it's their job to do so but due to Reddit's aggression with Bots and Filters it feels like hell.

I posted a NSFW themed meme on an NSFW community and within seconds the post was removed due to Reddit's filters leading with a permanent ban, What are Reddit's filters and what classifies as a "filter" who knows. I sent an appeal saying that my alt got banned wrongly (same email) but I know that they won't bother to check. Leaving someone with no choice other to start clean again which is against their rules as a Ban Evasion however I still believe it was a wrong decision so I'm worthy of another chance.

You can argue after Reddit's controversies with r/the_donald and a subreddit where there were people literally dying on camera, Reddit enforced harsher rules which is understandable, but what they still don't understand is that in case there's a mistake you need to have better ways of communicating with an actual person, the appeal message is 250 Characters long and that's it. There are literal Nazis there who haven't been banned but I did just because of a meme.

2. Lemmy, The Perfect Middle Ground: This website pretty much is in line with what I believe, that there should be moderation but without any stupid filters, karma requirements and power tripping mods, Is it because it's a much smaller community than reddit? Maybe. Will the rules ever change if Lemmy gets much more popular, Who knows?

3. 4Chan. The wild west: Almost to zero moderation, which to me is a bad thing because there will be people who will abuse that system and post illegal stuff and be borderline mental, I don't think I need to say more about that website.

To be fair there's still moderation, for example after the GamerGate drama posts on /v/ about specific people or e-celebrities is prohibited.

I would just love to here a news report of it being one of the most watched, but everyone shut it off before Jake fought.

"garbage account"

It doesn't take that much energy and power to run an LLM or an image generator, and sure, it would take a lot with so many users connecting, across so many servers... but there's just no way they're not mining bitcoin. My math might not be mathing but it seems like AI doesn't justify the power use and it seems like everybody's lying.

Someone who knows more about this inform me of your opinions

I lean toward the market feel. It's so much more welcoming and I feel more accomplished lol. The open air feels more inviting and just bustling in the throng of people is fun.

Supermarkets in Malawi 🇲🇼 are relatively small. The staff is not that motivated which is understandable. It breaks my heart how they have to be so mechanical for hours.

Not to say vendors are free of worries and disadvantages though.

The US can work as a federation because the original 13 colonies were culturally homogeneous, English speaking, predominantly protestant. Nominally different, they shared many more similarities than EU countries have: from FPTP to the prevalence of common law, things that even today they share with the UK.

In the US, several migration waves from different countries, cultures and languages had to assimilate, they simply had to learn English to find a job, deal with taxes, government, education, healthcare…

Compare the EU to that: Europe is not a continent where a small polity simply expanded, Europe is a continent with several established polities, each with a unique culture, language and history, quite often in competition against each other, but always, way more different than the American states. European countries are fundamentally different, something that doesn't apply to the US states.

A language embodies a culture and a certain way of seeing the world. In the US we have English. In the EU, there are 24 official languages. Why do you hope 27 countries speaking 24 languages can somehow create a common culture, ignoring several centuries, even millennia of divergent history? What percentage of Italians or Romanians can speak fluent English or, say, German, the most spoken language in the EU?

Every American knows what CNN, WSJ and USA Today are. How many Poles know what the BBC is?

What kind of allegiance do you expect a normal citizen from any EU country to have to this federation? Why do you believe his allegiance to this federation to be more important than his allegiance to his home country?

There are 27 armies and the same number of military procurement systems in the EU. If a European federation is possible as you claim, why aren’t you taking steps to have just one?

I don’t see how a smart person can genuinely believe you can create a European federation with so many differences, languages, cultures, histories and competing interests.

Maybe you can prove me wrong?

I have read a few people mention it being an issue on here, but now I am starting to see it myself, blatant bots posting really crappy AI images. I do not want this to turn into Facebook with shrimp Jesus, so I'm just wondering what can be done to prevent bots from polluting the airwaves here. Any ideas, or work being done on this front?

I'm all for it, but what kicked it off?

I was looking into the new, probably AI, data center being built in town and noticed it's built by a private equity backed firm. The data center was rejected by the city and has to operate with a standard cooperate building water supply. They said are switching to air cooling only and reducing the compute power to keep power usage the same. This has caused amazon, the alleged operator, to back out. So they are building a giant reduced capacity data center with no operator and apparently still think that's a good idea. My understanding of the private equity bubble is that the firms can hide "under performing" assets because it's all private. From what I read, possibly 3.2 Trillion dollars of it. I feel like this new data center is going on the "under performing" pile.

Title basically says it all. Would it depend if it was the US, Russia or China starting it?

i'll wager, from an armchair mind you, that this is because decrepeit Scrooges see it as a plus that the people from the regions most affected as "lesser people", while also holding on to money and ensuring states militarize to defend that money from increasingly pissed of people.

so TLDR ig racist old dudes appreciating what fascism does for 'em.

this is just an armchair assessment fron me though. why is fossil fuel still being used?

Context I brought one of this for Xmas for my girlfriend, I see it has a "mine mode" which would be great to reproduce this game with it so I'm looking for the list of cards to print and add to the pack. It doesn't have to be the specific game but something useful to make a nice 2 for 1. Bonus points for finding one in spanish and saving me the translation.
As said you can also do your suggestions remember is meant to be played in family.

This is territory I thought I would never have to think about but something stinks lately to say the least.

As in casual conversation stuff...

My mom wants to talk to me, but my lexicon in my native language is not very vast lmao

Looking at the mess regarding GPU and ram, I start to wonder whether we'd be able to produce enough supra conductors and have enough helium to support quantum computers leaving research lab and being industrialised?

While I doubt quantum computer would be massively produced, I am not sure how much materials are needed for a quantum processor compared to let's say, an MRI to take the most common supra conducting machine

so I want to take a trip. but I do NOT want to go to anywhere in the world that has been taken over by Walmart's and whatnot..

I went to Mexico the last time, was driving around... bam... giant Walmart. why.. why does everything need to look the same, sell the same junk.

is there a list of cities, countries that are still.. good that haven't been visually infected with corporate American trash stores?

Sorry I don't mean to sounds like I have main character syndrome, that's not my intent.

I know people out there who have invested a lot in gold under the belief that in the event of like complete societal collapse or hyperinflation, they could use it for purchasing.

I have the hunch it's a scam, but I haven't learned enough monetary theory, business, or economics to understand why.

Is it number of times the community page is requested? The number of users that post, comment, or vote? Or something else?

It would be nice to get separate posts per day and comments per day etc. to see in what ways a community is active.

several months ago I wrote about leaving floor nursing for moving patients in beds. I also posted it would mean a 20% financial hit.

Turns out the financial hit is 2%. I took the job.

Several of my former colleagues, after seeing me now that I switched jobs cannot hide their disbelief and shock. Some of the things I've heard: "what a waste, you can do more." "You are a RN and you choose to move beds?", "Haven't you worked with us?", "Oh no, don't tell me you're moving beds now." and more.

I've always been very individualistic and never cared much about what others think about me. This new job means less stress and I can sleep better.

But it's not only other RNs who tell me this: doctors as well, very knowledgeable ones.

Am I doing something wrong, when so many people, some of them much smarter than me tell me what I'm doing is stupid?

Going back to my old job doesn't mean going back to my old department, just back to floor nursing.