[-] vatlark@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

Have officials pushed for that yet? That would be perfect. It's an action that shows the whole world (or Canada in this case) understands the situation very clearly.

[-] vatlark@lemmy.world 89 points 1 day ago

I know Ford makes bad decisions, but I am all for this decision. Punched right at the core of the problem.

[-] vatlark@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I think Italy authorized a remote worker visa that sounded pretty flexible. Last I checked the process for actually getting the visa was not yet in place, but it has been a few years since I checked

[-] vatlark@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

The french revolution has entered the chat

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It's a Lemmy front end, very clean. On your local device it runs some algorithm that tries curate a better feed for you based on your interactions with Lemmy. Not unlike many larger social media sites.

You can also sort by the normal filters like 'active', 'new', etc.

I read about it burried in some comments.

It's great to see so many front ends and experimentation within the Fediverse.

Another interesting frontend is tesseract.dubvee.org which has some clever features, and good mod tools.

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by vatlark@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

A Shower Thought is a concept that is hard to define but you know a good one when you see it. If you see some that are especially good, please link them in the comments.

I want to add a few examples to the sidebar to help shape the community, so it makes sense that they should come from the community.

Please upvote the ones you like.

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by vatlark@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I don't know any Lemmy users IRL. I have nudged my friends towards it. My partner has asked me to post things a few times. Just curious.

Edit: running total including the commenter: 32.5 people

[-] vatlark@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago

Woah I never recognized your username in the wild before. Thanks for giving us Lemmy. Huge fan.

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by vatlark@lemmy.world to c/books@lemmy.ml

I did like the book but I also thought they solved huge problems in a single short chapter with minimal detail.

In one chapter it's mentioned that one of the characters is working on some open source social media. A few chapters later it becomes the dominant social media in the world... oh and also payment method... Oh and blockchain...

Being a big fan of Lemmy, I think the book is a bit optimistic.

[-] vatlark@lemmy.world 18 points 4 weeks ago

I drove it! I saw a person! It's an odd feeling

[-] vatlark@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

I have tried this. I got crushed by many of the paper planes.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by vatlark@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

In the sidebar you will see that rule 3 is "Avoid politics", as of US election day.

Political posts represent the vast majority of the moderation burden. They tend not to be the fun/quirky/whimsical/goofy/nonsense kind of posts that people enjoy from c/showerthoughts.

Maybe we should make a c/drivewaythoughts or a c/doomscrollingthoughts to fill the void.

The rule will begin 0200 UTC Nov 6, 2024 to be exact, you have 2 minutes, go ham.

As always I'm open to feedback.

EDIT: While I'm editing the sidebar. I will remove the "Be good to others" rule because it's redundant to the opening paragraph of Lemmy's Code of Conduct.

EDIT 2: If you want to give anonymous feedback you can report this post and give your feedback in the report. It's anonymous to me at least.

EDIT 3: Here are some good counter points to the new rule:

  1. This arguably offers new perspective on an ordinary topic but it's pretty political: https://lemmy.world/post/21997198
  2. This post was very popular and remained civil: https://lemmy.world/post/21925102
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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by vatlark@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

The world has a lot of different standards for a lot of things, but I have never heard of a place with the default screw thread direction being opposite.

So does each language have a fun mnemonic?

Photo credit: https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Giy8OrYJTjw/Tfm9Ne5o5hI/AAAAAAAAAB4/c7uBLwjkl9c/s1600/scan0002.jpg

[-] vatlark@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

This post was reported for breaking community rules. Its not obvious to me what rules would be broken. dm me if you feel strongly about it and would like to clarify.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by vatlark@lemmy.world to c/bestoflemmy@lemmy.world

The French may not have the first democracy, may not have the best democracy, but they have had to fight harder than most for their democracy.

  • paraphrasing from an audio tour by Rick Steves, I think.

Edit: oops, i flipped words in the title

[-] vatlark@lemmy.world 34 points 6 months ago

After reading the sidebar, I'm not sure this counts as an article. Happy to remove it.

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submitted 7 months ago by vatlark@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

Is one a sub group of the other? Does either term include toddlers?

I'm having this discussion with someone and we both thought the opposite from eachother and we were quite sure our way of thinking was the common understanding.

[-] vatlark@lemmy.world 31 points 8 months ago

Does anyone else think the thumbnail looks like a llama with laser eyes?

[-] vatlark@lemmy.world 29 points 9 months ago

If Clear is an equity problem, then the toll lanes that are going in all over California certainly are.

Toll roads would be equal. The toll lanes feel really bad.

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by vatlark@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I want to know if the car I'm renting comes with liability insurance. I just want to be sure that if I am at fault in an accident, that the other car will be covered. Lets try to ignore any personal car insurance policy and let's ignore collision insurance for now.

I am under the impression that in many countries they are required to give you liability insurance when you rent the car, but I don't have a good source. Many articles have mixed information.

For the US, this article says:

For a registered car rental company in the US, they must provide a minimum level of liability protection for cars they rent out.

But this other article says

In the U.S., every state requires a minimum amount of liability insurance on car insurance policies, so you may already have liability coverage through your personal auto insurance.

Which sounds like in the US your personal insurance is all you have.

[-] vatlark@lemmy.world 55 points 9 months ago

So you are saying that AI today is like Bluetooth today

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