I liked Artemis

I’m clueless about the discussions about this: but my concern is that, over time (years) most user activity will be on a handful of well managed instances. Smaller instances will come and go.

Seems the working fediverse needs server teams that are not too big or small.

I feel gloomy thinking this will be a bottleneck for diversity, expansion and growth on lemmy.

Of all the charges I remember over the decades, I miss the fireflies the most.

But the future is set by all of us. Today, I set in motion a series of events by killing a caterpillar when removing a tree.

130 million years from now, a future interstellar race that evolve from the butterflies will lose the war for the earth.

Oops

The article itself is decent but that headline lol

It’s about a Bronze Age site in France built on top of an earlier Neolithic settlement: this is not uncommon by itself. The quote by an archaeologist was taken out of context

The current ftc doing something constructive?

Most likely situation is that this will not happen now, or years from now

Ha, I should be so lucky

The smart money is on a gradual decline of American environmental protections and regulations throughout the next generation

My theory is that nano and microplastics accumulate differently in women due to fatty tissue differences , and this is somehow an intermediate step

It is inspiring to me

Yes, all three, it’s a slow creep that can catch people unawares

I have some thoughts on that river, which I visited often and heard the stories.

It always floods, and there are always drownings. One would think from reading the headlines that it’s a very tame river which did this surprising thing.

And it was a particularly bad storm, at a bad time of night, on a bad date ( the holiday) and climate change made it worse and/or more probable.

But places on that river have always flash flooded. And the water has raised that much before, that fast. And looking back, it has sometimes flooded at night during holidays.

The only difference is that more people now live there than before; more camps and buildings were allowed to be set up in bottom lands, in the flash flood areas . And more people, new to the area, were ignorant of its dangers.

Often, but not as a rule, progressive organizations age badly

The public is never good at stats, or complex ideas that cannot be converted into a good old fashioned sound bite.

Maths hardly ever change major policy by themselves. Often it’s only an accident of political necessity when policy is backed by statistics or science

Can verify : am frog

That is bad news not only for us, but any possible descendants of our human race

It definitely solves many issues!

Will lookup tornado cash

While I can easily imagine the USA splitting up, the fascists are in every community though.

I like the quote from Sontag

10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction. / Susan Sontag

The problem with avoiding the fascists is that they are always everywhere at a low percentage; and a good society requires the equally low percentage of decent persons to convince the vast majority of people to not go rogue.

This requires good governance in local areas; and that is a finicky thing indeed. If the USA splits up, who knows how that goes? I would not put money on any region being bad or good in two generations

Yes, it’s not hard for a full stack developer to make. Probably a thousand people already in the fediverse can, including me.

But it cannot be hosted on USA controlled servers, and the developers need to find a way to be anonymous to USA offices

Edit: also some other issues. Cannot put it as an onion service because most people in the USA do not use tor. This means regular domain.

• register domain where cannot be seized
• server must be load balanced or using something like kubernetes
• heavy traffic costs money , how to pay bills without crossing USA banking system? And cannot expose payers or contributors
• where to host?

many people can build it, but most of us have no clue to the obstacles