Plastic on its own is not evil. The problem is single-use plastic. Tupperware lasts decades - I’ve got a few containers that mum bought 40+ years ago. Hard to imagine that she was younger than I am when she bought these containers, and they outlasted her.

No argument that we have a plastic problem as a society; but I don’t really see Tupperware itself as a part of that problem.

I am typing this comment on a Pixel 7. I have had it for nearly two years and I have never experienced these symptoms.

The only app I can think of that doesn’t load in under a second is Asphalt Legends - and that’s because the app takes a week to load on anything.

I am very satisfied with this device, and doubt I’ll be upgrading to Pixel 9. I have no reason to upgrade.

I thought the tradition was that people were slapped across the face with a trout? Times have changed.

The problem with this is trust. If you could seamlessly migrate like this, there’s nothing to stop someone faking a long post/comment on their own instance, making them look very legitimate and then migrating that account to a trusted/legitimate instance.

Then using that for spam/selling block chain etc.

People are the reason we can’t have nice things.

Unless these implied nations include New Zealand, Canada or similarly laid back countries, I seriously doubt I’d be shocked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP64R1KRTLg

The news video is worth watching!

What would be the point? Reddit doesn’t make any content. They’re just a platform. If they go ahead and paywall subs, those subs are going to have a tiny potential subscriber base. Therefore, they will be less attractive to post to (smaller audience, fewer upvotes etc).

About the only place I can maybe see it working is AskHistorians. And you pay the Historians to answer the questions. Which would of course reduce the amount Reddit takes from the paywall. Doesn’t seem worth it, to me.

Even then, I think the Historians would rather reply in a new free sub with wider readership than take $20 for putting in three hours of work responding to something. They do it because they’re passionate. Not for money.

This works for us:
Step one: Keep your instance civil. No tolerance for horrible people (racists/bigots etc).
Step two: Maintain a vibrant local set of communities free from nastiness.
Step three: Let your users engage with the noise of the fediverse as much or as little as they desire.

We don’t bother with telling our users who or what they can access, and don’t immediately ban visitors based on their home instance. Will that scale to millions of users? Probably not. But that’s a problem for future Nath - maybe.

Two spaces at the end of a line__
followed by hitting the enter key__
Will give you the formatting you were looking for. 👍

It’s interesting how the article is all about struggling retail businesses in the CBD and how this is about that. The closest the announcement comes to being about productivity is: “The more our experience of work is shared, the more united we become. This means being physically present in our organisations”.

The case hasn’t been made that experience of work is improved by being in the office, however.

This is all very fascinating, sitting in WA. We never really had the months of lockdowns you all had, and we never had the normalisation of everyone working from home. A bit of it, yes - but 100% remote work is relatively rare compared to other places on this side of the country.

For the record, the pandemic also devastated loads of businesses over here also. Some previously vibrant places like the cappuccino strip in Fremantle are sad shadows of what they once were. I don’t know that this is going to be a magic bullet to somehow save retail.

Second! We just won the Tennis Doubles! I did not see that coming.

Because we’ll probably drop to 10th now that the water events are winding up, I’ll snapshot the table as of this moment.

Nobody celebrates killing Turkish people. Quite the opposite, in fact. Australians have immense respect for the Turks. We recognise that neither the Anzacs nor the Turks had any direct quarrel with one another. We had no desire to conquer what is now Turkey, and the Turks weren’t really defending their homes. It was a stupid conflict that neither of us wanted to be at. Anzacs were there because they were sent there by the British. The Turks were there because they were sent by the Ottomans. The British were just trying to get through the Dardanelles and Bosporus so they could reach the Black Sea. The Ottomans were on the German side of WWI and wanted to stop that from happening. At the end of the day, that sums up the whole reason everyone was on that peninsular.

If you want to look into it, you’ll find that Mustafa Atatürk holds a very special place in Australia’s history. He has a personal memorial right next to the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, looking down Anzac avenue of war memorials that point to Parliament House. Depending on the direction you take of the memorials, he is either the first or last memorial. Either way, you are sure to remember him. Short of putting him on our money, we couldn’t really honour him closer. I know that over the last decade, President Erdoğan has been shifting Turkish perspective on Atatürk and the Gallipoli campaign, but no shifts are happening in Australia.

All the celebration of Anzac spirit you see is because this war in particular changed our nation. Until this point, our ancestors thought of themselves as British. Afterwards, they were Australians and New Zealanders. The cultural shift took a few decades, and didn’t really finish until WWII (some would argue it is still shifting). The Anzac story has never been about killing Turks.

We had a period when I was a kid where the ANZAC stuff really started to wane as the WWI veterans were dying out. Somewhere along the line there was a movement to rekindle the ANZAC stuff and really stress that while it had its roots in WWI, it was about soldiers who died in all conflicts for their country.

Any town that was around in 1918 is going to have a war memorial. I’ve worked at a place that was over 100 years old and they had a shield on a wall remembering the staff who went to WWI. If you really want to find a town that doesn’t have a war memorial, you’ll be looking for a new settlement, Probably some place that didn’t exist before the 1950’s. I honestly can’t think of any.

That said, it’s really easy to avoid all the military stuff if it doesn’t work for you. Most town’s war memorials will only really come into relevance once a year and then go back to just being a feature of the place the other 364 days. A landmark maybe near a kids play ground. Just because every place has one, doesn’t mean you are under any obligation to pay it any attention.

I played with something like “medals per capita” once during the London Olympics. When you put them into that metric, Australia definitely punches above its weight, but I think New Zealand did even better.

Ha! I love it!
Ok, so maybe not all medals are equal after all.

Don’t get too excited, the water events will finish soon and our medal tally will slow right down. Happens every time. 😁

They only have two sports in India. Cricket and not-cricket. Of the two, cricket gets most of the money and almost all of the attention.

Ha! That’s a wacky edge case. Federation is instance based though. That explanation only makes sense if no aussie.zone user subscribes to any lemmy.blahaj.zone community. Given the overlap of users (a few blahaj users are regulars on aussie.zone), I have a hard time believing that’s the case.

If the unban still hasn’t federated, try getting their mod to ban/unban again. We’ve had issues with posts in /c/Melbourne getting unpinned for other instances previously. The fix was to pin again, wait a minute or so and unpin.

I think $100k would be my price. 😁

Gina, if you’re reading this: I’ll happily jump on all the socials and tell everyone they’re being mean to you and that your portrait should no longer be on display.

Make it a Million, and I’ll make a sign and protest out the front of the gallery in person.

(I don’t know that it’s $100k, but I expect that’s roughly what is happening here. She gives swimmers money, they defend her.)

Yeah, we’re aware of that issue. It’s a limitation with the Lemmy software itself. It only synchronises one thing (comment/vote/post etc) at a time. Confirms it federated and then the next thing. Due to the physical distance between us in Australia and lemmy.world in Finland, each thing takes ~.25 seconds to federate. As there are more things to federate than there is minutes in the day, there is a backlog.

Out friends over the Tasman got around the problem by spinning up a proxy server in Finland just to grab batches of lemmy.world content and bulk transfer it to NZ. We’ve been invited to share the code that enables that process, but it requires us setting up our own extra host in Finland. We haven’t allotted the time and funds to do that - mostly as it’s a problem that is expected to correct itself in an upcoming version of the Lemmy backend software.