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It's no secret that we trade our information for access to the Internet. So what do you prefer a subscription based Internet with privacy protection or a free internet with companies allowed to take and sell your data

https://dqydj.com/height-percentile-calculator-for-men-and-women/

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EpKxE-39C05ykeIIznCZEfX-56aHUeUA2pHY91QWb6g/edit?usp=sharing

Data inverted for post. Just ignore the - symbol

This shows the height distribution between males and females. Example almost 100% of people under 5 ft are female

There is a real change to finally have a free and prosperous democratic state in the middle east. Now is the time to offer aid and man power to rebuild and and help transition to democracy.

Ways they could do this.

1. Send money and people to help rebuild the infrastructure. Paving new roads, rebuilding homes and appartments, and getting businesses going with a proper currency.

2. Train the civil servants to they can get things working properly.

3. Host the constitutional convention and steer them towards a proportional electoral system and decentralization. This is important, they need a constitution that protects their values and gives each ethnicity their own autonomy which is important to cool tension. Proportional representation will prevent one party from taking control. If each group has a seat at the table and is able to agree on the constitution it will heal the country.

There is really no downside to getting a democratic ally in the Middle least that will act a force of peace.

There is so much discussion and uncertainty on species when its really very simple. We can add categories under species for more specificity but the definition of species must be objective and true. A species is any group of creatures that can reproduce and produce fertile off spring. This is a clear line that objectively determines where 1 species ends and where 1 species begins.

Now we can use another term either subspecies or breed, which can be described as a population within a species that predominantly reproduces within their subgroup. Problem solved? This allows for cases where 2 subgroups of animals can reproduce with each other but rarely do and completes the tree/pyramid of life.

It's strange not seeing comment and post karma.

Decentralization is obviously the big thing about the Fediverse but is it TOO decentralized to gain traction?

There is no reason why they have to be fully separate domains in the same branch. You can set up a system of fully independent moderation and extreme levels of customization while having them all on one site with a front page that allows everyone to see whats popular.

A front page wouldn't prevent individual subgroups from requiring approval to join, it wouldn't prevent subgroups from banning those it doesn't want. It doesn't prevent users from blocking subgroups that it doesn't want to see on the front page.

What would be most useful is that now someone could create an account on the Reddit, Twitter, Facebook(?) alternatives and give them access to every community, and then allow each community to set its own rules, and customize its own to be unique while having a unified product to "sell" and get people to move.

Hot take? Blue Sky should be worked with to join the Fediverse as the twitter alternative and Mastodon should work to be the Facebook alternative

TLDR: One front page and general site for Lemmy, Mastodon....and to sign up and see whats popular and then have fully independent subgroups.