[–] imaqtpie 32 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I didn't downvote. But I didn't upvote either.

It's just not really a good meme at all, so it's going to get downvotes. That's what downvotes are for.

The more unusual circumstance is that it got so many upvotes despite being a crappy meme. This clearly indicates that we have a lot of Lemmy users who support trans youth. Good for us, that makes me glad. Still not good content for this particular community imho, so I didn't upvote.

Stephen King is leaving Xitter. in c/whitepeopletwitter

[–] imaqtpie 7 points 6 days ago

Yeah I do this frequently. Then I randomly go back to people's profiles and often find interesting communities and threads that way.

FOR TRANS YOUTH! in c/[email protected]

[–] imaqtpie 28 points 6 days ago (3 children)

It's not an entertaining meme

The Wife - by Bill Mayer in c/[email protected]

[–] imaqtpie 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Seems like it's just one of his styles

https://www.thebillmayer.com/#/new-gouache-paintings

US states if they used more natural geographic borders in c/[email protected]

[–] imaqtpie 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Nobody got time for that. But yeah this map seems to be more or less randomly generated, it messes with a lot of borders that are already geographically defined. Seems like they just made everything into an irregular shape and assumed people wouldn't look too closely.

US states were in large part created to reflect natural geographic divisions already. They were frequently drawn up on maps before having any significant population centers, so geographical boundaries were the primary focus. A secondary focus being equality, so not making any state too big or small relative to its neighbors.

I'm from the Y'all zone. Is it offensive to call trans people y'all? in c/[email protected]

[–] imaqtpie 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Do we have yous/youse? According to my understanding that's technically not a real word yet, it's slang.

2nd person singular used to be thou/thee back in the middle ages, but it all eventually melded into you.

I feel like y'all is the newer American version of 2nd person plural, while yous/youse/yinz are the non-American English counterparts.

I have always used you guys in a gender neutral manner historically, but people occasionally got offended by that. So I started using y'all several years ago and it's been going pretty good. Although I did initially spell it like ya'll until someone corrected me on reddit 😅

Oopsies in c/[email protected]

[–] imaqtpie 3 points 1 week ago

My point is that technically you are still making decisions about what to do with some odors body parts without consent, as they can no longer consent. Is there really a difference?

That's a good point, you're right.

That's interesting about the eyes, I'm honestly not sure what to say about that.

*Permanently Deleted* in c/[email protected]

[–] imaqtpie 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah most of the ones in the second list at least had a couple of notable things about them that kept them off the first list. I was hoping people with local experience would chime in if they had reason to dispute my rankings; I'm sure there's some cool aspects of these cities that I might not be aware of.

Carson City is nearby Lake Tahoe which is pretty awesome. Lansing is actually a decent sized city and has Michigan State University. Topeka is reasonably close to KC, and presumably has some other notable features 😅

Montgomery and Jackson are pretty dire but there's not really any better cities/options in Alabama or Mississippi, so I gave them an A for effort.

Oopsies in c/[email protected]

[–] imaqtpie 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wow, good source. 82% donor rate for the opt-out group versus 79% for the forced-choice is a smaller difference than I would have guessed.

Oopsies in c/[email protected]

[–] imaqtpie 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'm pretty sure people do make their wishes clear regarding their funeral preparations. You can put that kind of stuff in your last will and I would assume it holds some legal weight.

I actually agree that organ donation should be opt-out, but there is an unavoidable argument against that. Namely, the fact that people have the right to opt-out at all implies that you have a responsibility to verify their informed consent before enrolling them in the procedure. At least, that would be the conventional wisdom according to the field of medical ethics.

*Permanently Deleted* in c/[email protected]

[–] imaqtpie 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

There's honestly a lot of lame state capitals in the US, Europeans might be surprised. In Europe the national capital of each country is typically the biggest and most cosmopolitan city. This is not the case when it comes to state capitals in the US. Several of the most boring ones (Montpelier, Augusta, Pierre) have already been mentioned, so I'll just add a few others.

Indubitably Boring

Frankfort, Kentucky
Jefferson City, Missouri
Helena, Montana
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Slightly Less Boring (honorable mentions)

Carson City, Nevada
Jackson, Mississippi
Topeka, Kansas
Olympia, Washington
Lansing, Michigan
Salem, Oregon
Trenton, New Jersey
Montgomery, Alabama
Springfield, Illinois
Tallahassee, Florida
Concord, New Hampshire

Oopsies in c/[email protected]

[–] imaqtpie 5 points 1 week ago

That sounds promising, I think you're right that it would be a significant improvement in donor rates over the opt-in system.

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[Vote] Which banner do you prefer? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by imaqtpie to c/agora

377 comments fedilink

Welcome, this vote will determine which image we use for our banner image for sh.itjust.works. The discussion thread is in the Agora, and was also cross-posted to ImageAI

Fantastic work on the banners sh.itheads, I think we've got several excellent choices here. I've reposted the candidates below, with credits to the users who submitted them. I culled some submissions at my own discretion.

Each candidate is labeled with a number. In order to vote, simply comment on this post with the number of your preferred banner. You only get one vote.

Number 1 - @[email protected]

Number 2 - @[email protected]

Number 3 - @[email protected]

Number 4 - @[email protected]

Number 5 - @[email protected]

Number 6 - @[email protected]

Number 7 - @[email protected]

Number 8 - @[email protected]

Number 9 - @[email protected]

Number 10 - @[email protected]

Number 11 - @[email protected]

Number 12 - @[email protected]

You may also specify a few honorable mentions in your comment if you so choose, as a way to acknowledge the artists' work.

The vote will run until next Friday.

VOTE RESULT

1. Banner 8 by @[email protected]: 91 votes

2. Banner 11 by @[email protected]: 49 votes

3. Banner 6 by @[email protected]: 24 votes

4. Banner 7 by @[email protected]: 20 votes

5. Banner 3 by @[email protected]: 19 votes

1281

Advertising Lemmy on r/place (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by imaqtpie to c/main

150 comments fedilink

Reddit has decided to run another edition of r/place in mid July for some unimaginable reason.

https://sh.itjust.works/post/1387534

It seems to me that it would be stupid to not at least attempt to advertise for Lemmy given the perfect opportunity. Many have expressed concerns about giving reddit more traffic, but a few thousand users is less than a rounding error to reddit. However, getting a few thousand more redditors to move to Lemmy would be great for us.

Hopefully I can get a few sh.itheads to help in this noble endeavor. If not, at least I tried.

[email protected]

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Carlos Alcaraz beats Novak Djokovic over 5 sets to win Wimbledon (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by imaqtpie to c/[email protected]

13 comments fedilink

Take a bow son

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mnt. Doom (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by imaqtpie to c/[email protected]

2 comments fedilink

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1462284

My favourite, to be honest

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[Discussion] Let's create a banner for sh.itjust.works! (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by imaqtpie to c/imageai

13 comments fedilink

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/1022097

Don't mean to get in the middle of the Dieselpunk challenge but I figured the people here might want to take a shot at creating a banner as well. I'm going to leave that thread open for at least a week so you guys should have time.

Please post your best submissions to the Agora thread linked above

I will try to scan both threads to get all of the candidates before we vote, but the Agora thread is the official discussion, this was just cross-posted for awareness.

The two obvious themes in my mind are gears/some sort of complex machine, or computer hardware/circuits.

As an avid Lain Iwakura enjoyer, I added that screenshot because it's awesome and I think it'd be an extremely cool banner, but there are probably much cleaner designs out there that would be more welcoming to new users. I'm sure you guys will be able to come up with some in short order.

You can look on lemmyverse.net to get a quick overview of some other instance banners.

I really don’t know how the formatting and proportions are supposed to work but I will edit that in as soon as someone clarifies.

Lemmy.world looks like this

This discussion run for at least a week, and then we can take the most upvoted submissions in this thread and put them up for an official vote.

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[Discussion] Let's create a banner for sh.itjust.works! (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by imaqtpie to c/agora

35 comments fedilink

The two obvious themes in my mind are gears/some sort of complex machine, or computer hardware/circuits.

As an avid Lain Iwakura enjoyer, I added that screenshot because it's awesome and I think it'd be an extremely cool banner, but there are probably much cleaner designs out there that would be more welcoming to new users. I'm sure you guys will be able to come up with some in short order.

You can look on lemmyverse.net to get a quick overview of some other instance banners.

I really don’t know how the formatting and proportions are supposed to work but I will edit that in as soon as someone clarifies.

Lemmy.world looks like this

This discussion will run for at least a week, and then we can take the most upvoted submissions in this thread and put them up for an official vote.

0

4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) (yewtu.be)

submitted 1 year ago by imaqtpie to c/springsteen

0 comments fedilink

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Found one! (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by imaqtpie to c/[email protected]

1 comments fedilink

Lost lemming found in the wild.

This little lemming was searching for c/NCD while on c/NCD.

Photo credit for thumbnail

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[Announcement] TheDude has upgraded the server from 0.18.0 to 0.18.1 RC (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by imaqtpie to c/main

40 comments fedilink

TheDude recently upgraded the server to the most recent version of Lemmy. You'll notice significant improvements to the user interface, and hopefully the functionality is also improved. There is no official changelog yet because this version is not yet finalized, but I'll link the GitHub releases page where it should eventually appear.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/releases

Edit: 0.18.1 is now fully released and we have upgraded to the final version. You can view the link above for the changelog.

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Can't see the contents of the community I'm moderating (self.main)

submitted 1 year ago by imaqtpie to c/main

16 comments fedilink

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/776343

Better suited for the main community, the Agora is mainly for official discussions and votes.

@[email protected]

Hello,

I'm the mod of Japanese Metal. For a few days now, the community appears empty to me, both on Liftoff and my browser on my desktop. Edit: it's fine if I view it on my lemm.ee account, but that's not optimal.

What might be the cause, and how do I fix it? Anyone with a similar problem?

Thanks in advance.

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[Vote] Should we defederate exploding-heads? (self.agora)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by imaqtpie to c/agora

446 comments fedilink

Say "aye" or yes" if you are in favor of defederation.

Say "nay" or "no" if you are against defederation.

All of the relevant information can be found in the link below. Thank you all for your input.

https://sh.itjust.works/post/564252

I can only hope for this level of engagement in all discussions going forward 😅

I apologize for the lack of clarity and structure surrounding the process and just know that we are working to streamline the process ASAP.

EDIT: If you post anything in addition to aye/yes/nay/no, it will be removed and I will reply to the comment with your vote.

I am not voting, I am simply cleaning up comments that try to continue the discussion. Just vote and get off the pot people.

If you're from another server, you don't get to vote

VOTE RESULT

In favor of defederation

We are now defederated from EH.

The mod team is currently examining the data in greater detail to arrive at a final count of legitimate votes. Nonetheless, whichever voting system/restrictions we arrive at, the result of the vote is not in question. I will update this post with the final count ASAP. Thank you for your participation, it was a largely successful debate and vote.

6

Federation issues with kbin (self.main)

submitted 1 year ago by imaqtpie to c/main

5 comments fedilink

I've been experiencing a bug whereby my comments are not showing up on https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration. Perhaps on all of kbin, I'm too lazy to check.

https://sh.itjust.works/comment/500520

https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/109810/Kbin-Lemmy-has-just-ticked-over-100k-active-users

https://sh.itjust.works/comment/523173

https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/116113/It-was-fun-while-it-lasted

In both cases I copied the comment a few hours later on my kbin account which has the same name, and it posted instantly.

Anyone have any insight into what's going on here? You can tell that this is happening to multiple people because the number of comments doesn't line up exactly, but on the other hand the majority of the comments are federating successfully, as I can see comments from lemmy.world users there.

This is the kind of bug that really kills engagement. I demand compensation for all the upvotes I missed out on 😂