Less so than other institutions that are driven by corporate profits. However, the scientific community is not devoid of corruption either. You can find a scientist to say whatever you want with the right paycheck, happens all the time.

I actually got perma-banned from a subreddit for expressing my opinions on this.

Some people get downright hostile about anti-vax ideology. However I think there is some cause for concern there. Keep in mind just getting an injection carries some risk regardless of what’s in it. I don’t see any economic or political motivation behind anti-vax ideology other than a legitimate concern for public safety. No doubt there’s economic motivation for pro-vax ideology.

Some may take anti-vax ideology to an extreme, but then some may be too trusting of the system. There are wide opinions about many of the systems we live under, not just vaccination. I’m less trusting of all the systems that make up our society more than I’ve ever been. There’s a number of reasons I feel that way. The main reason is I simply don’t trust our leaders and institutions to make public safety a priority. I mean how many times do they have to demonstrate this before the average person gets the memo.

Lemmy is built by volunteers and people are paying for servers out of pocket. Storage costs money so it’s unlikely you’d ever see local hosting of large files like videos. Some instances will locally host files under a certain size limit, but it depends on the instance. There’s plenty of third party file hosts so you can just upload your file to one of those and link to it.

I’ve been spending more time here. Could be the newness factor or maybe it’s just more engaging. It’s going to be a lot different only because of the smaller population. I think Reddit may have been too big for its own good.

Definitely the phytoplankton since it provides the bulk of Earth’s oxygen production. Oxygen only exists because the ecosystem replenishes it. If all oxygen production stopped it would only take a few thousand years to deplete completely. Oxygen binds quickly with everything around it.

Yeah GitHub, are they trying to be obtuse over there on purpose? Anyway you need to look in the releases section and it’s not an obvious link on the front page. Most of the time you can get to the releases from a link in the description further down the front page of the project, usually.

Li-Ion batteries are pretty ubiquitous anymore, the majority of devices use them. There’s still some that use NiMH. You should be able to look up specs or user manuals for any device to find out the type of battery it uses.

NiMH is actually a better solution as it has much longer cycle life and shelf life. Plus NiMH batteries don’t carry the fire hazard of Li-Ion batteries (if you’re not educated about that batteryuniversity.com is the place to go for all things battery). Even so there’s a huge difference in energy density. NiMH batteries are a lot bigger for the same energy capacity. So engineers seem to be obsessed with battery size over everything else even though NiMH is a safer more robust solution.

Last one I really liked was Valerian. Kind of a hokey sci-fi, but good story and engaging. I actually liked the lead characters a lot.

Last one I can’t believe I watched was John Wick 4. I mean I knew what it was going to be like. Was almost three hours long with thirty minutes of actual story, the rest just shooting and fighting, but I had to see it, just like the three before it.

One thing that was really cool about John Wick 4 is there’s a set of scenes where he’s driving a 1971 Plymouth 'Cuda. I had that exact car with all the performance options except the Hemi engine (had a 440 six pack engine). It’s by far the favorite of all cars I’ve owned. I found it in the mid 80’s wasting away in a garage and restored it. To this day I think I should have kept it, found a way to store it properly. The whole time I was thinking don’t you dare destroy that car, but it looks like they CG’d all the crashes. I’m sure the owner would never let them damage that priceless car.

I’m liking all the ones I’m subscribed to right now, can’t really nail down a favorite. Get a wide array of topics here, I was really pidgeon holed before because I’d get overloaded.

I’m liking all the ones I’m subscribed to right now, can’t really nail down a favorite. Get a wide array of topics here, I was really pidgeon holed before because I’d get overloaded.

BTW, when I initially got on the Fediverse I thought in terms of a centralized network where the most users means the most activity. Not the case here, you have access to everything from any instance (barring defederation). So you want an instance with the best ping from your locale, preferred admin settings, and best performance. A lower user count might be a good thing if it means less server load and better performance.

lemmyverse.net

the-federation.info

Most cordless devices have a Lithium-Ion battery in them. For Li-Ion storage you want to keep batteries around 50% charge in a cool environment. This maximizes shelf life. For example a Li-Ion battery stored at room temperature with a full charge loses about 20% capacity per year. At 40% charge (ideal) stored in a cool environment it loses about 5% capacity per year.

If you can remove a Li-Ion battery it’s better for storage. Charge to 40% (3.85V measured after resting) and put in a refrigerator. This will put capacity loss under 5% per year. Don’t put them in a freezer, that will damage them.

Lead-acid and NiMH batteries have a different ideal storage condition. For 12V lead-acid you want to store them at 100% charge and trickle charge overnight at 13.80V every six months. Store at room temperature. For NiMH you want to charge to full then store at room temperature until needed.

The devs are pretty hammered right now with the big influx of users. I wouldn’t bother them with feature requests in the issues section at GitHub. Need a dedicated community for feature requests which we don’t have, maybe !lemmy@lemmy.ml is the best place at this point. I have a few I’d like to put in myself.

I wonder that too since according to present statistics (the-federation.info/platform/73) there’s over 1.2M Lemmy accounts. The 6mo active users count is a little over 40k. Now I know many of those may be lurkers or people like me who have logins on other instances, but a good number of those would have to be bot accounts. So what are they laying in wait for? Could be shameless promotion and upvoting, but I’m not seeing any of that yet. Hope we’re not in for a shitstorm.

I go to lemmyverse.net to explore communities if that’s any help. I’ve never promoted any so I don’t have any advice to offer there.

You can view if user created communites are enabled on your instance here; lemmy.ml/api/v3/site

That link outputs a wall of text, but all the Instance settings are at the top after “local_site”. Optionally you can format the output with a json formatter like jsonformatter.org which makes the output easy to read.

In the case for lemmy.ml, you see [“community_creation_admin_only”: true] which means users can not create communities. You can check other instances for one that does allow user created communities. Just replace the root name in that link and get the settings there.

The instance I’m on does allow user created communities. Some instances actually state their settings in the sidebar for convenience, the one I’m on does that.

Think I’d have to agree with that, I don’t think it’s ready for an “event” at this point. It will be at some point, but not yet. Still something to think about.

I haven’t seen anything yet either. I think they’re lining up for the assault.

If he’d do it, would be fun too.