I use KDE Plasma on my desktop and GNOME on my laptop — though, by my experience, GNOME has been mildly annoying. I just find it too “restrictive” when compared with KDE. I’m also not super fond of how some apps seem to integrate rather poorly with GNOME. I do think that GNOME’s interface works well with a laptop, but the UX hasn’t been the best for me. I have few, if any, complaints regarding KDE.

Would it be better to do less of each kind of exercising or just to fixate on one kind?

Hm, I think it’s important to assess what your exercise goals are, and to analyze your full workout routine to prevent this being an XY problem. Addressing the latter, given the following:

my ideal workout means stair climbing, running-walking and stretching. It can well last 2 hours.

If you are saying that that is your full workout routine, I would say that, imo, I don’t see any problem with splitting those up: Stair climbing and running are both cardio ^[3], assuming that you do them both to a high enough intensity ^[2]; they just focus different muscle groups ^[1] — depending on your goals, this could help you decide on which on to keep as a focus. As for stretching, a recommended minimum is 2-3 times per week ^[4]. Depending on your total stretching routine, you could potentially cut out some stretches if they have considerable overlap with other stretches.

I think it’s important to note that any amount of exercise appears to be better than none at all ^[1][2][3].

This might be tricky, given that Lemmy is federated ^[1]; there’s no guarantee that deletions will be federated to all instances — eg an instance could defederate from the rest of the network after your content’s been pushed to it.

If you don’t mind answering, out of curiosity, why do you want to mass delete your old comments?

Plus I cringe at the thought of 75% of the CBC budget being spent on content moderation.

Theoretically, could they outwardly federate only? For example, they make a post which gets pushed out to other instances, but they would set their instance to not allow any external posts or comments to be federated into their instance, and they could close registrations. That way, the rest of the Fediverse could follow and interact with their content, and they wouldn’t have to deal with moderation. I’m not sure if that’s really how federation works, so please correct any inaccuracies.

[…] treat each Lemmy community as a community, not an audience.

I think it depends on the community in question, and the nature of the post. If, for example, one is looking for an answer to a question, or help with something, I would argue that one would, generally, want to target the largest relevant audience to maximize the surface area of potential people who can help. At any rate, more specifically, I don’t think it’s one or the other, but rather both — one would want to find the largest and the most relevant community. By my experience, another common behavior is to cross-post to multiple communities. This seems to be especially more common in a federated forum like Lemmy where there could be any number of duplicate communities.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=rNu8XDBSn10

It’s really unclear, to me, what these tables are even saying. What’s each column?

https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/mar/31/no-evidence-growing-trend-trans-radicalization-or/

Thank you for the source! One critique that I have of it is that, while it does state that trans people are 4 times more likely than cis people to be victims of violent crime [1], it doesn’t appear to answer the question of rates of perpetrating violent crime between trans and cis people — well, aside from conjecture [2][3].

I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever.

First off, one must be very careful of generalizing to an entire group from the actions of a small sample [1]. Using the metric of whether there have been trans people who have engaged in mass shootings is quite reductionist, and is a faulty generalization — if I am to interpret what you said to mean that “conservatives” are “against” all trans people because they think that they are all responsible for “shooting up” schools and churches. Second, to address your belief, to my knowledge, there has been at least one instance of a school shooter being trans [2].

Why does it seem most people, mainly conservatives, against Trans people?

I think it’s important to establish the validity of the claim, and the assumptions being made, since you cited no sources, nor did you provide any definitions, nor did you specify any assumptions; I will presume that by “conservative”, you are referring to American Republicans.

Why does it seem most people […][are] against Trans people?

It does not appear that “most people” (I assume you mean “the majority of people”) are “against trans people” (I’m not entirely sure exactly what you mean by this, so I will assume it means not being in favor of protecting trans people from discrimination) [1.2][1.1].

Why does it seem […] conservatives […][are] against Trans people?

It does seem that the majority of Republicans are against trans protections [1.1].

ADDENDUM (2024-11-23T06:49Z): Could someone who’s downvoting this please tell me why they are doing so? I’m rather confused about what the rationale could be. I didn’t even state any opinions; I was only fact checking. Was I perhaps too abrasive sounding? I wasn’t intending to be rude.

I know I can post and be the change I seek.

Imo, this is your answer. I’m not sure exactly what other solution you want. Content will not appear on Lemmy without someone first posting it. Advertising the platform to help draw people in is also important.

TL;DR: I blame FPTP.

Hm, I’d argue that this is a byproduct of the spoiler effect — I think it’s due to strategic voting. I think that it’s likely not due to people consciously voting against their own interests to benefit the rich (assuming that they indeed do this ­— ie that voting to benefit the rich is against their interests), but instead that the entities that support these sorts of beliefs, also tend to align with other beliefs that are more important to the voters, and “benefiting the rich”, while possibly perceived negatively, is a sacrifice that the voters are willing to make.

If this sort of thing was commonplace, I wonder if this overtly male-focused advertising (I say “male-focused” as males, who are majority heterosexual, would be the largest collective that would be attracted to this sort of advertising) had anything to do with video games being stereotypically associated with males. Perhaps it’s a sort of positive feedback. If so, I wonder what the initial bias towards males was.

HA, “broligarchy” 😆

I think it’s important to also have, for context, what Joe Rogan said prior to the fight:

I’m getting ready to watch this Tyson vs Jake Paul fight like I’m watching someone cast a spell that I hope actually works. And I don’t really believe in magic. But I want to believe

Can you clarify what you mean by “unique”?

I mean, that’s a cool looking QR code that I’ve never seen before, which I suppose is technology related, but, other than that, I have no idea wtf this post is even supposed to be.

I’m not sure if it’s my “favorite”, necessarily, but I couldn’t think of anything else, and it is a good show, and, imo, rather unknown, but I’ll share Wakfu (the French version (with subtitles if you don’t speak French). I’d highly recommend not watching the dub — it isn’t very good).