In reality the fashion trend will probably swing the other way. More high profile people will be wearing thicker frame glasses, so people will generally begin to perceive them as more elegant and attractive.

A better question is why the US can’t figure out this kind of payment system. Isn’t Trump supposed to be the crypto President?

Yeah… totally normal that a new technology has to be shoehorned into the workforce. I’m sure they only need to enforce its adoption because it is so useful.

Yes, although quantum effects also slow spinning celestial objects/systems, even in the absence of measurable tidal effects. That would take much, much longer to slow down.

I know of a wealthy family who own a mid-sized company and referred to a second wife of one brother as a “newcomer” for close to 20 years. They did everything in their power to minimize the wealth she and her kids got when he tragically died.

They were still pretty well-off, but not super wealthy. There can be really complicated dynamics around family money, so it could go either way.

No, if something rotated infinitely, that still violates thermodynamics and is “perpetual motion.”

This of course is impossible. Even the Earth slows down by about 2 ms per century due to tidal forces.

Yeah, it basically says, “researchers could potentially measure vibrations in the air to detect speech.”

I know. That’s how speech works.

It’s amazing to me how little people are talking about this. Imagine if this was literally any country other than Iran.

What are you on about? Liberal democracy is just about the only system that has historically led to multiple parties.

Communism, socialism, oligarchy, fascism, theocracy, monarchy, are all characterized by single party rule historically.

If you say so

There is a YouTube series about a lie detector like this.

Edit: here it is

What a thoughtful reply from a dev after a detailed, cogent description of tensions and bottlenecks in the ux of the platform they are building.

Interesting, so even you have no way to know whether I was one of the downvotes on this comment?

To expand on standards of transparency in moderation decisions:

Lemmy was built with a public moderation log by design. The ethos of the platform includes accountability through transparency. Every action is recorded and preserved (short of defederation or instance shutdown).

This makes moderation auditable. Mods literally cannot do (much) shady stuff in secret. In essence, moderation policy is discernable from the logs. That’s part of why well-run communities have the rules clearly defined and mods follow their written policy.

If a community/instance wants to make political alignment a moderation offense, they’re free to do so. Many communities/instances are quite explicit about this. If a community wants to make moderation completely arbitrary, they are free to do so. That is somewhat less common, but also not unheard of.

In truth, any community can be designed and moderated in any way whatsoever that the mod chooses.

However, the success of a community depends on the quality of the content and the quality of the moderation. Good content brings people in, but bad moderation drives people out. When the moderation is unfair, it is bad for the health of the community, and ultimately bad for the health of the platform.

It is my experience that transparent moderation, such as announcing changes in policy, techniques, etc., is less work in the long run. It takes a bit of time and attention to roll out changes when they are open for community feedback, but that feedback will come in one way or another. If mods don’t provide a formal outlet, then users will make one. Mods operating opaquely give up their right to have the conversation on their time and terms. They also miss out on the wisdom of the crowd. I’ve been in many situations where community feedback provided a valuable insight or tool to face an obstacle through open discussion about policy.

All that being said, one of the major obstacles to growth of the Threadiverse is the woeful dearth of moderation tools. It’s extremely time intensive to do basic things like identifying alt accounts, vote manipulation, bot behavior etc. It is also subject to a lot of human error. This makes it discouraging for people to moderate. I have heard about tools that use AI to detect CP content and remove it quickly, which I think we can all agree is a good use of the tech. Tools like this are not built into the platform, but cobbled together by volunteer mods and admins to keep the platform safe, legal, and sustainable. If they were built in, then moderation would be far easier (and therefore likely better).

I don’t like this happening, and there should be transparency in all moderation decisions, but some of these points make no sense.

There is essentially no expectation of privacy on threadiverse platforms. Everything is public and probably already being used to train models.

There is no private messaging system. Direct messages are unencrypted and potentially visible to any instance admins. They and should not be used to share anything sensitive.

Pretty interesting how many people are jumping into comments to discredit the source but no one suggesting it isn’t true.

Iran executes 21-year-old karate champion as UN warns of death penalty surge EuroNews

January Protests: Death Sentence of Sasan Azadvar Junaqani Upheld by Supreme Court HRANA

“The agency identified the executed man as Sasan Azadvar, from Isfahan.” France24

I think they meant that publisher should have rewritten it.

Also, the community rules allow for adding context in [brackets] as long as it is not editorialized.

Yeah, Trump didn’t help, but I think it’s more to do with a decade of private equity dropping trillions of dollars into industries that never return any value.

I think sometimes we forget that citizenship in ancient Greece was reserved for wealthy bloodline males who owned land and slaves, and were able-bodied and politically unproblematic.

Sure, Greek democracy was an important first step, but it was functionally just an expansion of the aristocracy. Let’s not romanticize it overmuch.

Yeah, adulting is hard. But then you do it and you realize that you can do hard things. That feels pretty good.

Or you make a mistake and learn an important lesson; an expert is just someone who has made every possible mistake in an area.

Then eventually hard things stop feeling so scary.