A lot of this stems from instances running old versions with loose registration requirements, like no captcha. This is a problem in a federated system because there’s no barrier for a banned user to just jump to another instance.

Perhaps it would be a good idea if, when Lemmy has anti-spam measures implemented like rate-limiting and captchas for registration, it disabled federation with instances that are at a lower version, to motivate small instances to upgrade and enable the new features.

That would probably dissolve some of the plastic parts.

Yes, it’s fine.

If you have vote brigading, ban them, take it up with the instance admin, and defederate, in that order.

https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/leminal.space

*regressive

I don’t blame him, I blame his staff. A routine procedure, meh. But he goes into the ICU, his staff should be notifying the White House and the deputy, and probably the joint chiefs, among others.

Yeah but that’s a waste of light. Why use a floodlight when you can use a laser?

Pentagon officials also failed for two days last week to notify Austin’s second-in-command that he had transferred authority to her while he was in the ICU, and while she was in Puerto Rico.

That’s the real goof. I don’t really see a problem with the secdef being hospitalized and not immediately notifying the President. They need DoD stuff, they call on him, and if he’s not available, for any reason, it should immediately fall to the deputy. The White House staff, and especially the deputy, should have been told.

Ultimately this just seems to have been a breakdown in communication, but even if war were declared, I don’t think it would have been a significant issue. This is media hype bs to distract from real issues.

There is already some debate about what time of year the birth actually happened. Most people agree that regardless of the actual day, it probably wasn’t Dec 25 (or the equivalent if using other calendars). That’s just the one that people agreed to use.

Not exactly. Most Christian holidays are redefined existing holidays. Christmas was “oh everyone already celebrates a feast around midwinter, let’s make it a celebration of the birth of Jesus so we can still do the celebration but in a Christian way”.

It’s the plot point, but also spoilers, kind of? Part of the game is discovering what happened.

I’m expecting temperatures to drop afterwards and everything to turn to ice.

I took one for the team. Flicking and sucking until they were raw.

• that one bit in The Manchurian Candidate (1962) making fun of McCarthy

It won’t. Last time a group tried to secede, we went to war.

You know, there’s a question on security clearance paperwork that asks if you’ve ever done anything for violent overthrow of the government, which is definitely not an optional question. Funny that it’s optional for even more important positions.

And all the other foods are going to follow.

Ah, well. Humans had a good run. Looks like we found our great filter.

In the US, if you want that, you have to get Orangina. Not a fan, personally. It’s fizzy, watered-down orange juice.

It’s not an imminent collision alert, it’s a “plane where it’s not supposed to be” alert.

I don’t know how many scenarios currently are configured for an audible alert, but the thing is, when you make too many alerts important enough to be audible, then no alert is important. Operators will start instantly muting the audible before even thinking about the actual alert, and that means they could get distracted by something they’re already working on and completely forget to address the new alert.

Sure, he’s completely unqualified for the office. But he was last time too. A lot of people didn’t vote based on how qualified he was, they voted on “he tells it like it is”.