Oh right, mb.

No I get that, but for the software to pick it up properly you would need to use the “edit” button to amend the url in the post itself.

Could you edit the link so it doesn’t have the tracking information on it?

Not because of the tracking itself…it’s vague enough in this case not to be an issue. Just because keeping the canonical URL allows Lemmy to automatically detect when the post has been cross-posted to multiple instances, so we can see if/where it’s also being discussed.

A video that goes into insane depth into the cultural context in Korea that’s behind this. This video is a part 2 and I do recommend the part 1 (which is a full hour shorter than part 2) as well. But part 2 is the one that deals specifically with this gesture.

It will probably not surprise anyone here to learn that it’s a little more complicated than

a hand gesture used by a radical online feminist community almost a decade ago

I don’t know why you’re being so argumentative. They mentioned that they’re hard to get. You countered with one store in one country that has them. They then pointed out that actually, no, it’s still not easy to get. It’s a pretty damn common interaction between Americans assuming everyone has the same experience as them, and the rest of the world whose experience is very different.

First: huh? I’ve never come across a Nazi on this platform. The one prominent Nazi instance was defederated very quickly by many other instances, including mine.

Second: there’s a difference between having Nazis/being slow to remove them, and proudly declaring you won’t remove them. Both are bad, but one is so much worse. Reddit, for example, is the former. Very friendly to Nazi viewpoints, but will at least hurry to remove them once it starts getting media attention.

But most importantly: Lemmy isn’t one site. It’s a federation. You could at most talk about one instance or another, or a group of instances, which “refuse to root out Nazis”. Saying “Lemmy refuses to root out Nazis” is a sort of nonsense statement, like saying “the Internet refuses to root out Nazis”.

It refuses to root out Nazis that use the platform in the name of “free speech”, and it’s happy to profit off of their use of the platform. They eventually partly backed down after a sustained campaign, but only agreed to ban a small number of prominent Nazi blogs without changing their general stance.

And of course, they draw the line on “free speech” at sexual content, including the blogs of sex workers. So the pro-Nazi stance starts looking less like a misguided principle of free speech (which would, frankly, be bad enough on its own) and more a decision to explicitly allow Nazis.

Quitting Washington Post for the pro-Nazi Substack? Ok.

Yeah, it’s actually extremely common here in Australia. Major sporting events and other special occasions are often opened with a “welcome to Country” ceremony, performed by an Indigenous Elder.

Smaller events, from the weekly City Council meeting to radio programmes to some Australian Twitch streamers, will often include an “acknowledgement of Country” made by a non-Indigenous person. A simple statement like “I would like to acknowledge the Yuggera and Turrbal people who are the traditional custodians of the land on which we are gathered, and pay respects to their Elders past, present, and emerging.”

Keep an eye out, if you’re interested, for the opening ceremony of the Brisbane 2032 Olympics. Or any other sporting events that might come to your attention that are located in Australia.

The thing is, the time zones aren’t necessarily related to the lifestyle. A siesta at 1 on the current clock is identical to a siesta at 11 on a more natural clock. But either way you have a siesta when the sun is near its peak.

Midday is 12:00. If you want to refer to solar noon, call it solar noon.

In Australia, the term “country” can also mean which Aboriginal land you’re on. Sort of equivalent to an American saying which Native American tribe’s “nation” they’re in, I think.

That’s the thing though. Spain’s time zone is so far ahead of where it should be, for most of the year the hottest part of the day really is around noon. When stupid-pretendy-time is in effect (which a quick google tells me is 7 months of the year), solar noon is at 10 am in Spain, which means clock noon is at 2 pm, roughly the hottest part of the day.

There’s also the fact that local factors have an effect. Closer to the equator, the hottest part of the day tends to be earlier. Humidity can have an effect, as can the amount of concrete and asphalt versus earth and trees.

That article is just as useless as the comment it replies to, because it fails to acknowledge the fact that marking the start of the season with the solstice is only a convention that some places observe. Others do not.

It’s a convention. And not one that everyone follows. In Australia we use meteorological seasons, which start on the first of the month. So today is precisely one third of the way through summer.

Because of what you said, I do think that the way we do it is better. It puts the solstice (the day literally called “midsummer”) closer to the middle of the season, and also makes more sense because it puts seasons aligned with the human calendar.

Ultimately, the 4 seasons are a human invention and we can choose where we put them.

Edit: meteorological seasons start on the first of the month. The name for when you start on the solstice/equinox is astronomical seasons.

It’s focus isn’t on bikes and pedestrian

No, it wasn’t, and that’s exactly the problem. Car dependent infrastructure is so bad for society and he was proposing a concept that would entrench it to a degree that would make today’s anglosphere look like a utopian Nordic paradise by comparison. Underpasses can be ok options in the right circumstances, but pedestrian bridges almost never are: they’re car infrastructure to keep pesky pedestrians out of the way of the all-important car traffic and are exceedingly inconvenient to use. As for signalled crossings, that’s fine, but doesn’t help much at the huge number of unsignalised crossings, or in local streets.

Fundamentally, you cannot fix the problems of cars by adding more cars. You fix it by making it easier for more people not to drive. With better, more frequent, quicker public transport connections and with safe, separated, direct cycle paths. It’s indicative of the techbro mindset to think more fancy AI, even if the AI was capable of doing so much more than it really is, can fix all sorts of problems.

I also don’t really think the end of Hello Internet was esspecially out of the blue, or unreasonable

Ending it was not unreasonable. Ending it and then saying nothing for months, before having your cohost release a lie stating that it hadn’t ended is unreasonable by any metric. It would have taken so little effort to put a post up on the subreddit saying “thanks for all the good times, but we’ve decided we’ve exhausted what we can talk about, you can keep up with me on my YouTube or my productivity podcast at these links.”

You don’t get to give your fans cutesy nicknames and invite them to send you postcards en mass to vote on a community flag and then pretend to maintain the sort of faceless transactional relationship you described there. You just don’t, and it’s ridiculous to pretend otherwise.

I should add one more point to the list though that I just remembered while writing this, which is his defence of the extremely problematic Kurzgesagt during that channel’s integrity debacle, and his completely silent use of bots to shadowban anyone who pointed out how shady Kurzgesagt was being through the whole thing. Say one bad thing about Kurzgesagt and get blocked from ever discussing a CGPGrey video or podcast again on his subreddit, without you even knowing that that’s happened to you. In case you’re not familiar with the incident itself, I’ll copy-paste a summary into this post in an edit shortly after I submit this comment (because I need to swap devices to get it).

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I hope you’re not storing time in floating point.

The productivity hack stuff is only one small part of it, but I do think it’s more relevant than you suggest. He’s got a podcast that’s all about how to be more productive, meanwhile he’s put out zero main videos (i.e. , not a follow-up or ad) since July '23.

But the main things that bug me are different from that.

The first thing that really pissed me off was when he put out an apology after his missile silo urbex video. In it, he used the wrong name for a missile. The one he mentioned was submarine based and the right one was land based, or vice versa. I forget, because ultimately it was such a minor nitpick it really didn’t matter. But Grey made a huge deal about it and said it was such an important issue with the video he was compelled to correct the record. Which wouldn’t be such a problek—maybe he just holds himself to a very high standard—if it weren’t for the fact that he has multiple videos whose most basic thesis is directly conflicting with expert consensus, including one based on Jared Diamond’s Guns Germs and Steel, which pushes a deterministic narrative popular with racists. His pro-Tesla AI-hyping techbro bs with the “automation with kill all jobs” video wasn’t great, but his “autopilot is going to fix traffic” is even more directly harmful considering how detrimental it would be to cyclists and pedestrians to do things the way he suggests…if it’s even technically possible.

Then there’s the more direct disrespect to his most dedicated fans with how he cancelled Hello Internet. I don’t think anyone expects them to keep the podcast going indefinitely, but to have a community as strong as HI did and not ever make any public statement himself, and only have his co-host day that they’re on a temporary hiatus six months after the final episode, and no further updates after that. It was very disrespectful and it says a lot to me about the kind of man he is. He didn’t genuinely see us as the community we thought we were, but a means to an end. He’s one of those disingenuous influencer types—he was just better than most at hiding it for a long time.

Let me guess, he’s advertising another one of his physical diaries or a similar product? I used to have such enormous respect for Grey, but his stuff has become more and more productivity guru techbro nonsense over time, especially since COVID.

Oh I missed that. That’s clever.