[-] Firefly7 61 points 5 months ago

This is where it’s important to remember who exactly is writing the laws for union recognition. Many countries have laws that nominally support the formation of unions but moreso exist to reduce union support or funnel unions into polite, legal activity.

[-] Firefly7 29 points 9 months ago

Not sure what the use case is for a federated wiki. It lets you... edit a different wiki with your account from your initial one? View pages from other wikis using your preferred website's UI? Know which wikis are considered to have good info by the admins of the wiki you're browsing from?

This is presented as a solution to Wikipedia's content moderation problems, but it doesn't do much against that that wouldn't also be done by just having a bunch of separate, non-federated wikis that link to each others' pages. The difference between linking to a wiki in the federation network, and linking to one outside the federation network, is that the ui will be different and you'd have to make a new account to edit things.

I suppose it makes sense for a search feature? You can search for a concept and select the wiki which approaches the concept from your desired angle (e.g. broad overview, scientific detail, hobbyist), and you'd know that all the options were wikis that haven't been defederated and likely have some trustworthiness. With the decline of google and search engines in general, I can see this being helpful. But it relies on the trustworthiness of your home wiki's admin, and any large wiki would likely begin to have many of the same problems that the announcement post criticizes Wikipedia for. And all this would likely go over the head of any average visitor, or average editor.

I don't know. I'm happy this exists. I think it's interesting to think about what structures would lead to something better than Wikipedia. I might find it helpful once someone creates a good frontend for it, and then maybe the community can donate to create a free hosting service for Ibis wikis. Thank you for making it.

[-] Firefly7 23 points 10 months ago

This one made me laugh. Most I just find to be novel, silly, or interesting, but a fair few are pretty funny to me.

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submitted 1 year ago by Firefly7 to c/oneshot@lemmy.ml

https://www.fangamer.com/products/alula-oneshot-plush

Also new: a tote bag design and a new pin

[-] Firefly7 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Mx is common-ish among nonbinary people. Here’s a relevant poll regarding people’s usages of it: https://www.gendercensus.com/results/2023-mx/

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submitted 1 year ago by Firefly7 to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

I'm envisioning a hypothetical future where, alongside competing with platforms like Reddit/Twitter/Instagram/etc, federated platforms compete with retail or service-providing platforms like Amazon, Uber, Fiverr, Airbnb, etc, platforms that primarily just serve to connect users to other users and handle transactions between them. Is this future possible or desirable?

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xkcd #2813: What To Do (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 1 year ago by Firefly7 to c/xkcd@lemmy.world

Title text: FYI: The 'drop, cover, and hold on' advice only applies to earthquakes. If you encounter a mountain lion, you should absolutely not drop to the ground, crawl under it, and hold on to one of its legs.

Transcript [The comic is laid out like a grid, with situations down the left-hand side (mountain lion / lightning / fire alarm / bleeding) and the solutions across the top (stand up straight, speak firmly, and slowly back away / run toward a building or hard-topped vehicle / calmly exit the building / apply firm pressure ). The grid illustrates the "match-ups", with a green square denoting a "correct" match-up and a red square denoting a bad idea.][From the top left corner, going from left to right, top to bottom, with each first item being on its own line in the grid, the squares are as follows:] [Green square, a mountain lion (drawn as a large cat) sits on the left, on a perch. Cueball and Megan have their arms raised and are speaking to it. Lines in front of them indicate they are backing up.] Cueball: HEY. STOP. Megan: SHOO. stand up straight, speak firmly, and slowly back away -> mountain lion [Red square, Cueball and Megan are being chased by a mountain lion, and are running towards a building to their right.] run toward a building or hard-topped vehicle -> mountain lion [Red square, Cueball and Megan exit a building and approach a mountain lion.] Megan: Hello. calmly exit the building -> mountain lion [Red square, Cueball is putting his hands firmly on a mountain lion.] apply firm pressure -> mountain lion [Red square, lightning strikes a tree. Cueball is standing outside, with his arms raised, yelling at the lightning. Lines in front of him indicate he is backing up.] BOOM Cueball: NO! stand up straight, speak firmly, and slowly back away -> lightning [Green square, lightning strikes a tree. Cueball and Megan run toward a building to their right.] BOOM run toward a building or hard-topped vehicle -> lightning [Red square, lightning strikes a tree. Cueball and Megan exit a building and approach the lightning-struck tree.] BOOM calmly exit the building -> lightning [Red square, lightning strikes a tree. Cueball pushes on the lightning-struck tree.] BOOM apply firm pressure -> lightning [Red square, a fire alarm is beeping. Cueball yells at the alarm, with his arms raised. Lines in front of him indicates he is backing up.] BEEP BEEP BEEP Cueball: HEY. stand up straight, speak firmly, and slowly back away -> fire alarm [Red square, a fire alarm is beeping next to a building with flames on its roof. Cueball and Megan run toward the burning building.] BEEP BEEP BEEP run toward a building or hard-topped vehicle -> fire alarm [Green square, a fire alarm is beeping next to a house with flames on its roof. Cueball and Megan are exiting the burning building.] BEEP BEEP BEEP calmly exit the building -> fire alarm [Red square, a fire alarm is beeping, and Cueball is trying to "suppress" the beeping sound. Behind him are flames.] BEEP BEEP BE-eep eep eep eep eep apply firm pressure -> fire alarm [Red square, Cueball is bleeding from his right arm, and holds it. Megan to his right yells at him with her arms raised. Lines in front of her indicates she is backing up.] Megan: HEY! Megan: STOP IT! stand up straight, speak firmly, and slowly back away -> bleeding [Red square, Megan, holding a first aid kit in one hand and a bandage in the other, runs with a bleeding Cueball towards a building to their right.] run toward a building or hard-topped vehicle -> bleeding [Red square, Megan holds a bandage, and to the ground in front of her is a first aid kit. Cueball is walking to the right of the panel, with an injured and bloody left arm raised.] Cueball: Bye! calmly exit the building -> bleeding [Green square, Cueball sits in a chair and Megan is treating him by putting her hands on his injured limb. Behind her on the ground is a first aid kit.] apply firm pressure -> bleeding

[-] Firefly7 21 points 1 year ago

That’s the lemmy.blahaj.zone instance logo

[-] Firefly7 23 points 1 year ago

You don’t owe anyone anything as a trans person. I disagree with the notion that you’re ugly, and I disagree with the notion that you look masculine, but even if you did, the goal of the trans movement isn’t “if you let us be trans then we’ll look perfect and fit exactly into the gender boxes that society expects us to!” The goal of the trans movement is to let people be happy and accepted as whoever they are, whatever way they present. Trans women can be beefy and hairy and fat just as much as they can be petite and curvy, and both are important. Transition is a process, and it’s often a long, hard process, and the goal isn’t just to normalize the idea of transitioning but the reality of it, where people of any gender can look like anything and they might even decide they’re happy to keep looking like that for the rest of their lives. Every person who dares to live and be trans and be proud of it is helping other trans people, regardless of how they look and whether or not they pass. If you want to help, talk to other trans people, organize, be kind and compassionate, don’t just give up because you think your very existence is hurting others. Sky, you’re worth more than you think you are, and you aren’t hurting anyone by being yourself.

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Blahaj is complete! (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 1 year ago by Firefly7 to c/main

Thank you to everyone!!

Link to canvas: https://canvas.toast.ooo

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Shonk progress update! (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 1 year ago by Firefly7 to c/main

Thank you to everyone who has helped!

Link to the canvas: https://canvas.toast.ooo

[-] Firefly7 22 points 1 year ago

The time interval hasn’t changed. It’s 30 seconds, unless you are replacing a pixel that someone else placed, in which case it is 60 seconds.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Firefly7 to c/main

over at https://canvas.toast.ooo there's a weekend event for Lemmy users. It's similar to r/place, each user can place one pixel every 30 seconds. Come help add our logo!

Template: https://i.imgur.com/evRnFGN.png at location (259, 786). You can add the template for yourself by clicking the gear in the top right.

[-] Firefly7 25 points 1 year ago

This question is analogous to “why hasn’t anarcho-communism yet worked on a wide scale?” Which is a question with many, many facets to it. You’d have to ask a lot of questions separately.

If I were to try, though, I think the simple answer is “people who work in X area usually do not own the means of production and as such cannot redirect the end product to horizontalist organizations.” Most people can’t just quit their jobs to join a mutual aid group because, without being able to contribute things, the biggest thing a mutual aid group can pass around is time, and most mutual aid groups that exist irl are focused on doing tasks like “picking up prescriptions for others,” and cannot replace participation in the capitalist economy.

Nevermind how most governments don’t want horizontalist non-capitalist organizations to gain enough power to provide a viable alternative to living under capitalism.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Firefly7 to c/fuck_cars@lemmy.ml

Episode in The War On Cars podcast talking about the book Traffication: How Cars Destroy Nature and What We Can Do About It with its author, Paul Donald.

Donald coins the term "Traffication" to describe the car-centric mode of development, and goes over various problems that cars cause for wildlife. The danger posed by the car to nature, he suggests, is existential.

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submitted 1 year ago by Firefly7 to c/lgbtq_plus@beehaw.org

I’m quite young, but personally—I spent most of my childhood thinking a crush was just “friendship I’m embarrassed to want to continue,” so I avoided befriending girls I had “crushes” on just because I thought me doing so would be creepy or clingy. Later on, in high school, I didn’t like that I hardly had friends who weren’t guys, so I was happy to befriend someone who wasn’t, who I’ll call Z, even though being around them made me generally anxious.

When I found out about myself being aro (and ace), it lead to me gaining a furthered interest in LGBTQ politics and being less ashamed in trying to advocate for myself in platonic relationships.

Z also figured out that they were aroace, and we quickly and mostly-accidentally entered an intimate platonic relationship. Which… was a big mistake! I was under the impression that our aroace compatibility made us immune to having a bad relationship, but I ended up really liking their touch and acceptance, and not really liking being around them otherwise. Z wasn’t a bad person, so I didn’t really have a reason to be anxious around them, so I thought it might just go away if I tried hard enough. It didn’t. Just a pretty big personality conflict. Cue several months of feeling bad whenever we did anything non-cuddling, and feeling guilty that I felt bad during those times—which ended up being a lot, because Z stopped enjoying cuddling. I’m grateful to them, though, for being willing to talk to me about it, even if it took us a while to figure out what was wrong.

Since then, I’ve found other cuddle buddies that I feel much more secure around. And it’s still weird and surreal to see people in my friend groups having romantic desires, and dating people. Every time it happens I want to quiz them and be like “are you sure you’re not secretly aromantic and you just haven’t realized??” :P

It’s also probably why I like Lemon Demon and Tally Hall and Will Wood instead of, like, normal music that normal people listen to.

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submitted 1 year ago by Firefly7 to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

I’ve noticed that most people here are ex-redditors, migrating due to the API changes and u/spez’s problematic leadership. I’m wondering, though, how many people here use Lemmy despite never using Reddit?

Personally, I only ever interacted with r/place, and lurked a few times, but I kept up with the protests and I liked the idea of building up Lemmy as a Fediverse alternative for Redditors to migrate to. So I’m not sure if I count.

[-] Firefly7 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

explanation, since this one might be more confusing than most:

Traffic congestion does indeed waste gas. However, any place worth driving to is going to have congestion--driving without congestion is easy, fast, and comfortable, so people generally won't take other options until roads become congested. Thus, congestion actually reduces gas usage overall, because it is only once areas become congested that people stop driving places.

Trying to avoid congestion, on the other hand, usually involves expanding roads, something which increases driving, and makes other forms of transportation less useful/comfortable, thus increasing gas usage overall.

[-] Firefly7 35 points 2 years ago

HRT is short for Hormone Replacement Therapy, a treatment many transgender people use to feel more aligned with their gender identity. It's been proven to increase mental health, and has a low regret rate. However, it is correlated with higher mortality because trans people overall have a higher mortality rate and HRT is primarily used by trans people.

A more extreme example of the same thing would be "People on chemotherapy have a higher chance of dying from cancer than people not on chemotherapy." It's true, but only because people without cancer don't tend to enter chemotherapy.

[-] Firefly7 37 points 2 years ago

People on HRT have a significantly higher mortality rate than people not on HRT

[-] Firefly7 98 points 2 years ago

Dihydrogen Monoxide, commonly used in laundry detergent and other cleaning supplies, is also present in Subway sandwiches

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submitted 2 years ago by Firefly7 to c/notjustbikes@lemmy.ml

The candidate supported by NJB and RM Transit on NJB’s podcast, The Urbanist Agenda, won!

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Suggested readings? (self.fuck_cars)
submitted 2 years ago by Firefly7 to c/fuck_cars@lemmy.ml

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/286631

Was wondering what urbanism-related books people might have read or heard about. I've personally read Walkable City by Jeff Speck, which I found enjoyable and informative. I've also heard of the books written by Charles Marohn (Confessions of a Recovering Engineer and Strong Towns). What others are notable?

You can read Walkable City for free here: http://www.petkovstudio.com/bg/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Walkable-City.pdf , though it's missing anniversary edition content. Don't be scared by the page count, it's only actually like 200.

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