something as simple as a variety of colors took hundreds of years of technological advancement
If anyone is looking for a rabbit hole to go down, the history of pigments is a great one.
Winter weather on the northeast US coast is a battle between cold, dry air blowing in from the northwest, and (relatively) warm, humid air from the Gulf Stream coming up from the Caribbean. The weather is determined by which of those two forces is "winning" at a given moment, and it can swing abruptly when the balance shifts.
Expect cold, windy, rainy weather. But don't be surprised to get snow and ice if those Canadians send a strong cold front.
The comment comparing New York to Scotland is a good one. Dress like you are going to Aberdeen and you should be just fine in New York.
Being banned from a remote instance, and/or having your content removed from a remote instance, is a total non-issue for your local instance's admins. It requires no effort on their part, and causes no problems.
In my mind you have every right to request that your personal content be removed. It isn't always practical due to federation bugs and the nature of distributed services, but any decent admin should make a good faith attempt to fulfill your request.
Oof, I never knew that.
He deserved better than for Street Fighter to be his last movie.
That's my understanding. Though I have only visited the Kartoffel regions myself.
Some German speakers say "Erdapfel" which is literally "earth apple."
In some places that is a strategy to satisfy zoning requirements. The builder has to provide a minimum amount of outdoor area per dwelling unit. They could create a large ground-level courtyard, or they can create a bunch of tiny balconies that sum up to the same total area. The ~~ladder~~ latter strategy allows a larger building to exist on the same lot.
Edit: Stupid voice-to-text always gets me.
B-b-but he said he spared no expense!
Hello everyone. In the interest of transparency, I want to fill you in on some recent admin activity here at sh.itjust.works.
The post shown in the attached image may look familiar. A large number of Misskey and Mastodon accounts started spamming similar posts yesterday. Some have spilled over into Lemmy because the posts mention specific communities by name. The spam wave is ongoing at the time that I am making this post.
sh.itjust.works has temporarily defederated from 34 Misskey and Mastodon instances to slow the flow of posts. However, the accounts are spread across so many instances that a block list can’t stop everything. Fortunately, our automod bot is doing a good job of catching additional posts as they appear. We should be able to refederate with the Misskey and Mastodon instances once the spam wave passes.
If you see a post that slipped by our automod, please report it so we can remove it.
If you are curious about the extent that this spam wave is affecting Lemmy, look at the modlog for the lemmy.world AutoMod bot. That instance is relying more on their automod to mitigate this spam wave than we are, and you can clearly see how much work their bot has been doing. As I type this post it has banned+removed well over 200 Misskey and Mastodon spam accounts in the past day.
https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModBan&modId=2349429
I want to end with a shout out to all the users who identified and reported these posts, and all the proactive admins on other Lemmy instances who were quick to jump on this problem. Thank you, everyone, for making Lemmy better for the whole community!
That is all for now. Have a great day!
The image is from a Washington Post article which took the data from an interesting research paper titled Who Pays For Your Rewards? Redistribution in the Credit Card Market.
The research paper is a good read. (A free PDF of the whole paper is available at the link.) It examines how the use of rewards credit cards results in a massive wealth transfer from low-credit-score customers to high-credit-score customers:
We estimate an aggregate annual redistribution of $15 billion from less to more educated, poorer to richer, and high to low minority areas, widening existing disparities.
The Washington Post article attempts to frame the clear north-south split as a result of healthcare issues in the south. That explanation seems too narrow to me. This map looks too similar to maps of poverty and education, and we know health correlates strongly with both of those issues.
Edit to fix a sentence fragment. Sorry; it was late and I was tired.
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