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  • unknown1234_5@kbin.earthtomemes@lemmy.worldChoices
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    23 hours ago

    you shouldn’t worry about being skinny, only not being fat. the goal should be to avoid the bad thing (being fat, in this case meaning only fat to the point of unhealthiness) not to be the opposite because that is bad too (being excessively skinny can cause just as many issues). as long as you aren’t at the point one way or the other where it is hurting your health nobody actually cares. also I’m aware op was joking but some of y’all need to hear this.











  • @ryujin470@fedia.io here’s a brief list, in no particular order and based pretty much entirely on my own opinions and experience.

    1. you have to learn a little bit about what happens behind the scenes sometimes. for example, if you don’t know what distro packages are or what flatpak is (or the reasons behind each of them, honestly) then installing apps kinda sucks at first.

    2. you can end up installing a package thinking it is the official one, when in fact it is some variety of third-party. generally this doesn’t really hurt anything but it can (look up fedora flatpak).

    3. sometimes cool features get stuck in limbo because none of the people who want them know how to code

    4. sometimes cool features get stuck in limbo because of politics (in-project politics, not what you probably thought at first)

    5. it can be hard to figure out if something is good or if the people reccomending it are just trying to help a new user find something easy and, since they don’t actually use it and haven’t for a while, don’t know that it kind of sucks now (I’m thinking of ubuntu here but it happens with a lot of stuff, distro or otherwise)

    6. all the damn tribalism

    7. drivers are hell on most distros

    8. app availabilty on non-.deb systems

    9. some apps refuse to look native (gtk apps on kde, qt apps on gnome, anything made by a mac user for some reason, every browser fighting tooth and nail to default to windows titlebar icons)

    10. all the damn tribalism




  • it isn’t more accurate though, you are lying about where the funding came from. congress only approved the budget for the government, they didn’t have a say in who got the money that was being handed out. there is a single right answer and it is to not change the titles of news articles to suit your own opinions. if you want to present your opinion, you do it by making your own post. posting a news article is for sharing the article, not for lying about it’s contents to suit the story you want to tell.




  • that depends entirely on what they’re doing. if it’s illegal then whatever the law says to. otherwise, there’s nothing you really can do other than try to ensure people won’t get caught up in whatever they’re doing.

    for example, flat earthers are harmful to society because they push an anti-science narrative that makes people reject reality in favor of whatever they want to believe. However, stopping them from saying things would be a violation of their right to free speech (which must be upheld even then because otherwise people could simply label any idea they don’t like as harmful and suppress it, leading directly to a dictatorship), so instead we try to make sure people know that the earth is not flat and why.

    in much the same way, someone taking advantage of someone else (say a guy leveraging a girl’s trauma to make her not leave him, without actually violating the law) often can’t be effectively governed without introducing something that could be used to take people’s rights away in the name of protection. because of this, we have to try and make sure that people don’t fall for it instead.




  • I’ve been using it for a year or two now, and here are my notes on it.

    • There are a lot of pretty good creators on there (real engineering, hacksmith, berm peak, and real life lore, for example.) .

    • Though Nebula has a lot of good creators, the vast majority of youtubers are not on it, so you will really only be switching for the ones that are.

    • It has pretty much every feature (user-facing, anyway) that youtube does except for likes/dislikes, comments, and live streaming.

    • It is paid with no free-with-ads option, but it is cheap (currently $36 a year) and provides a comparable experience.

    • It handles podcasts well, but there aren’t that many good ones (imo) and a lot of them seem discontinued.

    • It has really good discoverability, but it does not match content to the user (i.e., no personalized home page).

    • It’s homepage is made up of various categories like a normal streaming service, including continue watching.

    • It is not a pay-creator-directly kind of service. you pay nebula and they give 50% of the subscription fees to creators based on view count. It is more like a streaming service version of youtube, in a good way.

    Overall, I really like it. It does a lot of stuff right and I feel that my money was well-spent. I would like for there to be more of the people I watch on it (Dankpods, for example). Nebula’s pay scheme seems like a fair deal to me given the type of platform it is.