The cabinet, and the heads of federal agencies who are appointed by the president (everything from the FBI to the EPA), is doing the actual running of the country. In particular Biden just signs off on whatever they tell him to, as an individual, I don't think he has been making any serious foreign policy decisions himself.
If you happen to stumble on the DS version, that is a pretty good port too.
I played without a guide, and I think I got stuck like that in a couple places later on but eventually got through it. Honestly though if you're stuck and no longer having fun figuring it out just use a guide so you can see the rest of the game, nobody said you had to be that kind of patient gamer.
China might have some real scientific progress going on, but the country has also become a notorious diploma mill and peer review mill, publishing absolute trash. https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/scientists-aghast-at-bizarre-ai-rat-with-huge-genitals-in-peer-reviewed-article/
Yes, it's only on the Play Date, which is a $200 console aimed at kids. The gimmick is you can download a bunch of exclusive games for free, but its still a very low power console with one gimmick (the crank) which costs as much as a switch lite.
Yeah, he was just snorting sawdust off that stripper's back.
And Australians have had massive incursions on their gun rights since 2020.
We have the man who wrote those words expanding upon them to say what he meant, and you're still saying "actually he meant something else."
Good to know they uphold this text by not publicly murdering and raping random civilians in their homes and proudly sharing the video.
"People online are so rude! All I did was ask a few questions, but everybody keeps calling me a faq!"
Reddit gaming discussion going as usual...
No, I didn't see any "pedos" in the thread, but all the upvotes comments were against the changes and i suspect that's who is being referred to.
Good to know. I've been going nuts trying to make a community on and off for like a week and it just won't go through when I press the button, I get stuck watching the spinning circle. I tried a couple different devices/browsers too. Hopefully it clears up on its own.
I just want to append that a "rampantly fascist troll farm" would be something like The Stormfront, which hosts literal neo-nazis, or possibly 4chan's /pol/ forum, where Jewish conspiracies are blamed for all the world's ills and... only maybe 1/2 to 2/3 of the users are saying that ironically. These are real websites with real people, and if you are used to Reddit as your main social media, I would urge you to take a look just once and get an example of what actual hate speech looks like. That is, illegal in the UK, or could be used as evidence to increase the sentence in conjunction with a guilty verdict for violent crime in the US. Trumptard/trans-skeptic is no the same as rampantly fascist.
I only ask to reserve the use of the word for two reasons. One, the real thing is out there and we shouldn't forget it. Two, accusing someone of attempting a fascist takeover of the government which would end democracy... is a pretty good excuse to take over the government and end democracy. It's the same sort of thing as saying someone's words are "violent" towards you in an attempt to justify (real) violence towards them.
Create community not working?
I haven't been able to create a community using the create community page. Is it bugged, or do we have to request the community to be made somewhere?
I saw there was a "community requests" community, but I can't find the exact community address now that I'm thinking about it (search tool is not great either...) and I'm not sure if that was an official thing or just for people who don't want to be saddled with moderating a community.
Is this supposed to be for admin reports only, or mod reports? I'd be nervous about community outsiders doing moderation. If its admin only then theres less wiggle room with rules and it is potentially more appeal-able. I still think the potential for crappy calls is pretty high.
Nay BUT if they're really annoying about it, then spamming rules could apply.
I don't think it really serves open discussion to say "this is a banned topic". I think you could reasonably make a rule that repeatedly begging admins for action/features in general is a no-no though.
I'm also very against deferederation. Not unless we are having problems with serious illegal content on some instance, or like ACTUAL straight up neo nazis. I have no respect for people who say stuff like "exploding heads is clearly a FASCIST server" and then post a meme about Biden being bad as proof lmao.
Credible measure of success
Dmitry Peskov, press secretary of the Russian dictator, has said that the task of the aggressor country on the so-called�demilitarisation� of Ukraine has allegedly been largely fulfilled.
Yup. I went to go log in on desktop and I can't do it right now... lol
Surveilling the Gamers: Analysis of in-game data gathering
With many million users across all age groups and income levels, video games have become the world’s leading entertainment industry. Behind the fun experience t
Crazy to think that this stuff can potentially end up tied to your identity and used for advertising, or even (in theory) other purposes like credit worthiness or a job suitability assessment.
"For example, a recently patented profiling method uses play traces to de- termine whether a user is frugal (e.g., indicated by saving in-game money even in the face of attractive spending options), fiscally responsible (e.g., indicated by investing carefully and focusing on strategically important purchases), or wasteful (e.g., indicated by taking financial risks, spending money quickly, and buying items not relevant to the goals of the game) [19]. The method also aims to evaluate whether a player is “trading-conscious”, i.e., fit for certain finan- cial trading products, and to detect an “eagerness to go after new products or services” based on how players develop their in-game character. Even non-financial aspects of a game can allow insights into a user’s money- management style. The above patent, for instance, proposes to assesses a user’s level of frugality based on ammunition expenditure patterns in first-person shooter games (e.g., rate at which bullets are fired, percentage of hits, pre- cision shots and controlled bursts vs. wasteful use of ammunition) or based on the user’s performance in driving games and flight simulators (e.g., aggressive driving, overspeed, crash frequency) [19]. Such links between gameplay and real-world spending behavior have also been reported in the scientific literature. Correlating the results of an online survey with log data from the popular sandbox video game Minecraft, for ex- ample, Canossa et al. [37] found that money-conscious players tend to build fewer sleeping accommodations for themselves and prefer to use cheap in-game materials, such as stone, sand, and iron instead of precious materials, such as diamond"
Lemmy feature- Hide communities or instances from front page?
Disclaimer: I cannot into code and I don't even have a test environment set up.
How would people feel about a feature which hides communities from the front page for users who are not subscribed to them? I think it would work something like this:
-Instance admins have a "hidden community" list
-Instances can be flagged hidden as well
-Communities can flag themselves to he hidden on local, or all external instances (which would only work for instances which respect these flags)
This would give instance admins a little power to curate what new users are seeing without having to defederate. It would also allow communities to be a little more insular and avoid traffic from the front page if they wish to do so. I think it would be good for circumstances where:
-Instance operators want maximum comparability without actively promoting stuff they dont like (EG lemmygrad, right or left politics, weird porn)
-New users who turn on NSFW aren't shocked by gore, weird porn, or other things on the front page. (See for example, the post asking to defed from burggit)
-The site can just more easily host communities which don't get along with each other
The downside would be that some admins might not like "hidden" communities growing under their nose, or communities might feel like they're "soft banned". But overall I think it is worthwhile. A lot of sites which host both normal and weird porn force users to opt in manually to see the weird stuff, for example, and this keeps criticism away from front page users. I think being required to see stuff you don't want to see, and then manually opt out of it, is too much for some users. It could also help keep down stuff that will be used to criticize lemmy in general.
In effect, it should be similar to the ability to hide NSFW, but more granular without demanding a complicated tag system.
I do not think this would be difficult to implement. I'm excited to see Lemmy grow, I might even start from zero and try to learn enough to add features. But, how do people feel about this feature? Would you want to be available, and use it if it was?