Not so dumb for a bunch of us using VPNs with exit nodes in other time zones.

If it doesn’t work, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.

I’ll be back.

You must bring us… a shrubbery!

I don’t recall which one anymore, but there are web sites that take text you type and convert it to Unicode code points in different styles. DDG for “Unicode text converter” or something like that.

What if I never access Facebook, and have ever had a Facebook account?

Lemmy does. I don’t, but Lemmy will shank you in a dark alley for drug money, like an American Badger.

Most heads of state of western democracies do not have the authority to enact such measures, much less in so short a deadline. And their political opponents will simply drag their feet on any approval process and let you eliminate a rival. Most of the billionaires live in countries without a dictator (quite yet, anyway) who could comply, even if they wanted to.

You’re most likely right. No checking account at any bank has an interest rate that’s going to pay enough interest in 2 days to make such a scheme worthwhile, even if the sums were an order of magnitude greater than the numbers GP quotes. Especially with a $6 check processing fee, which is itself a scam.

It can’t have been for the interest.

Esperanto is going to be in the lower left somewhere.

The issue with the graph isn’t the contents, it’s the axes. What’s “objectively easy” for Europeans is not necessarily objectively easy for Asians.

Remember those found-footage style videos that were going around a decade or so ago, where there was this mysterious figure in black who just appeared and was offing criminals in fairly graphic ways? There was speculation that it was a viral ad for some anti-hero superhero movie, but it never materialized.

That’s the way. Be mysterious. Be featureless. Don’t talk. Give them no way to track you after it wears off: appear, do, disappear. Repeat for 48 hours, then disappear.

I still think it wouldn’t last long. The temptations of power and wealth will override any fear; after year, it’ll be back to business as usual. 5 years later, it’d be mostly forgotten.

Now, if you could parse out 48 hours in 2 hour chunks over 12 years, with a couple of “examples” every year at random times, that might have a lasting effect. Do it 4 years in a row, give it a break for 2 or 3 years and let people think it night be over and strike again… that would probably have a more lasting effect. But I still think, at some point after your powers run out a decade or two at most and the shenanigans would start again. Humans believe what they want to believe, and what they’re best at deluding themselves and is “that can’t happen to me.”

It’s surprisingly far away! Shockingly far. It baffles me every time I stop to think about it; it’s so incomprehensibly far, I am incapable of visualizing how far it is, no matter how many times I play with the scrollable solar system web page.

The end, though, is the same. lemmy.ml well still want their version, so they can have their own content rules. What you’re suggesting is functionally centralization, which is already an issue for Lemmy based on its design; consolidation would aggravate it.

Eventually, lemmy.ml !linux users would want to have their own community to enforce rules programming.dev won’t. Diaspora is inevitable. Consolidation fixes the wrong problem - a better solution would facilitate less centralization.

So:

• Lemmy provides the information
• It’s the client responsibility to do the interleaving

Yeah?

It works on X11, so I’d say Wayland.

It probably depends on the printer. I helped dad install Mint on a used laptop he bought, and the only help he needed with the printer was figuring out which config application to open to add it.

I use system-config-printer to set up both our Canon and Epson printers any time I install a fresh Linux here; it works flawlessly.

No. The inner edge of the Oort Cloud is 10 light days away. The outer edge of 100 ld away.

The math looks like:

• 1 AU is the distance from the Sun to Earth.
• The Earth is 8 light minutes from Sol
• The inner edge of the Oort Cloud is (minimum) 2,000 AU ≈ 16,000 light-minutes, or 11 day light days.
• The outer edge is about 100,000 AU away; that’s about a year and a half to get from the inner edge to the outer edge, traveling at the speed of light.

The Oort Cloud is not only mind bogglingly far away, it’s about 50x deeper than it is away from the sun.

Those are minimum estimates; some estimates have the inner cloud edge 28 AU away.

The original Superman wasn’t a god, but it got hyperbolic over the years with one-upmanship until he was indistinguishable from a god. Canonically, beings regularly travel between star systems, so FTL is not uncommon in the DC universe. Heck, in Invincible (not DC), even relatively low-power beings travel FTL all over, all the time. Spacetime doesn’t work the same in comics. So, Superman can travel FTL, and the Oort Cloud would be reachable. But he’d have to travel at least 20x the speed of light to get to the Cloud and back in a day, and thousands of times faster if he wants to explore it at all, or see the outer edge.

That’s a pretty good starting list. I don’t know that I’d waste time trying to show them anything; just go straight to disposal.

I, too, was thinking “murder.” It solves only a sort term problem though. Within a few years, you’d just have a new batch.

The system is broken. Capitalism as we practice it is broken; our political systems are broken (some more than others). That won’t be fixed by DXing a bunch of oligarchs.

NK is really taking “cannon fodder” to the extreme. Too many mouths to feed, I guess.

Hmm. Would that be good, though? Different rules, different moderators. Wouldn’t an aggregation system based on subscription be better? Consolidating would result in a consolidation of power into the hands off a few.

Consolidation would also encounter trouble when server admins disagree with moderators about community rules. When conflicts happen - which they inevitably would - we’d have a situation where the community would split as some moderators recreate a new community on a different server. It was hard enough when lemm.ee shut down, and that have communities no option but to switch; if the reason for a move is policy and not server shutdown, the chaos would be far worse.

The more I think about it, the worse consolidation sounds.