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I assume you mean you can’t see it on discuss.online

This is because that server defederated from lemmygrad.ml see https://discuss.online/instances for a list of instances that discuss.online blocks. This also means that op cannot read this thread.

It also works for me. On macos and linux /usr/bin/env python3 -c "print(chr(ord('🚗') ^ 0x20))" gives you 🚷

An excellent contrapoints video explores this topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPhrTOg1RUk

hitting refresh in firefox reader mode works for me.

I’ve been using Rofi for a few years. I can’t think of anything to look out for, pretty much does what it says on the tin.

Snuggling – never. And this doesn’t apply only to men, it applies to women whom I don’t find attractive as well.

What about nonhuman animals? Do you dislike cuddly dogs?

Yes, so I can probably plan for it.

One problem with cars is that they kill people in crashes. Larger, higher cars are more likely to kill people.

As someone who lives in a car dependent city without a car. I prefer when my neighbors try to kill me with a small car rather than a large car.

I guess I didn’t notice when I opted in, and couldn’t find a way to opt out when I realized it was broken

If I want to have security, I would use a different communication protocol. I find it unacceptable for an SMS app to change quietly change to a different protocol, particularly if it causes messages to fail to send.

I found Google messages to be unreliable: refusing to send a SMS if the Internet connection is bad. The signal that the message failed to send is a single hollow checkmark.

I switched to fossify messages, which just sends SMSs or MMSs and doesn’t create its own flawed messaging protocol

I think OP believes every town in the US has twice as many homeless people as churches, it doesnt need to be exactly 1 church and 2 homeless people.

But either way, that’s probably not true. Since homeless people tend to be in larger cities.

But then again, lots of people become homless in the suburbs and then move to the city to get the social services. If churches in the suburbs housed a few people as they become homeless, it would probably help. It’s better to keep people in their communities so they have a better chance of returning to housefullness.

But probably not that much, since homelessness rates are strongly correlated with housing prices, so expensive cities create more homelessness than cheap suburbs.

Good idea! I bet you could make good ad library by comparing the audio between episodes of the same podcast (to catch the ads read by the host) and between different podcasts (to catch the targeted ads inserted into a lot of podcasts)

I’m not suggesting static timestamps, but small audio files of the podcast about to enter, and just exited an ad.

The app could then search for the clips in the podcast to get the timestamp.

If there are copyright issues of sharing small clips, you can just save a hash of a clip, which will allow the app to find a match, but is not itself the Intelecual property of the podcaster; The hash cannot be turned back into the audio file. The hash would be smaller than the audio clip anyway, so sharing hashes would be better

Maybe if you could distribute audio files (or hashes of audio files) that mark the start and stop of ads, that would solve the problem.

I guess podcasters could combat this by inserting random noise into their audio files, but they probably wouldn’t do that.

The obscurity of the Fediverse is not its defense from enshittification. The fact that it’s so easy to move from server to server is.

If lemmy.world enshittifies, you can just move to lemmy.sdf.org without a big loss.

I think that lemmy could use more people.

I’ve never been harassed by a bumble bee

But aren’t they cute

That’s interesting, I never considered a flashing hand as an indicator to stop. It is timed to a slow walker, so I can tell whether it’s safe to cross if I can run across.

I would argue that the signal you should pay attention to is your red light. Which also doesn’t mean you can’t go through the intersection (this is bad policy in my opinion), but it does mean that you need to look out for and yield to people driving, and walking across the intersection.

It is generally not a good idea to bike on the sidewalk on the wrong side of the road. But sometimes that is the safest option.

If you have a red, wouldnt the crosswalk signal be green?

In my city, bikes can go in sidewalks everywhere except a few blocks downtown.

So chances are it’s the motorists legal responsibility to look out for, and yield to pedestrians and cyclists when they do a right on red.