I think you’re actually talking about assholes, not mentally ill people.

Can you expand in your own words on what you mean by “narrow” here?

Yeah, if you go to a general US grocery store and see something described as a “yam” it’s going to be a sweet-potato, usually a larger or starchier variety.

Ube is a Dioscorea yam native to Asia. It’s closely related to the African yam. Most of this family of plants are big terrestrial vines that can live in somewhat dry places.

Taro, or kalo in Hawaiian, is from a different family of plants. It’s related to the peace lily. Most of this family of plants live in aquatic or marshy places.

Looking them up, it sounds like they’re the same species as American sweet-potato, which is one more bit of evidence for early contact between Polynesians and South America.

The name “yam” is used for a few different root vegetables.

The word is from West Africa and refers originally to Dioscorea yams, which are found in many parts of the world — having been independently domesticated in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. The word “yam” is related to the Fulani word for “to eat”, and was introduced into European languages by way of Portuguese colonizers.

But in the US, “yam” almost always refers to a variety of sweet-potato (Ipomoea genus), which is more closely related to a morning-glory flower than to either Dioscorea or a true potato (which is a Solanum nightshade).

Both sweet-potatoes and potatoes are native to the Americas. Sweet-potatoes probably were grown first in the Yucatán or in eastern South America, while true potatoes are from Peru and western South America.

Meanwhile in New Zealand, a “yam” is oca, an Oxalis species — close relatives of sourgrass and redwood sorrel. And in Malaysia, “yam” is taro root!

Does PeerTube distribute load across instances, like BitTorrent? Or does it assume that the hosting instance has enough bandwidth to support all concurrent users?

“Far left” generally refers to revolutionary communists and others who would oppose capitalism, nationalize industries, etc. — not to a party that seems to define its success in terms of the stock market going up and workers having high employment in private industry. The values and platform of the Democratic Party are solidly in support of globalized capitalism as a system, much more so today than in (e.g.) the FDR administration.

Again: When the stock market goes up and the workers are employed for private industry, the Democrats count that as a good thing for the nation. That is simply not a view compatible with being in the far left.

There’s concern about business doing bad things, of course, like wage theft, pollution, or discriminating against minorities — but this doesn’t come from anti-capitalism: rather, the view is that capitalism works best when government keeps business honest. The goal is for capitalism to succeed and cause general prosperity — “a rising tide lifts all boats” — not to overthrow capitalism and replace it with a command economy as in Leninism or Maoism.

I would agree that the Republicans have previously been center-right, e.g. in the Reagan and Bush era. However, their embrace of antidemocratic principles (e.g. voting restriction), ideological and tactical alignment with the international far-right (including Putin’s Russia), abuse of business regulation to punish political dissent (see DeSantis vs. Disney), targeting of religious and sexual minorities (Muslims, LGBTQ+), harassment & abuse of refugees (see the DeSantis/Abbott human-trafficking campaigns), and embrace of political violence (see alignment with militia and street-fighting groups; also January 6), have all shown a strong migration towards the far-right.

It’s possible that the Republicans could return to the center-right, but it would require at least ejecting the outright fascists & felons. Trouble is, those are right at the top. So long as the Republican Party is taking its direction from people like Trump, DeSantis, Greene, or Boebert, it is clearly a far-right party.

both the Democratic and Republican parties are right of center liberalism

We currently have:

• a center-right party (the Democrats) who have tempered their “free trade, rising tide lifts all boats” NAFTA liberalism with some “made in America” economic nationalism lately; and
• a far-right party (the Republicans) who are likely to nominate an outright fascist for their next presidential candidate — either a failed dictator, or a human trafficker — both of whom have promised to continue to abuse power to get revenge on their political enemies.

Bad bot. Bot should notice when the post also contains a link in its preferred format.

My home instance is lemmy.world, which I see has defederated from lemmygrad.ml.

For what it’s worth, this doesn’t seem to be correct. If you look at https://lemmy.world/instances you will see lemmygrad.ml listed in linked instances, not blocked (defederated) instances.

“Eh, pretty well except for the bloodsucking squid-fungus hybrid hanging off my navel.”

(Or whatever the problem is.)

Cool! I’m not growing as many tomatoes this year as some years — we’ve gone in heavily for strawberries and herbs this spring, and potatoes this summer — but I’ve got a Brad’s Atomic Grape and an Indigo Ruby starting to set fruit.

You don’t have to. You can, if you want. You have options in your life. You could always just go plant tomatoes instead. 🍅

Yes, as you heat something up to “red hot”, the glow shifts from infrared to being partly in visible red frequencies. This is why a blacksmith can use the color of a piece of hot iron to tell how hot it is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-body_radiation

(This isn’t the only way hot things make light, though — for instance, flames can glow with odd colors like green or blue due to specific chemicals burning.)

Many folks see car culture as connected to other social problems, such as:

• Environmental degradation — pollution, climate change
• Suburban decay — neighborhoods with lots of parking but no public life
• Violent crime — road rage, throwing shit at bicyclists, coal rolling
• Long driving commutes — extending the work day for hours of unpaid labor
• Injury & death — driving & being around cars is the most dangerous thing most people do every day

Folks raising awareness about these issues, or just yelling about them, are probably not interested in having a debate right then.

There’s a Wikipedia article on French Americans, including colonial-era migrations, exchange with Canada, later arrivals (lots of French immigrants to California during the Gold Rush, for instance), etc.

Franco-Americans are less visible than other similarly sized ethnic groups and are relatively uncommon when compared to the size of France’s population, or to the numbers of German, Italian, or English Americans. This is partly due to the tendency of Franco-American groups to identify more closely with North American regional identities such as French Canadian, Acadian, Brayon, Louisiana French (Cajun, Creole) than as a coherent group, but also because emigration from France during the 19th century was low compared to the rest of Europe. Consequently, there is less of a unified French American identity as with other European American ethnic groups, and French descent is highly concentrated in Louisiana and New England. Nevertheless, the French presence has had an outsized impact on American toponyms.

Heat is infrared. Light.

All light heats up anything that absorbs it. This includes infrared, but it also includes visible light, microwaves, radio waves, etc. You can get a nasty burn from putting your hand near a live radio transmitter antenna, for example, even though it’s emitting in RF, not infrared.

In addition, all physical objects glow with a light that is determined by their temperature. This includes your body. You are, right now, emitting light. As it happens, because of your body’s temperature, that light is mostly in the infrared.

Why do kids’ science books leave you with the impression that “heat is infrared”? Because you can see body heat with an infrared camera. Infrared is light that you can’t see with your eyes — but with the right tool, you can use to see body heat. This rounds off to “heat is infrared”.

Heat is not infrared. All physical objects emit light; objects around human body temperature glow mostly in the infrared; which we can’t see with our eyes, but can see with scientific instruments. And when an object absorbs light (including infrared), it gets hotter.

The filament is heated by electrical resistance. That heat energy comes out as photons in a wide band in the visible and infrared parts of the spectrum. Some of those photons are intercepted by the glass bulb, the metal housing, etc.; their energy heats these materials up.

Even though a vacuum prevents conduction of heat energy, it doesn’t prevent radiation of that energy in the form of photons. That’s how the light gets from the filament to the room; and that’s how the heat gets to the surface of the bulb too.

Huh … oh, maybe this is an example: if someone makes a lot of posts that link to the same site (or similar ones) and never engages anyone in discussion, I would think they were a spam bot and report them. Is that the sort of thing you mean?

I’m guessing it doesn’t matter, but could you explain why one value or another for this measurement would be worth aiming for?

That sounds like a great thing for you to build, yes.

Some tax preparers are semi-retired folks who work just part of the year by choice.

http://www.eyrie-productions.com/Forum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=469&forum=DCForumID1

Found it for ya.

To sum up: Reader of a fanfic based on Revolutionary Girl Utena begins to suspect that there’s something sapphic going on.

Crypto-lesbian subtext!

(It’s an old fanfic joke. Never mind.)

Hah! Better to learn from alt.callahans than alt.religion.scientology …

Way back on Olde Usenet in the 1990s, there was a whole voting process for creating new forums (“newsgroups”), where you had to get supporters to say they would actually use your new forum if you created it. Creating the new forum soc.women.lesbian-and-bi required a whole democratic voting process, and it passed!

soc.women.lesbian-and-bi is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote for creation by 458:56 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 14 Aug 1995.

Alternately, you could create your new forum in the alt space, where you just had to have an argument in alt.config about creating the new forum.

Either way, the theory was that real news servers would only carry your forum if you won a vote and/or argument about it. The point of this was, supposedly, that cluttering-up the list of forums with a bunch that nobody was using would be a bad idea, so it would be valuable to show that people wanted a forum before creating it.

In practice, this depended on the ability & interest of news server admins to follow the democratic and/or anarchic processes for the creation of new groups.

If there were, it would be special for being the Least Special Day.

(I suspect it’s in August.)

“Crypto” meant “encryption, cryptography, etc.” back when there were people who called themselves cypherpunks.

Oh hey, the real kind of crypto!

Sure, but robbing a store and simultaneously hacking their video feed is harder than robbing a store and retroactively creating fake footage.

This was once a fake photo that fooled many people. People figured out later that fake photos are a thing, and now only the most gullible are fooled by Bat-Boy or alien autopsy “photos”.

There’s only been a short period of human history from the invention of photography to today. We had evidence before photography existed, and we will still have evidence even if photography can be trivially faked.

There’s only been a very short period of human history where video cameras were cheap enough to be used for widespread surveillance, but could not be trivially faked. That period is just about over. We had laws prior to video surveillance, and we will still have laws even if video surveillance becomes obsolete.

But it won’t. Instead, provenance, or chain-of-custody of evidence, will become even more important.

You can fake security camera footage — but if real security cameras upload their recordings automatically to a service that timestamps them and certifies them, then that metadata (and the trustworthiness of the service) represent a way of verifying that particular footage was created at a particular time, and even by a particular instrument.

Instead of Joe’s Corner Store having video cameras that record only to local storage or to Joe’s own account on a cloud service, they will instead stream to a service run by a security or insurance company, or (in some places) the police. This service will timestamp the video, record checksums, and thereby provide assurance that a particular video recording is really from Joe’s camera and not faked by AI.

Effectively, you can’t trust a mere video that appears to show Taylor Swift shoplifting from Joe’s Corner Store — but when a representative from Joe’s insurance company testifies in court that the video was definitely recorded by their device at a particular time, and has the logs and checksums to prove it, Ms. Swift will be in trouble.

If you have a dispute you’re trying to expose to the public, please don’t just post a freakin’ JPEG. Make your claims and argument in plain text.

I’ve known people who chose not to eat mammals, birds, fish, decapods (lobsters, crabs, prawns), or cephalopod mollusks (e.g. octopus, squid); but who were okay with eating bivalve mollusks (clams, mussels, oysters) on the grounds that they did not have enough brain to experience pain.

I think those folks would be okay with eating jellyfish.

Rather than asking, “Is X vegan?” it might be more useful to ask, “What is person P trying to accomplish by ‘being vegan’? Is eating X in conflict with that?”

You could try a conventional search engine, e.g.:

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:sh.itjust.works+weed+brownies

If you’re doing that you probably already have a worker-owned cooperative.

Curiously, the internal economy of a typical “capitalist” corporation is strictly dictatorial, even to the point of Führerprinzip: every sub-unit of the corporation has a manager in charge of it, who has dictatorial control of that part of the company, and is only responsible to their own manager.

It’s not a matter of individual opinion or “liking”; it’s a structural issue. Even a community-minded, cooperatively-owned credit union faces the same incentives as a commercial bank when making business loans: it’s easier to evaluate and hold accountable a single business owner than a collective of owners.

As a result, cooperatives are easier to start when the founders have personal savings they can draw on, than by taking on business loans. A common model is to start the business “normally” and then sell it to its workers, rather than starting it as a collective up front.

It’s easier to get loans or investment if you can offer ownership of the business or its assets as collateral or equity. That’s easier to do with concentrated private ownership than with a business that starts as a cooperative with shared ownership. So there is a structural¹ bias in favor of concentrated ownership and away from cooperative ownership when starting a new business.

In some successful worker-owned businesses, the business started as a traditional private endeavor and then converted to worker-owned through the deliberate choice of the founders & workers. For instance, the Cheese Board Collective here in Berkeley started as a privately owned cheese shop which was then sold to its workers a few years later. It’s been a cooperative since 1971.

¹ That is, the system can have this bias, regardless of whether the individuals making up the economy have this preference.

There are spam accounts already today. It’s not a theoretical question. I’ve run Internet services before and done anti-spam work for them. I already know the theory; what I want to know is what helps the actual people who are doing the actual work on this service here.