cerevant

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[–] cerevant@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

But proportions aren’t really useful for protecting children when there isn’t a significant deviation from the general population. However, on a given day, a random child is much more likely to encounter a Republican child predator than a drag queen child predator. Now add in the overwhelming statistics that show child predators are usually known to and trusted by the child’s parents, and the emphasis that conservatives place in trusting those placed in authority above them, and you have a recipe for disaster.

[–] cerevant@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

So logically, since it is a much larger threat, a much larger effort should be made to protect children from Republicans.

[–] cerevant@lemm.ee 43 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I wish they'd go back to their brief pattern of alternating feature releases with stability & performance releases. Snow Leopard and Mountain Lion were rock solid releases.

[–] cerevant@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Here's his quote:

The black is a better athlete to begin with, because he's been bred to be that way. Because of his high thighs and big thighs that goes up into his back. And they can jump higher and run faster because of their bigger thighs. And he's bred to be the better athlete because this goes back all the way to the Civil War, when, during the slave trading, the big, the owner, the slave owner would breed his big black to his big woman so that he could have uh big black kid, see. That's where it all started!

Racist. Definitely racist.

[–] cerevant@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

It is crazy. Stopped with my kid on a road trip - fast food burger, fries and soft drink was $15.

I go down town to a sit down restaurant and during happy hour I can get a restaurant burger, fries and a craft beer for $15.

[–] cerevant@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To cats, all things are a cat bed, prey, or both.

[–] cerevant@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

Aside from inflation and limited benefit of upgrading, subscriptions for every little thing are depleting discretionary income.

[–] cerevant@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago

He’s a Senator - his district is the whole state.

Not that this negates anything you said, just clarifying.

[–] cerevant@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Agree. As for the history, wagons were popular in the 70s, but the minivan really took off in the 80s. This led to a perception that Minivans weren’t masculine, so there was a big boom in SUVs which had the volume and utility of a Minivan, but were more manly.

[–] cerevant@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

There shouldn't be any difference between apps on the same instance. Are you sure you are always using the same login on the same server?

The only other possibility is that the app has the instance hard coded somewhere or accessing remote instances directly, but that seems unlikely - it would cause all kinds of problems because URLs aren't portable.

My suggestion when troubleshooting would be to compare what is showing up on the login instance and the app. If those are different, then there is an app bug. If there is a difference between the login instance and the host instance, that's a federation issue. Comparing the app to the host instance (instead of the login instance) isn't helpful to the app developer. The app shouldn't know the host instance even exists.

[–] cerevant@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It looks like federation issues. Lemmy.world is under semi-constant DDOS attacks, and between that and the mitigations that LW are putting in place, the entire instance is not reliable.

In general, I think communities (or groups of related communities) should maintain their own instances to protect from some of the issues prominent with user-focused instances.

[–] cerevant@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Seems to me that your mistake is that you believe the purpose of polls is to predict an outcome, and/or tell you who is “winning” or “losing” at a given point in time. That is not their purpose.

Their purpose is to gauge the relative effectiveness of different campaign messaging strategies, and to give a rough order of magnitude of a campaign’s trajectory.

Here’s the most important part: polls contain no actionable data for voters. They shouldn’t influence whether or how much you volunteer or donate, and they absolutely must not influence how you vote.

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