I can see why! That's beautiful!
jadero
joined 2 years ago
I'll be happy to be proven wrong, but I don't think Lemmy has any hope of survival as a truly global platform.
I've been through this a few times: Usenet, Digg, Reddit. They started off small and stayed mostly civil even though there is a wide range of opinion. Then they start growing rapidly and people see an opportunity to "get their message out", whether that's spam, personal aggrandizement, a political message, or whatever: exploitation vs participation. After a while it becomes just too much for some people, so they find somewhere else to congregate.
As they leave, that platform becomes ever more useless, leading to more migration. The platform eventually becomes useless even to the exploiters, so they figure out where everyone went and follow them.
And the cycle continues. I think that the cycle can only accelerate as "exploiters" become more proactive in following "participants" to new homes. That implies an eventual breakdown of the whole concept of global discussion communities. Are we seeing that already on Lemmy? I don't know, but I'm registered on 4 different instances, each with their own primary focus, and there has already been a bit of federation/defederation drama on every one them.
I think the only way to break the cycle is to figure out a way to eliminate exploitation. That may well be impossible, at least on any platform that has global reach, centralized or not. As far as I can tell, those who would exploit a system have always found ways to do so.
The rest of us have to perform our jobs with competence, why not the police?
The rest of us have to follow the law, why not the police?
If they are providing services that other medical professionals can bill for and are qualified and licensed to provide those services, then I don't understand what the problem is. That should have been just a given.
Where's Sylvester when you need him?
And if you tape it into the corner of your combination square:
- the rule part of the square keeps the reference faces aligned vertically
- the nail can't tip toward one board, causing vertical misalignment
- consistent centering (or off-centering, if that's what you want)
- I find it's easier to position the rule on my layout markings than to position a handheld nail. There is a slight offset, of course, but if that's a consideration, do your layout to compensate.
- I find it's quicker, too.
If you are doing floating tenons, just mark the ends. If your tenons need to be vertical with respect to your reference face, use a long nail or screw, mark the tops, adjust the height, mark the bottoms.
If you can tolerate more offset or are willing to always layout to compensate, drive a woodscrew vertically in a long narrow block with only 2 square faces. Adjust the screw depth as appropriate. The block gives you something to hang onto without taping anything.
And now I bet you're envisioning the construction of your own dedicated jigs made from scraps and wood or drywall screws.
They also had a pretty big turnout for that march against trans thing. Twice.
He died nearly 30 years ago. I'm getting my son some emergency stuff for his vehicle now that he's decided to buy one.
This sounds like the experience I was having in 1978. We ultimately had to switch back to more traditional roles because she just couldn't earn enough money to support us, while it was trivial for me to do so, despite neither of us having postsecondary education.
I know social change is slow, but this is pathetic.
Here it's for 1 year and can be at least partly split between both parents. I'm pretty sure that it also applies to adoptions.
It is, but at a percentage of income (2/3?). The loss of income is usually manageable. If your income is low enough that you're already on the edge, that loss could push you over.
I suppose you could say the same thing if your income and expenses are both quite high, as there is a maximum payout.
And it doesn't even have to be the people running the platform or instances having a profit motive. Usenet, for example, started falling apart long before anyone tried to monetize actual hosting. Spammers alone were enough to destroy it.
Anytime you create easy enough access to a large enough group, people will try to exploit that access for their own gain. Obviously, platform and instance operators are best positioned to do so, but exploitive account holders can do plenty of damage on their own.