Mastodon communities currently defederate from instances of over a certain size (including .social) because of how hard it is to moderate large instances, beehaw isn’t doing anything weird in this case.

realistically it will help high-achieving east-asian first- and second- generation immigrants.

This goes back to not voting in every election. Groups that invest (money, time, votes) on local races (city council, school board) have a greater variety to pick when one of these people goes on to higher office (state-level, county-level) and then goes on to federal office.

The primaries are already too late - it’s all about the local races.

didn’t lemmy.world just defederate from exploding heads tho?

https://lemmy.world/post/747912

For me the exciting part about bug farming isn’t really their use as food (for humans or animals) but more their potential to eat “real” waste (like things that birds and mammals shouldn’t eat) and then be turned into non-food items - like chondroitin or have other derivatives made out of their chitin.

Right now it’s not very efficient but with some selective breeding (or faster, GMO mealworm gut bacteria) they could start working on the landfill issue. Their poop would have to be incinerated since it would concentrate flame retardants and other toxins, but we might be able to get something useful out of them.

edit: i have a box of mealworms that I wanted to try feeding just styrofoam to to see how many generations it would take to have mealworms that thrive (not just survive and turn to cannibalism) on the stuff, but i felt bad, now they eat kitchen waste and shredded paper.

I think the “magic” of bugs is that they can eat things that would be inedible or unhealthy for other omnivores (like pigs). If we can convert some of our food and paper waste into protein and chitin, it might be worth the investment.

if you ask generic customer what they feel about minor holiday X that retail stores make a huge deal about - if there aren’t massive sales, most customers will be equally ambivalent.

there’s nothing really to be “on board” about, it’s an ignorable decor change. They don’t even have music or large amounts of candy like in the winter holidays.

not just that, but demand customer support for something that was supposed to be a hobby

somehow I don’t see the GOP alternative performing any better on this issue.

what’s a Men’s Shed?

or we can get cooperative model that is already present in a couple mastodon instances.

and the devs copy+pasting code from it probably are aware of that it doesn’t know anything, and that it is likely synthesizing something based on StackOverflow, which they used to happily copy+paste from a few months ago.

If the libraries ChatGPT suggests work ~80% of the time, this leaves an opportunity for someone to provide a “solution” the other 20%.

There’s also the option if user-owned cooperative (like social.coop) - https://blog.opencollective.com/social-coop-a-cooperative-decentralized-social-network/

There are also some masto instances that have their own lemmy instances, funded through their existing funding structures - https://merveilles.town/about

if you’re still on there, why would they leave?