Part of me, and I think everyone else here, wants some level of vindication in the form of Reddit taking a hit. Likely most of the current users won't notice any big changes and most of it will be back to the content they're used to in a few months. But as someone else here pointed out it's likely Reddit will survive as Facebook has, shitty recycled content from other platforms and zero decent discussion. Which again, 90% of their current user base won't notice or care about. I'm just glad we've got a new place where the discussion seems to be a bit more on par with old Reddit

It's a cool story but not entirely true

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientist

Whewell proposed the word again more seriously (and not anonymously) in his 1840[31] The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences:

The terminations ize (rather than ise), ism, and ist, are applied to words of all origins: thus we have to pulverize, to colonize, Witticism, Heathenism, Journalist, Tobacconist. Hence we may make such words when they are wanted. As we cannot use physician for a cultivator of physics, I have called him a Physicist. We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a Scientist. Thus we might say, that as an Artist is a Musician, Painter, or Poet, a Scientist is a Mathematician, Physicist, or Naturalist.

I knew it was over when my feed was plastered with various subreddits for food delivery workers

REAL HOOD PIECES

Wait it's a panel? I thought it was some weird seethrough glass but I guess I didn't think very hard about how that would work.

From discussion I've heard by my gen z friends I'm pretty sure apple could sell almost anything and people will buy it and claim it's the best thing ever. Airpods are treated as jewelery at this point. I will say their phones are decent products but they're way too locked down for me to ever own one. Great for my parents etc who want something simple

We're in the surface ecosystem where I work and the performance is abysmal. Granted we're at 8gb ram on our standard models so not much to go off but it's a super heavy application for what it's doing

So glad someone else made the connection. This movie FUCKED me up for real

Completely agree. Back in the day I used to just scroll through /r/all and constantly stumble across cool stuff, now it's devoid of any decent content. Whenever I read any of those millions of aita posts they'd always be clear fiction, and then full of comments as if they were absolutely true. The general quality of content on that site is at absolute rock bottom.

I am glad Lemmy has a small barrier to entry. It's easy enough that you don't need any sort of technical knowledge to sign up and use but it requires a little more effort than most social media, which hopefully acts as something of a filter. Reddit now kind of reminds me of usenets "eternal September".

This is a good point, residency capacity would have to be increased to accommodate more medical students.

My understanding is that yes, there is the demand. The issue is money, Auckland and Otago want the money that would go to a new med school to instead increase their own capacity. Opening a new med school is certainly expensive but is a better solution in the long run, in my opinion.

Keeping the doctors is the other side of the coin, to which I don't have a great answer other than, unfortunately, more money.

I found it interesting to learn "Scientist" is such a new word though! I assumed it was some ancient word, not something some guy just sat down and came up with pretty recently

Having lived in a place where winter means everything gets blanketed in snow, I find there's not much novelty to the NZ winter :(

Forgive my ignorance but if you federate an instance, does that instance have to federate you back? In order for you to comment/upvote/see posts etc?

I guess some of that has come over here based on your comment scores, but at least your comments aren't being removed 🤷‍♀️ I haven't been downvoting anything here based on disagreement cause a) I think discouraging people from sharing their opinions here will kill the site, even if you don't like their opinions and b) I think it's wrong anyway.

I say this with the best of intentions so bear with me, but I think most of the disdain towards moderators on Reddit came from locking threads due to "excessive trolling" or "y'all can't behave" etc. It was so visible and immediately shut down conversation which was frustrating for average users. In my opinion excessive trolling isn't a reason to shut a thread. The only things that would really need to be shut down would be things that are straight up illegal. Obviously people saying offensive things or trolling is an issue but, again in my opinion, that's what the whole upvote downvote system is for, and moderators can step in for things that are blatantly out of line.

Raise taxes on everyone who isn't me :)

Nah I don't have the answer, money is what all the issues boil down to in the end.

I agree entirely. Just because I might not agree with someone on their politics doesn't mean we can't have a civil discussion, especially regarding apolitical topics

What a terrible time to turn 26 :(

F's out for me and any other music producers. It's like trying to game on Linux 15 years ago. You can do it in theory but when it's your job it just isn't there yet and I can't imagine it ever will be