i've only ever heard about this "green bubble" thing from USA media.

do Americans still use SMS?

why? phone numbers are obsolete. my SMS inbox going back years is just 2FA security codes, and they're very rare these days, since authenticator apps.

the national tld for Mali, but the lemmy ml owners chose it for a "Marxist-Leninist" reference. no kidding.

fun fact - they* also deny genocides committed by (even nominally) communist regimes.

*a lot of them, and even those who don't actively, still stick with the goons who do.

I'm happy paying a Nebula subscription, (another video site started by a group of youtubers, mostly engineering/tech/documentary types) because I know that the creators are getting all my money after reasonable platform costs.

I won't consider paying for YT Premium (or Spotify) until they become a lot more generous to creators, and stop their insane copyright strike algorithm and banned-words audio scanner from demonetising and hiding random videos (Jake Broe, Joe Blogs, Denys Davydov, Ryan McBeth etc are always having to edit and reupload to cut some harmless snippet) and whole channels (Metatron) all the time.

Questionable. In Northern Ireland, the police used to be something like 7% Catholic, policing a population that was over 40% Catholic. It was controversial at the time, but a 50:50 recruitment policy was put in place in the mid to late 90s, until the balance of the police force matched the wider community.

This is now very broadly accepted as a necessary and beneficial move. The current police force is generally seen as impartial (in terms of this one issue) while the old one was generally not trusted by the minority, to put it mildly.

Cat.

0.1 gigameters

How long of a delay? Do you known if the delay is on your end, taking a while to load from every other instance, or from the other ones being slow to "tell" yours about new posts?

This is not the normal human experience. Check if you're a robot?

Dude this is over two weeks old already. The date in the title makes it look like it was a daily thread for that one day. You're effectively hiding news from a large fraction of subscribers with this policy.

Alec is a total bro. I have no particular need for subtitles myself, but recommend his channel to people learning English because I know we can totally trust the subtitles, they're not autogenerated.

yup, phone GUIs today have converged, just like different consoles' controllers used to be distinct, and now they're all Dual Shock clones.

At least on my Android 12 phone, FB Messenger refuses to send it. Says the format isn't recognised, even though it shows a preview in the picker.

I know that isn't the format's fault, but it does cause me hassle sometimes, and does lead to the reaction in the posted meme.

I have been getting "timeout" errors, which are a sign that none of my votes or comments for the couple minutes before the first error notice have actually landed. Happened a few times today and past couple days, although I can't tell if this is from an app bug or an overloaded instance server.

Yeah he used to do shit like that. Apparently tried selling it to the Russians, but they wouldn't pay? Less sure on that part. He may well have sold info (videos, written reports) on local activity inside Ukraine then denied the sale, or just handed it over for free. Either way, that's why he was deported, before he came back again. Absolute cunt, head to toe. Sincerely hope he stays behind bars.

You can't assume most users even see the sidebar. It doesn't show up on the Jerboa app.

Ah, I just realised, I mistook you for someone else. I guess because of the vowel, I thought you're @Ruud who runs this lemmy instance.

That's why I wrote as if you're the one making the decision - sorry.

About the rare huge-moon part - there's been a recent discovery of a pair of young, still-forming exoplanets sharing the same orbit in a young star system - "PDS 70"; one protoplanet is in the L4 or L5 "Trojan" LaGrange point of the bigger one. Physicists reckon Theia may well have formed in one of Earth's Trojan points, before being perturbed out onto a collision course by a third planet (thanks Jupiter)

So. While the planetary-collision-forming-a-huge-moon idea sure sounds wild, it might not be incredibly rare. Maybe.

We're still at the very early stage of knowing what is normal for solar systems.

If you haven't seen tankies denying genocide and/or saying the victims brought it on themselves, then, I suspect you haven't been looking very far in the comments of the news community there, to be fair. There are a lot of posters who will defend Russia, China, Syria etc all day long. All their crimes are apparently made up by "western media", (as if Jimmy Dore's basement isn't in the west.)

Fortunately, they're getting super buttmad lately at being downvoted so much.

it's from the Latin "libra", for balance, like a set of scales. the £ symbol for pounds as in money is a stylised L for the same reason!

etymology lesson over, imperial/customary gtfo resumes. metric ftw.

You've now made a false dichotomy of your "thousands of corpses ran over with tanks" strawman, and "a handful".

Conveniently for you, this excludes the truth - several hundred dead victims.

This smug sophomore bullshit, along with supporting authoritarian dictatorships, is why everyone hates you tankies.