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[โ€“] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago (10 children)
[โ€“] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

It is very likely that the photo of "the fediverse chick" belongs to a real person who has nothing to do with any of this. They would likely be absolutely horrified to know that their face was used for stuff like this. Please be mindful of harming the likely victim here.

[โ€“] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 44 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Clickbait titles suck

[โ€“] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

Haha I was using the API incorrectly. I was pushing the image in form.custom_thumbnail while form.url was empty. Apparently, u can't do that.

If u have an image only post, then u have to put the image uri in form.url. the custom_thumbnail is only there if you already have some other link.

Lemmy's documentation is really lacking. Unfortunately, contributing to it is a little complicated too (for lemmy-js-client), that is

[โ€“] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 38 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Why does the fart jar in the picture have a spoon in it?

[โ€“] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

Aww thank you so much!!! <333

[โ€“] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 30 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Start weighing EVERYTHING. The consistency your dishes reach is crazy good! A weighing scale isn't that expensive

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/59047620

From the video description:

How a helicopter built of phone parts survived Mars for 3 years.

 

From the video description:

How a helicopter built of phone parts survived Mars for 3 years.

[โ€“] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

<3 wow it is a big coincidence! i wish your lemmy client app becomes very famous :D

Awww thanks!! <3

is it an ios app?

Yes, eventually. I'm developing in react native (one codebase, many platforms). I own an Android though, so all physical testing is on this phone. Therefore, all alphas and stuff like that are being built for Android for now. Unfortunately, building and testing for iOS is a massive pain in the ass. I think I would have to take the help of some iOS dev for this in the future/get an old iPhone or something.

do you want to share the link if it is available for everyone to download?

Aww thanks for the interest! It's not ready enough imo to share it publicly for now. However, it's getting there quickly! Can't wait for the day I can share the repo link on the Lemmy app development communities!

[โ€“] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How about this - you go to the toilet when you actually want to shit, and doomscroll comfortably somewhere else?

[โ€“] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's still a step in the right direction tho, eh? Of course, it needs other policies in addition to it like:

  • MANY preapproved house designs to spend less time in bureaucracy. I think Carney's already doing that, right?
  • Removing single family zoning. This comes under provincial/municipal governments from what I know. My municipality has already done this.
  • The big tax thing you suggested. I would go ahead and say that there should be an outright ban on owning more than 2/3 properties by private individuals/corporations (this excluded non profit housing coops). But yeah, it'll be wildly unpopular. See how the carbon tax turned out.
[โ€“] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

So dumb. That's one of the only ways they get to be more influential. Otherwise, single voter FPTP is going to get them fucked

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/58962998

 

Video description

In the most disturbing geopolitical shift of my lifetime, the new US government is siding with dictators and lashing out at allies, waging economic war on Canada with the repeated stated goal of ending our sovereignty. While many Americans are also horrified, realistically their focus right now is internal. We need to stand up, strengthen our country, and reorient to friendlier nations. In this video I talk to three experts to learn how we can strengthen our economy by building more, especially critical needs of housing and transportation.

 

Lyrics: What's our life and freedom worth When a tyrant seeks our earth, Aiming to subdue our land with greedy hand? But we'll stand against his might, Canada won't yield this fight, And we'll shout across our free and sovereign land:

Go home, Yankee! Yankee, go home! Keep your deals and go back home. Say "goodbye" to your grand schemes, Don't tread on our hopes and dreams. As our anthem proudly sings, Canada stands! Go home, Yankee! Yankee, go home! Keep your deals and go back home. Say "goodbye" to your grand schemes, Don't tread on our hopes and dreams. As our anthem proudly sings, Canada stands!

Trump and his cronies proclaim Canada should play their game, "Join us as the fifty-first state", they demand. But our spirit won't be sold, Freedom's worth more than their gold, We'll resist their grasp with every steadfast hand.

Go home, Yankee! Yankee, go home! Keep your deals and go back home. Say "goodbye" to your grand schemes, Don't tread on our hopes and dreams. As our anthem proudly sings, Canada stands! Go home, Yankee! Yankee, go home! Keep your deals and go back home. Say "goodbye" to your grand schemes, Don't tread on our hopes and dreams. As our anthem proudly sings, Canada stands!

Yankee, learn our northern ways, We won't bow to your displays. When looking at our land, close your greedy eyes. Try to force us, and you'll find Canada's not yours to bind. For the True North strong and free will always rise.

Go home, Yankee! Yankee, go home! (You gotta) Keep your deals and go back home. Say "goodbye" to your grand schemes, Don't tread on our hopes and dreams. As our anthem proudly sings, Canada stands! Go home, Yankee! Yankee, go home! Keep your deals and go back home. Say "goodbye" to your grand schemes, Don't tread on our hopes and dreams. As our anthem proudly sings, Canada stands!

 

TLDR if you don't wanna watch the whole thing: Benaminute (the Youtuber here) creates a fresh YouTube account and watches all recommended shorts without skipping. They repeat this 5 times, where they change their location to a random city in the US.

Below is the number of shorts after which alt-right content was recommended. Left wing/liberal content was never recommended first.

  1. Houston: 88 shorts
  2. Chicago: 98 shorts
  3. Atlanta: 109 shorts
  4. NYC: 247 shorts
  5. San Fransisco: never (Benaminute stopped after 250 shorts)

There however, was a certain pattern to this. First, non-political shorts were recommended. After that, AI Jesus shorts started to be recommended (with either AI Jesus talking to you, or an AI narrator narrating verses from the Bible). After this, non-political shorts by alt-right personalities (Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro, etc.) started to be recommended. Finally, explicitly alt-right shorts started to be recommended.

What I personally found both disturbing and kinda hilarious was in the case of Chicago. The non-political content in the beginning was a lot of Gen Alpha brainrot. Benaminute said that this seemed to be the norm for Chicago, as they had observed this in another similar experiment (which dealt with long-form content instead of shorts). After some shorts, there came a short where AI Gru (the main character from Despicable Me) was telling you to vote for Trump. He was going on about how voting for "Kamilia" would lose you "10000 rizz", and how voting for Trump would get you "1 million rizz".

In the end, Benaminute along with Miniminuteman propose a hypothesis trying to explain this phenomenon. They propose that alt-right content might be inciting more emotion, thus ranking high up in the algorithm. They say the algorithm isn't necessarily left wing or right wing, but that alt-right wingers have understood the methodology of how to capture and grow their audience better.

 

Summary by AI:

  • Calgary mayor Jyoti Gondek expresses uncertainty about the future of the Green Line LRT project due to disagreements and the resignation of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
  • The federal government has committed $1.5 billion to the project, but clarification is needed regarding their support for the revised provincial alignment.
  • The revised alignment, proposed by the province in December, is 76% longer than the previous plan and features no tunneling through downtown Calgary.
  • The city and province have different cost estimates for the project, with the city stating the revised alignment would cost $7.5 billion, $1.3 billion more than the provincial report suggests.
  • A meeting between the city and province to discuss the new plan has not been held, and the city is requesting clarification on several matters before considering a vote on the provincial plan.
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