It's a shame because I really like the point and click nature of DSM. Although I'm a happy Linux hacker I don't want another Linux box to suck up my limited admin time just to store files.
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I think there is certainly a case for baring MPs from consultancy gigs where they are effectively being paid for influence. It gets trickier with some professions needing a certain number of hours to "stay current". Who's going to take a worse paid job which guarantees they can't return to their old career if they lose the next election?
I'd prefer paying MPs and ministers more but with the same sort of anti corruption approaches they have in Singapore. Get paid well for an important job but get the book thrown at you if you do anything dodgy. I'd quite like to see professional ministers as well so MPs can concentrate on being MPs but I appreciate that would need some changes to the way parliament work.
I doubt the Gemini model is going to be running locally so something is going to have to pay for that. It'll either be subscription or ads.
Pretty much the same for me. I'm a FLOSS developer and it made sense to join the host closest to the development of Lemmy. I don't really follow any of the more political groups, I'm mostly here for the science, trek and programming memes. I guess I'll have to test the subscription portability if the home server gets more widely de-federated though.
A lot of the Emacs language modes have been replaced with tree-sitter equivalents now.
How many un-federated free speech micro-blogging sites can the market support? I'm surprised Truth Social is still going now Twitter will let anyone pay these days. Are Parler and Gab even profitable?
It's not either/or - a lot of actors take training for action roles seriously and they work closely with the stunt team to get the best coverage possible.
I migrated away from the mobile app to PipePipe just to avoid shorts and I pay for premium.
Sure I don't want ads pumped into my feed but some corporations can do social media well. I used to follow Yorkshire Tea on twitter who were generally pretty funny, I don't drink even drink their teas.
Bold of you to assume we'll make it that far. I'm not convinced that our current networked CO2 phase isn't another great filter event.
I played my youngest (11) the Pickle Rick episode but told them a lot of the other episodes had adult themes that night go over their head so maybe when they're older.
So that's how the family ended up running through all the seasons over about 3 weeks. Some stuff they didn't pick up on but got raised eyebrows from the older sibling (13) but all in all they loved it. Rick's even trying to improve as a person in the latter seasons so it's not totally niahlistic.
I suspect we don't know enough about the mechanics of consciousness yet to determine what free will really means. We certainly know enough about psychology to understand predispositions to make certain choices and humans as a group are fairly predictable.