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submitted 9 months ago by venusenvy47@lemm.ee to c/support@lemm.ee

I'm not sure where to look for information about general Lemmy federation updates, but I'm wondering if the "Sort by Active" issues have been improved. As of a month ago, people said that it was best to use "Top Twelve Hours" because of some bug with "Active". Does anyone know if the problem has been improved?

[-] venusenvy47@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago

Don't you have to use a lawyer licensed in Georgia? Maybe he got thrown in jail for being an idiot.

[-] venusenvy47@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Don't you need a lawyer who is licensed in the state? Why would you want to fly in a lawyer from out of state, even if you could afford it?

[-] venusenvy47@lemm.ee 12 points 10 months ago

Cindy Crawford looks looks incredibly manly. That's the weirdest one for me.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by venusenvy47@lemm.ee to c/support@lemm.ee

I subscribe to technology@lemmy.world and there is a recent post about Python and Excel. I can access the article but I can't see any comments while using my lemm.ee account. I switched to my lemdro.id account and I can see the comments. I'm curious why there is a disconnect. Is it because the posting came from someone on kbin? This is the link to the posting that I grabbed while logged into lemm.ee:

https://kbin.social/m/technology@lemmy.world/t/372609

[-] venusenvy47@lemm.ee 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Probably the only reason Mexico hasn't already pulled it out is because they don't want to waste money that they know will never be reimbursed to them.

Maybe the US will take it down and bill Texas themselves.

[-] venusenvy47@lemm.ee 184 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Sounds like Mexico can just take down most of this thing.

Edit: As a US citizen, I support Mexico's immigration services to detain any Texas construction workers that illegally cross the border to service this thing.

I also would support the governor of this region of Mexico to put these construction workers on a bus and drop them deep in the heart of Mexico somewhere.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by venusenvy47@lemm.ee to c/support@lemm.ee

I searched for information and Google pointed me to a Lemmy posting at: https://lemmy.world/post/1697414

My main account is this one on lemm.ee and I would like to comment in that post from this account, but I can't figure out how to view that specific post from this account. Is there some trick with putting a "!" in front of that path?

[-] venusenvy47@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago

I read somewhere that the order of "locking him up" could be appealed extensively and would be an effective delay tactic for him. I think that is why the DC judge wants to speed things up in response to this behavior.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by venusenvy47@lemm.ee to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

I'm using Firefox more as my first choice, but I can't get away from Chrome completely because of work. I still consider my Chrome bookmarks the "master" and occasionally sync them to Firefox. I would like to be able to bookmark something while in Firefox and then have it available from my other devices using either browser. Is there a way to have my bookmarks stored in a common location, like Google Drive, and accessed from either browser? I tried Floccus with Google Drive as the location but I can't get it to work.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by venusenvy47@lemm.ee to c/support@lemm.ee

This question isn't specific to lemm.ee, but any Lemmy instance with the standard web interface. Is there a way to make the postings on the home page more compact? For example, the fairly large image thumbnail takes up vertical space and makes for more scrolling to read the various postings. Not a big deal, but I like my experience to be more text-based and concise.

Edit: I just found the "themes" in the settings and found more compact settings. Nevermind.

[-] venusenvy47@lemm.ee 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

In the US, a University is usually a collection of colleges. Each college has a somewhat independent structure from other colleges within the University, and each is led by its own Dean. Each college has different requirements of entry and provide rules for what it takes to get a degree from that college. But ultimately, you get a degree from something like "The University of Whatever, College of Engineering". All the colleges have some certain amount of oversight and guidelines set up by the overall institution.

[-] venusenvy47@lemm.ee 64 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I was curious about this last week and found an article that provides some other examples of this type of usage:

"The translation’s grammatical archaism made it even more powerful, resonating with lines in Tennyson (“I am become a name, for always roaming with a hungry heart”), Shakespeare (“I am come to know your pleasure”), and the Bible (“I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness”)."

https://www.openculture.com/2023/07/j-robert-oppenheimer-recites-the-line-now-i-am-become-death-the-destroyer-of-worlds.html

The article also provides some commentary from a scholar about how to translate the original Sanskrit that Oppenheimer is referencing.

Edit: This article is referenced in the above article, and provides some interesting insight into why Oppenheimer was thinking of this quote. His situation was very similar to the situation of Arjuna, who speaks the original phrase in the ancient story. It really gives some additional insight into how many different mental levels Oppenheimer must have been able to conceptualize.

https://m.economictimes.com/news/science/of-oppenheimer-and-the-bhagwat-gita-lead-correcting-intro-april-22-is-the-113th-birth-anniversary-of-robert-oppenheimer/articleshow/58315807.cms?from=mdr

[-] venusenvy47@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

I read somewhere that there was a general Lemmy bug with Hot and/or Active not refreshing without a server reset. I've heard people say that Best 6 or 12 hours is the best for now.

[-] venusenvy47@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You can blow out a candle

but you can't blow out a fire.

Once the flames begin to catch

the wind will blow it higher.

.... And the eyes of the world are watching now.

They are the last lyrics of Biko, by Peter Gabriel. The way he sings those lyrics as the song builds toward the end hits me every time I hear it. The last line is sung after a slight pause, and it sounds like a veiled threat to the leaders of South Africa that killed Stephen Biko. Also, it didn't take a long time for change to happen in South Africa after the event, but when he wrote the song it was still several years away. So at the time it was still wishful thinking that "the wind would blow the flames higher".

[-] venusenvy47@lemm.ee 33 points 11 months ago

Also possibly becathe doesn't own the building and needs approval of the owner.

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submitted 11 months ago by venusenvy47@lemm.ee to c/support@lemm.ee

This isn't specific to lemm.ee, but I found a community called https://squabbles.io/s/technology

But I can't see any place on lemm.ee that lets me subscribe to it from my lemm.ee account. I searched for it under Communities, but it doesn't show up as an option.

[-] venusenvy47@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If that's your dumbest idea, you are undervalued wherever you work. That sounds like a pretty interesting idea.

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