No Stupid Questions

For me, once they get past 1/8 of an inch (0.32 cm) long, I feel like The Wolverine.

My feed is blown up by posts from memes. Like, 80% of posts are all from memes. Regardless of how I sort. If sorted by new/hot/top/active, any combination, it’s ALL memes.

Is there a way from the site, or any app that has the function to just reduce the amount? Or do I need to just block that community?

I am aware of the recent changes in the supreme court, LGBT and stuff happened in the U.S but everyone around the world is pissed even if doesn't affect them. Why?

Just generally on social media such as YT, Reddit, Twitch. People are so angry about everything. Both the left and right have lost their minds, it's like polarizing echochambers.

I'm just tired of this. Thankfully, these social platforms are dying which makes me happy.

I just hope Lemmy doesn't go political in the future. For now, I love it because it's nostalgia to the old internet. Trolls, memes, fun. This is it.

Although, I believe that the real average people are not like this irl.

Hey all. Apologies if this isnt the ideal place to be asking, am pretty new and couldn't find a space community. I'm a reddit refugee, and such have found extra time on my hands and am looking to delve into non-fiction space literature. Does anyone know a good community to ask this question? Or have any books they'd recommend?

Cheers, really have been enjoying lemmy!

On that others site, rules for a given community would be in a sidebar or sticky. Is there an equivalent for communities that I'm missing?

Not 100% sure what my question is but this is what I want to do:

I'm here: lemmy.sdf.org

And I want to subscribe to this: https://rainy.place/m/[email protected]

And I'm not trying to go here: https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/[email protected]

Possible?

I am finding the API documentation a bit difficult to figure out. I mostly work in C# so I am not very familiar with Javascript. I would love it if they had a swagger style document.

When I request the posts from lemmy.ml is there a way to specify local vs all in the request?

Nvm figured it out. Use the _type field to choose All / Local / Subscribed

Source Code Link

I tried to open this community on another lemmy instance and it was empty, but on the original it worked.

I am posting from the other one, let's see if it works...

I'm bored of just reading about north America. It's interesting but I'm sure equally interesting stuff is happening on all the other continents. Is there a way to internet, just browse for stories and opinions, but filtering out the overwhelming dominant subject.

Lemmy was planning a tagging feature for a while. So posters would always tag language and country. So you could chose to only see things pertinent to your language and region. What happened to that?

Americans only talk about a few things. And they all think the same way. It was interesting but I know enough about that now. How can I (easily and conveniently) discover what else is there in the world?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/371128

Nursing an injury and found instructions on a skater site. The skater site said: "i know you won't go to a dr since you're a skater" Why don't they go to drs?

I don't go to drs due to being poor.

It's not like the hotplate doesn't work... from what I've tested. The unit has no stove or oven, just this hotplate

Like when he fixes a computer and says "see, not just a pretty mask"

Or

Bad guy pulls out big guns, and spidey says: "oh for me? you shouldn't have"

What is the best chan websites similar to 4chan?

A (series) hybrid car is technically the similar to a petrol car - they use the same compnents. But a hybrid is actually simpler to build, and higher performance. Why have manufacturers been concentrating on petrol-only cars for decades?

In a petrol car, the petrol engine drives the wheels and the battery charger, and the electric motor just starts the engine. In a hybrid, the motor drives the wheels and the engine only charges the battery.

This means your engine is much smaller and your motor and battery are bigger. Because an electric motor can deliver power efficiently over a high range of RPM, this also means you don't need a carburator or gearbox, and the engine design - the difficult part of car design - is much simpler. The whole system becomes more compact, more efficient, higher performance, and cheaper.

Trains and ships have been series-hybrid for many decades. Why not cars?

I've been wondering why this is not done. It seems so obvious, so there must be a good reason.

When doing covid testing, ask people questions like

• how many times did you get a bus this week
• or visit a hairdresser
• does your office/apartment have AC or natural ventilation
• do you share accommodation like in a barracks, retirement home, hostel

Then you or all this in MS excel and run a correlation. Of positives, how many people did X or Y or both. Of negatives, how many petiole did X or Y or both. The statistical functions tell you which patterns are important.

This instantly tells you the risk of each activity. It can guide people and authorities.

1. People could be given a target, normalised to the reproduction number - all your activities this week must add to less than 1.

2. Authorities can know the exact statistical risk of an activity. Exactly how big will be the effect of closing pubs, or hairdressers, or taking barman over 50 or of work? You can have as granular data as you like.

If you look up micromorts on Wikipedia it's a similar idea.

All we know about covid risks, everything news channels and governments repeat in their echo chambers, is either extrapolated from other diseases, anecdotal, or speculation. We could easy grasp the true exact data, with as much granularity as needed, with no extra effort from what is done today.

This should be the headline news. Instead of "cases went up this week" we could know that "Cases among 40s-50s linked to AC ventilated pubs, where people stayed 1 hour, went up this week"

Why not?

Could this be a new thing that we all can look pass on, instead of criticizing and making a mockery out of old people when we see them walking on all four.

Every time I drive past the projects, I see litter all over the ground.