Wow, that was really interesting. Thanks for typing that up

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If you’re spending money on a book you may as well get a physical one.

Yes, I don’t see why not. What else am I gonna do with my organs when I’m dead?

Wow, I didn’t know about the covid lung transplants. If you don’t mind me asking, could you describe the covid lungs/how they looked different to healthy lungs? Just morbidly curious

I think the vast majority of people who, even if they have some discomfort around the idea, would not care enough to opt out. The only effect of not allowing opt out, I think, would be to cause considerable distress to those who do care a lot about not donating. I don’t agree with their stance but I don’t think they should be forced to donate, especially if we can get enough organs just from making it opt out instead of opt in

I wouldn’t do anything. Your job is to teach, not to discipline. Your students can choose to do or not do whatever work you set them; it’s their education and their choice. Ultimately cheating only affects them and their learning.

Also, seconding the fact that if you give people a graded take home exam that implies open book (including the internet and each other)

I found the equivalent of high school maths in my country to be similarly intuitive and trivial. The kids who think that the maths they’re being taught is obvious will just memorise what the examiners want to see and regurgitate it even if they feel like it’s teaching shapes to a baby. If you are “gifted” and truly do understand it then it shouldn’t be hard to just overexplain (which is what most exam boards are looking for)

Roll up the excess cable into a loop and sellotape the loop to stay in a loop. Maybe looks ugly but nobody else sees it lol.

I’m not a native English speaker either but I’ve spoken English from a young age. “Whose” is used to denote belonging, not necessarily personhood, which can be confusing as “who” does denote personhood. There isn’t really a “whose” equivalent for objects so it’s used for any noun which another noun belongs to.

If the answer is yes, then it negates “all-powerful” because it cannot withstand it’s own power.

I disagree. If a god dies when it willingly chooses to die, that’s not negating all-powerful. It has the ability to live and the ability to die; choosing one option or the other doesn’t mean it never had the ability to do the option it didn’t pick. Similarly, if a god chooses to never kill itself, that doesn’t negate it being all-powerful, because it may have had the option to kill itself and just not done it.

A similar question on this line is can an all-powerful god make a rock too big for even said god to lift?

That’s a much better paradox because that actually brings ability into it. Killing yourself only indicates the ability to kill yourself, not any lack of ability to do not-killing-yourself.

Why is “can god kill god” a paradox? They either can or they can’t (picking “they” because your particular god might not be a he). If they’re all-powerful then the answer is yes, because they can do anything. I don’t see how that’s paradoxical.

Just say personal reasons. Even if they’re nosy and keep pushing, in that case they’re clearly in the wrong to any sane person looking on, because it’s normal to not want to share your deepest most personal problems with your coworkers.

Currently I have to make an account on everyone’s personal gitlab (or gitea, or forgejo, etc) instance in order to make an issue or PR of their project. Would be nice if I could just use one account for it.

I’ve known about lemmy and the fediverse for ages, applied to join a mastodon instance a while back but never heard back. Joined lemmy recently because !unixporn@lemmy.ml was created and I wanted to talk about linux on an actually privacy respecting floss platform rather than one of the mainstream proprietary social medias. I like it, a good middle ground between modern social media models and more old school forum vibes.

Edits: been figuring out how to link a community on lemmy lmao. Now I know

Well, it’s federated and runs on free (as in freedom) software. So the whole point is it’s theoretically for anyone and everyone. Anyone with a computer and internet connection can host their own instance, or join another instance that aligns with their interests and politics, and connect with any other instance that’s federated with them/doesn’t have them blocked. And similarly if there’s people you find insufferable you can block them as individuals, and if they break the rules of your instance they can be banned from your instance. Or an instance can block another entire instance if they find the other community particularly vile.

Not sure about the positioning of “aunts” as people who wouldn’t be interested in the fediverse though. Plenty of people are aunts, I’m sure there’s plenty of aunts on the fediverse too.

Now where does Artix fall into this? Are we tainted by the Arch or cool because of the lack of systemd?

Lemmy is a smaller community than Reddit and I recognize people more than I used to. Read: I ever look at usernames.

That’s a little terrifying for me as someone who likes using reddit-likes for the anonymity lol. Although on reddit I used to recognise some usernames in smaller subreddits where there were a few active posters.

It’s strange because that person’s from lemmy.world? That seems like a pretty liberal/reddity instance from what I’ve seen. I was gonna tell them to go to another instance if they don’t like .ml’s politics but then I saw theyre not even from .ml lol

Open source file formats in general. I’ve personally known friends who have lost access to their old works because it was using some proprietary file format that only one abandoned proprietary software they don’t have access to anymore can read.

Significant improvement in the quality of life of Cubans. Probably also increase US tourism to Cuba. Not sure if it would have any real impact on the average US citizen.