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GitHub - lumen-oss/rocks.nvim: 🌒 Neovim plugin management inspired by Cargo, powered by luarocks
🌒 Neovim plugin management inspired by Cargo, powered by luarocks - lumen-oss/rocks.nvimGitHub
I'm being hyperbolic but I do genuinely dislike Luarocks.
Everywhere I've used them I'm met with issues. May they be incorrect versions being downloaded, Luarocks just not doing anything but giving no error, or the worse problem none of the packages working correctly. Client using luarocks for windows and it not working or the correct Luarocks just having a fit on windows too. Glad for wsl2 when a client needs me to use windows
Lua can be quite hyper specific to each usecase too. It's supposed to be. This leads to a disconnect between the generic packages and the Lua code used for neovim, the love engine, Warcraft and Roblox Moding, or whatever.
Lua does have inherit issues that make package management difficult. Each version of Lua is intended to be its own segregated ecosystem. This is a major strongsuut for Lua as it can change wildly while devs can know their version will be supported, and stay stagnant (on purpose). However, this hurts the package ecosystem as it can be difficult to support each Lua leading to an even smaller number of packages.
I've never had a good experience when using luarocks or anything that requires Luarocks.
There are few things more infuriating to me than when a package manager doesn’t work well.
Like, that’s the job. That’s why you’re here. I get why dependencies are hard to calculate but that doesn’t make it less annoying when the software is bad at it.
I haven’t used Luarocks but I feel like Ruby had some serious package management issues before RubyGems became more stable (a long time ago), and it was so annoying.
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This doesn't surprise me. It's pretty clear that a whole foods plant based diet is the way to go if you're serious about your health. (I'm not. I'm vegan, so I get some of the benefits, but I also eat like crap, lots of processed meals and other such garbage, so I'm not super healthy)
But yeah, if you want your cholesterol to decrease, the easiest way is to switch to a whole foods plant based diet!!
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The problem with a lot of these papers is they use intermediate endpoints rather than actual hard end points. They're making the assumption that decreasing LDL is a good thing. That's an intermediate endpoint, nobody actually cares about their LDL, they care about their health span and lifespan.
Spoiler: LDL and Cholesterol in general is not a disease, it's poor metabolic health that is the actual cardiovascular problem.
I.e. doi.org/10.3390/metabo14010073 Oreo cookie treatment lowers LDL cholesterol more than high-intensity statin therapy in a lean mass hyper-responder on a ketogenic diet: a curious crossover experiment
This stunt paper illustrates how silly it is to focus on a intermediate metric. Oreos are not health food, I should hope that is obvious
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Bf-Tree is a modern read-write-optimized concurrent larger-than-memory range index in Rust
GitHub - microsoft/bf-tree: Bf-Tree is a modern read-write-optimized concurrent larger-than-memory range index in Rust from MS Research.
Bf-Tree is a modern read-write-optimized concurrent larger-than-memory range index in Rust from MS Research. - microsoft/bf-treeGitHub
Iran, China and Russia sign trilateral strategic pact
In a dramatic geopolitical development this afternoon, Iran, China and Russia formally signed a comprehensive strategic pact, marking one of the most consequential shifts in 21st-century international relations. While the full text of the agreement is being released in stages by the three governments, state media in Tehran, Beijing and Moscow have acknowledged the ceremony and described it as a cornerstone for a new multipolar order.The pact comes against the backdrop of decades of growing cooperation between these three states. Iran and Russia earlier concluded a 20-year Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty designed to deepen economic, political, and defence ties, and to blunt the impact of Western sanctions — a treaty that was signed in January 2025 and entered into force last year. Meanwhile, Iran and China have been bound by a 25-year cooperation agreement first signed in 2021, aimed at expanding trade, infrastructure, and energy integration.
What makes today’s signing significantly different, and newsworthy, is that it explicitly combines the three powers in a coordinated framework, aligning them on issues ranging from nuclear sovereignty and economic cooperation to military coordination and diplomatic strategy.
This agreement does not – at least from the initial public texts – constitute a formal mutual defence treaty akin to NATO’s Article 5, obligating one to defend the others militarily. Past pacts between Iran and Russia always carefully stopped short of a binding defence guarantee. Instead, the pact appears to link three major powers in a broader geopolitical coalition defined by shared opposition to Western military dominance and economic coercion.
Central to the agreement is a unified stance against reimposition of sanctions on Iran tied to its nuclear programme under the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Tehran, Beijing and Moscow have previously issued joint statements rejecting European attempts to trigger “snapback” sanctions, and have declared the UN Security Council’s considerations of the nuclear deal terminated.
This trilateral pact is therefore as much about diplomatic leverage and strategic narrative as it is about concrete defence or economic mechanisms.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260129-iran-china-and-russia-sign-trilateral-strategic-pact/
I support the right of every instance on Lemmy to build how they want, transparently. As you can see my main account is on .today and not .world or sh.itjust.works.
But no, not literally. From join.piefed.social/features/ - this is the main site for piefed, not just .social:
Authoritarian Inoculation – Feature to reduce the impact of authoritarian propaganda.
I have some real concerns about what's considered authoritarian, considering...
Default Blocks – Lemmygrad, Hexbear, and Nazi instances are blocked out of the box.
A call back to my lunchroom analogy.
Low Reputation Indicator – Identifies consistently downvoted users.
Oof. That's some social credit sounding shit right there.
4chan Filter – Flags content from 4chan for review.
I wonder how it does that? I hope that's not just a hokey word filter.
Features - PieFed
Nice things about PieFed: There are two other options for reddit-style federated forums, Lemmy and Kbin (recently forked to Mbin, which shows some promise). Having used them both extensively I came away unsatisfied, for a variety of reasons.PieFed
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I support the right of every instance on Lemmy to build how they want, transparently. As you can see my main account is on .today and not .world or sh.itjust.works.
My point here is that piefed.social has pretty simular culture to lemmy.world or sh.itjust.works.
I have some real concerns about what’s considered authoritarian, considering…Oof. That’s some social credit sounding shit right there.
Its much simpler than that. Lemmy has a spam problem. People coming in to just make shill communities selling a service or product or spamming advert posts across communities.
They usually get downvoted, but I can use Piefeds admin tools to filter for downvoted posts by new accounts. This usually catches most spammers like that. I can then ban them from piefed.social and pass that on to Lemmy admins.
A lot of Day 1 trolls are caught like this too.
I understand, not always, but most heavily downvoted accounts tend to be people looking for fights everywhere, people with long community and instance banlists etc.
4chan Filter – Flags content from 4chan for review.
This can be turned off by other instances.
And there seems to be some confusion in some of the excerpts there because it is mostly referring to what piefed.social does, and not incumbent on all other instances to do so. It also looks unfinished.
My point here is that piefed.social has pretty simular culture to lemmy.world or sh.itjust.works.
So not "literally." That's the point I argued with.
Lemmy has a spam problem. People coming in to just make shill communities selling a service or product or spamming advert posts across communities.
I browse by subscribed. I support the right for everyone to choose what they see with minimal persuasion. I don't see this problem, if it exists.
I understand, not always, but most heavily downvoted accounts tend to be people looking for fights everywhere, people with long community and instance banlists etc.
I can make my own decisions about people without a flag next to their name. I vehemently oppose this feature.
This can be turned off by other instances.
My lunchroom analogy applies here. Users should be able to make their own minds.
And there seems to be some confusion in some of the excerpts there because it is mostly referring to what piefed.social does, and not incumbent on all other instances to do so. It also looks unfinished.
As I just said: this is the main site for piefed, not just .social:
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There is, quite literally, zero direct evidence of what I posited. Evidence exists, sure, but only by understanding the context around the behavior patterns of the devs and the swarm of very dedicated Piefed missionairies. There is no smoking gun of them directly saying that the primary purpose of their software is to degrade the commons in order to deny "tankies" a space where they can talk mostly amongst themselves, nor will there likely ever be.
Given radlibism and anti-tankie hysteria is universally socially rewarded for aiding the empire in isolating and crushing its enemies, don't let them dictate the terms of engagement by framing of discussion in terms of whether tankies are "evil red fash" or not. Any dissenting opinion you express thereafter will be dismissed as "authoritarian apologist" and trigger bystanders' cognitive dissonance by making this a repeat of every insufferable "tankie vs. anti-authoritarian" debate. You cannot convince the rabid cold warriors that their tragedy of the commons / EEE behavior is politically detrimental to the entire left during a period of rapidly encroaching fascism because they hate us more than fascists, and yearn for our destruction. Us being hunted down like dogs would be preferable to us having our own sovereign, but isolated platform broadly deferated from liberal instances.
Call into question their trustworthiness, their intentions, their development practices, their ability to play well with others, and specific objectionable lines of code.
Be level-headed, objective, and non-ideological in your critiques. That way, when they inevitably derail discussion with their political screeds, they (rightfully) seem like a weirdo, and you have shown yourself to be the reasonable party.
Ask them why they should be trusted to be good stewards of their power over the ecosystem, especially given how many lines of code are simply baking in moderation of whatever pattern the main dev finds annoying. The devs are actively attempting to use their position as a platform developer to impose their whims over discussion at large...exactly their rationale why tankies shouldn't be trusted with developing the fediverse! Channel their fearmongering into seemingly apolitical scrutiny into their existing behavior.
IMO the best way to counter the shilling is by criticizing the project on technical grounds.
Piefed is a sloppy, poorly thought out pile of staples and hot glue haphazardly developed in pursuit of a bulleted list of (poorly implemented) features that they can cite when trying to one-up Lemmy.
Most of their actual "features" are implementing some frontend enhancement, often as an API change incompatible with the broader fediverse. They are making their software less compatible, adding technical debt for one-off features, and putting in virtually no effort to implement things in a responsible, future-cognizant way.
Given they reimplemented a Rust backend in Python, just to facilitate
If architecture for their own project is an afterthought:
- why would you want to give them more sway over the trajectory of the entire ecosystem?
- why would you want to administer a server with little consideration for standards, compatibility, and API stability?
- why would you want to worry about integrating your project with a backend that doesn't bother adhering to community developed FEPs?
- why would you want to join a server that is less interoperable with other server types than others? is it worth not having the entire context not render properly on other platforms?
Without getting into ideological grounds, this is enough to turn off software devs, sysadmins, self hosters, and end users...as well as those of neighboring projects. Enough to make even their fellow ideologues more apprehensive to choose PF over Lemmy.
Anyone who has any interest in proper software engineering, code quality, or long term maintenance would find Piefed's development to be appauling. If these people knew the piss poor quality of the dev team's practices, they would be self-motivated to counter the 24/7 shilling by the Piefed devs and its stans. There will be no shortage of opportunities to point these things out.
"attitude" which is calculated as follows: (upvotes cast - downvotes cast) / (upvotes + downvotes). If your "attitude" is < 0.0 you can't downvote.
The math here is hilarious.
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So not “literally.” That’s the point I argued with.
I don't see how it's inherently some sort of hugbox, as you claim.
I browse by subscribed. I support the right for everyone to choose what they see with minimal persuasion. I don’t see this problem, if it exists.
Good for you. But I am thinking at an instance level. Spam is actually a problem on platforms like this.
If Lemmy was to triple in size tomorrow, it's base tools wouldn't be capable of dealing with it.
I can make my own decisions about people without a flag next to their name. I vehemently oppose this feature.
I just meant purely in terms of admins being able to see it. Whether or not it shows for users is another matter.
As I just said: this is the main site for piefed, not just .social:
Yes, I know. But it's not clear that all of the content there is meant to be specifically telling other owners how they should run their instance.
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Didn't say it was a hugbox, said it fosters division.
I don't know whether piefed has less spam or not, and whether that's by volume or percentage, and why. I haven't seen any evidence favoring either platform.
There is no way Lemmy would triple in size in a day. Why would they build for something that would never happen? That's like ordering three pizzas for a party when you only need one.
I still oppose the low-karma feature on moral and ideological grounds. Voting is easily manipulated, so any system based on it is also easily manipulated.
It was clear to me that site was for piefed.
Are you talking about you insisting that allowing America to topple yet another middle eastern government will somehow usher in a people's revolution?
Only idiots believe the war propaganda about Iran
I'll ask you again, since you don't want to answer: How are Lybia and Syria doing?
Only Idiots Believe The War Propaganda About Iran
It is not okay to be a grown adult in the year 2026 and still believe US regime change interventionism in the middle east will lead to positive outcomes.Caitlin Johnstone
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you insisting that allowing America to blah blah blah
Not what I said, not what I support.
And you can fuck right off with your Australian shithead whitesplaining Iran. Go read what Iranian comrades have to say about their country. If I can use DeepL to translate Persian, so can you, yanks.
How are Lybia and Syria doing? Why are you so afraid to address the consequences of what you support?
Because i know you won't click the link:
There is nothing you can say to me to convince me that US regime change interventionism in the middle east is a swell idea.
There is nothing you can say to convince me that the Trump administration is telling us the truth about Iran.
There is nothing you can say to convince me that the mass media are telling us the truth about Iran.
There is nothing you can say to convince me the people who just spent two years incinerating Gaza have kind-hearted intentions for the Iranian people.
There is nothing you can say to convince me that protecting Israel is a good and desirable thing that westerners should support.
There is nothing you can say to convince me that the empire-like globe-spanning power alliance that is loosely centralized around Washington should be in charge of our world.
There is nothing you can say to convince me that I should help the US and Israel manufacture consent for a regime change war by criticizing the Iranian government in the middle of a frenzied war propaganda campaign.
It is not okay to be a grown adult in the year 2026 and still believe US regime change interventionism in the middle east will lead to positive outcomes.
It is not okay to live in a post-Iraq invasion world and still not understand that we are being lied to about Iran.
It is not okay to have lived through what these monsters did to Libya and still believe forcibly toppling the Iranian government is a moral and just cause to get behind.
It is not okay to have just watched these freaks turn Gaza into a gravel parking lot pervaded by the smell of rotting corpses and believe they have noble intentions for the people of Iran.
I don’t care if you are making your pro-regime change arguments from a right wing anti-Islam perspective, from a liberal humanitarian pro-democracy perspective, from a left-wing “solidarity with our Persian comrades” perspective, or from an “oppose all tyranny equally” anarchist perspective. Your arguments are shit, and your position is wrong.
The agenda to oust the Iranian government is about dominating the planet in general and the middle east in particular. You might think it’s about something else, but you are wrong. It’s about power and control, and all your fanciful notions about freedom and democracy for the Iranian people will be instantly subordinated to those goals. If this isn’t obvious to you, you’re an idiot.
The goal is not to bring freedom and democracy to the Iranian people. The US and Israel do not permit democracy to thrive in the middle east unless they can control its outcomes, as they are working to do right now in Iraq. The US and Israel are not popular enough in the middle east for the people to be allowed to control their own government.
The goal is to either install a puppet regime in Tehran, or to balkanize the nation into multiple independent states which can be easily controlled, or to plunge the entire state into unmanageable chaos like they did in Libya. None of these plans advance the interests of the Iranian people.
If you support Trump’s regime change agendas in Iran, then you support inflicting this upon the Iranian people. That’s what you get under the best-case scenario. Under the worst-case scenario, you get a hot war between the US and Iran which unleashes horrors you cannot possibly imagine. It will make the Iraq invasion and all the fallout therefrom look like an episode of Spongebob.
There is nothing you can say to me to cause me to support this. Call me a traitor. Call me a dictator lover. Call me an antisemite. Tell me all you want to tell me about how mean and bad Iran’s leadership is. I won’t care. I will dismiss you, because you are my enemy.
Anyone who supports war with Iran is my enemy. Anyone who would want to inflict such horrors upon the human species is an enemy of humanity.
I promise I will not be moved on this. I like to keep an open mind, as the saying goes, but not so open my brain falls out.
I would tell you to learn from your mistakes, but you're not even at that stage yet. You're still too defensive and high on propaganda and half-baked Idpol to even admit your mistakes.
How are Lybia and Syria doing?
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Statement of the Worker-communist Party of Iran on the new round of the uprising of the people of Iran
[The text in this section is a statement issued by the Worker-communist Party of Iran on January 5, 2026, regarding the recent mass protests by the Iranian people.] Protests that began on 28 December 2025 following the Tehran bazaar strike, in opposition to rising prices and the severe economic situation, have grown broader and more radical by the day. Chants of “death to the dictator” and calls for overthrow have shaken the streets of large and small cities alike, once again drawing global attention to the struggle of the Iranian people to free themselves from the Islamic Republic.
These protests are a continuation of previous struggles, and it is specifically the Woman, Life, Freedom revolution that has once again taken to the streets—this time under different conditions and with an even stronger emphasis on “life”. Attention is now focused on how this revolution, in its new phase, will chart its path forward, and on how the people of Iran, by defeating the Islamic Republic and taking control of every aspect of life themselves, will shape a new chapter of history.
The latest protests are unfolding amid a dramatic deterioration in living conditions. For many people, there is no longer any room for patience or compromise, and as a result ever wider sections of society are being compelled to enter the struggle and settle accounts with the ruling power. On the other side stands an Islamic Republic weaker and more crisis-ridden than ever, with no economic or political answers to offer, and still reliant on bullets, prisons, executions and the machinery of repression.
For the revolution to overcome the Islamic Republic, it must bring an ever broader social force into the field and make greater use of levers such as nationwide strikes and a general strike—measures that are extremely difficult for the state to confront. The widest possible sections of the population, in cities large and small and across neighbourhoods nationwide, must actively join the revolution, while simultaneously engaging in sustained and varied forms of protest: demonstrations, night-time chanting, neighbourhood control, and attacks on state forces and institutions. Workers in industrial centres, teachers, nurses, retirees, public-sector employees and students can—and must—play a far more decisive and central role.
Strike committees, neighbourhood control committees, mutual aid committees and revolutionary coordination networks must be formed wherever possible, preparing the ground for the mass expansion of the political movement and readiness to deliver decisive blows to the Islamic Republic.
But the revolution does not confront only the Islamic Republic and its repression. Another danger threatening its advance and victory lies in efforts to steer political developments in Iran through deals from above—preserving the foundations of repression, dictatorship, religious authority and the state apparatus—whether through media manipulation, public opinion engineering, or direct and indirect intervention by foreign governments, so that they remain limited to merely the passing of power from the hands of one capital owners to another. In the presence of a revolution of this scale, such efforts are often presented in the name of the revolution itself, even as its supposed outcome. In reality, they serve the interests of the ruling regime and work against the revolution.
A clear example of this danger can be seen in the activities of monarchist forces. Through deception and propaganda, issuing death threats, intimidating opponents, engaging in thuggery, abuse and misogyny—in short, by modelling themselves on Trump-style fascism—they seek to eliminate rival figures and leaders who enjoy popular support, aiming wishfully to claim uncontested leadership. This delusion works to the benefit of the Islamic Republic and to the detriment of the people’s revolution. As a result, the struggle to overthrow the Islamic Republic has today become inseparable from the struggle to neutralise and defeat this home-grown, Trump-style fascism.
The Woman, Life, Freedom revolution in Iran must, even before its final victory, entrench its human principles—such as unconditional freedom of expression, organisation and political activity; the abolition of the death penalty; and the dismantling of all forms of misogyny—so deeply in Iran’s political culture that no one can cross these lines without being exposed and isolated. Confronting attempts to clip the wings of the revolution, impose top-down deals, or manufacture artificial leaders likewise depends on the mass participation of millions in advancing the revolution across the country.
Opposing all forms of attempts to cause divisions among the peoples living within Iran’s geography; reaffirming Woman, Life, Freedom as a unifying slogan; rejecting all forms of dictatorship and state power imposed above society; insisting on demands that uproot the machinery of repression and suffocation; enforcing a total ban on execution, torture and imprisonment; and defending unconditional freedom of expression—these are all essential to strengthening and deepening the revolution.
Under current revolutionary conditions, collective effort and direct action to confront livelihood issues—from strikes and struggles for wage increases to protests for public services, the formation of medical mutual aid groups, cooperative funds, child-support initiatives, environmental rescue groups and other forms of solidarity—also take on political significance. In these areas too, the revolutionary movement is compelled to exercise direct popular power, even before fully displacing the ruling political power, depending on the balance of forces.
The revolution does not manifest itself solely through street protests, neighbourhood control or strikes. It can also take shape through revolutionary actions by workers in water, electricity, hospitals, telecommunications and other institutions, aimed at alleviating or resolving people’s immediate problems. This points to a broader truth: for full and comprehensive victory over the Islamic Republic, the current revolution must not only undertake revolutionary economic and welfare measures, but also move towards socialism—towards placing social production and distribution under the control of direct popular institutions.
The new phase of the Woman, Life, Freedom revolution has brought the prospect of victory over the Islamic Republic closer than ever before. At the same time, it makes clearer than ever that decisive victory can only come alongside the defeat of all reactionary, traditional and backward forces that promise the people a return to the past, to despotism, servitude and inequality.
Down with the Islamic Republic!
Victory to Woman, Life, Freedom!
Long live the Socialist Republic!
'cept this one doesn't come from an Australian white shithead 🤷♀️
The game of pointing out the obvious consequences of supporting imperial American regime change operations? Sure, except you don't seem to want to play it at all. Despite your desperate efforts to avoid it, it's actually very simple to play. All you have to do is answer the following question:
How are Lybia and Syria doing after their US-led regime change?
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Me: I like apples.
You: Oh you like citruses? What about these oranges and clementines.
You can make a commie out of a yank, but they'll still be a yank.
Why are you so afraid to answer the one extremely relevant question that will reveal whether supporting the toppling of a designated US enemy's government in a time of war is a good idea or not? Is it maybe because you know the answer won't look good for you? Is that why you immediately turned into a petulant teenager whining at me to "fuck off"?
It's really very straightforward. I'll even simplify the question for you.
Did US-led regime change make life for the people in Lybia or Syria better, or worse?
Take as long as you need champ.
Is that why you immediately turned into a petulant teenager whining at me to “fuck off”?
I don't, that's just me in my normal everyday state 🖕
And I won't argue from a standpoint that's not mine. So, yeah, "fuck off".
that’s just me in my normal everyday state 🖕
How sad for you
And I won’t argue from a standpoint that’s not mine.
Oh cool, so you don't support US-backed color revolution in Iran after all?
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How sad for you
I'm fine with it 😊
Oh cool, so you don’t support US-backed regime change in Iran after all?
Iranian people don't want that, they are aware of the ramifications of their actions, and I'm not arrogant enough to believe my pale ass knows better than them from the confines of my shithole western country.
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Why do would anyone want to hitch their wagon to such a thing?
Cause sublinks burned out as an alternative?
You seemingly don't know better, judging by how eager you are to support the exact same imperial ventures with the thinnest possible coat of "this is totally what the people of the country we're targeting want bro" paint slapped on. Were you also posting about how "Venezuelans are celebrating" earlier this year?
How are Lybia and Syria doing?
I listen to people. People say what they want. I say "these people want that".
I listened to Venezuelans. Venezuelans pro or anti Maduro overwhelmingly said they didn't want that. I say "Venezuelans didn't want that".
Kill the yank inside of you please.
Edit: Fuck, I'd respect you more if you could admit that there's a grassroots movement going on in Iran right now, but that it doesn't align with what you think is the best move in the geopolitical game.
Nice line of bullshit, very convenient for your western leftist imperial pretenses of solidarity. Unfortunately, recent history has shown these pretenses to be exactly as anti-imperialist as the bloodthirsty empire they ultimately serve, which is why you desperately avoid acknowledging Lybia and Sryia. Just a shot in the dark: I'm guessing you also support the nazi puppet government in Ukraine.
Did regime change in Lybia and Syria make life better for the people there, or worse? You try to avoid this question like the plague, and I won't let you.
Saw the edit?
Just a shot in the dark: I’m guessing you also support the nazi puppet government in Ukraine.
Ukrainian people actually. I'd like them to not have a boot on the neck, whoever wears it.
You avoid this question like the plague, and I won’t let you.
And I won't give you satisfaction, as hard as you may type 🤷♀️
"Teehee you can't make me face the consequences of my ideology!"
You run from the mention of Lybia and Syria because you're fully aware that taking even a cursory look at the outcome of what you support reveals you to be both full of shit and an intellectual coward🤷♂️
You avoid acknowledging the grassroots movement in Iran because it would make you a bad big poopoo 🤷♀️
We'll reach double rainbow soon at this rate.
You tell me, my superior USian friend!
Fuck, rainbow rendering is broken...
Look at the upvotes and downvotes dawg
Eww, stop with le Redditor speak 🤢
And good call on the edit. Made you sound too much like an internet tough guy 🤣
Maybe if you use more emojis, they won't put it in the newspaper that you got mad
Oh hey by the way, how are Lybia and Syria doing?
You already saw the extent of my shamelessness when it comes to waddling in the mud. You can't me not use emojis 😏
Oh hey by the way, how are Lybia and Syria doing?
I asked you, enlightened burgerian person to educate me, and I'm still waiting.
Didn’t say it was a hugbox, said it fosters division.
Does it? I don't see how.
I don’t know whether piefed has less spam or not, and whether that’s by volume or percentage, and why. I haven’t seen any evidence favoring either platform.
Piefed gets the same spam, but Piefed can catch the spammers and report them to Lemmy admins easier. That's what I mean here.
There is no way Lemmy would triple in size in a day. Why would they build for something that would never happen? That’s like ordering three pizzas for a party when you only need one.
Of course it wouldn't. My point was I am thinking of scale here when looking at these admin tools.
I still oppose the low-karma feature on moral and ideological grounds. Voting is easily manipulated, so any system based on it is also easily manipulated.
Well public voting on the fediverse mitigates that as people using alts or engaging in brigading can be often caught, are often caught, and community and instance banned for it.
It was clear to me that site was for piefed.
It outlines his philosophy, but he doesn't state he will enforce the same ideology on other instances with some iron fist.
If I can use DeepL to translate Persian, so can you, yanks.
In English, the language is called Iranian. Some people use Farsi, which is Iranian for Iranian.
If you see someone insist on Persian, don't listen to that person. They are a Nazi every single time.
I don't think you are a Nazi, but I'm convinced one has your ear and has been successful in pushing away Iranians. I know you've heard someone say "Persian, Iranian, it doesn't matter, they mean the same thing", and that's at first a very convincing argument, no reason to keep looking for patterns. But when you look for patterns, it becomes undeniable. It's like people who insist on saying Burma or Rhodesia or Saigon.
The reason those people prefer the name Persia, is because it implies that the country belongs to one ethnicity and culture. It's trying to lesser the other peoples of Iran.
"Farsi" is technically Iranian for "Persian", so when translated it might seem like that's already happening. But the difference is that people in Iran understand the context and history, and so while they use that name to describe the language, since that's an accurate description of what the language is and how it came to be the lingua franca, people in Iran wouldn't use it to mean the country or the broader Iranian identity.
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Thanks for correcting and informing me.
I don't think you are a Nazi, but I'm convinced one has your ear and has been successful in pushing away Iranians. I know you've heard someone say "Persian, Iranian, it doesn't matter, they mean the same thing"
No, no, nothing as sinister. In french, my mother tongue, Iranian is called "persan", and DeepL calls the language "persian", so, both things led me to that blunder. No malice, only stupidity.
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Ahahaha delicate Rimu didn't just ban me, he deleted my account on his server.
Good.
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I mean the admins banning op for no reason seems much worse?
You avoid acknowledging the grassroots movement in Iran
You misspelled “astroturf.”
You’re not listening to the people. You’re listening to comprador plants.
- Accented Proxies: Imperialist Weaponisation Of Diaspora Voices
- Citations Needed podcast: US Meddling, the Limits of 'Agency' Discourse and How Media Chooses Which 'Voices' To Center
- The blueprint of regime change operations — How regime change happens in the 21st century with your consent
- "Why Don't You Criticize Iran??"
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Seems like ml users don't have more than 3 neurons to activate and think this through. Don't wonder too much if no instance wants to federate with you.
About Nutomic, it's because it comes from a marxist, as I said I expect better out of him because of that, and because I had trust in him. Having used Lemmy for years when his transphobic views surfaced, I felt betrayed.
About Rimu, he doesn't get a pass. Cowbee made me aware of what he said, and I won't be using Piefed as a result.
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It increases division for all the reasons I already outlined. If you don't see it that way I don't know how to explain my point of view any better than I already have.
I don't see any philosophy, I see a list of reasons the developer of piefed believes their platform is better than Lemmy. Yes, each instance can adjust those settings, but they go into it with these heavy-handed suggestions straight from the developer. From the wording, anyone joining the fediverse for the first time through Piefed comes in associating those instances with nazis. I think that's intentional.
You can't say if people with alts or who brigade are often caught. And, "often" is not "always," which means voting can still be manipulated. Hell, even if you caught everyone with an alt, votes can change by community or the time of day. An opinion that gets lauded in one community might be downvoted to hell in another. Better to not have a flagging system, let people have their own opinions without labelling "bad" users.
Accented Proxies: Imperialist Weaponisation Of Diaspora Voices
Interesting! But I genuinely make it a point to listen to people living inside the country. Iran in this case. And go out of my way to find texts that are seldom translated into any language I could read more easily. I appreciate how fortunate I am to have easily accessible translation tools; they help break that big educational barrier between my underclass ass and the world.
Citations Needed podcast
It's in my AntennaPod playlist.
The blueprint of regime change operations
I'd say this doesn't teach me anything I wasn't aware of, but it's a good nonetheless.
"Why Don’t You Criticize Iran??"
Sorry but no.
is there an open tmdb or scrobbler for theater plays?
Conceding Donetsk won’t end the war in Ukraine
Conceding Donetsk won’t end the war in Ukraine
For months, the Trump administration has advanced a simple formula for ending the war in Ukraine: Kyiv must concede territory in exchange for American security guarantees.Jennifer Kavanagh (UnHerd)
A massive clump of dark matter may lurk in the Milky Way
A massive clump of dark matter may lurk in the Milky Way
Pulsating remnants of stars hint at a clump of invisible matter thought to be about 10 million times the sun’s mass.Emily Conover (Science News)
Earth is bathed in droves of neutrinos spewed by the Milky Way's stars
Earth is bathed in droves of neutrinos spewed by the Milky Way’s stars
The subatomic particles are incredibly numerous. About 1,000 neutrinos from stars other than the sun pass through a thumbnail every second.Emily Conover (Science News)
Anyone else feel like Shoppers pharmacies are aggressively trying to charge extra fees?
Curious also if this is Canada-wide or just in Ontario:
Recently have had two occasions where Shoppers was pushing me to have the pharmacist prescribe a renewal of something, rather than troubleshoot an error with a renewal request through 1) my family doc and 2) a specialist.
In both cases they wanted to charge me $15.
Case #1 I just said no thanks and called my family doctor, thankfully it was sorted out quickly.
Case #2, Shoppers' automated system waited until Saturday at 5pm(!) to notify me that the renewal (which I'd requested on Tuesday at 11am) had not gone through. When I called, they tried to charge me the $15 - but I successfully pressured them to give me a few days of the medication while I sorted out the issue (which is what they used to offer).
I can't help but wonder if this is the 'enshittification' of pharmacy services, where they tell you they'll take care of the automated renewal, but then - oops! - they mess it up and try to squeeze $15 out of a patient who just needs their medicine, and doesn't have time to make a bunch of calls, or trek over to the walk-in clinic or whatever.
Anyone else having similar issues? If so, it might be worth collecting people's stories and raising a fuss.
Other side of the country, and I haven’t witnessed that. Regulations might be different here though.
Generally, policy in a SD is set by the managing pharmacist, so policy will likely differ store to store.
I doubt Loblaw’s has much say at that point, although they definitely plan out the store itself to pressure pharmacy and post office patrons into spending money in the rest of the store. And that goes beyond product placement and physical design to having salespeople intercept customers to encourage buying something.
Yep. We had an ongoing prescription for my wife something simple ( I forget what) I went to pick it up and the pharmacy tech was like oh we will pull you aside for a consult. I'm like, uh its not for me its my wife's and she's had it for a year I think she knows how to take it.
Another time for one of my kids they charged my insurance company for a medicine they hadn't handed out yet. They assumed we would get it monthly even though my kid had moved. So just billed the insurance anyway. I lodged a complaint with the insurers that they were commiting fraud.
Then you had shoppers and manulife trying to go kahootz and force you to use only shoppers.
The letter the group of pharmacy owners sent to Shoppers Drug Mart leadership said performance expectations — including for MedsChecks — had contributed to a "toxic poison" affecting company culture."The pressure ... put on front store and pharmacy metrics and professional services is borderline abusive and is creating safety concerns for the provision of good medical care to patients and customers," reads a portion of the letter emailed to Shoppers Drug Mart management on July 5.
"The pressures are so unsustainable and unrelenting that they are seriously affecting the mental health of many associates and seriously compromising the quality of care to our communities and ultimately the incredible brand of Shoppers Drug Mart."
Oh yeah, Shoppers corporate has been pushing pharmacists to reach billing quotas.
Still Ontario-specific but you know they'd push this anywhere they can.
Shoppers corporate has been pushing pharmacists to reach billing quotas.
And that corporate ownership is...
Loblaw Companies Limited
Since 2014.
Is anyone surprised that there is shenanigans going on in a loblaw owned store?
Interesting bit in that article also, having to do with the additional paperwork burden the MedsChecks cause for family docs. I hadn't realized they needed to sign off on every single one of them!
Shoppers is the worst. They are terrible to their pharmacists, customers and other employees. If you're wondering why there are so many small pharmacies that have started up its because shoppers was so terrible to their pharmacists łand wouldn't allow them to provide good, personal care) that pharmacists left and started their own businesses (at great risk) so they could provide proper care to their customers. And in a lot of cases the customers followed.
Instead of taking this as a sign they should do better, shoppers just put more pressure on their low paid pharmacists to gouge customers and extract every dollar they can out of the insurance system and customers.
Great business model.p
Believe me, I would love to.
Problem is, I'm low income, I need a couple of moderately expensive medications, and my spouse's insurance is such that I have to pay double if I go to another pharmacy. Honestly it's the only reason I switched to them. I held out for so long, too.
It should be illegal for insurance to provide a different coverage rate solely based on the pharmacy chain.
it's not a feel like, it's an actual proven thing that they are doing and have been doing for years. look up the whole "medchecks" thing.
Keep in mind they are owned by Loblaws. Stop using them.
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Addresses Threats to the United States by the Government of Cuba
CONFRONTING THE CUBAN REGIME: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order declaring a national emergency and establishing a process to impose tariffs on goods from countries that sell or otherwise provide oil to Cuba, protecting U.S. national security and foreign policy from the Cuban regime’s malign actions and policies.
The Order imposes a new tariff system that allows the United States to impose additional tariffs on imports from any country that directly or indirectly provides oil to Cuba.
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Addresses Threats to the United States by the Government of Cuba
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/42413489
[This puts even more pressure on Mexico. I hope that Russia and China step up and send oil to Cuba.]
CONFRONTING THE CUBAN REGIME: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order declaring a national emergency and establishing a process to impose tariffs on goods from countries that sell or otherwise provide oil to Cuba, protecting U.S. national security and foreign policy from the Cuban regime’s malign actions and policies. The Order imposes a new tariff system that allows the United States to impose additional tariffs on imports from any country that directly or indirectly provides oil to Cuba.
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Addresses Threats to the United States by the Government of Cuba
[This puts even more pressure on Mexico. I hope that Russia and China step up and send oil to Cuba.]
CONFRONTING THE CUBAN REGIME: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order declaring a national emergency and establishing a process to impose tariffs on goods from countries that sell or otherwise provide oil to Cuba, protecting U.S. national security and foreign policy from the Cuban regime’s malign actions and policies. The Order imposes a new tariff system that allows the United States to impose additional tariffs on imports from any country that directly or indirectly provides oil to Cuba.
The regime persecutes and tortures political opponents, denies free speech and press, profits corruptly from the Cuban people’s misery, and incites chaos by spreading communist ideology across the region.
The US literally has a torture facility on the island.
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in reply to Alex • • •I guess forking is an easy way to benefit from others' work.
I'm wondering if there is any game developer that chooses this fork knowing that it will likely not keep up with upstream features and fixes.
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in reply to Alex • • •I am a godot user and it seems to me that Godot it pretty much under heavy development and so...
Just some Foss drama, I stay away from that.
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If I were a game developer, I would probably stick to Godot unless there is a really good reason for relying on this fork. One has to trust them fully.
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in reply to als • • •Some nob on twitter was having a whinge about all these "woke games" that use game engines because they're too lazy/unable to code them themselves.
Godot vague-posted a response saying, "apparently game engines are woke now?" And asked people to share their "wokot games." Ensue further whingefest, complaining about discord mods, yadda yadda. Long story short, a project created out of anti-woke spite isn't one I'd rely on.
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