You do not have to be Jewish to apply.

You don't have to "sign up". You can just scroll down a bit to the "Find A Protest Now" button, or click the direct link I provided above.

ETA, you don't even need a clever sign to hold up. Just being present is good enough.

Kagi has an option to search the Fediverse. This makes it a lot easier than specifying a site in the search query, which would also limit the results to a specific instance.

http://kagi.com/

Why YSK: This lets you easily replace searches like "some topic reddit" with Lemmy!

YSK as those communities provide guidance on some popular questions and issue new joiners can face

• [email protected]
• [email protected]
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• [email protected]

YSK because this can help with the smaller quantity of content Lemmy has. Coming back to older threads to look at new comments to ongoing discussions is a way to solve that issue.

https://endoverdose.net/

The only real hoop you have to jump through is to go through the online training course which takes about 30 minutes and is all about administration of the drug

I received my package today and feel it's important to have around with the current rise in opioid overdoses.

Their kit does not include CPR masks so I recommend purchasing some to keep with your doses. (Won't share a link due to Amazon boycott)

I would've bought some ages ago if I lived in a bigger city.

It can be a bit buggy at times, but when it comes to just playing music with the screen locked, it's perfect.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-background-play-fix/

Edit: I forgot to also mention that ad blocker extensions make sailing the seas on mobile much more manageable. Extentions, in general, have been a really nice addition.

PayPay, in particular, seems a good target for consumer action. Just saying...

Obvious as it may sound, people with authoritarian beliefs hiding behind free speech actually consider it as a weakness akin empathy. It allows losers like them to amplify their reach despite not being in power. They abandon their "free speech absolutist" postures the moment they think they are in power.

These instructions don't appear to be documented. Here's a post from a bit while ago that covers the basic functions of participating on Lemmy via Mastodon mentions.

Communities discoverability is usually an issue on Lemmy.

[email protected] tries to solve that issue with a pinned post with a selection of active communities, as well as regular threads on dedicated topics such as "music", "movies", "hobbies"

Example of a user not being able to see posts because of incorrect language settings configuration: https://feddit.org/post/8656952

This has been fixed in version 0.19.9, but if your instance is running an older version that that, make sure to check that in your account language settings (the checklist, not the interface language):

• all the languages you speak are selected (for instance, Undetermined and English)
• or that you don't have anything selected (in that case, you are going to see all the languages)

Selecting a language is done by Ctrl + Click on a desktop

I had one installed eight years ago when I bought my house. I’ve used it to heat the entire place, but this winter, I struggled to maintain even 20°C indoors on really cold days.

Well, today I finally brought my air compressor inside and gave the guts of the indoor unit a thorough blasting - and now it feels like an oven in here. I’ve been lowering the thermostat all day, and it’s still way too hot. It literally feels like it’s putting out twice the heat now. I was expecting a slight improvement, but nothing like this.

I've always been afraid to even click on that thing, it looks like arcane academic patois that isn't meant for mere mortals. But the tooltips make it very accessible.

The tooltips only appear to work on English words, however.

Gas stoves fill the air in your home with particulate matter (pm), which has been found to increase cancer risk in the long term.

So next time you buy a stove, consider choosing an induction stove.

Btw, gas stoves being better or faster than induction is a myth. They have certain specific advantages, but they are actually slower.

Obligatory Technology Connections video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUywI8YGy0Y

When the German Parliament building was burned down and used as an excuse to fully commence what became the Holocaust.

Hitler blamed his perceived enemies for the fire (that he likely had started himself). All of this after he was insufficiently punished for an insurrection/coup attempt called the Beer Hall Putsch.

Let's hope this stays a historical reference with current US admin seig heiling on stage and looking for any excuse to invoke martial law.

[Jury Nullification] is when the jury in a criminal trial gives a verdict of not guilty even though they think a defendant has broken the law. The jury's reasons may include the belief that the law itself is unjust

Until the wealthy and powerful are held to account, why punish your fellow everyday citizens? Use your brain. Decide if what they're charging people with is suppression or actually keeping society safe.

When those prosecutors start losing these cases, maybe they will start to rethink who they are focusing on.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/56766127

Claude Sonnet 3.7 high level summary (though I recommend the entire report)

3 Key Points: "The Crisis Report - 103"

1. Global ocean temperatures are rapidly rising, with 2023-2025 showing unprecedented warming despite La Nina conditions, potentially leading to +2°C of global warming between 2030-2045.

2. The report claims this level of warming could cause catastrophic global food system collapse with agricultural outputs declining 14-20% per 1°C of warming.

3. According to the report, these conditions could lead to mass starvation primarily in the Global South, with projections of 2+ billion deaths at +2°C warming and 4+ billion at +3°C warming.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Why you should know: The ‘a’ vs ‘an’ conundrum is not about what letter actually begins the word, but instead about how the sound of the word starts.

For example, the ‘h’ in ‘hour’ is silent, so you would say ‘an hour’ and not ‘a hour’. A trickier example is Ukraine: because the ‘U’ is pronounced as ‘You’, and in this case the ‘y’ is a consonant, you would say “a Ukraine” and not “an Ukraine”.

Tip: when in doubt, sound it out(loud).

Reference

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

According to the tracking scanner Exodus (can be found on F-Droid), which keeps an updated database on trackers and runs your installed app against its register, you can track what apps are tracking you and clues of how. Saw that Boost is tracking me and uninstalled it and went straight to Jerboa. Jerboa is pretty similar to good ole' RedditIsFun-app and easy to use, so I am personally recommending it.

From F-Droid:

Exodus (Exodus show you trackers and permissions in apps installed on your device.) https://f-droid.org/packages/org.eu.exodus_privacy.exodusprivacy/

For some reason whenever someone posts any news about Pixelfed one of the top comments is usually along the lines of “no dark mode, no use.” Boy do I have good news for those users!

Like the rest of the Fediverse, and unlike corporate media, there are multiple apps you can use! Examples:

• iOS has Impressia (fka Vernissage)
• Android has Pixeldroid

This is also useful for users who have qualms about the Pixelfed dev’s more… distasteful? behavior (example I found today) and don’t rock with rewarding it, kind of like how a lot of Lemmy users might block or defederate the flagship .ml instance.

Charles Lindbergh was a hero for his feats of aviation but ultimately lost that goodwill once he started pushing bigoted conspiracies to keep America from fighting Hitler.

Lindbergh would spend the years leading up to World War II actively campaigning to “protect the white race” and for the U.S. to maintain strict neutrality toward Nazi Germany. He even flew to Germany to receive a medal in person from Hermann Göring, the infamous commander of Nazi Germany’s Luftwaffe, on behalf of Adolph Hitler himself.

According to the unpublished galleys of American historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., some Republicans even urged Lindbergh to run for President against Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1940 to keep America out of the war.

This dark night for the American soul became the subject of Philip Roth’s 2004 novel, The Plot Against America. Now an HBO series of the same name, the story explores an alternate future where Lindbergh does challenge Roosevelt and wins Presidency — with disastrous consequences.

Some phones, you have to manually swipe on the screen, other phones, it automatically calls after a 5-10 second cooldown (varies by phone)

Some of you might already know that, this is more like a reminder that it exists.

Why YSK: If you don't think you'll ever need to make such calls, you should probably disable it to prevent accidentially dialing (or if it doesn't let you disable it, change the default emergency number to 0000000000).

OR If you are in an abusive household and think you might need to quickly call for help, you might wanna have it enabled, set to automatically call after 5 presses, and set it with the shortest possible timer, and remember this option in case you ever need it (and hopefully, the people with guns don't point them at you when they come).