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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

There is also a reputed new cat-to/from-human transmission vector for H5N1, which was briefly noted in a CDC report last week before being redacted: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/health/cdc-bird-flu-cats-people.html . NYT article may be paywalled, but details can be found in other media sources as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Ah, of course! Thanks for jogging my memory. Despite the growth in users, many of the communities on Lemmy remind me of the old days of BBSes and web foraa. Hopefully the Fediverse will maintain its friendliness and usefulness as it expands.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Is that correlated with students getting out of school for the summer and joining, or a different event? I have noticed a lower quality of conversation in a number of communities recently.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

My pleasure. I agree!

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Eternal September (en.m.wikipedia.org)
 

Eternal September or the September that never ended was a cultural phenomenon during a period beginning around late 1993 and early 1994, when Internet Service Providers began offering Usenet access to many new users.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Hi HellsBelle,

Firstly, sorry for my overly snarky response. I know that the "don't change the headline" rule was strictly enforced in many subreddits, but I wasn't aware that this applied here as well. Is this a rule for this particular community or the entire Lemmy instance it's on? Would you be kind enough to share a pointer to the rule list?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 days ago (5 children)

You don't have to repeat the clickbait headline. Write your own!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I assume this involves sending all text to Fakespot / Mozilla for analysis, which is concerning from a privacy standpoint. Their privacy policy seems to snarf many different categories of data, and they say explicitly that they may link data to your identity and use it for marketing purposes: https://www.fakespot.com/privacy-notice

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah, very likely. I'm a literalist at heart, which is often at odds with posts of this nature. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 2 weeks ago (15 children)

The screenshot shown references nothing about a payment plan or a 69% APR. What am I missing?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Rick rolling aside, what happened?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Thank you, Slatlun. It's a pet peeve of mine. I read somewhere that not rewriting article headlines is a holdover from some subreddits who prohibited the practice.

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