This is the group handling hotline coordination: https://866ourvote.org/about/

This one is actually administering the English-speaking hotline: https://lawyerscommittee.org/

They don’t go into specifics of how they handle things, likely because it will vary by situation, but it sounds like they have a number of tools and actions at their disposal.

As I commented further down, I don’t know if I would consider this an overall good thing. Is it better than being homeless? Yes. Is it better than a motel? Probably also yes.

Is it a good long-term solution? I don’t know that I can say either way, honestly. It doesn’t seem like a good long-term solution, but I have a lot of privilege, and perhaps my paradigm is biased.

And if something like this allows somebody to get on their feet, then maybe it’s bad long-term but good in the short-term. I brought up Japan not to say, “This works, because look at Japan,” but to point out that the “Western Ideal” isn’t the only solution, and we shouldn’t let cultural bias prevent consideration of other options or ideas.

I dunno. These kinds of solutions might seem weird to someone used to having an entire apartment, but these kinds of living spaces are common in places like Japan.

And $700 is a lot to someone living in a LCoL area, but given that San Fran is a HCoL area, probably reasonably priced in that relative context.

Right, but that’s exactly it. It’s still only just anecdotes and subjective claims. It might be that it’s indeed a valid form of treatment, but the evidence we have doesn’t seem to point to that as a rational conclusion.

Whatever you personally experience might in fact be a placebo effect or confirmation bias.

Studies are currently inconclusive on the efficacy of Binaural Beats. According to this meta analysis, five corroborate BB, and eight do not.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0286023

So it’s still woo until studies consistently fail to disprove that BB does anything.

Not if you make it yourself. Saves baking time, cost of purchasing store-bought cookie dough, and cost of electricity.

Plus, it tastes better, because it doesn’t have to have weird shelf stabilizers.

Yay, food science!

This is a story from the US, so take that for what you will. Tipping culture is common here for any kind of service work except room cleaning, for some reason.

My SO and I went to a restaurant and saw two people we knew from the church we used to go to. They were multimillionaires in an area where the average salary was barely $45k.

Anyway, they had a party of about eight people, which usually means you’re obligated to pay at least 18% tip. Most restaurants do this automatically, but this was a small, locally owned place, so they didn’t add an automatic gratuity. These MF’rs tipped $1 a head. $8 fucking dollars for probably a $100+ bill.

The waiter was a friend of ours, so we covered the tip these rich assholes should have paid and our own 20% tip, even though we made maybe $60k combined at the time.

That story still gets me mad, so I’ll leave it at that before I start casting aspersions I can’t back up with facts.

It happens. Appreciate the effort! I noticed a marked uptick in the lemmit bot mirroring Reddit, so I wonder if it was a coincidence or a sibling effort.

Maybe it’s the absurd amount of wealth concentrated in the top 10% that’s multiple times more than the bottom 90% combined…? But, nah. I’m sure those economics will be trickling down any day, now.

Ironically, they don’t eat honey. They eat wasp and bee larvae.

Honey Buzzards are fucking awesome.

Tape multiple together, and you have a rudimentary scoop.

No, I don’t think so. You’d have to create an account on that instance and browse its local feed.

My main issue would be that that’s the kind of thing that can be taken as advice that lands you in legal hot water. Classifying it as misinformation is maybe a step in the wrong direction, but I think the spirit behind it is to prevent people from glomming onto untested and anecdotal “evidence.”

There’s no veterinary medical professional that would currently recommend such a thing, and allowing that kind of “advice” to proliferate, however well-intentioned, could potentially land the instance operators in court (“Your Honor, I was just following the advice I saw on Lemmy. I wasn’t trying to hurt my cat.”).

I wouldn’t mind if Reddthat had a policy against offering medical advice, including untested veterinary advice.

But y’all have Soulard! So it balances out, right? /s

I would like someone to elaborate on how it feels to ‘build’ a system software by yourself with Arch and how it is reasonable to actually do so in a simple language.

It’s not for everyone. I did it in a VM to practice and decided it’s not for me. There’s options like Archcraft and EndeavorOS that get you up and running with varying minimum installs, but you are correct that it’s very minimal (on purpose). You get to decide what software goes on your system, and that’s the core of the philosophy; you should know what you did, so when a problem occurs, you know what parts might be broken and what to research.

The Arch wiki is vital for anyone who wants a modern Desktop experience, and there’s guides for pretty much everything, even down to switching to an immutable ostree setup. I have no idea how anyone might do it blind from scratch.

The setup is just a lot of sudo pacman -S <package name> and sudoedit /path/to/config. It’s not that different from making changes in other distros.

Nothing some happy thoughts and a Magic Wand can’t cure.

I wish Lemmy’s implementation was like standard Markdown, instead of the weird “spoiler block.” It works great for a Mastodon toot, but it’s kind of awkward in this format.

Based on the fact that the original post with all the images has a lower framerate for me, I think you might be correct that it’s a hardware issue. Maybe RAM is too low.