Okay but like, if I browse Lemmy every morning and regularly read linked articles, am I getting my news from social media or digital news sites? Same question for the search engines category.

Unrelated, but the idea of getting daily news from a chatbot is baffling.

Spirit and other airlines have been struggling with high oil prices that have pushed up the price of jet fuel. The company’s woes predated the war in Iran, though, as the company has struggled to increase post-pandemic demand.

Well yeah, the population that would normally fly Spirit are now unable to afford flying at all.

Hey, I remember that post!

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Can I take a second to swoon over your instance name?

Do you happen to live in North America? If so I’d highly recommend checking out the Xerces society plant lists for recommended species that support local pollinators. The plant lists include timing info for suggestions on what would bloom the rest of the year, because as you mention lilacs are fairly short bloomers (might I recommend my namesake, the humble fireweed, which is a late summer bloomer?)

It’s definitely not pangea. For one, South America and Africa are not connected (which is the one thing everyone knows about plate tectonics). However what initially jumped out to me was India and the Himalayas (which are a relatively recent geological event).

I’m pretty sure this is a typo, but something about “just deserts for Trump” feels more appropriate.

Two examples where erroneous usage has resulted in this paradox:

• Regardless and irregardless

• “I couldn’t care less” and “I could care less”

I see. Thank you for clarifying; the timing was unclear in the original post.

I am confused. If the admin in question is no longer an admin, what’s the need for defederation?

This is the Internet. We are all exposed to things that we don’t like but that don’t bother other people.

I despise seeing photos of needles (especially in use), but especially ever since COVID, I’ve been frequently exposed to photos of needles, such as with articles about vaccination. When I see such an image, I squint and keep scrolling. Because this is my particular dislike, and therefore my responsibility to minimize personal exposure. But I would never suggest, nor even want, such images be censored. Putting NSFW on a vaccination image might make me more comfortable, but it would also further stigmatize what is actually a good thing at a time when it’s being attacked by anti-vax people and orgs. Similarly, spiders are good things (they fill important ecological roles, and are living creatures that deserve respect), yet many people squash them with disregard because they’re “icky” or “scary.” By censoring a completely normal photo of a spider on a general public forum, you are only serving to further the narrative that spiders are scary, unpleasant things that humans should actively separate themselves from.

If you’re still concerned, you can always put “warning: spider” in the title, or only post spider photos to bug-oriented communities and similar. But frankly I think you are unnecessarily babying a small, arbitrarily selected portion of the population. Again, do you similarly try to protect people with other phobias, or just arachnophobia?

What about people who fear snakes? Mice? Dogs? Clowns? The open ocean?

NSFW is specifically for separating out material that could get someone in trouble in a setting such as work, school, or public transit. It is also used as a NSFL filter for gore and other highly unpleasant things that users may want to self-censor (although the two really should be distinct, but most platforms don’t support that).

Unlike many other old Internet customs, NSFW has survived and continues on to this day because people recognize its importance and are generally good about using the tool appropriately. Marking posts that do not actually fall under standard definitions of “inappropriate” (e.g. nudity) only serves to dilute NSFW, to weaken it as an Internet self-censoring tool, and to weaken it means to increase the likelihood that it will be discarded.

NSFW is a critical element to keeping the Internet free and open, because it provides people with a way to control their experience and modify it as needed (for instance, allowing a user to easily avoid images when in a public space like a waiting room and not when in a more private environment). Once you start applying this tool willy-nilly, not only does that increase the likelihood of people ignoring the warning in a future (“I’m going to click this link because it’s probably just a spider or something… and it’s boobs”), but it also opens the door to pressure to use the NSFW label in malicious ways (such as to censor a gay couple kissing because “it bothers some people and doesn’t hurt to blur the image for them”).

Without tools such as the ability to effectively self-label material as NSFW, the inevitable conclusion is the banning of said material (“users aren’t using NSFW filters appropriately, so we just won’t allow that content at all, problem solved”).

tl;dr: overapplication of the NSFW filter is bad

I didn’t mean all supermarket apples, just certain varieties (such as the so-called “red delicious”), but I’ll edit my comment to clarify.

“Looks great tastes awful” – fruits that have been bred/engineered for shelf appearance over taste (e.g. certain varieties of supermarket tomatoes and apples), and desserts like cakes that have all manner of pretty and intricate decorations on them, but then taste bland or off.

Why is this marked NSFW?

This is the second unhelpfully vague question you’ve posed today about writing.

So it would seem the first thing you need to do is to look up resources on effective communication and on accurately identifying problems/goals. Because I’m unclear as to whether the problem is that you don’t know what you’re looking for when asking these questions, or that you do know and for some reason assume that we can read your mind and know it too even without your properly describing it.

Are we talking fiction or non-fiction? Obligated writing (school, work) or voluntary writing (journaling, fun)? Getting over a hump (dealing with writer’s block) or getting started in the first place?

It’s really hard to give advice without knowing the context of the problem.

Good point, title altered accordingly

Meanwhile, the cat: [already hiding under the bed]

Listen, I too am at the point of appreciating the attitude of “fuck it, burn it all down,” as a symbolic cry of the times. However this post implies a localized wave of anti-capitalism-motivated arson, which is (and please correct me if I’m wrong) currently unsubstantiated beyond the one toilet paper warehouse that everyone has already heard about.

Until these fires are proven to be intentional and not accidents, this post is nothing more than misinformation, and misinformation gets an automatic downvote.