It’s understood the same as a middle finger would be, except more Britishly.

Growing up, the story was that it came from when longbows were peak weaponry and the French were chopping the fingers off of captured English archers - the V sign was saying something like “fuck you, I can still shoot you”. There’s insult/defiance/threat in there but it’s not like throwing down the gauntlet (to be clear, we don’t do that gesture any more).

This makes sense.

Using rainfall as a(n inverse) proxy for protests is very clever. Interesting to see how the MLK violent protests actually were counterproductive and increased the republican vote share.

I’d heard this as a plumber who knocked a pipe with a spanner.

It seems to have failed to notice the whole transcript and just repeated the intro/summary.

Ah, so it’s not even possible with a different front-end (unless it stores extra data).

Yes, you can go to your profile and click on “Saved” to see your starred posts/comments.

One annoying thing is that it’s sorted by the original posting date, not the time you saved it, which might mean your most recently saved item isn’t even on the first page of results.

As that philosopher said, mo money mo problems.

I just tried searching “element lemmy” and got the article Lemmy: Fans call for periodic table element to be named after Motörhead frontman

Whereas “element reddit” gives /r/elementchat/

Lemmy is indexed on Google as using the site: operator will show, e.g. “rust site:programming.dev” gives sensible results, but there’s not a way to search across Lemmy. Well, not with Google anyway (Kagi has a Fediverse lens that works fairly well).

I guess not!

It’s an increase in reported monthly users, as now activity like voting is also considered, not just posts/comments.

Yup, I was the one who posted the ep8 discussion thread 😉

Yup, and with @notthebees’ idea of taking photos as a backup you’ve got what you need.

Having a computer-based one that’s the source of truth (and perhaps accessible online) does make sense, although I suspect this is too niche to exist already.

I know these are famous last words, but this doesn’t sound too difficult to knock up yourself, assuming you know kung-fu coding.

Sounds awful. I hear that if you drink enough of it, you begin to like it, but how can you get to that point?

It turns out that people on Lemmy are no better responsibly using a downvote button than anywhere else. I think you should have to at least select a reason why you’re downvoting to add some friction - maybe options something like “I don’t like this”, “I disagree”, “This is factually incorrect”, “Spam”, “Abusive language”, etc. Then you can filter out the first two!

Did you read the post you’re replying to?

the Israeli settlers who was arrested by the police, will be let go without a charge, as was the case of every single incident before

This is ridiculously petty from the devs, and does make me seriously wonder about Lemmy’s future.

I’m the Worf kind. I suspect that for us non-USA types it’s pretty one-sided.

You’d think more of the contestants would have watched the show before coming on. I suppose there is quite a lot of it nowadays.