Weather and transit posts, maybe, but probably mostly just nonsense talk.
If I don’t get out of cheetoland, I am screwed completely.
Had to block a bunch of communities to detoxify the homepage
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4·26 days ago!AskUSA@discuss.online is where this question should be asked at.
It is mostly due to the API fiasco in 2023. The latest wave earlier this year barely pales in comparison.
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Ah, I get it. I really meant the “correct” choice.
Yea, we don’t want them to shift in the wrong direction.
Let’s hope Albanese can stick around.
Australia has a federal election this weekend. Fingers crossed that hopefully they can make the correct choice.
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Having a car, working at some notable brand company.
Bragging.
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I halted all of my posting to reddit during the API fiasco. Lurked on Lemmy until I needed to start blocking communities and then created an account to do so.
Most of the niche and local communities (most notably r/IWantOut) are still on that sinking ship though, and not here :(. I only visit to see what those niche communities are up to from time to time, but do not post or get any news from there.
Of the communities that are highly active on Lemmy, I do think the content is pretty good and is enough to replace reddit. I feel like I get to hear what’s going on without the censorship on that sinking ship. There’s just enough activity such that the more general communities have enough new content to look at by browsing the “all” tab on the homepage and in the communities, but there’s still not enough activity or users for me to browse through “local” or “subscribed” yet.
Authortarianism and censorship to the point where I can never return to my former homeland until that changes for the better. No worker’s rights. Human rights issues in the north and west in areas that weren’t part of China historically.
Possible conflict with Taiwan (if that happens than I’d be sent to the camps to die by orange cheeto, unless I leave).
1.4 billion people & had the One Child policy for the longest time.
Lots of enviornmental problems, air pollution (and apparently much of the country has really really hot heat indices in the summer, avg high of 40C and low of 30C already… no thanks).
Really difficult language to learn (tried to learn it back when I was in school, couldn’t really and basically forgot it all).
12·3 months agoThe original creator of this map (it was originally posted by OOP to twitter, but that site is now a hudge pudge), is from Alaska.
Yea. I actually had !canadapolitics@lemmy.ca filtered, so I had to unblock it and edit my post.
In !australia@aussie.zone, they have a huge banner at the top of the sidebar telling users “Before you post, if it’s politics or world news, post it in the specific sub-communities at x and y”. It makes a huge difference in how the main Australia community is much less hectic and easier to find discussion and text posts, vs. !canada@lemmy.ca.
The sidebar of !canada@lemmy.ca does not have any banner or mention of !canadapolitics@lemmy.ca, but is instead buried underneath a collapsed menu. This I would think leads to users posting political and geopolitical news in !canada@lemmy.ca instead of !canadapolitics@lemmy.ca, which the latter is better suited for such posts.
It can also sometimes be hard to distinguish between notable news. For example, if there is a new Prime Minister, should c/Canada allow it?
In those instances, I suppose it is fine to post that in the main !canada@lemmy.ca community if it is that major. I’d imagine there would be text/general discussion posts relating to that issue, so such news would be in the main Canada community anyways in that format.
I think filtering based on link posts vs. text and image posts would be valuable. Perhaps !canadapolitics@lemmy.ca and (world)news@lemmy.ca could become communities dedicated to link posts (posts that link to news sites, etc.), and then !canada@lemmy.ca would be text, image, opinion, and miscellaneous posts. (i.e., open ended discussion, etc.). It seems like right now !canadapolitics@lemmy.ca currently allows text posts as well, but I suppose that is fine and there isn’t that big of a need to change that.
Online education isn’t exactly great for people with poor self control or focus. At best, online education is good for lectures, but not much else (aside from if commuting or finding a place close by to live is a pain, then I suppose online education may be a tradeoff in that regard).
Everything else is generally better in person. Stuff like group projects and whatnot cannot be done online.
Since COVID, I’ve found that the growth of technology isn’t exactly great for the learning experience. Now a lot of educational work takes place through the distraction vortex (computers and phones are very tempting to do something else instead). Pre-pandemic when education was more paper and pencil based, it is much easier to focus. At “best”, you can only daydream or whatnot. Other people would not be as tucked to their phones and laptops like it is since the pandemic.
In a way, online education would also be harmful in reducing social cohesion as well if it becomes the default mainstream, so it’s not just limited in excluding certain neurodiverse populations from access to education. Online education isn’t exactly more “efficent”.
I have iterated in my post above that me and my friend are unable to drive due to our autism, and I don’t think camping sites are accessible by our city’s public transport bus and subway system. I mentioned that a sleepover is overkill and me and my friend’s friendship isn’t at that point. It is more of a casual friend relationship in that regard, although we prefer deep convo topics with our autism.