This is what r/science looked like, except all posts were [removed] instead of [deleted].

The difference is important, because [deleted] means the individual user removed their own comment. [removed] means the comment was deleted by a moderator.

Interested to see a citation on how it can reduce impact on the environment. I mean like, yes technically it is a reduction but is it really a meaningful reduction? I would imagine the impact is probably pretty negligible for the average person.

The cloth and thread are manufactured in the same facilities as clothes, and transported along the same methods. Needles, spools, and other sewing related products would have their own footprint that is factored into the footprint of regular clothes at a reduced fraction. If one uses a sewing machine, the same would be said for the electricity generated to operate it. The only thing you are really cutting out is the time that the cloth spent being assembled into an article of clothing in a factory and potentially pad prints/silk screening. Which is fine, except this is brought up as a hobby and not as a skill for repairing existing clothing to last longer and reduce amount of clothes sold. Not that it really matters because clothes are wastefully over-produced and unsold units are sent to a landfill in another country.

As a hobby, one will often be more wasteful as they are less skilled, leading to higher initial volume of cloth purchased. Also, a lot of “practice pancakes” likely to end up directly in the local landfill.

Not that learning how to sew is bad, even as a hobby or anything. I am just skeptical on the environmental claim. I don’t see it really making that much of a difference for the average person, personally.

Plus, and this is probably just because I live in California, but fabric is morbidly expensive here. Even the cheap stuff. Its been getting more expensive since at least 2014. This has led to multiple fabric selling stores closing in my area. Cant buy what you cant afford. Even thrift shops are charging a lot. A worn-out t-shirt is like $9 USD. Which is almost the price of some brand new shirts online.

Mods are always […]

You mean Reddit mods, right?

Yeah, and then the results are three men and a pigeon.

AwkwardTheTurtle is literally shaking and crying right now.

I meant continent, it was a mistake.

I meant continent. My bad.

it’s a pretty common talking point.

Not common enough, apparently.

I have never in my life ever heard anyone equate the size of a country on a map to its importance to global politics and economics. And I am old enough to remember when you had to hang up the phone before you could use the internet.

Its a distorted representation of what the Earth looks like, and regardless of the way the sphere of our Earth is displayed on a 2D plane, it will always be distorted.

I don’t see any tangible benefit from changing what has already worked and is globally accepted for many decades. It seems kinda nitpicky, or like these people are clout chasing or something.

By signing the petition you take a stand against a false narrative that downplays Africa’s vast size and diversity as the second-largest continent, reducing its perceived importance in global politics and economics. You can correct the narrative.

I’ll be real here, I have no idea what these people are talking about. The way Africa looked on maps has never had any bearing on my or probably anyone’s thinking of how important the country is in global politics or economics. If someone thinks “country looks small so they must be unimportant,” they are either a child or a fool. Or both.

Well I mean… They do. What’re you gonna do about? Cry?

I know that might seem harsh but like, I don’t believe that there is anything most internet users can do about this except for learn to live with it. And the business executives and shareholders that only see dollar signs and Pay Piggies know it too. People keep complaining, but companies keep doing this kind of thing basically unconstested, and if they ever are contested, they will just bury you in legal fees until you give up. Even if you and i don’t pay for their products (as much as we can, sometimes these people are in charge of actual life necessities), they know there is a sucker born every second just dying to shower them with money. It never ends.

This just sounds like Reddit account karma score all over again? But with a percentage displayed instead of total.

ChatGPT is not good for legal matters, I wouldn’t recommend it for that. It can be good for generating tables, or for suggesting alternative ideas, for example. One use I like to use ChatGPT for is I present it some information, such as a world building scenario I might use in a TTRPG, and I ask it to present objections and possible explanations, because I cannot possibly consider every loophole by myself. Its actually quite good at this. It often suggests things I never considered, and gives decently good explanations considering the information I gave it. It can also be pretty good at recognizing if a phrase or word is used repetitively or if there are contradictions in the literal text that it is provided.

I am not saying ChatGPT is evil. It is certainly a very interesting tool that can be useful depending on its use. But I would never tell anyone to use LLM AI for anything that requires factually correct output. Especially not for legal matters.

“Persona promises not to retain the photo for longer than 7 days and will not have access to your Reddit data such as the subreddits you visit,”

Why would they need to have it any longer than the few seconds it takes to verify the age?

Thank you, I’ll be here all week, folks.

Look, I am a community moderator here on Lemmy, and I agree with OP. There are a lot of moderators, whether they are on Reddit, Lemmy, or anywhere else, that should simply not be moderators.

I moderate the cars community (not the disney movie, like the main automotive community) on my home instance. Just me and one other moderator, its a pretty low traffic community. There was a third moderator who was dormant. Suddenly, that dormant account becomes active, reposts what the other active moderator had posted, then deleted the other moderators posts as “duplicates.” They then proceeded to remove both me and the other moderator so that they were the only community moderator. I don’t really mind; being a moderator isn’t really something I want and my home instance admins had to ask me like, 4 times to be a moderator for that community. Anyway, I messaged the admins saying like, “hey, this other account suddenly became active after like a year of inactivity and while what they are posting isn’t against the rules or anything, I don’t know if this was from you guys or if you guys know about it.” Needless to say, the admins took some actions including removing that moderator and reinstating me and the other moderator.

We’ve done it. We’ve finally found the Olympic Gold Medalist for Mental Gymnastics.

Congratulations.

The real biggest thing you can do for the environment would be reducing the global human population.

Humans do not produce anything for the environment, the mere existence of humans automatically causes harm to the environment. Humans take from the environment but give nothing useful back. If humans were deleted from the Earth, the environment would not be negatively effected. Even the most “environmentally friendly” human still damages their local environment by being alive.

But you know, killing people is pretty illegal basically everywhere, and extremely unethical in many, many ways. Unethical Pro Tips I guess? Please nobody actually do this.

You should put in the title that this is only for Linux.

Yes, I am sure there are.