I was replying to the other guy, and agreeing with you :)

Isn’t it literally the one who dictates? (Maybe you were skipping that step)

What’s your solution then? It’s a fair enough concern that Putin backed in to a corner is going to become even more unhinged and throw some nukes around, no?

It seems the only option down that path is to accept that the endgame here is having all of Russia, and at least one other country, nuked.

Many of the recent protests about climate change have been less direct and more about stirring up controversy to force the public to actually think about their decisions.

My hat off to them as so far this style of protest has been working and has resulted in many of us pushing for better climate control.

You’re right this isn’t going to stop companies, but even if you disagreed with them it puts climate change in your conscious mind. Even if that simply means you’ll try to make slightly more climate friendly decisions moving forwards, that’s a win.

Personally I don’t know if I agree with the technique, but I do feel like it has been working in terms of making people discuss this topic more.

Nice ignoring of the point that the Jewish were there first being the rational for creating Jewish settlements there to begin with.

For the inevitable downvoters, regardless of who is to blame it’s important that those of us discussing this attempt to understand the point the other is making even if we disagree with it.

From what I see in this conversation there’s one person putting their points across reasonably and there’s another throwing whatever cards they have randomly at the board.

He made his point clear. He asked you if you think the members that are included are significant. Clearly you don’t, but you could just say so instead of replying with a passive aggressive question.

Is slack more intelligent than teams for this? With teams you can open a word doc and put something on the space bar and it’ll keep you active

I liked click and hold to collapse (Reddit app style when I left Reddit)

I don’t understand click once to collapse and click and hold to hide the voting bar. Why is hiding the voting bar a thing?

I wonder if prices being 24.99 makes a difference here too.

That would mean that for each gift card where the full amount is not spent, the company keeps 0.01. That 0.01 is technically owed but it doesn’t prevent the company from earning interest on the unspent cash (I don’t think).

I think the answers to the question are generally isaying it isn’t as simple as ‘creatijg money out of nothing’. They may be creating money but that money is backed against assets which they do own.

because banks are government regulated and insured institutions, forced to back each loan with reserves, and regulated to have capital for each of those loans, they cannot really be said to make this private money out of nothing.

Hey, I simply said what I thought and expressed interest in what you thought. Not everyone here is trying to attack you.

Haha I don’t think it’s about fear. It’s probably about having hundreds of years of using those measurements, and it being very baked in to the language used between people to communicate.

Nobody wants to have to translate between kg and stone all the time. It’s tedious. If you live in a country where all your interactions are going to be in one measurement then you’re probably just going to go along with everyone else.

Even down to ‘goin down the pub for a pint’ being a commonly used phrase which doesn’t have the same ring when it’s '‘goin down the pub for a half litre’.

I’m pretty sure banks don’t just make up money but I’d be interested in finding out why you think they do.

Either way, it’s a useful starting point for the conversation to be had I guess.

Better for some proactivity then nobody ever progressing anything, right?

I just went on Reddit. I could down vote.

What gives?

This sounds like my Ubuntu xp as well. Although I haven’t had the arch xp to compare it against which makes me slightly hesitant to jump in.

I’m pretty tempted to revamp my old laptop to arch though. Just needs funds for enough personal storage first.

I feel betrayed

Whilst this was a very entertaining read, you dropped your pedanticness (pedantry?) when you started calling Lemmy communities ‘subreddits’.

If we can’t call a tomato and cheese toasty a grilled cheese with tomato we definitely can’t call these communities subreddits! :D

As someone else said, it may be to see who’s likely to fall for more sinister scams, or a phishing scam to get people’s addresses etc

The aim of ‘chatting up’ seems different in a library :D