The Basque Country still belongs to Spain and Northern Ireland still belongs to the UK, so… no, I guess?

I don’t know enough about that cluster in the Balkans to even speculate on it.

god that’s stupid, sorry

Asking if terrorism works isn’t a stupid question. It’s a very impolite question (from the perspective of people in power), and maybe even heartless, but not stupid.

It’s impressive enough that, as a mod in another community, I’ve asked for an explanation instead of banning it immediately.

Pew Research being less trash than other pollsters is not the same thing as it not being trash at all.

A skit? Is that unusual?

Because they are trolls whose purpose is to actively harm everybody else. They do not deserve our tolerance.

It’s eminently topical and (unlike corporate social media) not suppressed, so what did you expect?

As for your other point, there is no good universal Lemmy linking thing for posts.

In another comment I mentioned that there’s this lemmyverse link thing. From the way you phrased that I’m not sure if you don’t know about it, or do know but just don’t think it’s good, but I think it’s about halfway to being useful.

What it needs to get the rest of the way is to:

• default to some kind of load-balanced or at least round-robin instance selection instead of defaulting to the original instance of the link given, and
• be built into the Lemmy UI(s) so that it’s easy to grab a lemmyverse.link URL to share.

IMO what we need is a different sort of thing more like load-balancing than caching, where users from outside the Fediverse (i.e. who aren’t logged in to the server whose URL they’re trying to load and thus probably don’t actually have a strong preference about which instance they actually view it from) get redirected to other instances to help spread out the load.

There’s no particular reason why the entirety of Hacker News and Reddit needs to be piling in to view this thing that was posted to !linux@lemmy.ml just because a feddit.org user happened to have been the one who wrote it (and possibly shared it).

Posts and comments already have a chain icon for the URL of the view of them on the user’s current server and a fediverse graph icon for the URL of them on the poster’s home server, but maybe there needs to be a third icon for the lemmyverse link url or something like that.

That’s not a “post from feddit.org,” that’s a “post by a feddit.org user on a lemmy.ml community.” It may be DDOSing feddit.org because that server’s view of it is the link that happened to go viral, but there’s no reason folks outside Lemmy couldn’t view it on the server it’s actually posted on, or some other third node like lemmy.world or whatever.

If you don’t like being inconvenienced, the solution is to pressure London to capitulate to the transit workers’ demands so the strike stops.

An IMO better article that explains why the radio telescope was a legitimate military target: https://en.defence-ua.com/events/ukraine_strikes_the_rt_70_radio_telescope_in_crimea_and_its_even_more_important_than_s_400_radar_loss-15674.html

¯\_ (ツ)_/¯ Take it up with the U.S. Census Bureau. It’s their definition, not mine.

Quote: “There is acute dissatisfaction among the personnel of the Russian fleet based in Novorossiysk over the senseless ‘meat-grinder’ orders from their command to retrieve the Ukrainian naval drone, which led to the elimination of the elite group.”

Maybe the next ‘elite group’ will learn from this and frag their commander instead of following suicidal orders.

In the US, the “Midwest” means the area from Ohio to the Dakotas (and with a southern limit along the Ohio river and southern border of Missouri and Kansas).

Montana is full-blown “West” (or sometimes “Mountain West” or a member of the “Mountain States,” if you want to distinguish it from the “West Coast” or “Pacific Northwest.”)

aside from the Atlanta traffic design.

Atlanta (the city proper) is getting better, despite GDOT’s best efforts to sabotage it. It’s the metro Atlanta suburbs that really suck.

I *don’t* get the love-on for North Carolina and Pennsylvania, I guess.

Not sure about Pennsylvania, but I think North Carolina is rated so favorably because conservatives like it because it’s part of the South, and liberals like it because it sucks less than most of the rest of the South due to the Research Triangle. (Georgia gets a similar boost because of Atlanta, but lesser because it gets extra hate from conservatives because of civil rights / Black culture.)

Montana does better than the rest of the midwest because it’s romaticised.

So, folks, are we just gonna gloss over this guy calling Montana “Midwest?”

“Anything involving machine learning” also has nothing to do with “classical AI,” which was basically just gigantic piles of if statements.

You either put a buffer between the parking and the bike lane, such that opening car doors don’t intrude into it, or you remove the parking entirely.

I expected the number on the map to be for the entire Naples area, including Pompeii and Capri. Is it not?

I’m not sure I’d call Rome “by the water.” Ostia is like 15 miles away and a whole separate town.