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@ porcoesphino @mander.xyz

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  • Where do you typically leave/read reviews

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  • 4.5-4.6 can be hit-or-miss

    How is that not inflated? For my personal ratings, a three is something I'd be happy to eat every day. A five is close to unattainable. It's basically centered on 2.5 with something like a tapered normal distribution. It's tedious mapping out so I'm not lowering ratings for good places so I don't rate anymore.

    But getting past me being difficult, you can't even rate 4.5 can you? Isn't that information being lost when the way people rate is basically 5 for thumb up and every other number is a thumb down?

    You're right about it being useful to look at relative ratings, I just wouldn't label that as really accurate.

    It's a separate issue but you brought up categories. I never loved rating in a situation like on Airbnb where one place might be a deliberately expensive penthouse and another might be deliberately a cheap shared room in the wilderness, especially with something like a "cleanliness" rating

  • Where do you typically leave/read reviews

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  • Agreed Google maps is the best review aggregator (and I wish it wasn't) but "the star ratings are scarily accurate"? I think you mean "hugely inflated". Like almost any review system a I've seen recently: if you like a place and you give less than a 5 then you're hurting it.

  • What are some tricks to efficiently search for information on the internet?

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  • Does Kagi let you add a domain to a denylist (like a new well SEOed site thats genAI with inaccuracies you've noticed), or positively bias search results (like saying you know you want Wikipedia entries high in the list)?

  • What are some tricks to efficiently search for information on the internet?

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  • Deny list plugins!?? I'd been looking for a search engine with that built it. It seems so obvious. I didn't even think to look up a plugin. I had been writing keyword searches for browsers that manually added the query params for particularly frustrating results.

  • Is there a selfhosted option for webcomics?

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  • Is there a selfhosted option for webcomics?

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  • I asked something similar (its just asking about ebooks) and some of the answers there may help:

    https://mander.xyz/post/39809286

    I have notes for a follow up but I didn't finish my testing and am still using mostly commercial options.

    I think I didn't find anything good for syncing between devices (unless own a kobo reader) but Calibre OPDS was workable as a server and both Booklore and Calibre Web had options for downloading but both have to deal with book torrents often not being available / bundled without the name and I think I liked Booklore more, but was going to go with Calibre Web since I thought I could share the library file (and I travel so for now my "server" is a virtual machine on my laptop that is often not running).

  • If this has been asked recently just link it no need to be mean, because I am emotionally sensitive right now. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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  • Most authoritarian regimes consolidate power through improving the economy and high approval don't they? I thought the collapse tends to come later after the consolatio and I hadn't seen it argued as a strategic thing. Any chance you can point to something that discusses this more fully?

  • How do you work at a job where you fundamentally disagree with the company's ethics?

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  • Oh wow, it looks like I upset a surprising number of people. Median income at Microsoft is 200k or 94th percentile for the US. Who is reading this and downvoting because someone at Microsoft really might become homeless if they try to work somewhere that more aligns with their ethics?

  • These are lids from freshly open jars of home canned pickles. Is this mold I'm seeing?

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  • I don't think anyone has pointed out that the food is on the inside of the circle and the outside world is on the outside of the circle. The inside of the circle and the seal are clean so it shouldn't matter what it is, it didn't contaminate the food inside

  • why do so many people think the brain is somehow totally isolated from the body?

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  • This might have come up today in a few pages of the novel I'm reading. The main character in the book has a lot of intrusive thoughts and there is a part where they read someone's blog that has similar thoughts. Anyway, I still don't know your situation, but I thought I'd put the name of the book here incase its helpful to someone:

    "Turtles all the way down" by John Green

    Its also a movie by the same name

  • Could a music label exist on the dark web using only Bitcoin, with fairer copyright rules?

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  • Sorry, I know this is definitely a tangent from the OP but I was closing tabs and Trump's comment on pardoning Changpeng Zhao is too good not to share:

    Which one? Who is that?.... The recent one? Yes, the? I believe we’re talking about the same person because I do pardon a lot of people. I don’t know, he was recommended by a lot of people. A lot of people say that—are you talking about the crypto person?—A lot of people say that he wasn’t guilty of anything. He served four months in jail, and they say that he was not guilty of anything, that what he did, well, you don’t know much about crypto. You know nothing about, you know nothing about nothing. You’re fake news. But let me just tell you that he was somebody that, as I was told, I don’t know him, I don’t believe I’ve ever met him. But I’ve been told a lot of support. He had a lot of support, and they said that what he did is not even a crime. It wasn’t a crime, that he was persecuted by the Biden administration, uh, and so, I gave him a pardon at the request of a lot of very good people.

  • Could a music label exist on the dark web using only Bitcoin, with fairer copyright rules?

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  • A feeling that seems to underly this question is that record companies are some capitalist evil nightmare and that crypto is the saviour here. I don't think any of the comments here address that part so I thought I might try.

    I'm guessing most of this post is thinking of small musicians but to think about how much money a record label makes I'm going to be lazy and use a number I saw recently - Taylor Swift grossed 2 billion from ticket sales for her Eras Tour and got about 190 million after tax and payments for services:

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2024/12/09/taylor-swifts-eras-tour-grossed-2-billion-double-any-other-tour-in-history-report-says/

    That's a similar sort of order to the fines we're seeing for laundering in crypto - Binance pleaded guilty to money laundering and paid 4 billion in resolutions:

    https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/binance-and-ceo-plead-guilty-federal-charges-4b-resolution

    And similar to the gains Trump has made since shortly before coming into office, an estimated 1 billion from crypto:

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2025/06/05/this-is-how-much-trump-has-made-from-crypto-so-far/

    It seems like a lot of those payments that Trump made money from are some form of corruption. And a large portion of the amount that record labels make.

    It's reasonable to look at the wealth of record companies and to wish it was more reasonable to distributed. It's also reasonable to look at how little artists make of certain transactions and think there must be something amiss. I honestly have no idea on the accuracy of those two, the world is counterintuitive sometimes but I'm sure there is a lot of room for improvement.

    Aiming to use crypto as one of the mechanisms for improvement seems pretty far fetched to me from a pragmatic perspective. (But I think both the anti record company sentiment and the pro crypto sentiment have similar ideologies.) From what I've seen crypto has only demonstrated usefulness as a mechanism for:

    • investing in a bubble/bust market (that helps make some people very rich)
    • funnelling scam payments (that helps make some people rich)
    • funnelling payments for favours / corruption (that helps make some people rich)

  • why do so many people think the brain is somehow totally isolated from the body?

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  • Okay, I think I understand now.

    That's understandable in that situation but as someone that wasn't in that situation I was just really slow to understand what you meant.

    And it's not like the mind doesn't have power over the body (at the very least good / bad spirits make pain easier / harder to deal with) but yeah.. some of the sayings people throw out are just shitty. And it does get more insidious. I'm only guessing at your situation but know of people with cancer where people would say things like "I don't think they have the mental strength to survive this".

    It sounds like a difficult situation to be in. Are you still in it, or have you at least found a way to avoid the frustration and confusion of their comments?

  • If you smoothened out the earth, how high would the water level be?

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  • You did well in your answer by the way. I didn't downvote. My comments are directed at everyone downvoting the person calling out imperial units

  • If you smoothened out the earth, how high would the water level be?

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  • Sure, they're great for people chatting casually in the US, Myanmar and Liberia but even there they still add unnecessary complexity with scientific or engineering applications

  • If you smoothened out the earth, how high would the water level be?

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  • Like, nautical miles have a good use but that's not even the miles being used

  • If you smoothened out the earth, how high would the water level be?

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  • Yeah, I'm fluent in what you listed too... but everything you listed is just meters in metric so that's five-ish conversions to needlessly need to know. And if you start using equations in then standard units play up a lot like when diving with imperial units you measure depth in feet but pressure in pounds per square inch so you have an awkward feet to inch right there and the equations are just more complicated. Anything beside the simple gets compounding unit conversions. And the countries left in the world that only use imperial are the US, Myanmar and Liberia.

  • Recommended mobile apps for Lemmy?

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  • Doesn't the OP say iOS?

  • If you smoothened out the earth, how high would the water level be?

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  • Ahaha. All the people from the US downvoting this 🤦‍♂️ So many solutions to questions like this a just easier and more intuitive in metric. Tec diving is just hilarious in imperial units

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  • Yeah, after scanning more I liked this comment:

    https://lemmy.world/comment/20129966

    To the extent they are able, relative to their need. You are clearly far more able than a lot of parents who aren’t well off, like you

    I just think some of the comments have "to the extent they're able" being very privileged economically in a way that can also put down a lot of people less well off.

    I'm not sure I completely agree that out by 18 is cutting them off completely. That said, I chose to leave when I was 17 (for university somewhere else on government assistance) and my younger brother became a live at home alcoholic that would get our younger siblings drunk on school nights and cause other issues... so I probably have an unconventional interpretation.