Well, here’s hoping you have a better time with us on Lemmy! My Reddit account is 8 years old, but I stopped using it and have been on Lemmy full time for 2 years now.

I think the issue is you are posting too early for Reddit, you should be commenting for the first week at least.

Essentially, the coarse-grained spam-filter assumes that anyone that has a whole bunch of posts ready to go the day they sign up is a bot spammer. Even here on Lemmy, if you sign up then immediately try to copy and paste a post 10 times to different communities, you will get reported and banned for spamming.

The principle behind it is like any social space online or offline: if you are a legitimate new member, you will start on the fringes and slowly settle in, from introducing yourself to a few members, attend events, to then asking questions, before making any influential speeches or going into a leadership position. Anyone trying to fast track that will be met with suspicion from members.

Reddit and Lemmy are similar in a sense. you start as a lurker, become a commentor, then you are well-adjusted enough to post.

If you want to talk about personal waste, the problem is two-end: reducing consumption (new stuff) and reducing disposal. Some plastic wrapping, some packaging and single use items are required in some applications (e.g. for sanitary reasons), but we can find alternatives (e.g. bamboo biodegradable cutlery) and look to use longer lasting items over single use. The second is the lack of segragation of waste streams and appropriate facilities to reclaim material from waste. Even if something is biodegradable, if it ends in a landfill it can release methane or if burned it releases CO2. Many landfills have most of their emissions coming from organic and yard waste, and diverting that to compost, mulch and natural gas digester projects.

There are a lot of problems but there are also a lot of solutions. You will have to set aside a level of waste you are willing to accept, and work towards places you can improve or propose items or support efforts that can help. Zero waste for everywhere and everything is an impossible goal that strictly pursuing that will achieve nothing but make you depressed.

For restaurants specifically, when you eat out you can go to places with washable plates and cutlery instead of paper/plastic ones, or for the cheaper end, ones that use bamboo cutlery instead of plastic.

In Canada we have this thing called “bulk barn” (a brand of bulk food stores) that you pay by weight, as much or as little as you want, but you put each item you get into its own plastic bag.

No, if a Democrat president had done something remotely resembling one of these things: media, courts, Congress would be in a frenzy to stop it, before you could say executive order.

I mean I can understand the “controlled ineffectual opposition” narrative, but I don’t buy the “Democrats’ inaction means they are just as evil as Republicans”.

In addition to siccing the military on protestors…

• Harris would totally apply tariffs to every country in the world.
• Harris would totally pardon everyone who paid her enough and said good things about her.
• Harris would fire huge chunks of the government recklessly without any regard to what they do.
• Harris would push for a Big Beautiful Bill to withhold funding from judges that would try to hold her administration in contempt.
• Harris would start a cryptocurrency token designed solely to enrich herself.
• Harris would get into rapid back and forth arguments on Twitter (or BlueSky I suppose) with other influential people.
• Harris would try to make every issue about herself, including Canada’s election.

She would totally do all of these things in the first few months, because both sides are definitely the same.

Promises made, promises kept.

Unlike the Democrats, Trump and the Republicans didn’t abandon the Somali-American community. They are actively attacking it.

Are we talking about Outlook or “New Outlook”? Everyone that I’ve heard that switch to new Outlook has had nothing but pain that you can’t “do the thing” you used to any more. Like “Meeting with All”.

Would you like to pay us and have ads?

• Google

definitely Ontario

I’m sure the most watched ones might be: The Duck song, Asdfmovie, and the like…

My picks:

• (Stupid funny) playing Parappa the Rapper 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGlCGMm8Qag
• (Informative) CGP Grey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y3jE3B8HsE
• (Music) The Canadian band Barenaked Ladies recording songs in their Bathroom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebWzQ-sZZto
• There was this one youtube minigame (maybe it was a google homepage game? I don’t remember) commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall Anniversary, with a wall you could break by moving the timeline bar back and forth. I can’t find it anymore.

Yes, yes yes do this! Canada let’s subscribe to inter-European standards over American MIC vendor lock-in.

I suppose it’s worth noting that being more permissive with federation and a lower signup barrier was part of lemm.ee’s philosophy. The shutdown is related to burnout from the moderation side. More permissive federation means more stress to mods/admins, since they have to deal with more questionable user behaviour. Often times defederation just comes out of not being able to handle the constant stream of reports of anti-social activity from particular servers.

Free FOSS Utility for Creative Kits Brushes, Overlays, & Imaging

You forgot that for whatever reason we have to have an acronym in our acronym.

So the whole thing about FOSS is that at its core, someone could add malicious features or whatever to a codebase, but it can be discovered if people notice adverse effects and dig into it.

Like that one supply chain attack by “Jia Tan” on xz tools, that was quite nefarious, well planned and executed, yet some nerd noticed a slightly longer than normal response time and looked into it (a gross simplification, some luck might have been involved but you get the point). If it were a closed-source proprietary tool, the owners would shrug their shoulders and gaslight people into believing it’s nothing.

That’s why people make a fuss about binary blobs in FOSS code, if anything unwanted was happening, it could always be from there.

My personal level of checking is ensuring that I have gone to the correct official source, but I will generally have to trust the builder that was linked from that source did not modify or inject anything.

This sounds like something a programmer would come up with as a joke, but because it’s Microsoft, I believe you.

The US “America First” policy really seems to be to purge its own reputation and effectively sanction itself. If the Trump admin doesn’t want expertise, there are plenty of conference locations across Canada and elsewhere in the world.

Sidenote: ooh cool HTTP response 303 in the preview!

Womp womp… the only emergencies with the Trump administration are declaring fake wars against non-state actors, the non-existent drug trafficking spree from Canada used to impose tariffs, and that a coal power plant needs to keep operating because the air would be too clean otherwise. Helping farmers and other common people? That’s a problem for another day.

First video was from somewhere around Toronto, Canada (my guess is Mississauga). Some places have very unclear signage of when bus lanes are active, when they’re not, disappearing in and out of existence sometimes, but that was a clear red lane that combined with lane data the Tesla’s camera based navigation system should have been equipped enough to handle it…

Sucks for the driver letting Tesla net him a fine and demerit points.

I know some stores have a “Back at” then a clock face when the service staff step away for a while.