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Doctors can still prescribe cocaine as a topical anesthetic, and ADHD patients regularly get prescriptions for amphetamines. But I thought you were a nurse?

This study out of Duke University discusses some effects on births of 9/11. As best I can tell, the effects are mostly a reduced number of men relative to the number of women, increased prematurity, and reduced weight at birth, mostly attributed to the stress the mothers experienced during pregnancy.

Um… is everything going okay in Finland?

It’s definitely the case the fediverse requires a lot of specific, technical knowledge to really grasp, and that the onboarding story for new users is pretty confusing, especially since the most significant decision you make (what instance to host your account on) is the first decision you make, before you even see any content. It’s a problem I’ve been thinking about for many years, and still haven’t found a good solution for. Other some bland reassurances that “you’ll get the hang of it eventually,” all I can say is that every time I talk about instances, it feels like the scene from Mean Girls where Lindsay Lohan’s new friends explain the various high school cliques.

0 worries. Happens to me all the time.

I quite like quokk.au, especially their sports community; I don’t really recall why rimu is beefing with them, though I have a vague recollection that I thought it was somewhat overwrought. I don’t think you’re really missing out being defederated from lemmy.ml though. Most of all, though, I think you should avoid default instances whenever possible.

Some piefed instances turn it off – iirc piefed.blahaj.zone does as well. Piefed the software supports it, but maybe rimu turned it off for the default instance? I still can downvote from my instance.

There’s a subset of fedi users who delete their comments after a while to save resources for their instance. It’s probably not the majority of what you encounter, but there’s enough that a lot of fedi software supports it as a feature.

I wish people would get back to lying when I ask them how they’re doing. The new "how’re you?/“oh bad”/“oh what’s wrong?”/“oh you know, just kinda everything” interchange annoys me because it’s considered rude to then actually vent your spleen about the everything that is wrong. Either lie to me and say you’re fine, or say you’re bad and bring up a topic you want to discuss, but don’t say you’re bad and then expect me to ask no follow-up questions.

I am upset by how entirely correct you are about this.

I’m not really sure about the whole thing, honestly. The comment you moderated is still out there, reachable by other fedi software like mastodon, so you’ve only really cleaned things up for a small subset of fedi users.

One could imagine a Reddit-like client for fedi built over the hashtag system instead, where you follow hashtags and then browse them as a feed like you do with communities currently. This would mean moderation duties are all at the instance level, like they are for other fedi software, and they are limited to the ones supported by ActivityPub, instead of allowing a moderator to control a community actor, and I’m not sure it would be worse? Individual users would have to use the block and mute functions more liberally, and you’d need something like the tags.pub relay for discoverability, but it would resolve the problem of duplicate communities on different instances, and community creation is as easy as writing a hashtag.

So many communities end up unmoderated, and the admins are already on the hook for everything that originates from their instance anyway, that I wonder if the tradeoffs for community moderation is worth it.

But most of all I appreciate that all of this is hypothetical for me because the trolls by and large leave my communities alone and I don’t really have to take mod actions, which is awesome.

You are. They mean that counting balls and strikes is a reference to baseball

That’s strike one. His use of “sportsball” is strike two. (For Nic: These are references to baseball.)

I had never heard of this, but based on the wiki description I think you’re probably right. Thanks for sharing

If you do find a fantasy football league that involves Gandalf kicking uruk heads, please invite me to join, because that sounds very fun.

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Claybrained Golems have nothing to do with whatever these llm techbro scammers are slopping. Golems, especially those made out of clay, are part of a long history of Judaism dating back to the Talmud, where Adam was described as having initially been a claybrained golem. Golems have protected Jews for generations and are a noble magical tradition, so don’t equate it with the shambling undead being marketed by Altman et al.

To allow even comparison across teams that play a different number of games. It’s a very different proposition to get 138 points in 82 games vs 110. In soccer, it’s common to quote statistics as “per 90 minutes” for just this reason.

I was taught to always return a plate or jar or container with something you made in it, so both I guess.