Yes, both the settings and post language selections are multiselect. But it feels like there’s a chicken & egg problem here: until something is done to encourage users off the default (which I would guess many don’t even know is an option), changing post language will severely limit its reach.

That I do not know for sure. But you can get the username by hovering over their display name.

Yes. If you set a display name, it displays without the “@”. If you leave the display name blank, it displays the username with the “@”.

And just like DEI teams, ethics teams will be easy to cut back on if a company runs into economic trouble.

The dropdown lets you select the language of your target audience (or at least I find that the easiest way to think about it). If you select “English” then only people who select “English” in their settings will see that post.

But because most people leave their settings at the default “Undetermined” those people won’t see a post that’s marked as “English”.

So for the moment, the best practice is to just ignore that dropdown and leave everything as “Undetermined”.

The warning banner looks to be duplicated from the Settings page, where it actually makes sense.

Sure, no argument there. There’s a choice to be made between “post the second story as a comment to the first one” and “post the second story a a separate topic”. I’m in favor of the first approach to keep discussion in one spot, but it’s not something I feel super-strongly about.

Avoiding dupes is, I think, an important one. We’ve had multiple instances on Beehaw of the same story showing up more than once. If you try to post a duplicate link, Lemmy will let you know (by showing the previous copies to you as crossposts). It’s harder to make sure you’re not posting the second or third story from a different source on the same topic. Perhaps we can just encourage people to search before posting.

I’d like the rules to at least ask people to add an image description in their original post. https://beehaw.org/post/686974 would be good to link to here.

And given the nature of many posts in the news, I think it would be good for this community to remind people to be(e) nice in their discussions.

My own high school debate days are decades in the past. From that perspective, though, the fact that you can easily look up the judges’ biases, and so prepare for them, is a huge advance that we would never have even dreamed of. To me that seems like explicitly addressing biases in a useful way.

I’d be interested in a more serious analysis that went through all 47,000+ paradigms and categorized biases so some non-anecdotal conclusions could be drawn. That would take a lot more time and money than picking out a few instances that the writer knows about.

And yes, if an alternative ends up being liked better by debate coaches, people will go in that direction. It’s entirely possible that debate competition will end up being as fragmented as national politics.

The article here takes a bit stronger stance than “losing debates because of tweets”:

The NSDA has allowed hundreds of judges with explicit left-wing bias to infiltrate the organization. These judges proudly display their ideological leanings in statements—or “paradigms”—on a public database maintained by the NSDA called Tabroom, where they declare that debaters who argue in favor of capitalism, or Israel, or the police, will lose the rounds they’re judging.

The article calls out five judges for being biased. The NSDA site shows 47,168 paradigms. So, while there may be an issue, there doesn’t seem to be much proof here. It could equally well be that the author is cherry-picking instances that fit his ideology.

I’m jealous. Mostly what I’ve managed to do with African violets is kill them. Probably overwatering, so perhaps I’ll try again after our move next year - right now I’m trying to cut down on the number of pots we’ll need to move!

Clearly someone needs to figure out how to get an old Furby to interact with a new Furby.

(Of course, someone has already done ChatGPT + Furby)

Beehaw’s community mods and admins have discussed this particular use case, and so far we haven’t seen anything that we’d be comfortable having on Beehaw. The summary bots have (so far) too many problems with posting misleading summaries to make them a good addition to thoughtful conversation.

Their web site is down, but their Github account is currently still available, with 3D printing files and software for their microlab.

So many, many choices.

I think my all-time dumbest came when I was about 22, so it doesn’t fit here. In my teens…probably driving drunk at speeds up to 100mph on the mountain roads up above Pasadena with the headlights off at night.

I’m pretty sure that discovering a new isotope while working on your MS guarantees that you’ll get the degree.

This is why I use DuckDuckGo instead of Google, and Firefox with a few selected extensions that ensure I almost never see an ad. I would be shocked if Google enabled any long-term ad-free experience.

In addition to making it easier to find authentic perspectives, we’re also improving how we rank results in Search overall, with a greater focus on content with unique expertise and experience. Last year, we launched the helpful content system to show more content made for people, and less content made to attract clicks. In the coming months, we’ll roll out an update to this system that more deeply understands content created from a personal or expert point of view, allowing us to rank more of this useful information on Search.

That seems like just a step in the inevitable AI arms race.

Looks like mullein. Pretty common roadside weed in many parts of the US. Allegedly medicinal though I’ve never tried it and wouldn’t harvest any that had been marinating in exhaust fumes.

A few ideas:

• Help make Beehaw the place you’d like to live in. Post interesting content in the communities that interest you. Add thoughtful comments. Be(e) nice. Don’t feed the trolls.
• Invite other nice people to join us.
• Donate to support the server costs.
• Volunteer to moderate a community you care about (there will be another call for moderators soon enough as we grow).
• If you have the skills, contribute to the development of Lemmy itself.

I tend to wing it a lot with stew-ish things. Here’s one set of rough instructions:

• Saute any combo of mushrooms/onions/garlic/cherry tomatoes/peppers in olive oil
• Add 3 cups water/vegetable broth, bring to boil
• Stir in 1 cup green lentils/red lentils/yellow split peas/green split peas, stir as it comes back to a boil
• Season with salt/pepper/smoke seasoning/chili/whatever looks good
• Simmer 15-30 minutes till done

Freezes fine, though I usually eat it before it makes it to the freezer