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Cake day: June 3rd, 2023

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  • They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors.

    They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.





  • crowsby@lemmy.mltonews@hexbear.netHoly f*ck.
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    1 year ago

    Furthermore at this point, everyone who continues to use and advertise on his platform is complicit in enabling his bullshit.

    If there’s a Nazi at the table with 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you’ve got a table with 11 Nazis.



  • Rather rude to group them all together like that. If we’re talking mud daubers or paper wasps, we’re totally chill.

    Ground-nesting yellowjackets get the boiling water and dish soap treatment in the dead of the night if they’re in the yard. I’ve had too many cases of cleaning up yard debris and suddenly getting attacked by the little bastards to attempt peaceful coexistence.


  • From Jun. 29, 2022:

    In a joint statement, Commissioners Carmen Rubio and Mingus Mapps, who oversee Parks & Recreation and the Bureau of Environmental Services respectively, said the move was meant to streamline what had been a disjointed system.

    The two bureaus “have been working together to strategically align disparate tree planting and tree care responsibilities across both bureaus. That fragmentation has led to inefficient and uncoordinated work,” the commissioners said.

    “With support and direction from both of our offices, both bureaus have come to an understanding and scoping of work that we believe will not only be more effective, but will ultimately result in more trees, larger tree canopy, and increased greening of our city,” they said.

    …in case we wanted someone to point fingers at.

    The other notable difference is that the Friends of Trees program was opt-in. You want a tree, you contact them, they bring you a tree. The city program is actually opt-out, and only eligible in certain designated neighborhoods. So you miss a postcard in the mail and the next thing you know, you’ve got a crew in front of your house digging up your yard.


  • Yep, after I found this out I ditched Chrome immediately once they started rolling out Google Search ads that couldn’t be blocked via DNS. Firefox mobile feels a little less smooth than Chrome admittedly, but the ability to add extensions like ublock/darkreader/consent-o-matic make is a no contest in terms of overall user experience.

    The one knock is that they took bypass paywalls out of their extension store and the workaround to install it is somewhat cumbersome, so now I’m annoyingly using Kiwi browser for paywalled content and Firefox for everything else. Hopefully this update will make it so I only need one browser again.




  • The founder of Tildes, Deimos, is a former Reddit backend engineer who believes this is a technical issue rather than a case of Reddit purposefully subverting user intentions:

    Yes, this is almost certainly a technical issue. The way reddit caches things probably isn’t the standard way you’re thinking of, like a short-term cache that expires and refreshes itself. There are multiple layers of “cached” listings and items for almost everything, and a lot of these caches are actually data that’s stored permanently and kept up to date individually.

    There are also multiple other places and ways that comments are cached—comment trees are cached (order and nesting of comments on a comments page, for all the different sorting methods), rendered HTML versions of comments are cached, API data is probably cached, and so on.

    All of these issues are probably just some combination of all of your posts being difficult to find and access due to the listing limits or certain cached representations of posts not being cleared or updated properly.


  • Locally, I’ve been very happy with Puff Coffee. It’s a small roaster started up by Stumptown founder Duane Sorenson. The dude knows his stuff and I think it shows.

    Though, with the closure of the Green Zebra near me I’ve been pretty lazy about it, and I hate to say I’ve been ordering coffee all the way from Philadelphia: https://royalmilecoffee.com. The Ethiopian beans have been excellent, the prices are reasonable, and I don’t have to worry about checking the roasted on dates.





  • crowsby@lemmy.mltoPortland@lemmy.mlSushi
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    Yama Sushi on Clinton has quickly risen to the top of our ranks. I’m no sushi connoisseur by any means, but I’ve found it to be a combination of great quality, accessible, pleasant ambiance, decent prices, and maybe even a bit excessive selection-wise. Seriously. They come out and hit you with like five different menus right off the bat.

    I don’t have any problems with Bamboo, but like many places in Portland, it falls into a category of “good, but overrated”.


  • Partially yes, partially no. It depends on the use case.

    If I’m looking to idly scroll random content, sure, it’s great!

    For online community, definitely. Given the open disregard that Reddit Inc leadership has shown towards the community, developers, and volunteers who keep the show running, I don’t feel comfortable contributing there anymore.

    If i’m looking for specialized information on a specific topic, definitely not. Google Search + site:reddit.com still reigns here.