Please update your post so that the entire shower thought is in the title. Rule 2.
Thanks for the feedback. I would argue that determining what post counts as a shower thought (rule 1) is a lot harder than determining what posts are about politics.
Thanks for the feedback
This pretty quickly became a well liked post with lots of interaction and is remaining mostly civil.
It's hard to argue that this post doesn't break the new rule for "avoid politics".
Should this post stay?
How do people here feel about the "avoid politics" rule? Should it be rewritten in some way to allow this post?
This was reported for being nonsense. There are rules against spamming, trolling, and other "attention stealing behavior". Spamming would be the closest, but it's not repetitive so I'll leave it for now.
I'm not sure that it's possible to move posts but that would be funny. Maybe c/powerthoughts
NEW RULE: added on an appropriate day
In the sidebar you will see that rule 3 is "Avoid politics", as of US election day.
Political posts represent the vast majority of the moderation burden. They tend not to be the fun/quirky/whimsical/goofy/nonsense kind of posts that people enjoy from c/showerthoughts.
Maybe we should make a c/drivewaythoughts or a c/doomscrollingthoughts to fill the void.
The rule will begin 0200 UTC Nov 6, 2024 to be exact, you have 2 minutes, go ham.
As always I'm open to feedback.
EDIT: While I'm editing the sidebar. I will remove the "Be good to others" rule because it's redundant to the opening paragraph of Lemmy's Code of Conduct.
EDIT 2: If you want to give anonymous feedback you can report this post and give your feedback in the report. It's anonymous to me at least.
EDIT 3: Here are some good counter points to the new rule:
- This arguably offers new perspective on an ordinary topic but it's pretty political: https://lemmy.world/post/21997198
- This post was very popular and remained civil: https://lemmy.world/post/21925102
We can't keep everyone happy. I'll agree that this post gave me pause. I think it's better to error on the side of leaving things up.
Please report the post if you think it violates rules, and please specify which rules and why.
I'm sure Netanyahu also wants it to end right after he gets his sadistic goals.
As of mid 2024 the lowest estimate I found was >7000 Palestinian children dead, as compared to a highest estimate of <100 Israeli children dead. Any child dead is too many but it shows that this is not a war, it's a slaughter.
I voted for Harris because any alternative is asinine, but we should expect that the arms shipments to Israel will continue unless we pressure our politicians.
This was reported for breaking rule 1,4,5.
1 The votes seem to agree that it's not a shower thought. I'm slow to remove a post for this rule, I would rather let the votes do the work.
4 I'm not sure saying this about Putin is saying anything about any people group. You can be hugely supportive of people groups while thinking their leaders are responsible for, or capable of, horrible things. At various times nearly every country could be used as an example of this.
5 I'm not sure what community rule it's breaking. It's not a very positive post but people should be free to be negative online if they that's how they feel. Lord knows that many comment threads are negative. I may feel differently if the the majority of posts suddenly became negative.
As always I'm open to feedback.
That's interesting, thank you. I didn't know anything about Gujarati, this is a cool opportunity to learn!
Google translated it as "Nine days and seven days are tight".
Does that sound like a good translation to you?
So when someone changes a light bulb, which direction to turn is just a feeling in their bones?
That's fair.
Does each language have "lefty loosey righty tighty"?
The world has a lot of different standards for a lot of things, but I have never heard of a place with the default screw thread direction being opposite.
So does each language have a fun mnemonic?
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The concept of a shower thought is annoyingly abstract, so I error on the side of leaving posts up, but maybe this is a good chance to get the perspectives of others:
- Is the problem, or part of the problem, that the post is a question?
- Or maybe the post is not whimsical enough?
- Do people think a shower thought can ever be a question?
- Is it something else that makes this not a shower thought?
This post was reported for breaking community rules. Its not obvious to me what rules would be broken. dm me if you feel strongly about it and would like to clarify.
It's not always that simple...
They just added doc editing in the Android app!
When proton first added docs you could only edit them through a browser. I just noticed today that they added it to the android app!
OsmAnd is impressively capable
When I first tried OsmAnd a few years ago it was overwhelming, there is so much to customize.
I tried it again recently and it really impresses me.
My OsmAnd ski profile shows me slope for avalanche risk and 3D relief so I don't need Fatmap, plus OsmAnd let's you download 7days of weather.
OsmAnd doing routing on hiking trails replaces my need for Gaia.
Really impressive work by the OsmAnd team.
Blimp Crash Yesterday
Here is an article: https://www.thesun.ie/sport/13888559/sao-paulo-blimp-botafogo-copa-libertadores-brazil/
Is there and Open Street Maps project for ratings and reviews?
It's a key feature of Google maps that I don't have a great replacement for. I assume moderating the reviews would be a significant challenge for the project.
The French are still fighting for the US democracy.
The French may not have the first democracy, may not have the best democracy, but they have had to fight harder than most for their democracy.
- paraphrasing from an audio tour by Rick Steves, I think.
Edit: oops, i flipped words in the title
Street-Complete, like Pokemon Go but for good.
I first learned of Street-Complete here and I really like it.
It's satisfying to walk around, complete little tasks, and get prizes, scratching a similar itch to Pokemon Go.
Stuck waiting for someone? Add opening hours for a few local businesses.
Have a long walk ahead of you? See if you can add/check house addresses as fast as you can walk.
Want to walk off a few beers before heading home? Complete some tasks in the bar street.
Its a very constructive way to "be right" on the internet.
Which is older an infant or a baby?
Is one a sub group of the other? Does either term include toddlers?
I'm having this discussion with someone and we both thought the opposite from eachother and we were quite sure our way of thinking was the common understanding.
Is there a good source of info on rental car liability insurance?
I want to know if the car I'm renting comes with liability insurance. I just want to be sure that if I am at fault in an accident, that the other car will be covered. Lets try to ignore any personal car insurance policy and let's ignore collision insurance for now.
I am under the impression that in many countries they are required to give you liability insurance when you rent the car, but I don't have a good source. Many articles have mixed information.
For the US, this article says:
> For a registered car rental company in the US, they must provide a minimum level of liability protection for cars they rent out.
But this other article says > In the U.S., every state requires a minimum amount of liability insurance on car insurance policies, so you may already have liability coverage through your personal auto insurance.
Which sounds like in the US your personal insurance is all you have.
Community Service: Vote on a new mod
In the spirit of Lemmy/federation giving more power to the users. I want to let the users of this community vote on our first candidate for a new mod. This is a little risky because there has not been much time for community to form, but I think its a chance to set a good precedence.
Voter information
The candidate for a new mod: lemmy.world/u/forkball
My arguments for adding them as a mod:
- Assuming its the same person, reddit.com/u/forkball was an active reddit user since 2011. And from briefly scanning their history on reddit and Lemmy, they seem like a good level headed person. I think they would be a good mod, but the voice of the community is what matters.
- I have no mod experience and was always a complete reddit lurker, so it would be good to have a very active community member as a mod.
My arguments for not adding them:
- Y'all are chill and not causing a lot of work for me. So at this instant I can handle the work load. Not sure how long that will last though.
How to place a vote
I hope to avoid bots so voting will take some effort.
To place a vote you must comment on this post (I wont count nested comments). Your comment must begin with "YES:" or "NO:" followed by no less than 4 words justifying your vote.
Votes must be submitted before June 29 at 06:00 UTC.
If we have more YES votes than NO votes, u/forkball will become a mod.
Here are examples of valid voting comments: "YES: because forkball both showers and thinks!" "NO: because they didn't give me an up doot"
Fineprint
Lemmy and moderating is still new to me so if this ends up being a really dumb move on my part for some reason I cannot foresee, I reserve the right to bail on this idea and try another method for community input. Things would need to get really nuts for me to bail on this vote.
I don't expect a huge number of votes, but if im wrong, it may take some time to tally the votes.
Edits
- It seems implied, but only one vote per username. Feel free to report duplicates. I will also try to publish the counted votes so people can validate my tally.
reddit migration and an invitation to mods
I created this community because it was my favorite on Reddit and I couldn't find one on Lemmy.
If the mods from reddit want to to moderate this community, I am happy to welcome them. They do a great job!
Any US pilots flying in Switzerland?
All prospective pilots, whether they want to fly aeroplanes, gliders, helicopters or balloons, have to undergo clearly defined training. This includes theory lessons as well as practical training in the type of aircraft concerned. All training courses have to be concluded with an examination.
How hard is it to fly in Switzerland with FAA certificates? Anyone have experience with "Validation of a foreign license" which is good for 1 year or "Conversion of a BASA FAA licence to EASA Part-FCL PPL Licence"
Very impressed with Lemmy
I just joined from the reddit-exidus. I'm very impressed by all the hard work going into Lemmy. If you want to help fight off the next wave of the hug of death, you can support: https://join-lemmy.org/donate