Yes but more users doesn’t necessarily make a spoon collecting community more viable.

Am easier pathway is to encourage existing users to visit this type of community.

Additionally, consider carefully whether the fediverse can support a spoon collecting community, or perhaps you should just post about spoon collecting in the general “cutlery collecting” community.

More users is not necessarily more better.

… but I do agree there are very few active communities.

The focus should be on making the fediverse the best it can be, rather than focusing on attracting users.

You seem to have misunderstood, and the article you linked doesn’t contradict what I’ve said.

Wealthy, sophisticated LLM developers would not have been scraping old reddit. They would pay reddit for API access.

Shutting down old reddit closes the door on back yard developers, not OpenAI.

Additionally, when you run a prompt in a chatbot, it doesn’t scurry away and scrape old reddit and then formulate an answer. The scraping of content is going on while the model is being developed.

OpenAI would not have been scraping old ui?

Also most reddit content has long since been injested. No need to visit your http site anymore

Nah, it’s way easier to just make up profound sounding pronouncements like “the water wars have already started” than to actually read something or challenge your misconceptions.

You’re right of course. People have been fighting over access to water since forever.

only remember things that reinforce the way you think or believe

If you want to maintain the belief that Aboriginals are magical managers of the natural environment, you have to forget all of the species that disappeared when they arrived.

After 60,000 years of man-made fires, the only species left are those which were resistant, or could adapt. To consider those remaining species and conclude that native bushland benefits from regular fire is the textbook definition of a cognitive bias, because you have to disregard all the species which no longer exist.

Its not “natural selection” when people are lighting fires and destroying the native flora and fauna.

Indigenous fire “science” is just like natural “medicine” - any that can withstand scrutiny is just “fire science”.

I can tell you don’t know the first thing about the practices you’re trying to describe.

One of us sure doesnt.

Oh gee, wow… burn off when it’s not summer. Amazing science. We better tell these university dumb dumbs.

I’m curious how they managed to achieve a mosaic pattern with no fire breaks or water or anything really to control where the fire burns.

If you believe any of that I can’t help you mate.

No I’ve never bowsed imgur but I made the mistake of uploading a photo of my wife holding a chicken so I could post it to a back yard chicken forum, and the comments were enough to ensure I never posted anything there again.

Basically an unmoderated cess pool.

LOL.

Plenty of houses in Australia have been burned which are not in “disaster” zones. Every property has a bushfire rating which determines required mitigation. Its a genuine risk in many suburbs.

Also, that’s exactly what confirmation bias means. In making an assertion that ecosystems evolved to depend on regular burning, you’re ignoring all the species which became extinct in prehistory due to regular burning.

The type of land managment practices in use in 18th century Australia are about as useful as the farming practices from that era.

Any suggestion that we should disregard the last 100 years of land management science, in favor if lighting up the nearest bush every other month, is just as absurd as it sounds.

I don’t think this is really as settled or clear as you’re making out.

The cold or cool fire you’re talking about just means they burn every year, there’s less fuel load so the fire burns out before larger trees have time to burn.

Traditionally they weren’t doing this out of care for the land, it just makes hunting far easier - kangaroos like to eat the new shoots after a fire, and it’s easier to chase / throw things at them if there’s thinner underbrush.

Land management organisations have been making informed decisions about controlled burns since forever. They consider all the factors, like fuel load, weather, risks to property, and input from community groups including indigenous Australians.

It’s controversial because these controlled burns often become uncontrolled fires.

Things have changed since this type of land management was a thing. Notably people have houses now which they prefer not to be burned down.

Finally:

many plants have evolved to require fire as part of their life cycle.

This is confirmation bias. What happened to the plant species that were vulnerable to fire?

imgur is a swamp

No son of mine is going to marry a chat bot!

I usually just press star or hash on the number pad a bunch of times

• beep
• I’m sorry I don’t…
• beep
• I’m sorry…
• beep
• I’m…
• beep beep beep
• <on hold music>

Yep. Personally my first choice is the t490. Theres so many in great condition.

I like to imagine the IT debt in some office building buying and hording t490s just to be sure they don’t lose their budget next year.

Because YouTube doesn’t engage in anything like that ofc.

LOL. You do you but this sounds like a nightmare to me.

edit: it’s not just “becoming tech support person”, but becoming the default person to blame for everything.

The original comment:

I would put a urinal in as well. […] I’ve seen what other savages do to the toilet seat when they have to hit a stationary target from a couple feet away.

This guy:

Piss-soaked floors smell worse, but that’s not a urinal problem per se.

My comment:

Are you really suggesting that the addition of a urinal to a non-gender specific toilet would make it smell better ?

Your comment:

[toilets and urinals] will stack one on top of another, not cancel with each other.

In this context:

• my comment is not a straw man but responds to both the piss-soaked floor guy and the original comment
• you seem to agree with me. Added urinal means worse smell.

If only there was a single device that could act as a receptacle and disposal for both pee and poo.

Are you really suggesting that the addition of a urinal to a non-gender specific toilet would make it smell better ?