If there was such a demihuman bike god, I would ride my bicycle more often. I just don’t want to have to maintain it and waste time of my life again because some dumbass broke a beer bottle on the street.

Interesting discussion, I kind of understand both of your stances.

One stance is driven by fear of the slippery slope and the frog not noticing being boiled until it’s too late. The fear of normalizing fascist parties and views until they dominate, which is a fully rational fear given existing history.

The other stance is driven by fear of ever increasing polarization and hostility, which is another slippery slope, to fragmentation of society into parts that live in different realities, inability to agree on almost anything, causing alienation and opposition, leading to stagnation and possibly violence, when the other side is so abstract they cannot be emphasized with anymore. That again is also a fully rational fear to have, watching what happens in societies in the last years.

I don’t even know who of you is more “right”, if that notion even applies. Truth is, nobody will know until we see the consequences. In hindsight (a pretty privileged vantage point) many wrong decisions look obvious.

That said, if you care about your friends and think they really do value you and your opinions and truly have no general prejudices (and you are not some “exception from the rule” to them), you maybe should try to understand what makes them vote the way they do and explain how this could have bad long term consequences on you and whether they would want that or find taking that risk acceptable.

Because, if they truly are your friends and have something called empathy and heart, they might reconsider, and otherwise, maybe they are not really your friends and would drop you the moment you become outlawed.

I don’t know your friends, but I hope you do.

Fair enough.

I held on to this possibility for similar reasons for years, but after some honest self reflection I cannot say there would be anyone from my past life who is still important and I have no other means to contact, my Facebook bubble from 10 years ago and more is long dead, i.e. similarly inactive.

Maybe giving people an email address, phone number or username somewhere else via Facebook message before leaving for good could also be a solution.

Fascist neoliberalism is right now a metastasizing cancer and we are at the point of where everybody knows that the patient has not much time left and survival chances are slim. Good night democracy, it was at least not bad, for sure better than whatever will happen next.

Be brave, do it. I just did it a few months ago. Just push the trigger and delete it. Let it go. They will of course keep the data, but at least not legally anymore.

I would never want to work at a place where I have to talk like this unironically. It’s ridiculous.

If you are competent, you show it directly. No need to hide behind bullshit buzzwords.

Well, at least that’s my reverse filter for companies.

My current team leader interviewed me in a band shirt and we deep dived into realistic brainstorming for how I would approach real problems and we instantly vibed.

I immediately knew that’s a good place.

Thanks! That was roughly what I also decided to do, wait and look at new leaves. There’s no reason for them to be that way.

Could something like this be caused by me waiting too long from potting the plant from its tiny nursery pot into the current one? Like immobile nutrient deficits only showing once it could start growing in the bigger pot? Or is it rather unlikely to persist over like 4-5 leaves ? I don’t know maybe if something went wrong when these leaves were still in the tip of the shoot and with immobile nutes this is like stamped over their development ?

The side shoots (which are not growing a lot right now) have a leaf showing out that looks normal, I thought about removing the apex shoot and seeing what happens with these other shoots when they have to take over.

Okay thanks, at least good to know I’m not doing anything obviously wrong.

Is it only affecting cucumbers ? Should I kill it and do I have to get rid of the soil to not infect anything else or other cucumbers if I would start a new one ?

I water earliest when the top looks dry and with a finger I dig in and it is not still dark and wet there. For a pot like this and a small plant like this, it does not need water more often than twice a week, depending on temperature.

Temperature is what it is inside, it was around 25 °C this week, humidity always has been in the healthy range around 45-60 in the last weeks.

I potted it into like 70% of this mix https://www.amazon.de/gp/aw/d/B0CZ78WNG3?psc=1 that I had from last year in my basement and like 30% of this compost https://www.amazon.de/gp/aw/d/B07NWY7R87?psc=1

Oher plants including a young tomato grow just fine with it.

Since I thought somehow it must be missing something I also fertilized it a bit with some CalMag (die deficiency looked like Magnesium or Iron, but I don’t have special iron fertilizer so I just thought adding some Mg will not hurt in case it is in fact Mg).

Was thinking about buying iron chelate or what it’s called, iron supplement granules.

Unless someone has a better idea.

I did not grow that one from a seed, it’s one I bought with the two first real leaves randomly in a supermarket and the first two leaves did not have this problem, it looked healthy.

If you are talking about like, chicken eggs - no they are not. There is a single cell, the actual fertilized egg from which new life will grow, that is inside what we call an “egg” that we buy, which is protection and nutrients.

It’s kind of like the seed of a plant, which is also not just a single cell, but a nutrient carrier for initial development.

That is just needlessly mean. Done that once to some rando, even worse. I dumped a rant on them. They deleted the post and their account. I felt bad. Don’t be like me.

Is this the new official flag of the USA?

In general I disagree, often you can’t read it it’s satire, trolling or someone being serious, there are weird people and also bots on the internet.

However this piece was pretty clear satire, if you read far enough (probably I would have stopped in the middle and downvoted this crap if it was not marked).

The “ChatGPT showed me a new sorting algorithm” part really does make it pretty obvious to anyone with dev background that this is not serious.

I only trust people who get stomach aches when faced with stressful ethical dilemmas.

we do cross platform stuff and I’m 99% of the time working on Linux, now I have to do some .NET core C# coding, was frustrated first with the language support on Linux - until I tried Rider. If I’ll have to do more C# going forward I’ll consider asking my employer to buy me a Rider license. The alternative would probably be me booting to Windows for that project (which I absolutely hate doing and only rarely have to)

I think about Reddit-style platforms being the centralized bulletin boards and forums of these days, and Lemmy is closest we have to a DIY kind of thing which is controlled by the community.

Back in the day only a sufficiently tech savvy person could set up and run a forum software. Now everyone can do it, and with the Fediverse it’s all nicely interconnected, interoperable and truly free and open.

In general the Fediverse is the best shot we got right now to get back to the non-corporate Internet of my childhood and youth, I really hope it will succeed. And succeeding does not mean that it must grow and outcompete the commercial offerings, I think success is if enough motivated and interesting people join and participate. Quality > quantity.

Well that’s the platform effect kicking in. Once you ascend to become the environment, you are above petty little competition, you are the system.

Oh I’ve heard some billionaire was planning to go there too, with his kingdom. Maybe pick a different planet.