I’m…confused. By “the person is complaining about rigged elections being fake news,” do you mean the journalist who challenged Trump on his claim? The specific exchange as indicated in the article was:

The pair then moved onto discussing that riot, and Trump was challenged after he repeated his unsubstantiated claim that the 2020 election was rigged.

Trump turned to the California primary elections, where votes are still being counted to determine which two candidates in a series of races - including governor of the state - will be on the ballot in November’s midterm elections.

He said the results had not been called after four days, adding: “They’re cheating on the election.”

“Do you have evidence to support that?” Welker responded.

“All I have to do is look, and I listen,” the president replied.

“But that’s not evidence,” she interjected.

I wouldn’t call that complaining about the entire idea of rigged elections being fake news, but rather challenging Trump to provide evidence for his own claims of specific elections being rigged, which he insulted the journalist and then ended the interview over instead of defending his claims with evidence.

Mystery down votes are a common internet phenomenon that, despite knowing it’s widespread, I’ve never quite been able to figure out. Accidental downvotes do happen, especially on mobile in my experience, but at nowhere near a frequent enough rate to explain down votes in the wild. In this case, there’s many possibilities! Are the downvotes from MAGAssholes? Is someone just blanket down voting because they don’t like the instance? Because they don’t like the community? Because they don’t like the user posting it? Because they don’t like the BBC as a source? Because they downvote every US politics thing they come across? Who knows!

!askelectronics@tchns.de is a bit more low level than is most common, but may still be worth including on the list.

This is some Gumbly shit right here.

I briefly misread this as “Crows remove Donald Trump’s name from The Kennedy Center” and just went “damn, wonder how long someone spent training them for this, respect”

My personal thought as a lurker trying to learn enough through osmosis to start her own set-up is that hardware concerns are fine as long as they still relate to self-hosting in some fashion. “What hardware setup would be good for beginners looking to self-host a Google Drive alternative on a budget?” is self-hosting, fine, and the type of thing I would bookmark for my own reference. “Anyone have advice on cannibalizing an old laptop to DIY a mini PC?” would really not be self-hosting, even if your plan is to use the resulting mini PC to self-host a server.

I’d also be inclined to treat posts that are off-topic but have a selection of informative high-effort comments by locking them and sharing them to the appropriate community for further discussion there vs. removing them entirely.

Which is to say, yes, I like your proposed revision.

Oh, sorry, that was also me kidding around. IDK what the reason for the mystery downvotes is, so I was joking that it was from people who were getting spine aches from viewing it 😛

oh, is that the reason for the down votes?

Why did you just write “cat” twice?

Wow, we finally found the floor of Adam Sandler’s standards.

https://lemmy.world/post/47758551

I’m just gonna link this post.

If I had to paraphrase what happened, there was some (IMO polite) disagreement over the stringency of enforcing rule 3 and whether it was negatively impacting the community by removing posts that people worked hard to answer due to being more of a hardware-related topic, and then the previous mod abruptly made the people who offered the criticism moderators without any discussion on the matter with them first and then hasn’t been seen on Lemmy since.

Despite the absolutely wild events that led us here, you sound like a really solid moderator. Thanks for the intro!

Cat: tries to jump out of bath Person: No! Cat: That’s what I’m saying!

In discussion I heard someone say that cleaner wrasse will sometimes eat the protective slime coat off of fish when they are alone, but when other cleaner wrasse are with them they wont because the others will punish them, which suggests they may experience shame or have a sense of socially appropriate vs inappropriate behavior, but I haven’t verified that fact with any reputable sources yet so take it with a grain of salt

I recall also hearing, I think from a DW documentary on fish intelligence, that cleaner wrasse will have different “tiers” of customers, where big predators get the fastest service, then visitors from another reef, and then the locals who don’t have anywhere to go, and that cleaner wrasse are more likely to take bites of the protective slime off of the “lower tier customers.” I also recall that they’ll give a soothing little massage immediately after taking those bites to keep their customers calm.

Fish cognition is really so underappreciated.

is this what they mean when they talk about x-ray fish

I’m not saying I couldn’t see cases where I would seriously consider using calculus in a sewing pattern, but it’s really not used in sewing pattern creation basically ever unless someone already knows it and has a very specific use case. I suspect the OP meant “calculations” or something similar and mis-typed.

Source: I still remember a fair amount of calculus and I sew

I suggest watching these videos from Float Head Physics. They’re just some of the clearest and most intuitive explanations of relativity I’ve seen, and any other explanation I give here would just be me attempting to paraphrase him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkv8sW6y3sY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vitf8YaVXhc

He has a whole playlist on special relativity which is really insightful if you want an even deeper dive, as well as playlists on other things like general relativity and quantum mechanics, all of which are based on building intuition instead of starting with complicated math equations.

Rusty

God I love seals and their weird noises.

Didn’t Maine approve ranked choice voting specifically to not get locked into a “which one sucks less” trap? How is it that I don’t even see a “hey, if Platner has too many red flags for you, put this person as #1 and Platner as #2” campaign any time this discussion comes up?