Breaking News: the entire text of The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood was found to be engraved on bullet casings left at the scene, according to a source. So we should ban that book from all schools, fr fr.

I grant you that it’s not perfect and it doesn’t prevent the abuse in the first place, but calling it out is important. There are still plenty of dramata about people DMing each other, but there’s less hearsay involved with the ban actions themselves. Appropriate suspicion is cast upon any mod that’s too vague with their ban comments or any user that doesn’t want to reveal their old banned username.

In terms of what users can do about mod abuse: There have been coordinated community shifts in response. A couple examples:

!onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone was created because the !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone mods wanted to forcibly move the community to !196@lemmy.world, but most users didn’t like that because BZ has more LBGTQ+ friendly policy. So the new community got set up with new mods.

!risa@startrek.website more or less moved or splintered to !tenforward@lemmy.world after some mod beefing and people getting banned for some rules even though it was a “no real rules” community.

The public modlog is one of the best features of Lemmy, IMO. When a Lemmy user appeals to the public of stuff mods/admins have done, we can call BS on them since we can read through stuff if they’ve been toxic, or if it’s the mods on a power-trip, or if it’s controversially borderline but reasonable discretion given the circumstances.

Thanks for going through the effort to make the links instance-agnostic.

Yeah. I have used that. And I’m sure most with personal instances that just pressed the “Install NextCloud” button have no clue, including me.

She already left a bad Google Maps review, what else can the European Commission do now?

Watch some of the businesses cry council a river from the loss of parking/car traffic, but then see immense increase in foot traffic from subway and bus riders now considering it a cool place to hang out. It will be a net positive if they can think outside the status quo for just a minute.

Yeah, I smile every time a Republican gets trolled by Newsom.

Honestly, a small chunk of the DNC should just be dedicated to keeping Republicans enthralled (with Newsom leading that subteam) while the rest of the Democrats do proper work organizing country wide for 2026.

The Dutch postal service, PostNL, said the Trump administration was pressing ahead with the new duties despite US authorities lacking a system to collect them,

Just more dumbfuckery from this Republican administration. It will turn American heads when their orders stop going through due to Trump.

Absolutely love that there are Bluesky and Masto share buttons on this site!!!

Maybe I wouldn’t consider them losing causes, since we have our small wins here and there. Every positive difference you make, is rewarding when it amounts even to the tiniest win. You posting this question and other Lemmings like me answering is itself a little Lemmy W.

But yeah, things for me don’t have value only because they are popular. Yes, popularity can affect that I get recommended stuff that I end up liking, but I consciously reject being told to like something without being aware of the full details.

Here’s some contrasting examples: PEAK is a game I got on the bandwagon for, after seeing it posted on GamingOnLinux via !pcgaming@lemmy.ca . Seeing the gameplay, it looked like fun, and I had friends to play it with so it was worthwhile. On the other hand, trends like Stanley Cup, blindbox toys like Labubu, “Dubai Chocolate”, I’m not going to get any of those, despite their explosive popularity, unless I see a legitimate use for my own needs.

Also, my values are set towards lasting ownership of stuff then renting/BNPL schemes.

There was a >90% strike mandate. This is not going to go over well.

Edit: there we go

YouTubeShort;DW: 50% of kids used to walk and bike to school, it’s 11% now. There’s more traffic at school because more people using cars = more traffic.

Kinda bad example: the server you are posting on (lemmy.world) literally started during the time of the subreddit blackouts, and other servers’ user count shot up 5x, 10x or more. It’s likely the surge would be muted without it, and even if more than half left Lemmy and returned to Reddit, it was still the first time it could even be considered a competitor. Its a positive and concrete resulf that came of it.

I dunno what changing a profile pic can do, without more of a goal than, “get a CEO to look at clippys and think its funny”. It would have a positive effect if it was even something small like telling people to change the profile and donate $1 to EFF.org

0 of them are specifically codified in employment law as paid time off or a day to be taken off, however are considered by default as non-work days in law so working that day would, in most cases be entitled to overtime pay increase or alternatively a replacement day off. They are also culturally accepted as days off, and there are other holidays like Obon festival next week where taking time off is very common.

Technically speaking the minimum is zero paid leave for new employees, but after a continuous 6 months of 5 days or 30h/week work or more with good attendance, an employee is entitled by law to 10 days of paid leave (likely the figure cited) which scales gradually each year to 20 at 6.5 years tenure. Part time employees receive a partial entitlement which is as little as 1 day off if 48-72 days is worked in a year (1 day/week).

So it’s complicated, unless the source for the map used a standard method for all countries to compare equally (e.g. a full time employee’s minimum legal entitlement after 12 months at a company).

Japan has 16 public holidays, at least according to this: https://publicholidays.jp/2025-dates/

Where’s Robert Moses when you need him to build an expressway to the future parking garage on Liberty Island 😫

trustevery1

I agree, but I living in Toronto I found that people wanted to go 20-30% above the limit, so when it was 60 drivers would go 75-80, now it’s 50 so they go 60-65.

Peacocks and hens, Grouse and Turkeys, and some Phaesants spend most of their time on the ground. Ducks and Swans spend a lot of their time floating on water surfaces. Geese do fly and flock but are often in groups nipping at the ground, rather than in trees.

If birds slithered, tunneled or did other weird land behaviour, I don’t know if we’d still call them birds. Probably something like dino-saur, idk.