Getting back the the top question, if everything is a result of something, what started it all?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmoved_mover

https://bigthink.com/13-8/universe-quantum-fluctuation/

Hexbear have a group that read Capital from January 1st every year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_particle

If someone says, “First things first, I want to sit still all day. Given that, how do I…” then it’s worth calling out their mad constraints.

Counterpoint: you can’t live any sort of halfway decent life “without exercise”

Exrcise ya lazy bollix.

Pi Zero is barely a ‘whole computer’ – that phrase overestates the situation

I use a few

• Raspberry Pi alarm clock
• Raspberry Pi for music, packed with stored playlists
• Videophone thing for meetings

3rd order simulation

There’s better criticisms of this guy

In Irish mythology, men with great destinies like Lugaid Riab nDerg (and by some tellings Cú Chulainn) are conceived of three fathers.

Lugaid’s mother seduced triplets Bres, Nár and Lothar to hedge her bets in case 1 or 2 died in battle. He was born with a horizontal red stripe across his hips and another across his chest showing he was ⅓ from each.

I’ve had a few LibreBoot laptops. Experienced frequent hard-drive crashes, unfortunately.

https://shinty.com/2025-chieftains-cup-final-preview-stat-pack/ Chieftain’s Cup final this Saturday (19 July)

Tulloch Cup semis on 2 August and 9 August on BBC Alba https://shinty.com/tulloch-homes-camanachd-cup-semi-final-draw-4/

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241108-its-not-close-israel-committing-genocide-concludes-wikipedia-ending-editorial-debate/

‘It’s not close’ – Israel committing genocide concludes Wikipedia ending editorial debate

Wikipedia has officially added “Gaza genocide” to its “List of Genocides” page, marking a major shift in how Israel’s aggression on the besieged enclave is being documented on the world’s largest online encyclopaedia.

The addition, which now appears as the first entry due to the list’s reverse chronological order, comes after months of extensive debate among the platform’s editors. On its “Gaza genocide” page, it states that “Experts, governments, United Nations agencies, and non-governmental organisations have accused Israel of carrying out a genocide against the Palestinian people during its invasion and bombing of the Gaza Strip in the ongoing Israel–Hamas war.”

The entry for “List of genocides,” Wikipedia states that “Israel has been accused by experts, governments, UN agencies and non-governmental organisations of carrying out a genocide against the Palestinian population during its invasion and bombing of Gaza during the ongoing Israel–Hamas war.” The page goes on to list the death toll in Gaza while mentioning that the overwhelming majority of Palestinians killed are civilians.

The decision to include the Gaza genocide in the list followed Wikipedia’s formal Request for Comment process, which began in July. Editors supporting the inclusion argued that it met the page’s criteria of events “classified by significant scholarship” as genocide. They also pointed out that the Gaza situation had stronger scholarly consensus than some existing entries on the list, such as the Darfur and Rohingya genocides.

British Wikipedian, Stuart Marshall, made the final ruling in September, decisively supporting the article’s inclusion. “Based on the strength of the arguments … and it’s not close … I discarded the argument that scholars haven’t reached a conclusion on whether the Gaza genocide is really taking place”, Marshall wrote in his decision. “The matter remains contested, but there’s a metric truckload of scholarly sources linked in this discussion that show a clear predominance of academics who say that it is.”

Marshall concluded his ruling with the straightforward statement: “We follow the scholars.”

According to Wikipedia, events qualify as a genocide if they have been classified as such by “significant scholarship.”

Wikipedia’s decision comes amid wider discussions about source reliability, particularly regarding Israel and Palestine. In a related move, the platform’s editors recently voted to declare the Anti-Defamation League “generally unreliable” on the subject, adding it to their list of banned and partially banned sources.

Good post

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldYfQT35_38 (just listen to the first two minutes if you’re lazy)

Damn

Lemmy is inherently democratic. If you don’t like a muni, or an instance, you go to another one. Without centralization dictatorship is impossible.

That’s more like voluntarism than democracy.

Online? Dictatorship. Let the guidelines be clear and the conversations civil and on topic. If my speech isn’t wanted in a particular community I can find another, or make another where I’m the dictator.

I like StackOverflow’s democratic moderation. It also scales better than centralised moderation.

The squabbling process moves the law toward meeting the needs of more people.

Are there data on this?

You’re making a causal claim (if squabbling, then more needs met) and that’s either empirically true or not.