FriendOfDeSoto

I don't know why you're deflecting, this wasn't about me. I just pointed out that if you're still using reddit you're not a pure citizen of the fediverse, which is what the redditor was asking for. And, as the other lemmymite pointed out: you're not going to find many pure fediverse bears with honey on reddit. This is about logic, not your or my dedication to the spread of federated social networks.

In my mind, it was never a hype. It was something they wanted hyped but - and of course I can only speak for myself - I never was sitting on the edge of my seat. It's the technology version of new wonder drug could cure cancer. And then you read the story and reality dwarfs the vision quite quickly. I thought blockchain was a much bigger deal hype-wise. And that had all the oxygen drawn out by so-called AI.

Quantum computing is a threat because if it became mainstream usable today it could render the entire password based login system hackable in a flash, probably breaking the internet. There are two things to consider though. It isn't usable today. And the big companies that do a lot of the research have a vested interest in not breaking the internet. So we see passkeys today and other forms of authentication will follow before QC could become a reality - if in our lifetimes or if ever - who knows.

This is something the parents should do - along being in the driver's seat of correcting this behavior in their 9yo. In times of teachers crowd funding classroom supplies, I don't think it's fair to suggest "throw money at it" to a teacher. It's not going to cost $5 just once and that's it. If you have to beg for boardmarkers in general, this will be a line item that matters.

I want to highlight again that this suggestion was preceded by a lengthy checklist.

I think you and I have a different idea of what bullying is. I remember kids picking their nose in class and eating it in elementary school. I don't think it took an intervention from the teacher to get that to stop. Just some kids going "ewww, that's disgusting" got the message across. This is how society corrects behavior. I wasn't suggesting a teacher goes before class, does a Nelson Ha-Ha, "look at that loser, go beat him later and take his lunch money." Just something like "Kevin, the other kids need to use this eraser as well and they don't like it full of spit. Please don't chew on it. Thanks." It signals to the kids this is not okay and I don't think they will go full Lord of the Flies on him - keeping in mind the preconditions I had outlined above.

I don't think we need to be this dogmatic. While I do most of my social media on Lemmy and Mastodon, I occasionally look at Insta and Bluesky (which I consider not fully federated yet). The two platforms I've left completely are reddit (API changes, terrible first-party app) and Twitter (son of South African emerald miners). I think federated services will win in the long run but we don't need to be pure users in the meantime. You go where you can still hold your nose.

Ergo you're not in that Venn diagram because you're still on reddit.

Theoretically, probably not a great experience for the people some 300mi away or closer but I don't think it would be an extinction level event. Speed is how most of the energy gets transferred. Lower speed, smaller boom.

I think it has to stay theoretical though. You would have to turn gravity off though or make the asteroid such a weird shape that air resistance slows it down to that speed before it hits. And I think it would have to be sail-like at that point hitting at the right angle, making its impact much less threatening and making it way more likely it would've burned away in our atmosphere anyway. Before it hits earth there will be gravity pulling on it, most effectively from the sun and then earth. So even if cosmic forces got it to reverse beep beep beep speed before it enters earth's gravity well, which I would call unlikely with an asterisk, then it would speed up 9.8 m/s or 22 mi/h every second it falls from the heavens. Thus making the impact more impactful than reversing speed. The asterisk being that there is a much bigger other new body in space that exerts enough gravity on the asteroid to slow it down. Which means it's close enough to mess earth up in other ways (tidal waves, megaquakes, etc.) even if it does not also hit us, which I would assume it does though if it got this close already. So then we're back in extinction territory whether Corsica hits us or not.

I'm not going to watch the video. Site unseen I'm willing to pass judgment and consider her a truly terrible person. That doesn't change the math though. If you have no visa to work, you may need to bow out of that job. You can't risk denunciation on principle. Which is a fucking depressing sentence to write. But here we are in 2025.

With the blatant disregard for the rule of law this administration has already shown, it may not matter what number you fall under. A lot of it, very sadly, seems to be dependent on what you look like.

If you're 1 through 3, why are you picking a fight with a Karen? Get out before it escalates. And if it does, keep your head down and hope for the best. Or move cities, especially if you're #1. 4's and 5's may want to have proof of citizenship accessible. Keep a picture of your birth/naturalization certificate and/or passport on your phone, preferably behind a password like in a password vault app - don't just keep it in your camera roll, it needs encrypting.

It's also worthwhile keeping in mind that some Karens' bark is worse than their bite. They may have gotten off on the threat enough to not go thru with it.

Those googly-eyed SOBs! You're right. I'm planning to migrate my photos to Ente whose upload tool fixes this, I think. But Nextcloud probably will not.

If you're looking for a more sure fire way, don't use the app/your phone. Go to Google takeout and download all your contents from Photos onto your computer - if you have access to one. They come in zip files, which you can then unpack and store everything on your nextcloud server.

Edit: important info in the replies below.