Posted, commented, or voted on by members of your instance, without counting what the rest of the fediverse is doing with it.

They are on reddthat.com. "Local" would show them posts from reddthat.com communities; it would not show them posts from lemmy.world communities.

Suppose a post on a lemmy.world community is downvoted by the fediverse in general. However, that same post is highly popular among reddthat.com users, for whatever reason.

This user would like that post to appear high in reddthat.com/all, even though it would not appear high on lemmy.world/all.

The idea is kinda interesting. "all" is not the right category for it, but the idea of instance-peer curation has merit.

14/f/under your floorboards

Translation: Either "FBI" or "40/m/under your floorboards"

Actually, they said they sounded like a fucking moron. And they do they do: there is no actual legitimacy to their claim. They are repeating a horseshit corpo claim without applying any sort of critical thought to it. Which can be reasonably considered "fucking moronic".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop

JSO didn't exist in 1996 or 2008 or 2018 or 2020. It was founded in 2022.

You're giving JSO traffic obstructions credit for declines that happened decades before they came into existence, and in countries where they havent actually disrupted traffic.

You're giving them credit for "declines" that have actually been increases since the time they started regularly obstructing traffic in 2022.

Obstructing traffic is not an effective means of protest. Target actual agents and entities associated with the oil industry, not the victims.

Norway, for example, which has seen consumption decline since 2018.

They started obstructing traffic in 2022, not 2018. Norway's consumption has increased, significantly, since they began obstructing traffic.

Japan's decline since then is commensurate with its population decline. Germany's and Sweden's are flat. UK is up even more than Norway.

Your seedbox should have it's torrent traffic routed through a VPN, so that copyright complaints are delivered to (and ignored by) the VPN provider.

You do not need a VPN between you and the seedbox.

"They" will be an LLM.

The best time to leave Pinterest was 2010.

The second best time is now.

Which wouldn't be so bad if they actually had shit that people wanted to buy. But all the guillotine shops are out of stock, with expected ship dates after December 4th.

No doubt, no doubt. There are plenty of articles claiming JSO protests are effective.

Of course, if they were actually effective, you wouldn't need to point to news articles promoting the virtues of standing around in the street. You'd be able to point to oil consumption rates. If their protests were actually effective, oil consumption rates would be falling.

The reality is that those articles do nothing but make you feel good, like something is being done. But reality doesn't care about feelings, or the fiddling articles designed to make us feel good while the world burns.

I was an agent in a former life. Your understanding of the purchasing process is deeply flawed. If you don't fix it, you're going to get screwed over again and again. Fortunately, it's an easy fix. Here's the process you should follow:

1. Look up the house you want to purchase.

2. Write the offer, sight unseen. Get some kind of offer in front of the seller as early as possible. Sounds scary? It's not: You're going to include "inspection" and "financing" contingencies, and you aren't going to send earnest money until you've actually seen the property.

3. Only after the seller accepts or counters your offer do you schedule your first showing. Here is where you confirm the property is what you actually wanted, and is in the "good" condition you assumed. If you don't fall in love the first time you see it in person, exercise your inspection contingency and walk away. If it's not in the "good" condition you assumed when you wrote the offer, plan on renegotiating.

NEVER waste your time "researching" or getting emotionally invested in a property until you have it under contract. If you don't have a contract, it will get sold out from under you.

Your inspection and financing contingencies are your escape route. Use them. Lock the seller in early, and plan on walking away if you don't love everything about the house and the deal.