I remember what the standardising committee did to XMPP: users wanted to share photos, send files, and make audio/video calls; XMPP said “we’re not going to standardize that, but each application can use its own extensions”… then it all went to hell.

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Downvotes mean your comment is more likely to get removed by a mod, and you’re more likely to get banned.

I don’t like either of your tones. You’re both probably some of those people from a different country, who vote for some other parties. /s

Source?

(just saying, because we used CRTs in 1993, and those look like LCDs… 👽)

Lemmy lets you block users and communities, some Lemmy apps also let you block instances and keywords.

The federated nature also means it’s a big set of interacting niches, which hasn’t really been done before.

Do you subscribe to games and memes communities, read Local, or the All feed?

Keep in mind there is no automatic filter to clickbait you in All, it’s up to you to “be the filter”.

What surprises me, is you wouldn’t accept the relative/changing definition as a valid definition itself.

Guess that could be an interesting conversation, potentially shedding some light on different worldviews… but I don’t really know where to begin. Curious.

I think I know what you mean, but plenty of terms have relative definitions (“behind”, “bright”, “x+1”, “etc”… etc). If you’re looking for an absolute point, you won’t find one, because their meaning is the relationship itself.

Both “life” and “death” define a state relative to another. The definition of “life” is a particularly tricky one, because it includes multiple relative definitions like “growth”, “reaction”, “functioning”, and a “reproduction” that includes both cloning and “imperfect” cloning. Being “death” the opposite, it’s necessarily as relative and tricky too.

“To the end of the road” doesn’t change meanings when the road gets extended another 10 miles. The point changes, the definition doesn’t.

Threshold has changed, the definition is still the same, we’re just getting better at reverting the stop of some activities, like breathing or heartbeat. If we someday could revert neuronal depolarization, that would be great, but it seems difficult to achieve.

The other part is not just philosophy, it’s the best we can do to define a “self”. The philosophical part is only whether we can consider them a continuum, or whether we have to see them as usually similar but separate (there are reasons to support both versions).

That article is a mix of several cases.

One of those you might call going against the wishes of the patient… then again, that’s quite common in the ER, patients are yet to be established as “sound of mind” and capable of deciding for themselves, so an ER doctor can overrule them, including sedating to perform any procedures they consider necessary.

Others seem like letting students perform a non-vital part of a procedure, which is both expected from University/teaching hospitals, and in my personal experience was spelled out in the consent form (although they never told me personally, so if I hadn’t read it, I wouldn’t know).

That is textbook rape right there

None of those are. Communication could be improved, and I personally get pissed when medical personnel switches from “medical adult talk” to “patient baby talk” right in front of me… but I’ve also seen patients get upset because they didn’t understand what was being talked about, and had to be calmed down with “baby talk”… so it’s a difficult issue overall.

We have a good definition of “death”, it’s the irreversible stop of some activity. For a brain, that’s neuronal depolarization; for a body organ or cell, it’s destruction past its ability to regenerate.

The self, is a snapshot of a brain state at a certain moment, which is technically irreversibly disappearing 30 times a second, but we like to think of it as just “changing” and forming a causal sequence we call “consciousness”.

If it creates a copy, then it isn’t teleportation, it’s copying. Two copies will diverge from the moment they’re no longer a single copy.

Physical abuse tends to leave some physical consequences. You’d have to come up with an example where there would be neither physical not psychological consequences… but even getting anesthesized against one’s will is already a consequence.

There was a case of a guy, where they botched the anesthesia, and he was just paralyzed but conscious the whole time during some invasive surgery. They realized their mistake, and tried to fix it by giving him some amnesic so he wouldn’t retain the memories.

After getting discharged, he wouldn’t remember anything… but kept having nightmares, and a few weeks later took his own life.

So it seems like memories don’t need to be fully formed to mess one up.

Add constant pain, and that’s what I call life.

If the free GitHub scripts from the other comment don’t work for you, Sync has it as a paid option.

beehaw and sh.itjust.works just rub me the wrong way during first impressions

They’re pretty descriptive: do you want a place to “behave”, or would you rather fling shit at each other?

This isn’t Reddit, you get to pick your experience. Can even sign up to more than one instance, each with different rules!

We also need super-communities that pull in content from multiple communities/instances

Apps do that, including some web app.

Search and migrations could be improved, though.