Perhaps they started with the svg first . . . ?

Yup. Might have been done in Illustrator but the end result is the same.

Good luck with your project.

No tool in Inkscape will get this 100% right without the need to spruce it up afterwards. I would play around with the trace tool until I get a preview result that gets everything right, i.e. the edges - don’t worry about the colors because they are easier to fix later - except the gradient in the ear and on the chest. And then you go in afterwards and manually fix/draw over those sections until they look like the bitmap.

I’m not anywhere near my computer so I can’t give you more specific instructions.

I read through that last link and then the first comment is asking why this AI wall of text. There is also very little evidence meat on that bone. A user did this, a user got that. That’s not receipts, that’s just more claims.

The claims of censorship are non sensical to me. You can still post most of that stuff, just not on that instance. An instance isn’t a democracy and no one has the right to be heard there no matter what. Your right is to go elsewhere. It’s a living room sofa problem. If you came to my house and took a dump on my sofa, I’d kick you out too. As it is my house, I get to decide what constitutes a dump. You thought it was just a fart, I smelled a shart - you’re out anyway. You are free to go sit on somebody else’s sofa. Go somewhere else, vote with your feet. Sure, tell others about my tight ass sofa rules. You still haven’t convinced me of your OG conclusion.

I’m still not excluding the possibility that there is something rotten in the state of Lemmy dot world. Maybe that admin is indeed on a power trip. What a decade on reddit and now a few years on Lemmy have shown me is that most bans are not shot from the hip. “I just said maybe Israel isn’t so nice and got banned IMMEDIATELY,” professed the user innocently. And then the admin comes back with three documented community violations including threatening the moderators with violence. Exceptions are rare. If you had a “no violence” rule, then “death to Zionists” would be functionally the same as “death to all little old ladies,” a no-go. You don’t get to decide what constitutes a dump and since the fediverse is larger than Lemmy dot world you’re also not being censored.

The people who fact check news for a living are journalists. They exist on a spectrum from dubious to trustworthy. You’ll have you find some that you like.

While it is possible today to check a lot of stuff yourself online, you can’t do it all. And if you are, you already are doing a journalist’s job.

I was looking for something similar late last year. I dare say there is no good and FOSS solution right now on Android.

Is lemmy.world anti-humanity for banning anti-Zionists?

The quick answer is: probably no. You claim this is the case, provide no receipts, and most importantly don’t place these terms into enough context. And context matters.

I don’t know if you’re right. You might be. I’m not excluding that possibility.

No instance is under any obligation to tolerate all opinions. Other admins may defederate, users may move away and block. All moderation decisions are shit. It’s much easier to have principles than to apply them equally everywhere and without fail.

If they have indeed chosen to err on the side of what I’m going to call something like antisemitic caution and remove stuff more broadly than you are comfortable with, it’s not just a question of values. It’s could also be a reflection of their experience with this topic, the resulting workload, and lack of moderation manpower. It’s much easier to ban all boobs than having to differentiate with each post if they’re breastfeeding or not, to put this in the context of past moderation problems. Facebook isn’t opposed to breastfeeding as a function to suckle our offspring but as the proprietors of their platform they can ban all boob related posts. And while this is of course within the realm of apples to oranges comparisons, I don’t think it’s justified to leap to the conclusion you did based on moderation decisions alone.

They don’t wake up one morning and yell small government. The more liberal social frog inside of you will also get boiled eventually by imperceptible temperature changes in the water over a long time. Conservative thinking isn’t generally synonymous with xenophobia. It’s more about low taxes, no handouts to anyone, tough on crime, that sort of thing. The xenophobia aspect is a perversion of that, which sadly isn’t uncommon but not a forgone conclusion generally speaking. The fact that the MAGAs have made this synonymous with conservative thinking in the US speaks to the success of their movement built on fear, lies, hate, and generations worth of people failed by their education system.

Many reasons. The older one gets, the more stuff if not wealth one has acquired, the more one stands to lose. That has most people make a turn for conservative viewpoints if they weren’t there already.

Also, as the Peter Principle in the workplace (I paraphrase: everybody gets eventually promoted to a position they are not qualified to do well) old people get to an age where they overestimate their worldly knowledge.

Getting old is shit. Your joints hurt, hair grows out of weird spots, people around you move to farms upstate. Things you loved from when you were crisp and shiny get swept by the wayside by progress. You have a lot more to complain about now because you also have more time for it. And you wait an awful lot at doctor’s clinics.

Not all people do all of these things all the time but there average person will tick at least two of these broad boxes. There is nothing you can do really. Listen but don’t take to heart the crap. I draw a line at right-wing politics and hurtful -isms. If my parents didn’t cross into that territory I turned my head into an extractor fan.

When you were little, they wiped shit out of your ass crack and worried about you when you were sick. As a bonus they now get you annoy you. The circle of life.

My thoughts exactly. The skull looks so clean, the uniform in such good condition.

I moved from GDrive to a hosted Nextcloud solution. It works fine for everything but video files for me. I don’t know if it’s a bug from my host (disroot dot org) and if this ran better were I to host my own server. I could find references to a bug but no solution last year and just stopped using it to move videos around. They would download but be unplayable.

For me, Nextcloud is good for notes, calendars, and contacts as well. Syncs well everywhere. Less good if you’re into to-do’s.

Proton, the company, is just a slightly less evil and smaller Google in a Swiss trenchcoat if you ask me.

If you have noticed a political bias then you are a political person.

Any place with low taxes, low or rich people favorable oversight over the financial sector, or chance to park money anonymously is a place rich people gravitate to.

Der mit dem Schlumpf tanzt.

Would that mean I’ll be getting more in dollars due to that having high value?

You posted the answer yourself.

Every central bank designs its own bills. The US chose to be boring, bland, and hostile to people with visual impairments. The reason why they won’t change that in a hurry is because it would necessitate an expensive switch in vending machines to handle different size bills. They could change the color but greenback is their brand. European currencies have pretty much always had bills of different sizes.

The exchange rate of currencies depend on many things. Prices depend on many things. Comparing Swiss ones with American ones is almost pointless. Switzerland has high VAT rates (high taxes in general) and thus salary levels will be higher as well. Swiss tourist will go nuts spending stateside because everything will just be cheap to them. Because they won’t finance social security, universal health care, or a bunker place for every citizen in case of thermonuclear war in the US. But they do in Switzerland.

Fans. Keep a paper/manual one on you are all times, as backup if you have a battery powered one. On those do your research to find one with a good battery.

If you’re running your A/C you can set it at a higher temperature if you run a ceiling fan or upright fan at the same time.

Don’t wear black or dark colors.

Cooling packs in the freezer, wrap a towel around it, put it on your head, hold it on your hands.

Just a wet cloth around your neck is great when you’re out and about.

@bradboimler@lemmy.world has posted a link in this thread that would be the next thing I’d try to investigate.

You can turn off read receipts in settings > privacy. So I think if the person you sent the message to has turned this off you won’t get the two ticks in a circle. Could it be that?

I’ve been using Signal for about 5 years, WhatsApp for longer, LINE for shorter. The only one that seems to get background process killed occasionally is the latter. I’m on a Xiaomi phone and their version of Android wants to kill everything, except their own apps. Signal stays up.

Nobody has ever complained about not getting Signal texts to me.

Have you actually seen evidence of missing messages? There could be human error involved or you caught ghosters red handed.

Not yet.

Have another go at reading the post. The question wasn’t what’s stopping the US from building both, the question was whether OP’s explanation does justice to the status quo. My first sentence includes the word “also,” indicating that this is additional information that I found wasn’t sufficiently weighed in the single paragraph.

This is a thread and I read other people pointing out other things. So I didn’t.