Given that Russia isn’t gang pressing people into service

I wouldn’t take that as “given”.

And with the new law, draftees are immediately banned from leaving the country.

Those who fail to show up at a recruitment office promptly will soon face a raft of new restrictions related to banking, selling property and even gaining access to a driver’s license.

Already before the reform, people who refused orders to serve in the military have faced a possible prison sentence of up to 10 years. (NPR)

As part of their efforts to combat draft evasion, authorities earlier this year launched an electronic register of conscripts to serve online summonses in some Russian regions. They also introduced a series of legal restrictions for those who ignore the summonses, including banning their bank transactions, suspending their driver’s licenses and blocking foreign travel. (AP)

I quoted the NPR and AP articles, since you seem allergic to reporting from the UK.

The post on… the opensource Lemmy community for self hosters. Is that the one you’re talking about?

The marketing claims it’s “a gift for your family”.

Not a single comment in that first link mentions family members using it.

Here are the comments from the “people listing their use cases” you mentioned:

• wow, this looks awesome!
• it might be nice to have the a local storage option
• I really wish it has a linux native app and an android app, hopefully in f-droid
• As the admin of the !journaling@sh.itjust.works community

My issue isn’t the app itself or it’s users.

It’s the claim that it’s “a gift for your family”.

They’re totally different.

Greektasy has steamy romance with inconveniently attractive brooding werewolf-pire enemies-to-lovers plotlines, whereas Romantasy has the same thing with a different name.

“The message was basically — you are losing,” one of the sources said, “and you need to accept the deal.”

Are they losing?

For the past three years, the news from Russia has been about young men leaving the country because Putin keeps updating the laws around the draft/conscription to feed his war machine.

I’m sure Ukraine is in a similar position, but it doesn’t sound like a clearcut win for Russia, either.

I think you’re thinking of Singapore (or Switzerland, or the UAE).

Who do you think you’re stealing it from? The bank?

So this Thanksgiving, give your family the gift of memories that last forever!

What is this marketing?

I cannot imagine a single person who would want this for Thanksgiving.

Most people under the age of 30 use social media now to “preserve memories”.

The people who care about journaling probably have physical paper journals and wouldn’t want an app.

And the people who would want an app… would probably already have installed this themselves.

I got a completely different More Like This from you.

Is your algorithm trying to tell you something?

Romantasy exists to solve this problem

They’re not asking whether it’s literally true.

They’re asking why it feels like there’s less.

That’s a subjective, but still valid question.

Awesome. Although I can’t tell whether comments weren’t migrated or the original posts just didn’t have any.

This is concrete, thanks. I can work with this.

The arguments the article gives are way to broad to fly around a Thanksgiving table.

They might as well have titled it:

“Ways to convince people to take online privacy seriously (who are already on the fence and leaning so hard in your direction that a stiff breeze would do the job for you)”

That doesn’t address the other two bullet points.

It’s like tracking an animal moving in tall grass. You don’t need to be able to see the animal directly to tell where it is.

If I can’t disappear completely, there’s enough data points around me that a useful silhouette can be reconstructed from all the surrounding data.

What’s the point?

Loving-kindness meditation is a practice that encourages you to extend compassion to yourself and then train it like a muscle to be extended further and further out.

Patriotism is love at the national level, but it doesn’t ask you to stop at the border (that’s nationalism).

People should be encouraged to love at the level they can sustain: self > friends & family > community > region > country (patriotism is here) > neighboring countries, etc > world.

“They’ve already got my data”

From our site: https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/gotmydata.html

The main retort to this is

“No they don’t - they need to continually replenish their profile on you for it to be useful. If you cut off the supply now, then their power fades.” That’s why their data harvesting is so aggressive. It needs to be, otherwise their promise to advertisers of being able to predict what you’ll want, and when you’ll want it, cannot be fulfilled.

You just need to step off the playing field and their game comes grinding to a halt!

I already “get it” and I don’t find this argument too convincing.

If you’re 25 years old and cut them off, they still have :

• your data from the last 24 years
• the data of everyone in your demographic
• the data of your family, friends, and coworkers

(Yes, I get that it’s different if everyone cuts off data harvesting at the same time, but this is about convincing one person.)

Turns into a flying object

Alt text is like putting Braille next to a sign; it’s a tool for the blind (who use screen readers to access alt text).

It’s also a backup when the image fails to load, but it’s not a substitute for making sure the image is legible for people who can see.

If you add a transcription in the body of the post, that should cover your remaining bases.

Can you carry over the posts and comments to the new community?

If the community has to start over from zero, that can be a huge loss.

suggest doctors

Which doctors??

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