Except that the alternative method, the “whole word” approach, seems to have way worse outcomes.

.is uses some techniques to circumvent paywalls, whereas .org just accesses the site normally. I hope a competitor to .is will show up at some point.

As opposed to all the other countries that can’t censor and delete content or shut websites down?

Motorists

I don’t have a car or motor, I don’t even have a driver’s license, I go around largely by public transport. Not everyone who disagrees with you is a part of the same secret cult out to get you, I certainly don’t think cars should be preferred by default to bikes or to mass public transport, I simply found your specific arguments to be wrong or questionable. You of course went all out fantasising who I am and what’s my motivation…

I’d much prefer to be hit by a truck while I’m in a car than while I’m on a bike, thank you very much. Overall I think there’s so much fewer trucks on the roads than cars that cars are, in absolute numbers, more dangerous for bikers and pedestrians than trucks. Maybe statistics would prove me wrong here, idk. (Note: I live in Europe, the cars usually used here and the overall traffic infrastructure are different than in the US.)

https://www.reddit.com/r/bicycletouring/comments/xe1m1e/legal_issues_with_bicycle_trailer/ - are these people crazy or dumb for discussing the legal limits for bike trailers and the potential problems with their weight and width?

it gets more downvotes that rt ever did

It got 12 downvotes, I’m pretty sure RT has gotten more.

I don’t see anything special about these downvotes. People don’t judge and up/downvote sources just based on which “empire” they’re “aligned with” (we’re not hiveminds, after all). In the case of Russia-Ukraine war on Lemmy, I’d say the well has been poisoned for most writing critical or skeptical of Ukraine’s situation and actions to a large degree because of the regular spamming with RT, TASS and even openly fascist news sources by .ml’s Russia supporters. People like to see things in black and white, and seeing whichever side’s brainless propaganda doesn’t help.

Just like cars?

No, cars can easily be used in much worse weather than bikes.

As bad as cars?

Worse. It may sound surprising, but in a traffic accident being inside a car protects you more than just having a helmet.

Not as limited as you think.

I wonder if that thing is even legal to drive.

Kind of, I suppose. This is an angle I became aware of during the US-EU dick measuring… uh, I mean the tarrifs conflict: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn4rd71411ko

That accounts for the goods and products, I guess? OTOH, for most of the world stuff like software, film, music, all sorts of digital services, it all comes from the US (and makes it money and gives it influence).

Though let’s be honest, most porn is just ugly and unappealing.

I understand, but this is still coming off as “being the general after the battle”. I.e. judging the mistakes done by scientists while the available knowledge was more limited. The shift towards portraying dinosaurs with feathers was triggered by, well, discovering dinosaur fossils with feathers. We made a discovery and corrected accordingly.

Of course we should be aware of the limits of studying and reconstructing prehistorical species in general, I’d say most popular dino media downplays or ignores the difficulties and doubts in the endavour, presenting the conclusions as a given rather than as an educated guess, without showing the “behind the scenes”. But the image of “scary, giant lizards” in popular perception has IMO been on the decline since Walking with Dinosaurs from 1999 - of course, the exaggerated Jurassic Park and its increasingly trashy sequels and similar media have had more of a broad cultural presence, but that’s not much to do with paleontology and serious paleo-art.

“Completely wrong” is an exaggeration, would portraying a chicken without feathers be “completely wrong”? Of course not, if the overall anatomy is plausible, it would be inaccurate in one regard but not scientifically or illustratively worthless.

No, not all dinosaurs were feathered. Some definitely were not feathered (we have evidence of their scaly exterior, most impressively this armoured dinosaur specimen) while certain other clades definitely were, for which we have strong evidence, and thus species such as Velociraptor have been reconstructed with feathers even in the most broad-audiences-oriented media for over two decades. For many species it’s uncertain. So no, many of the featherless reconstructions are still not wrong in that department, considering our current knowledge.

I find this sort of “reconstruction” kind of disingenuous. Dinosaurs were reptiles, so they’re reconstructed to look roughly like reptiles of today. Of course the approach gives wildly inaccurate results on mammals, but on modem reptiles it would be alright. This same approach isn’t taken to reconstructing prehistoric birds or mammals either.

That’s not to say dinosaurs haven’t been portrayed as too bony for the coolness effect or that the Dunkleosteus wasn’t subject to the same exaggerated treatment, but why go into the other extreme?

I just checked r/serbia. People are saying he’s probably lying (he already said he’d resign and then didn’t) or that he’d just do the Putin-Medvedev sort of switch to PM position. Overall, total indifference from the population.

They’re not really claiming copyright, Springer is just selling the articles (anyone can sell copies of public domain texts). The problem is in their moronic mechanical attempt (probably not even checked by a lawyer) at “detecting” copyright infringement by comparing two editions of the same article.

checks notes… alleged neo-Nazis

Allow me to present this handy guide:

If so, i’d expect Iran to publicly distance itself from the attack. According to the article, they still haven’t made any official statement. Does Russia have military presence in the region?

Per Wikipedia:

Tens of thousands in daily protests; 100,000–200,000 at the 13 June rally; more than 250,000 estimated at the 20 June rally

And Albania has a population of 2.4 million.

Yeah, USSR progressively legalised homosexuality and then even more progressively made it illegal again, while the regressive fascist liberal west still hasn’t caught up to the second step 🤣

Cool alternative history you’ve got there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBTQ_history_in_the_Soviet_Union

Neat, but, I have to admit, completely incomprehensible to the uninitiated 😅