Where would Commonwealth countries fit into this, would Canada, Australia and New Zealand also join in?

People enjoy logical consistency, and shutting down a kids question with “it’s fake, don’t think about it” is a lame way to respond to questions when you could take the opportunity to expand their understanding of the world. It’s also helpful to develop counterfactual reasoning (how would things change if X happened) and fiction allows someone to explore concepts in different ways.

Regardless, ELI5 is “explain in a way that even a 5 year old would understand”, not “what would you say if a 5 year old asked the question”

At the time of this comment, there are 3 answers like this in the thread with only 2 actual attempts at the question.

I think we need to popularize an “askfiction” community with a rule about Watsonian vs Doylist answers. IMO the Doylist answers are mostly flippant and unhelpful.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WatsonianVersusDoylist

Yes it’s fiction, but OP is asking for an answer within that framework, if such an answer exists

If anyone is interested in learning more about this, see this video by Veritasium

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CxVXvFOPIyQ

Note that there are also unfounded conspiracy theories around Glyphosphate, so keep an eye out for those when looking around

Lebanon’s Ministry of Environment formally accused the Israeli military of “an act of ecocide” in April 2026, reporting $25 billion in damages, including the destruction of thousands of hectares of forest and extreme soil contamination that “reshaped both the physical and ecological landscape” of the Lebanese south.

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

Making it so that an entire region can no longer plant local crops, and causing sudden large scale changes to local biodiversity, is bad.

On top of that:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/glyphosate-retraction-9.7004363

Decades-old study on common weed killer retracted after journal editor says Monsanto may have helped write it

The 25-year-old study said the main ingredient in Roundup — the herbicide glyphosate — is safe for humans.

“It’s really a foundational paper against which a lot of regulatory agencies made decisions about whether or not glyphosate was safe.”

What would be the use case for cyborg insects, other than war and espionage? Are they smart enough for search and rescue?

The fundamental operational range of cyborg insects, which are hybrid robots that combine a living insect with an electronic controller, is inherently restricted to the host’s natural environment. To extend their operational range, we developed a wearable diving suit for terrestrial insects. The suit integrates a miniaturised oxygen generation module with a flexible waterproof shell, enabling continuous oxygen supply and isolation from surrounding water. By fitting a cockroach, which is a terrestrial species, into this diving suit, we allowed it to survive and operate in oxygen-deprived environments such as underwater, transforming it into an amphibious cyborg robot capable of operation across land and water. The suit sustained respiration and locomotion for up to 3 h underwater, establishing amphibious cyborg insects that combine biological adaptability with engineered protection for prolonged exploration in extreme, confined environments.

Thrift stores used to be pretty good. It was a flat few dollars per game the last time I looked at them.

I’d like to add on this bit that people often miss:

• In Canada, the healthcare system’s costs include salaries for healthcare workers, supplies, training, and other necessary costs
• In the US, the healthcare system’s costs include all of the above, in addition to all of the parisitic layers. Just the insurance layer includes insurance shareholders, insurance executives, insurance overhead (marketing, admin, aggressive claims denial), lobbying, etc. Then there are similar costs from each of the private corporations that own the hospitals, the clinics, the ambulance services etc.

That is why the American system is much more expensive and much less efficient with the money. Since Canada’s system is still partially private and it never got fully actualized to the original vision (in part because of lobbying from the US), we have some of those inefficiencies too.

Now the thing is, a large segment of the working US population would not be able to afford healthcare because of these parasitic layers. The US government needs to enter this system to keep it afloat, but they have to pay the much higher costs.

So for an American, not only do their taxes ALSO go towards healthcare, but the US spends far more per capita on it. It changes year to year, but double the spending is what I’ve usually heard.

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

Cut out the parasitic layers. The savvy businessmen among them can find some other industry to make a profit from.

I may be wrong, but I think holding a slightly cross legged position does still require some muscle contraction, and it may cause some compression over having your legs relaxed and spread apart. Also, if you’re lying on your back, then there might be a slight pressure difference from having one leg higher than the rest of your body.

The way you’re describing it, all of these factors will only change the pressure very slightly.

It could also be that you were more relaxed during the second reading, and so that time was the most important contributor. For example, white coat hypertension

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

Seems like the solution is: don’t do exams this way

This year, the economist decided that both the midterm and the final exams for his course would be of the take-home, closed-book type (there is a certain tradition of this at Ivy League schools). “It’s a very nice kind of exam, because as you’re giving students practically unlimited time to complete it, it lets you make it harder than normal, to see how far they can go.” In this case, Serrano changed some of the model assumptions they had seen in class, and asked students to demonstrate whether certain statements were true or false under the new assumptions.

I use a browser extension that sends me to a reddit frontend on the off chance I come across a post while searching. It works pretty well

Libredirect + the fastest instance

From the admin side, I do understand what they are saying but I think there’s a better solution to it. We run the old frontend on our instance, and it gets hammered with bots and scrapers. So if we assume that old.reddit works the same way, then it would be attractive to scrapers. But instead of locking it down, I think they could set up something like Anubis or put it behind some other anti-bot measure.

Should have called it the “polluter tax and rebate”

Or even “carbon tax and cash back” system

That’s what I was thinking, especially with the headline

But in this case it looks to be an actual data breach, where the images are the less interesting parts of the leak

https://www.androidauthority.com/iphone-18-pro-color-dynamic-island-leak-3682857/

While previous iPhones have also had many details leaked in the run-up to launch, usually in the form of spec leaks, CAD files, and dummy units, this iPhone 18 Pro leak is the biggest in recent Apple history as these detailed schematics, blueprints, and pre-release test videos are ordinarily not available (even after launch!). We expect more information on the iPhone 18 Pro and other upcoming Apple products to flow through as the leak by cyber group World Leaks reportedly comprises over 200,000 files totalling over 630GB.

You would think that an organization like this would have a better understanding than the average person

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

The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) is the trade association of the video game industry in the United States. It was formed in April 1994 as the Interactive Digital Software Association (IDSA)[1] and renamed on July 21, 2003. It is based in Washington, D.C.[2][3] Most of the top publishers in the video game industry (or their American subsidiaries) are members of the ESA.

From the admin side, we see the following

• lots of accounts trying to register with the same LLM generated text, or nonsensical spam in the registration application. Those get blocked
• some accounts that immediately make it obvious that they are a spam bot by posting unrelated advertise-y content as their first post. Those get banned quickly, and usually the home instance prunes the account within a day

The recent “DM me” spammers and the accounts that post on !selfhosted@lemmy.world are a good example of the second category.

It’s pretty rare for a bot to be active for much longer than that. Usually some eagle eyed user will spot it and report it up the chain.

Welcome!

We have some guides / infographics for new users, which you might find helpful. These two pages in particular:

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/threadiverse/detailed-overview

An instance is the site where you make an account. If we extend the analogy to email, then gmail.com is one instance while hotmail.com is another instance. If you make an account on Gmail, you can’t use that login on Hotmail but you can still see content from people on Hotmail.

Lemmy, Piefed, Mbin, Mastodon, Pixelfed, etc. are all software. It’s hard to extend this analogy out, but imagine if Google released the code for Gmail freely so that anyone could easily set up an email website that had the same appearance and functionality as Gmail. That is what is happening here.

So in the same way, lemmy.ca, lemmy.world, sh.itjust.works and many other Fediverse instances are running the “Lemmy” software and that’s why they look and feel very similar. Where they differ comes down to the people running a particular instance, since they will have different rules for what you can do. You can find that information in the sidebar.

Now all of the Fediverse platforms use a common and agreed upon language to talk to each other. Because Lemmy, Piefed, and Mbin software all use this language and follow a similar format, you can easily share content between all of them. That is what the second guide page talks about. They all have communities, posts, and comments, and work in a similar way.

Usually people make one account on a forum/threaded instance (Lemmy, Piefed, Mbin), and one account on a microblogging instance (Mastodon). This is because the format of microblogging (ex. Twitter) is pretty different from that of forums (ex. Reddit), although it is technically possible to cross post in between them.

IMO demonitizing the AI music is the important part. It lets them skip the debate around the AI while removing the incentive for the slop uploads

They didn’t specifically say if they will let users have a toggle to hide it all, that’s one of my concerns with this

Sweet, thanks for bringing it up to them. Looking forward to being able to follow some of the boards 😊

I think the question is about cursive writing, where you would finish a word before going back to add those lines/dots/symbols

Interestingly there’s another comment in this thread showing how some cursive styles don’t follow this format, so this question was still insightful for people familiar with one type of cursive writing

Well an easy one to catch, they’ve been banned from our instances

Looks like they changed their display name since your comment lol