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CombatWombat

@ CombatWombat @feddit.online

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In the fediverse since 2017. I mostly talk sports. If something on the internet doesn't spark joy, mute it.

Do not yell at me simply because I am in front of you and the people responsible for the problems are not. It is extremely unpleasant.

  • Ethics Is the Skill That Matters Most Now

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  • This piece is very strange to me. It follows the logic through "electoral politics have handed the worst people the power to distort reality itself with their relentless lies," and then just casually pivots to "so try to think about how your day-to-day work affects others" and it seems incongruous to the point of almost being non sequitur. "The ship is sinking, all is lost, so make sure to arrange the deck chairs in a way that makes it fun and easy for people to listen to the band."

  • How many people do you know from your neighborhood

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  • If you take the broadest definition of "know," like recognize their face and know their name and at least one other fact about them, maybe 200-300? I'm kinda a chatterbox, so I talk to a lot of strangers. My neighborhood is pretty big, though, so it's a rare day that I see more than a couple people I recognize.

  • Where is the best site for job hunting?

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  • Nah, I get that feeling that you’ll do whatever it takes. My suggestion is a lot more helpful for the first 50 applications than say applications 250 to 300, I’ll admit. But I’ll stand on the idea that, given an easy apply button on an aggregator, and filling out the application on a company’s career site, I have found more success with the latter than the former, on average.

  • Where is the best site for job hunting?

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  • I don’t think which job site you use matters all that much, as long as you’re using it to find the careers page for the company that you want to apply for, and apply there, rather than through the aggregator.

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    Does anybody know an instance that federates with all(or almost all) other instances or simply has the lowest number of blocked instances?

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  • I am. Interacting with a lemmy community from mastodon is a bit unwieldy, but you can do it. I bet you could even follow and post from pixelfed, though I haven't tried. Mastodon was the first fediverse platform, so i think it's generally the one that most platforms play best with, if you're just looking for the widest view -- Hubzilla users tell me it's the best for seeing and participating in the largest chunk of the fediverse, but I'm yet to try it. More than anything, though, I'm telling you that if you want to see everything, you'll have to be prepared to make more than one account -- some stuff, like wanderer or funkwhale or owncast are pretty far afield from lemmy or mastodon, and you'll be best served by using that service directly instead of trying to listen in from outside, and if you want to see into some of the more block-happy instances, you'll have to sign up for an account on a "known good" (to them) instance.

  • Locked

    Does anybody know an instance that federates with all(or almost all) other instances or simply has the lowest number of blocked instances?

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  • If you're looking for the broadest view of the fediverse possible, I would warn that the instances that block the least are often the ones that are defederated from the most. There's a tradeoff -- as you have more and more lax moderation policies, more and more instances seem to decide they don't want to interact with your instance. Also, if your goal is to see as much of the fediverse as possible, most of the posts you're missing aren't because your instance blocks them, but because lemmy doesn't support showing them -- you're missing way more mastodon and pixelfed and loops and bookwyrm etc posts because your software doesn't support them than you're missing lemmy posts because your instance blocks theirs.

  • What are some cute names for female vipers?

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  • Trinity, Sophia, Mallory, and Alyssa

  • Is that all?

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  • Hopefully it's enough to win Mbappe a golden boot

  • In a genderless and sexless society, what would pronouns be based on?

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  • Distance. You'd have proximate and distal pronouns, like this and that.

  • Trump says Canada will face tariffs over wildfire smoke, claiming ‘willful negligence’

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  • When I say I support taxing carbon emissions, this is very much not what I mean.

  • You find yourself teleported onto the stage of a TED talk right NOW with a large audience. What topic do you speak about?

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  • Next year in Brazil! We're currently in qualifying, so there's soccer to be watched! I'm very excited.

  • You find yourself teleported onto the stage of a TED talk right NOW with a large audience. What topic do you speak about?

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  • An extended call for more people to follow women's sports. I'd mostly center it around bringing more queer people who otherwise don't follow sports into the fandom:

    • sports are really not that different from other serials you follow, fictional or otherwise
    • shows are better when the episodes are released week-to-week as appointment viewing
    • women's sports are pretty gay, so your blorbos will date and get married and you will squee
    • there are cute walk-up fits before the game
    • there's a big crafting subculture to make and trade custom apparel like friendship bracelets
    • sports fans are easy to socialize with because there's ongoing narratives that are well-described and well-defined
    • all the cool lesbians go to the games and the gay sports bars and meet each other
    • there is much less corruption and fewer shitty toxic people than men's sports
    • sports look simple but there are a lot of really smart people thinking really hard about tough problems and you can see what they think because they use their bodies to show you
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    ABC, NBC, CNN do not air Trump’s election-security speech live on primary channels

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  • Probably wise to not have your network logo in the archival footage for the inevitable documentary.

  • How does one code by themself?

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  • Generally speaking, programming languages are like spoken languages, in that as a learner you're unlikely to be able to memorize and reproduce long passages without extensive practice, and should instead focus on learning to say what you mean, rather than practicing set dialogues.

  • Treasury Unveils New $1 Gold Coin With Trump’s Face on It

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  • In Canada, they call their one dollar coin a loonie as a tribute to the figure on the coin. We'd have to spell it a bit differently, but the US should do the same thing for the same reason.

  • Whats a good alternative to Instagram?

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  • Vernissage

  • What does "playing politics" mean for software engineers?

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  • Just because it's true doesn't mean I don't hate it. Oftentimes, the team with the least political cover is the team who stands up for what's right, rather than playing politics and shipping what is most profitable regardless of the ethical implications, and my political machinations are an active hindrance

    If you’re making a technical decision that’s either going to require work from team A or team B, and neither team wants to do it, you should try to pick the team with the least political cover.

  • If you could create artistic works like the Mona Lisa(Gioconda) in better quality, should your work be considered superior to the original (ignoring its historical value)?

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  • Choosing the mona lisa is an interesting example because it's pretty unremarkable as a painting, and most of its fame comes from having been stolen, rather than its artistic merits. Certainly making it larger would be helpful practically, given how small and crowded the space they show it in is, but would miss the mark entirely on why people want to see it, since wouldn't be the actual object that was the subject of the heist. Most of why I go to art museums, though, is to understand the progression of the conversation about Art that takes place on canvas over the centuries, and having a "better quality" reproduction would hinder, rather than help me, as I want to know what Kandinsky and Mondrian had to say about space and rhythm more than I want to see some kind of idealized iteration on their most famous works.

  • Which soccer club in a 26 World Cup host country do you follow or support?

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  • It's a silly trophy the Charleston Battery and DC United have as part of their rivalry. It's passed back and forth to the club that won in their most recent meeting, which is usually the US Open Cup or the Carolina Challenge (a preseason tournament) since the Battery aren't in MLS. It's a coffee pot to celebrate the time y'all trashed Charleston's locker room after they beat you in USOC in '99. This looks like a pretty good history of the trophy.