Out of curiosity, do you know what that first symbol means?

Straightedge is a punk subculture, so if you’re not into the music then I wouldn’t use the term.

Actually, moderators have access to a new tool that flags accounts suspected of ban evasion. The cannot see IPs or which other accounts were related, but they can see if an account is suspected and with what level of confidence. Many subreddits have a policy to ban all such flagged accounts.

The joke is that it contains the letter E, which is banned on the instance.

People do check this stuff for vandalism.

This kind of thing is why I hate Google Maps. There is no way to ensure that edits are carried out based on your local knowledge, whereas with OpenStreetMap you can just go make the changes that need to be made. It’s been very satisfying for me to go contribute to OpenStreetMap when I see that paths are added or changed, so that the map reflects reality. Meanwhile Google Maps won’t even move an entire park that is in the wrong place.

And it’s not even just a few of them. I recently looked at the Wikipedia page for Stephen Harper (former Conservative PM) and he’s been on Ben Shapiro lately, and started ranting about “woke culture.” It’s become pervasive.

Number of fires is honestly a terrible metric: you could have 1000 fires the each the size of a backyard and it would sound worse than one fire the size of New Brunswick, but the latter is obviously worse.

Looking at the amount of area burned, this is the worst fire season on record so far.

This is the worst part. I remember in 2003, BC had what was considered at the time a devastating fire season, with over 130,000 hectares burned. It was so bad that artists came together to create an art book to remember it by, and to sell to raise money for displaced residents. The largest single fire that year was 32,000 hectares.

Then in 2009 there was a 67,000 hectare fire.

Then in 2014 there was a 133,000 hectare fire.

Then in 2017 there was a 545,000 hectare fire, a 241,000 hectare fire, and a 192,000 hectare fire. Over 1.2m hectares total burned. The next year, 1.3m hectares burned. Now that has been exceeded in 2023, and the season is only half over.

Just think about it. In 2003, we couldn’t possibly imagine worse destruction than 130,000 hectares burned. And now we’re easily exceeding ten times that area year after year.

Look at how bad it is now, and imagine how much worse it’s going to get. The drought is only getting worse. Western red cedars have all started dying in some areas. The destruction the Interior saw as a result of the Mountain Pine Beetle will come to the south: the most populated area of the province, and the area with the fewest ways to evacuate, as it is locked between the border to the south, mountains to the north, and the ocean to the west.

The losses will be immense.

The conversion losses to feed animals is very high. It takes 76% less land for us to subsist on plants rather than to eat meat. Well, actually, that’s the world average, it might be even higher in the US because of its higher meat consumption. I should check the study again.

It takes 76% less land for us to just eat plants, rather than to grow them to feed to animals that we then in turn eat. Really amazing how inefficient it is.

The original article does specify contiguous US.

I’m really thankful for it, so thank you for pushing back. One of the biggest reasons I chose Lemmy over Kbin was the lack of overall user score. I’m fine with posts and comments having a score — it sort of helps one determine what is and isn’t good content for a community, or what might not be good advice — but summing those up on your user profile only leads to weird score measuring contests and a sort of “number go up” addictive cycle. Thank you also for giving us the ability to hide scores if we don’t want to see them.

Multiple people have reported 429 errors.

I’m not using one.

RSS feeds started throwing 429 errors today, like I predicted. They were never going to leave this loophole open.

I’m personally archiving some of the great content from my community on Reddit because it meant so much to me, and to lose it would be a shame. I think it’s important for us to preserve the foundational content of our communities.