That may be an excuse they used, but I doubt that was really their motivation.

Thank you sooo much, good bot! I use a vpn (as everyone should) and you make it possible for me to get news through Lemmy. I appreciate you so much!

Literally nothing can live in pure water. What matters is everything else in the Popsicle, which is mostly processed sugar. Processed sugar is a preservative and will prevent bacterial growth.

relevant user name.

Ever notice that you don’t need to refrigerate candy? Processed sugar is such a bad food source for bacteria, you can actually use it as a preservative. The melted Popsicle will rot eventually, if it stays wet, but the likely first organism in will be a yeast.

You’re way off topic here. That’s what OP meant by their response. They are not saying that your article fails to support your point.

“why the heck does it always travel east?”

I mean, come on. This one is pretty obvious.

The driver injecting energy in this system is heating from the Sun. The boundary on the surface between where the heating is happening and where it isn’t is constantly moving West.

Other than that, there may be some interesting connection between quantum topology and Kelvin waves, but I doubt it is of practical use.

Camel case is the way. Why use underscore instead of space when you could just,… not?

There’s nothing wrong with email. It is essential for all business transacted online. It’s still, by far, the most useful federated software. All that the “bad actors” can do is send messages that the receiver didn’t want, and that’s trivial to stop.

This is truly not meant to be snarky: It sounds like you don’t know how email works.

some of them blacklist large blocks of ip addresses. Lawsuits can go a long way to forcing them to justify and/or stop this. EFF is working on this, so I give them money. The other thing I can do personally is write to legislators and make sure they are aware of the issue. It’s not yerribly satisfying, but I hope it helps.

In the meantime, I will not be deterred from self hosting. F*@k google.

The big players do definitely try to shut down independent email. We don’t have to let them succeed though, and the way to fight back is to host your own.

Edit: *one way to fight back.

FUD

I have self hosted my email for five years. I’m a hobbyist and it is no problem for me.

Occassionally (very rarely) an email to a new address I’ve never sent before will end up erroneously in a spam folder. This never happens when I send to a business. Instead of everyone throwing up their hands and saying email is way too hard now, how about we hold the big providers accountable for their obvious bullying?

I have a counter example where downvotes are very useful. In r/askphysics we would downvote any comment that had errors or was completely wrong. A post didnt have to be around long before it became clear what the consensus answer was. This was much more helpful to the asker than just showing them a bunch of answers, and responses to those answers, and leaving them to discern who is most credible.

In that case, just not voting wouldn’t help. And if you have downvoting, you can still just not vote when that’s more appropriate. That’s what I do for opinions I simply disagree with.

there were several redditors who consistently produced high quality specialized content. they became well known for it.