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By making homelessness illegal, are we locking people up without a trial?

What's the best way to take donations for an online charitable foundation?

I’m building a catalog for the Internet – think Google crosses old school library card catalogs, meets Dewey Decimal System, and will eventually require donations. What’s the best platform to use for this?

The entire database will be made available to the public, for private offline use in custom desktop applications, or other sites with alternative ideas.

I’d like a goal meter, to show how close we are to reaching our funding goals and for the platform to have a good reputation.

If you could live your days in blissful simulation. . .

Think Matrix. . .

If you could wear a helmet that put you into a blissful simulation, while affluent overlords used your body for labor, pumped in nutrients, managed your reproductive needs, and killed you when everything started falling apart, would you do it?

What spelling, grammar or semantics rules have been lost in your lifetime?

Language is always changing. At one point ‘an apron’ was ‘a napron’ while words like ‘literally’ are no longer literally literal. What are some language battles that have been lost in living memory and what are some others you predict will soon occur?

Edit: Non-english examples very welcome!

Do turkeys that tell you to cook from frozen usually turn out as good as thawed ones?

On Android: Whats the best way to download ALL emails from Google for the 1st download then only sync the increments after?

I have a lot of emails (~200k). I want to be able to access any of them even if the internet is down.
My current device runs GrapheneOS with stores like PlayStore, Obtanium and Fdroid.

My plan is: mass download the emails once, then when that is done, we sync the increments. E.g. I have 200k emails so first download all 200k. Then say tomorrow i have 5 new emails, so only syncs those instead of redownloading the full 200k.

If anyone has done this, what is your preferred app? I am trying on Fairmail right now. When select “Sync ALL messages”, it looks like it is downloading all the messages. However, this would suck if Fairmail is your only email client; because while downloading all messages, you cant even view the latest emails (notifications do come through btw)

Two related questions: what culture do you consider yourself a part of, and is volunteering/community work a big part of your culture (in your opinion)?

For context:

I’m Canadian (south Ontario). For all of the pitfalls I see in our society, one of the big things we emphasize to our children (which to some extent carries into adulthood) is the importance of volunteer work. It’s also very directly rewarded in regards to academic advancement, as opposed to grades. Even now, about a decade out of high school and in a different place, I still look to volunteer and do advocacy. Note that I’m also extrapolating somewhat anecdotally here; I’m sure there are people who don’t have this mentality in Canada.

I was talking with an acquaintance. He’s from India (New Delhi area IIRC). He mentioned how this stuff is very much de-emphasized in his culture. They did have volunteer requirements but you could just donate to get out of it, or get 2 hours signed off as 80 hours. The main priority in regards to (public) university was entrance exams. It’s interesting to see an academic outlook so so heavily prioritized instead.

I didn’t ask him at all about ramifications culturally but it did get me thinking about the ramifications of volunteering in my culture, and how I’m happy it’s there. That’s what got me thinking about this question.

As a non communist, should i read the manifesto? (Plus other Marx and Engels stuff)

I am interested in politics, and even tho i am not a communist, i am interested in what can be learned from it and i also want to learn more about political ideologies as a whole, instead of speaking out of my ass whenever someone mentions communism and potentially say some bullshit. What do you think?

Edit: thanks for all the answers! I swear i read them all, i just don’t know how to answer to each of them, but thanks for all the recommendations!

Doesn't tying income class to moving targets within those classes defeat the point of measuring them?

The US Census Bureau defines lower class as the lowest 20% of incomes.

Pew defines it as the lowest 2/3 of the median.

If the highest income is $100, 20% is $20.

At 2/3 the median, if the median is $30, lower-class is $20.

Is there a reason they’re tying income classes to people within those classes, and not what it costs to survive within the economy?

How can I set up NextDNS with ProtonVPN?

I want to setup NextDNS on my devices as I like their ad blocking and other features, but I also use ProtonVPN and know that’s a problem. ProtonVPN doesn’t support CustomDNS very well and only support IPv4 instead of IPv6, which is the better option. I know they prefer you use their DNS service, but I think the pros of NextDNS outweigh the cons for me. Is there a better way to set NextDNS with ProtonVPN?

In your friend groups, do you usually have one or two people that normally host get togethers or does everyone take turns?

[serious] If having a 9 to 5 job is a waste of time and not good enough for finances, then how are other options better? how owning a business is supposed to give more time now?

Most of the time I hear advice that a regular 9 to 5 job or other schedule of being an employee is making us a slave or at least depreving us from our time by keep us busy enough to not be able to do anything else. But what are other options that allow both enough time to spend on a personal life and make a good living? Most of the time, owning a business eats more time than being an employee. This is maybe a discussion about work life balance, or even being with or against the anti work movement.

I also refuse the idea that tells me to be absolutely frugal. Yes, I live bellow my means, but I also spen d money on my hobbies and what brings joy and meaning to my life. I also save up some money for investment but investing is the hard part when our stock market is too small.

The question is serious. What are the other options or other insight in the situation and its alternatives.

Question is open ended and you can add in more point of views.

Hi cutie, how are you today?

Is the most likely doom scenario of an AI apocalypse another version of the very hungry caterpillar story, where instead of having an insatiable amount of hunger for food, it's knowledge?

So that at the end of the doom scenario, the whole world turns into a giant computer just so the AI can solve a difficult puzzle?

why do school shootings happen?

what could possibly drive someone to commit such a horrific act against others?

Who are the members of your chosen family/ies?

People you consider as parents/siblings/uncles/aunts despite not being on your official family tree.

For me:

-A community on Discord. We know each other since years and they know some things even my own mother ignore.

-My sister’s own friends.

What is, "the narwhal bacons at midnight" equivalent for Lemmy?

What is Something you are Proud to have Made?

cross-posted from: …blahaj.zone/…/what-is-something-you-are-proud-to…

Hey, Ask Lemmy, we all know that people love to talk about themselves, and I’d love to hear about some of your pleasant experiences. So, please, no matter how big; no matter how small, tell me something that you are proud to have made :)

Whats the cringiest ad you watched, can be from youtube, tv, AI / non AI...etc?

For me, it is the Tachi workout style ad. I said “style” because it started out to sell Tachi workout, then gradually moved on to sell you Speech training exercises.

Format is the same:

I’m {insert age above 50}, I dont follow experts instead i use the {insert their products} for {insert number less than 10} minutes per day.