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BTRFS and moving /home to subvolume, in need of a sanity check. in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] TerryMathews@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

rm -rf /home/*

You need the directory for the mount point.

If one hosts a Lemmy instance, do they need to also host, and/or link to the source code even if they have made no changes to it? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

Educators ‘outraged’ after attorneys argue 1st-grade teacher shot in school is ‘workplace injury’ in c/usa@lemmy.ml

[–] TerryMathews@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. If it's a workplace injury, OSHA has the authority to come in and dictate mitigation measures.

Clearly this isn't true.

Inside the Republican effort to force millions of farm animals back into cages in c/usa@lemmy.ml

[–] TerryMathews@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't see how this would go anywhere after 303 Creative.

Corporations are people for the purposes of free speech thanks to Citizens United. Congress can't pass a law depriving them of their free speech rights - and animal welfare would definitely fall within the scope.

303 says - among other things - that state or federal law can't compel to to perform an act against your right to free speech.

'Do not, for the love of God, tell kids that slavery was beneficial' in c/usa@lemmy.ml

[–] TerryMathews@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I do. DeSantis's anti-woke legislation forced textbook makers to transform Rosa Parks into bus Karen. Seriously, Google it, don't take my word for it.

'Do not, for the love of God, tell kids that slavery was beneficial' in c/usa@lemmy.ml

[–] TerryMathews@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right, but take the converse: if they didn't own land, they definitely couldn't afford a slave.

'Do not, for the love of God, tell kids that slavery was beneficial' in c/usa@lemmy.ml

[–] TerryMathews@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

You're sniping, but I think the parent poster was accurate in what they said. I don't think it was an euphemism for slave. It was the 1800s. What would you do with a slave if you didn't own property? If they're not tilling and planting or harvesting, or keeping house, or cooking, what would they be doing? A horse would be far more effective at pulling a carriage, and keeping one as a sex slave - while it definitely happened - was strongly looked down upon by society at the time.

If you kept a slave and had no good reason to own one aside from sex, you might well disappear in the night one night - not out of protection for the slave(s) but racial purity.

Reddit Refugees on Lemmy, how are you guys liking lemmy so far? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[–] TerryMathews@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I made a post that was similar a week or so back that was fairly controversial where I advocated changing how the federation protocol works. I've been thinking about it more, and I think I have a solution to your concern (and mine) that keeps the admins feelings about federation and not allowing one instance to dominate in mind.

On Reddit, especially old.reddit, when you search at the top you actually get two different search results: subreddits matching %string% at the top, posts matching %string% at the bottom.

We should mirror that. The current search should be modified in the same structure and pump the search string into https://browse.feddit.de/ or implement it's process into the server code.

I think when someone types in android, getting a list of currently existing Lemmy communities with their respective populations and post counts is probably the easiest way to smooth out the learning curve.