Unfortunately, that seems to be about local communities, which aren’t really important. In fact, due to federation, that’s the least important aspect of an instance.

By default, Lemmy is wide open to anything and everything. You need to see what they have turned off/blocked/removed, to see if it’s what you want.

Many (most?) instances do block porn. Aside from liability concerns, porn tends to be high bandwidth, meaning high costs to operate. As such, there are a handful of VERY NSFW instances that aren’t well-federated.

Of course, it depends on how you define porn. I see a ton of suggestive (but not outright pornographic) anime when I browse All/New, but very little of actual naked humans.

Yes, they will.

You’re taking the approach of an independent farmer that didn’t sign a contract with Monsanto. What you said mostly aligns with that scenario.

For the farmer that did sign a contract with Monsanto, that is a standard and required clause, and they do enforce it.

Your employer will not be there at Thanksgiving.

If you dedicate your life to work, neither will your family.

I have no need for a truck, and I still considered getting one. The Lightning is very impressive all around.

It makes more sense if you start from the other side - EVs are a niche market, and an electric truck is a small subset of that.

The Cybertruck sold 38,965 units last year, vs 33,510 for the Ford F150 Lightning.

I was quite surprised to see coffee on the list. There’s only 1 state far enough south to grow coffee (Hawaii).
That means they import the beans grown elsewhere for processing.

It turns out that Folgers does its roasting and packaging in New Orleans. It’s unclear where the beans are from, but I’m sure it’s “everywhere”.

To my friends in Canada, take this opportunity to upgrade from Folgers.

That one’s pretty obvious. From their main page:

Startpage delivers Google search results via our proprietary personal data protection technology.

DDG and Ecosia are proxies for Bing. I didn’t check, but I’m guessing the others are too. Most “independent” search engines are.

The major exception is Startpage, which is a proxy for Google.

Initially, I thought that I needed to stock up on Colombian coffee before the prices skyrocketed. Now I feel like I need to stock up on non-Colombian coffee before something similar happens elsewhere.

The problem is who will replace them. Does Putin even have an official successor (like the US VP), or would this create a power vacuum?

This isn’t exactly a secret. Remember in the debate when he said he’d end the war, and refused to say which side he’d be on?

Requirement from whom? Who would enforce it?

I know the obvious answer is the ICC, but they currently have warrants for both Putin and Netanyahu, so clearly that’s not an effective threat.

I’ll go a step further. Do you have any idea how wet Trump would get about invading Europe?

Strategically, this was probably the right move. At that point, the results were in. We can’t change what happened, only where we go from here. Kissing his ass is a case of Tragedy of the Commons.

The instant acceleration thing is a feature of all EVs. Even the cheapest are surprisingly fast off the line.

If you want something with more sustained acceleration, there are plenty of high performance EVs that will end your Tesla envy.

That’s… Not how this works.

The powers that be only look at a few charts, and a few data points on each.

The big one is sales over time, possibly broken down to gross vs net revenue (i.e. profit)

The next will be the amount that customers use AI. Could be a binary “interacted at all”, measured in interactions, or by time.

The final MIGHT be % of interactions that led to a sale.

The ONLY way to fight AI (or anything else that corporations do that you object to) is to stop or reduce buying from places that use it.

90s middle school: same urban legend, except it was 1 gallon from Gwen Stefani.

Van Halen’s road crew confirmed that. They also confirmed that, without exception, if the M&Ms were wrong, there were other major problems. And when I say major, it’s on the level of “people would have died” if they had continued with the show.

There’s only a single decent quality video of the first plane on 9/11. Because in a city of millions of people, only 1 person in the area was recording at the time.

I can’t even imagine how many videos there would be if it happened today.