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Almost the entirety of the political spectrum of most democratic countries sits as far away from Trump as it does from tankies. Let's stop pretending that if I oppose people who pretend that no genocides happened under Stalin I'm suddenly pro-Trump. There's an entire political spectrum between those two.

Really cool! Also didn't know pics organized a photo of the week, good to know.

The main cause of natural fires over here are lightning strikes. There's some phenomenon in which high temperatures can cause thunderstorms which are fairly "fast", as in they don't last very long, and a strike in the middle of the forest combined with hot temperatures and dry forests can cause a natural fire. But that's actually fairly rare in my country at least.

In the past, I've seen studies that mixed natural causes with unknown causes, which made the number of fires happening from "natural causes" seem impossibly high - leading to the thing you pointed at in your first post, where some people actually believe that a fire could just start from nothing.

Thank you. I've been a volunteer firefighter for a few years so discussions about wildfires always hit a nerve and I hate how many of them are used to steer public opinion towards very specific problems, while ignoring how complex the topic really is.

I live in a European country that's practically known by its summer wildfires. We've had enormous fires ever since before I was born and before temperatures got this high in the summer. Our own stats show that around 70% of occurring fires happen due to human action - both negligent (people who insist on using electrical machinery in the woods in the summer) and criminal (loonies who like causing chaos and watching firefighters). The remaining percentage is mostly fires in which we can't pinpoint the cause, and few of them actually occur "naturally", simply because of high temperatures.

Most of our forest has been abandoned over the years, partly because the people who own it moved to more urban areas, partly because a lot of economical activities linked to the forest have become financially unfeasible for the average person. State forests get abandoned as well because state budget usually gets discussed outside of wildfire season, when everyone forgets that wildfires exist. We've also lost a lot of volunteer firefighters in rural areas because of a lot of immigration to other European countries for better job opportunities.

Every year, by this point of the year, the news cycle turns towards wildfires and the same old discussion about what causes them starts all over again, with most political actors - and the public themselves - attributing the causes to whatever problem they identify with the most. By october, no one in my country - or on here, most likely - will be talking about wildfires anymore.

That's exactly the time in which we should begin clearing forests, doing maintenance work on access roads and fire stopping strips, and in general discussing what needs to be done to stop this - but by then most of the public forgets that wildfires exist and any attempt to finance those things ultimately fails as public opinion moves on and suddenly switches from "oh no, we're all going to burn" to "we'll deal with wildfires next year, we have plenty of time left!". Any attempt at gaining public support to finance the necessary work to prevent wildfires is constantly shut down because, outside of summer, no one really cares about wildfires.

I've seen this cycle happening year after year for most of my life. We're in the "thing I don't like is the only cause of fires and we should stop it!" phase, and in a few months everyone will collectively stop giving a shit and move on. Fires are getting harder to fight, both because of rising temperatures and because of a collective unwillingness to act - it's getting harder and harder to get people to volunteer at fire stations, likewise for every charity I volunteer at. Though every stat we have shows people are supposedly more politically active than ever before - or at least it appears so judging by their online activity - less and less people everyday are willing to go out and actually do something useful for their community. It's all talk and no game. But not to worry! Only two months left till october when we'll all pretend wild fires haven't been destroying our landscapes for years and years.

While I understand the sentiment, I hate this trend that whenever someones talks about how soulless the internet has become, the answer is always Web 1.0.

I don't want web 1.0. I like having CSS and Javascript around. I use them to build things I couldn't with HTML alone, and I've seen countless incredibly creative websites which fundamentally couldn't have been built without Javascript. It's weird to me how the article mentions the creative aspect of the old web, versus the commercial aspect and "sameyness" of the current web, only to then toss out tools that allow for even more creativity and personalization in the current web.

Whenever I finish reading one of these articles it always feels like it's mostly nostalgia and not much else.

It's gotten pretty bad lately and by this point I do feel like I see more misinformation on here than on Reddit. Lemmy has successfully managed to become more like Reddit than Reddit itself.

It's kinda sad, there were a few days in which it really felt like this space would be different, but right now, I either go on /sub and barely see any content because most of the communities I want to follow are fairly inactive, or I go on /all and it's mostly americans calling eachother Nazis over the slightest political disagreement, middle-class doomers going on about how their lives are horrible even though they're better off than most of the world and every "serious" community, whether it's news or politics or etc. is filled to the brim with misinformation (and more doomers).

People are already circlejerking below about capitalism over this fake pic, nice, cheers.

I used to be an Arch guy, I had a pretty stable setup for a couple of years, until I had some problem with a printer and I just decided to toss the whole thing out and just go for a distro with neat defaults in which I wouldn't be having problems with printers.

I've been using Solus since then and it's been fine. Even during the "bad times" of no updates, my laptop kept working fine so I didn't bother switching to something else and I keep using it since it's been more stable than distros I've used in the past which were supposed to be stable. I've seen mentions of the possibility of it eventually having an AUR style thing which would honestly make it the perfect distro.

I'm pretty sure it is, I'll keep that in mind, thanks!

You will be their removed anyways with no way to change it.

Did you type removed or does some system in the fediverse automatically censor words?

I'd love to say the same but on my Lenovo laptop I get frequent disconnects with bluetooth earphones on Linux alone. Apparently it's a firmware problem with the AX200 board, but even after having updated the firmware and following all the online fixes I still have the problem.

My whole use case for my laptop is getting away from my desk when I want to read something and listen to music at the end of the day, but it's annoying to have to reconnect the earphones every 10 or so minutes. Like everything Linux, it's incredible as long as you have supported hardware and you don't bump into some weird edge case.

I don't understand the frustration. With all of the recent examples of people winning photo contests only to reveal later that their "photos" were made by AI, it's only natural that judges grow paranoid of these things.

As for your friend's comment on photo competitions, that sounds like someone who's butt hurt for not winning. I enter some photo contests ocasionally and I have yet to see one in which the winner hadn't produced some pretty decent work.