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  • loaExMachina@sh.itjust.workstoScience Memes@mander.xyzBees
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    2 days ago

    They don’t do that with me. A wasp stung me once because it was in my shoe, so I was obviously perceived as a threat when trying to put it on. I think there was another time but I don’t remember, I might’ve touched it first as well. The rest of the time, wasps seem to respect me, and it’s mutual. I’ve had wasps centimetres away from my face, but I never flinch and I’ve never regretted not flinching. Took more hits from people trying to kill wasps than from the wasps themselves.





  • Tbf, Unbuntu works, but they’re ran by a company which has made some questionable choices. You can still go with it if you don’t care too much, it has the advantages of being user friendly and well documented.

    If you’d rather not, but you want something not too far and equally easy, you can go with Linux Mint, which is based on Ubuntu but disables snaps. They also offer differently choices of desktop environments, the default being Cinnamon (which looks a bit more like windows), and another being Mate, which is closer to Gnome.

    They also have a “Debian Edition”, which aims to stop being dependant on Ubuntu and may or may not replace the default edition someday, but so far it’s not the one they recommend for new users.






  • loaExMachina@sh.itjust.workstoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    24 days ago

    The controversial part is equating “centrist” to “least biased”. Being a centrist is a political position, and like all others, it comes with its share of bias.

    Beside, the “center” views depend in the country, year, and even on who you ask. A man can go from right wing to center to left without changing his stance on anything if the countries politics shift right, and the reverse is true. There were right-wing communists in the USSR, tho they were not right wing by capitalist standards.

    There are objective ways to judge a news outlet: Whether they name their sources, whether they’ve been known to post updates and errata when an info they’ve posted turned out wrong, whether they’re independent, state-funded or dependent on a company, and in the two later cases, are the state or company known to make use of their influence on the news…

    And the website quoted by the bot accounts for some of these… But political positioning, while worth mentioning, shouldn’t be used to calculate the reliability of an outlet. Doing so doesn’t fight bias, but just favors some bias over others.