In other towns where this is allowed, a representative of the entity, not the actual owner, was able to cast the ballot for the company after signing the necessary affidavit. Delaware allows for the owner of the LLC’s identity to not be public.

Yep no way this doesn’t-

In a Newark referendum election in 2019, a property manager was able to vote 31 times because he was in control of 31 LLCs, which owned 31 parcels of land. The city then changed its regulations after this became public.

Ah it already did cause problems.

Why in the world would you put business on the same legal basis of actual citizens?

Pretty much what the article says.

The alpha radiation that DU emits is not strong enough to penetrate human skin, so just being near depleted uranium is not a health risk. But it may become a health hazard if it is ingested or inhaled, or shrapnel fragments are retained in the body.

It’s really just one more hazard a former battlefield can have. If I was in or around a former battlefield that had DU rounds used, I would be more concerned about unexploded high explosives.

Very informative article.

DU also has nonmilitary applications. Its high density makes it useful for stopping radiation in medical, research and nuclear facilities.

I find it funny a source of radiation, admittedly safe alpha radiation as long as it is outside of you, is used as radiation shielding.

It’s really location dependent. Some places you’ll see the birds in seconds and others never. You’ll need to know the climate, local weather, soil conditions, what else is growing in the area, time of year, etc. to get an accurate answer.

It would be whatever is negotiated in the personality rights contract. I think voice actors have a union so I could see a standardized contract negotiated by the union.

I don’t think there is a way native to Lemmy for a mod to do that. You would have to talk to the instance admin you are on to defederate them at the moment. This might change in the future.

What you might be able to do is see if anyone has made a mod bot yet. Then you could configure the bot to ban anyone who posts from instances you don’t like. So reactive bans instead of preemptive.

I’ve seen the first couple bots pop up so I would expect to see a mod bot pretty soon.

“I refuse (voiceover) work that states they’ll take my voice and make an AI model from it,” voice actor Brad Ziffer told CNBC. “The best way to protect myself is to just stay away.”

As you should. There is a big difference between narrating and giving away personality rights.

But the article kind of negates the title.

However, experts say seamlessly replicating the way a human talks with AI is still a ways away. Human beings offer unique intonation, cadence, and emotion when they speak.

Voice artist narration for big title releases isn’t going away anytime soon. And if it does the job is going to be replaced with technical/artistic jobs fine tuning the generated narration.

What I actually see happening in the short term is it becoming profitable to do generative narration of smaller authors and books that would be profitable using traditional voice work.

In time I could see this working it’s way up the budget ladder into larger projects but that’s still a way off.

As far as I’m aware defederation is one way. If instance 1 defederates instance 2 it means they won’t accept posts, comments or any other data from the instance 2. But instance 2 is still capable of viewing the data from instances 1 much like an unlogged in user

Looking at lemmy.ml/instances I dont see lemmy.world in the blocked list. I don’t think either has defederates the other. Are you thinking of Beehaw?

Mastodon instances are technically able to interact with lemmy instances. Both platforms use the ActivityPub protocol. The issue for your average user is the UI frontend of the platforms don’t have anyway of doing the correct queries or display the information from each other. But if you use alternative interfaces, I think it’s basically just all command line utilities at the moment, you can view content and post across them. There should be some other platforms able to do this as well.

Here is the list of all instances federated or blocked by lemmy.world. I couldn’t see defederation or blocking instances in the modlog so there might not be a log with reasons.

As for rules. I’m just checking what each server a given community is on. Most things are only on a handful or instances. If a community keeps popping up on a feed from a community on a server I don’t like, I just block the community. I’ll probably keep doing that until user level blocking of instances is implemented.

The president, a self-proclaimed “gaffe machine,” has been known to make some statements that leave people scratching their heads

Sounds a lot like Bush and his Bushisms. I want to see another “Fool me once, shame on…shame on you. Fool me—you can’t get fooled again” moment.

No idea. I can see not up voting it. I think it’s a bit of a non-story. Country looks to maybe join a group containing it’s some of it large trading partners. This group might or might not do something on the future. Only interesting bit is it’s the BRICS.

But a down vote just feels unnecessary. The story is factual. The source is fine. It might be relevant to someone.

I wouldn’t call it selfish. They want tools for more granular control on their instance. That’s perfectly fine. If they limit who can post or comment based on the instance they are from. The other instances are perfectly free to limit their users as well in response or for their own arbitrary reasons.

There seems to be a distinct lack of controls across lemmy as a whole. The only option for them is all or nothing at the moment.

I think the big take away is for users to think about what instance they create their accounts and communities on.

Sorry if I seemed argumentative. I was trying to state that it wasn’t just your opinion that they don’t own user data but it is a fact they don’t own user data.

Already a thing as far as I know. For example lemmy.world federation/block list.

It’s not their data. If you scrape Reddit for the comments are reposted them somewhere else Reddit wouldn’t be able to come after you with a copyright violation lawsuit.

Any potential copyright is still owned by the original user with Reddit having a license to sublicense for “syndication, broadcast, distribution, or publication by other companies, organizations, or individuals who partner with Reddit.”

They would have to come after you with a ToS contract violation or maybe some kind of Computer Fraud and Misuse allegations.

As far as I know that is correct. I personally don’t like because it’s dehumanizing them when we don’t have to.

If we were in combat and actually needed to shoot at them and needed to dehhumanize them for our own psychological health that would be one thing. But we are all probably safe sitting on the toilet, so we probably shouldn’t need to resort to it.

I think it also implies guilt of all Russian soldiers. They are deserving of all protections under international law, mainly getting shot at on the battlefield and a dignified confinement when they surrender or are incapacitated, until proven otherwise. And if they did something horrifying enough to be called an orc, they should probably be hanged, after trial, and not even dignified with discussion.

Just need the people complaining about people complaining post followed by a rule baning complaining about people. Then we can get the golden meta post of complaining about the rule stopping you from complaining about people.

Just a simple call-reaponse meme. AnarchyChess ended spreading everywhere. Probably because chess took off with middle and high schoolers during 2020 lockdown.

I think that is an actual threat if he can’t find an expert. The judge might assign someone if he can’t find one himself just to avoid that.

Someone is spamming scat porn. They are getting reported. The page has live updates and tells everyone that sometimes has been reported.