Has anybody heard of any plan or idea to reduce microplastics? We’ve been hearing all this research over the past five years especially about all of the scary places we’re finding microplastics (like our brains, and testicles, and the top of Mt. Everest). I have yet to hear about any studies into reducing microplastics.
In most cases, it’s probably safe, but ask a lawyer. Led Zeppelin has a bunch of songs about Lord of the Rings.
Probably the most famous example is Barbie Girl. The musical group Aqua created the song and was sued by Mattel. The toy company won the rights of the song because it was specifically using their product IP. They referenced specific features of the toy line, including the names of Barbie and Ken. Mattel was able to demonstrate that the song harmed their IP. That was the key feature IIRC. In the end, I think that it was ruled that the song was clearly a parody. So any harm that was caused, people would not assume was connected with the real-world toy.
Honestly, the best treatment of this was in the pre-streaming world with the “next time on Arrested Development.”
The running joke is that they would pretty much never happen, except once in a while when they did.
They are rife with differences. They have improved over time, but they generally don’t really identify specific ancestry. Rather, they use statistical patterns to correlate self-reported ancestry.
My wife got this for recording board meetings and it does a pretty impressive job picking up different people around a room. https://a.co/d/9QiaXvr
I can’t think of a Lemmy community of tips or hacks now that I think of it…
No, that’s Lego. Legos is a large metropolitan city in southwestern Nigeria.
Or when the character is bilingual but the subtitle just says: [speaking a foreign language]
I always had to adjust the refresh rate.
I’m surprised nobody has mentioned the horribly distracting flicker that they make.
Mastodon manages to do it on ActivityPub
I would argue that there should be a block feature and also a mute feature. What we currently call “block” is actually just a mute.
Imagine finding out one day that someone you’ve blocked for harassment has been following you around and making nasty comments on every single post you made for months, or even leaking personal information. You just didn’t know it.
It happens, and even on Lemmy you will have people who will do this (doxing will get a ban but other behaviors may slide under the radar, especiallyif the target doesn’t see and report it).
When I’ve brought this up with the devs, they have shot it down immediately. Basically, their attitude is that posts are public by default. So hiding them from a blocked user doesn’t really do anything.
Of course, that’s nonsense. Mastodon does it. It has an incredible chilling effect on harassment.
Honestly, sounds like one of those made up sci-fi dates.