I will avoid saying why I’m planning on doing it now only because it will color people’s interpretation of why I’m doing it.
Flags are symbolic—they exist to communicate, and the only criterion to judge their appropriateness is whether they communicate the intended message to the intended audience.
Without knowing your intended message, it’s impossible to say whether or not you should use one in a given context.
Institutions aren’t the sum of their parts—their behavior is dependent on human participation, but is largely independent of the values or goals of the participating humans.
Unless you’ve identified a specific weakness and have a plan to exploit it before going in, your participation will probably benefit it more than any opportunistic harms you can do to it while participating.
Nationalism—the idea that there ought to be (or ever was) a 1:1 correspondence between countries, cultures, and ancestry—is a 19th-century invention unsupported by history, anthropology, or genetics. Ancestry tests that categorize results by country are obfuscating real data to meet a demand for pop pseudoscience.
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MediaWiki’s probably overkill for basic wiki functionality, but I use it for the sake of Semantic MediaWiki and associated extensions. But SMW has more of a learning curve, so it might not be worth it for a casual-use wiki.
You express your like or dislike toward the sentiment expressed by the post, not the thing(s) mentioned in the post.
As an example, imagine a post with a title like “AI is awful” (I’m sure many here has seen posts like that). A Friendica user could reasonably agree with the post and thus “Dislike” it. As in, they also find AI awful and they dislike AI, so they dislike the post, to show their disapproval of AI.
I don’t believe dislikes are meant to function like that on any platform.
Sporting events existed for thousands of years before advertising—don’t mistake current conditions for necessary ones.
Any group can be empowering for its members. If it’s a group that already has an unequal amount of power in society, exclusive meetings will tend to exacerbate the inequality. But if it’s a relatively powerless group, it can counter the imbalance.
In terms of software, yes. But HA can be run on nearly anything—there’s no need to buy their hardware to use it.
Having a world map that has pins on it based on location EXIF data in photos
Don’t you get that in NC already, if you go to Maps > My Photos ?
Using your person state makes it easier to update HA when you get a new phone, especially if you have a lot of automations that use it.
You can have a phenomenon that looks like noise at small sample sizes, but becomes obvious when the size increases.
For one small business, a 5% change in productivity for one day might be business as usual, while for a nation it would be alarming.
That, and Spain (or whoever else) wouldn’t be coming in fresh off the surrender of Granada, with the attitude that all non-Christian states must be conquered as a matter of principle.
Columbus’ return to Spain.
His failure to return discourages further attempts for a while; and when contact is eventually made, it isn’t Spain in the immediate aftermath of the Reconquista looking to continue its momentum.
Meanwhile, the New World is made aware of Europe and perhaps acquires some resistance to Old World diseases before any larger confrontations.
Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.
They should put that disclaimer on their entire operating system.
Saag paneer.
I ate the last one yesterday.
Did you really expect me to resist?
Global Thermonuclear War.
The lion-and-sun flag is the flag of the old Safavid Empire.
If you want to use a historical flag, a more appropriate one might be the pre-Islamic Sassanid Standard of Kaveh—the flag of the legendary blacksmith who overthrew the tyrant Zahhak. (But that flag has also been used by Iranians protesting the current regime, which may not be the overtone you’re intending.)