How does this compare to salaries for comparable positions at comparable for-profit companies?

It’s kinda the point of donations that they can afford to hire people whose labor costs that much.

I am not. I am from a country whose constitution starts with the statement that it is a democratic republic.

I would find it very sad if they were a majority, anywhere. :(

I really didn’t hear anything about it until recently

Yes, I expressed the same sentiment here: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/55959326/24302621

Is our entire information “ecosystem” so broken that we only pay attention to bad things after they’ve already happened, not before when there is still a chance to stop them?!

OK, that’s about the elaboration I was looking for…

Somehow I don’t think this is the central reason. I think governments are perfectly capable of doing bad things completely without billionaires having an interest in it. It especially doesn’t explain things like the California law that will regulate how we can or cannot program operating systems (hint: software code is a form of speech, meaning that this ought to be struck down as a violation of free speech), because no age verification services are involved in that.

Billionaires certainly are people, but these laws don’t even serve billionaires in any meaningful sense, so that’s hardly an explanation without more elaboration.

In my youth I was taught that democracy meant that the government served the people.

What do any of these laws have to do with serving the people? Do they have anything to do with the will of the people?

wait until you find out what the opposite of progress is

That’s not very similar to how AI typically writes, at all.

I realize that, academically.

I feel that what I am buying with a lottery ticket is a few days of allowing myself to imagine what my life might be like if I win.

And I invest vastly more of my money than I buy in lottery tickets.

… they are in my country, at least for people who want to attend a university.

I realize myself that the lottery is a tax on lack of statistical knowledge. I still occasionally play it because if I don’t play, then the probability of winning (and never having to work for money again) is 0, and I can easily afford to occasionally buy a lottery ticket.

because civil liberties don’t fit neatly into a left-right spectrum, despite being a lot more important than the economic policies that the left-right spectrum aims to describe, which is why I think the left-right spectrum is mostly useless

Yes, and it also says LIBE, which is the committee, not plenary, where this was recently voted on. It’s clearly not enough members for a plenary vote, this post is misinformation as titled.

“Fediverse content” is absolutely indexed by Google, like everything else on the public web. Why would Google choose to ignore it just because it is from the fediverse?

But it usually doesn’t show up very prominently, and which instances’ copies do show up can be completely unpredictable. Probably the search built into fediverse software is more useful if you want to specifically search here.

not really, every Lemmy instance has an owner…

What federation is is that every Lemmy instance gets some of its data not just from its users, but also from other Lemmy instances. You can think of each Lemmy instance as one mini-reddit, in principle there is no difference between reddit and one single Lemmy instance. Federation means that Lemmy instances copy their data from/to each other so that you can talk to users who use other ones too.

Pinta absolutely does support layers and has quite a few features that KolourPaint doesn’t.

Krita might work too if we want to stay within this community’s topic area.

If we don’t, there is also the more lightweight Pinta.

It is German, but the video seems to have a translation into English too (also French) which you can access through the cogwheel menu.

You can name them with a string that helps you identify them while you’re editing, then only when you’re finished run search and replace to replace those names with numbers.

Or I guess you could write it in MediaWiki which does exactly this automatically with its references feature. 😁

IIRC it wasn’t crashing, it was UI elements just not doing what they were meant to do. But I haven’t tried it in years, so I don’t remember it very well and certainly can’t say if those problems are still there.