I've never seen open support for Nazis being left up after being reported on instances that haven't been defederated, so it's better without question.

Ignoring conspiracy theory stuff, people aren't very good at perceiving changes in light levels if they happen gradually. During any solar eclipse there are wide bands where only a partial eclipse is observed. It's pretty common for people in those bands to not notice that something has changed even with 50% occlusion.

Oh yeah. Circulating random swastika-labelled push notifications talking about a sickness that "aflicks (?) all Jews" is a pretty big no-no in most, if not all, of the civilized world.

How does geo engineering dim the sun?

geo-

word-forming element meaning "earth, the Earth," ultimately from Greek geo-, combining form of Attic and Ionic gē "the earth, land, a land or country"

You're right when talking about the average person with nothing but their eyes. But there are tons of companies and members of the public that have bits of tech that would call that out easily. Solar panels, environmental logging equipment, etc, would notice the drop in light levels fairly easily, and would be apparent when reviewing historical vs current levels, and the power grids would definitely notice the sun dimming dropping their power outputs.

Without going into conspiracy theory territory, there's no realistic way to hide that from the public.

Its probably talking about the UK stratospheric aerosol injection research. Like all conspiracy theories, just enough of a grain of truth.

It's also federated. Which instance has a tankie problem? Which instance has a Nazi problem?

Lemmy.ml and hexbear have tankie problems. Thankfully it’s easy to block instances. I’m not aware of any instance that got Nazi problems.

Definitely, any changes natural or anthropogenic would be measured and to great accuracy. I just wanted to point out that the notion of the general public, especially if conditioned to distrust scientists and authorities, not noticing changes isn't the outlandish part. See global warming denial despite years of record setting temperatures.

I'd chalk that up to the assumption that a cloud has partially or fully obscured the sun. If clouds weren't a thing, we'd be much more sensitive to light changes as they wouldn't be a part of our outdoor experience.

I'm not checking to see if the sun is still there every time the ambient light outside dims, y'know what I mean?

Well you see, it's like, this whole "solar" "energy", I done did tried to run my double-wide on two of those things with that U-B-S cable they come with, whole thing cost me around 30 dang-o smackaroos, and the little light was on saying it was "charging" all afternoon, but as soon as the sun went away, the light went away! Now how does a light know if it's daytime or not? Damn cia alien shit, just you wait. Then after a little while, it stopped charging my air compressor I use for my lady doll. Worst 30 bucks ever, all I got was blue balled and confused. Harbor Freight won't take em back either, feller was giving me a weird look when I tried to explain with my doll. Poor bastard ain't seen a pair of tits before or somethin.

I started a petition on truth social to bring back the sun at all times, so that myself and others don't get scammed by this "energy". Has over 64,000 signatures, mmmhm. It's all the damn libs fault, stealing our sun. Who's idea was it to have it go away anyway? Buncha dumbasses.

(fuck I think I lost brain cells but hopefully I created a character that everyone can see clearly in their mind. and yes I know geothermal [or whatever they think it is] isn't solar, that's part of the joke.)

I just wanted to point out that the notion of the general public, especially if conditioned to distrust scientists and authorities, not noticing changes isn't the outlandish part.

I figured, which is why I framed my comment the way I did. You may be able to discount the scientists, but can you discount them, plus citizens complaining about their solar output, power plants having to raise rates due to falling solar generation, crop impacts, and even just other citizens posting raw data all coming out with similar data over time saying it's a problem?

Having said that and looking at the state of climate change, I have a hard time not seeing the parallels against my argument. But falling solar output would have a much more immediate effect on us than climate change (and would likely reverse it to some extent).

Lemmy is more like Reddit than Substack. Ghost would be the Substack equivalent.

Oh yeah, I agree. I blocked hexbear, but not .ml yet. I'm still willing to argue with that group. It's just saying "lemmy" has a Nazi problem is like saying email has a Nazi problem.

How are they better? To me both are like cancer, perhaps brain vs heart tumor, pretty much just as bad.

One is definitely racist.

I looked for months for negatives to substack before starting my publications there. This is all news to me. Looking at the alternatives costing the creators a fee for zero subscribers leaves me with no choice but to stay for the moment being also. Hopefully a real contender pops up soon.

It really does say something about the audience they're targeting

I really really hate that they call themselves a socialist party... like the KKK calling themselves Racial Unity.

"aflicks" -facepalm-