For people who previously used SMS and had their contacts saved in the phone’s pre-installed contact app, WhatsApp could use all those contacts out of the box.

If per-user instance filters are implemented, perhaps instances could have “default blacklists” for new users for stuff like exploding-heads or lemmygrad that most people don’t want to see, with the option to manually un-block them if someone does want to see that.

Nope, linking the video file directly creates a download link. It doesn’t display a video and clicking the link downloads the mp4. Adding onlineplayer.com makes it try (but fails) to display a video inside lemmy, but clicking the link plays it.

Brilliant Pebbles. A space-based ICBM interceptor program from the 80s.

The one part of Reagan’s Star Wars that would totally have worked if they’d deployed it, but the Soviet Union didn’t last long enough…

Text is cached but images aren’t rehosted.

Emphasis on medically transitioned.

Some people seem to think that lgbt activists want to make it so that any male athlete could just put on a wig, say “I’m trans now”, steal medals from women and then detransition the next day. (As depicted in that Futurama episode.)

Letting trans people who have medically transitioned for several years compete is a very different beast from letting anyone who claims to be trans compete.

Key detail being “after transitioning”.

Someone who says that they identify as trans but doesn’t medically transition at all could still wreck competition. So sports competitions can’t just allow all trans people, but only those who have medically transitioned. Then they need to figure out how to draw the line when it comes to different hormone dosages, surgeries, etc…

Trotz Namen sieht https://sh.itjust.works/home/data_type/Post/listing_type/Local/sort/Active/page/1 nicht wie eine reine Shitpost-Instanz aus. Camping, Python, Babylon 5. Und NCD ist halt dort…

Also when sorting by active, posts jump around whenever you go to the next page, so you miss some posts and see others twice