Firefighter here. Brush and gently vacuum your smoke detector. Insects are attracted to the LED and can set off the alarm. They may be very small. Dust can also set it off.

You need to see a doctor to get your humanity checked. It seems not to be working.

I believe this is a thing in Quebec.

from https://culturalatlas.sbs.com.au/canadian-culture/canadian-culture-naming

In Quebec, the Civil Code requires parents to assign their child only one surname (either a single or compound surname) derived from their respective surnames. Compound surnames may not have more than two parts, with or without hyphens. Thus, a couple named Joseph BOUCHARD-TREMBLAY and Marie DION-ROY could give their children the surnames:

• BOUCHARD
• TREMBLAY
• DION
• ROY
• BOUCHARD-TREMBLAY
• DION-ROY
• BOUCHARD-DION
• BOUCHARD-ROY, and so on.

In Quebec, the law provides that spouses retain their respective birth names when they are married.

To be fair, it sounds like this murder led to a pretty thorough external review and an acknowledgement from the QPS leadership that things had to change.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-01/qld-assistant-commissioner-brian-codd-on-police-culture/101717306

Write to your police minister. They know that only a small percentage of people who care actually take the time and effort to write in, so if you do so, it has more of an impact than you may think.

It also forces them to reply, so the squeaky wheel and all that.

wish the amendments were universal human rights, not just American rights.

No thanks. You can keep your constitution. Ours isn’t perfect either, but I prefer it to yours.

Isn’t that we are trying to create here with the fediverse? Social media that the users want, not what large corporations.

This.

Skipping test to patch ERP Prod because, you know, what could go wrong?

The vendor was…unsympathetic.

lemmy.world##.post:has-text(こんにちは)

There have been many varieties other than that one. We must be getting to them before you see them, which is good.

I’m only a mod, not an admin, but it’s happening on other instances as I understand it.

Continue to contribute meaningful content too. :)

NBN switched half of my town to fixed wireless at a higher cost than FTTN just to get ‘bums on seats’ to make coalition pollies look good/less bad.

Let me put that another way.

I got a worse service, at a higher cost to the government, AND a higher cost to me, just so it could happen 6 months earlier.

I would have been happy to wait, and now FTTP is off the table for me.

Fuck 'em.

OP, please follow rule 2.

If you want an uncensored instance/community, then don’t just whinge about it, set one up.

Incorrect community. Try !ai_ Locking.

My first point is that Lemmy/Kbin is a community run community. The moderators are volunteers, and so are the admins. Please keep that in mind. We have families, jobs, and other commitments. Moderating is something we do to contribute to that community, not something we are paid to do or have to do. It’s not a power trip, it’s a gift of unpaid labor.

My second point is that many posts/comments are clearly follow the rules, or clearly break the rules. But some sit in a grey zone where it’s not entirely clear. Whether such a post/comment breaks the rules might be a matter of perspective, might require the mod to try to guess the intent of the author, or might require consideration of detail that is not explicitly stated in the rules. For a particular post/comment, the author might think it was reasonable, but what they may not know is that we received reports from other users. Ultimately, someone has to make that call, and that’s what mods do.

AskLemmy@lemmy.world is the largest community I help mod, so I can really only talk about it, but from what I’ve seen mods try to moderate fairly, reasonably and in the best interests of the community. That’s why sometimes you might see a post from a mod asking for community input into how to apply the rules.

Some of your recent posts, including this one, are examples of ones that tend to sit in the grey zone. The nature of the questions, and the way that you frame them could be interpreted as spam, or as enabling pedophilia, as astroturfing, or as in the case of this post outside of the intent of the community (I’ll let it slide because it’s important discussion about community governance). On the other hand, they could also be interpreted as entirely reasonable questions that fit the community. Only you know your intent, so the mods have to make a call based on what they can see on their screens. That tends to be done on the basis of balance of probabilities, NOT beyond reasonable doubt.

For this community, I disagree that topics are removed if they are controversial. They are removed if a mod thinks they break the rules, or the TOS, or are outside the purpose of the community. The moderation in other communities may differ however.

Not so much pupil dilation, but when the color and texture of someones eyes suddenly grabs all of you attention.

It’s open again?