This is @Dave's comment from the daily kōrero:
Do we need guidelines about using it? Like sure you can subscribe, but what about cross posting to !newzealand?
Cross posts ok? Guidelines on not cross posting questions just links (articles etc) because the questions don’t come with the answers? Any thoughts?
I want to finally get an icon up for !newzealand , but I want you to decide between these two.
The icon will show up as a circle in some places and a square in others. Both could have some small tweaks if they're chosen.
Vote on the comments. Best score at 10pm Thursday will be the icon.
EDIT: Well that was pretty clear. The kiwi it is. Thanks to @[email protected] for the suggestion.
OK, cool. What does the little download button that shows up when you zoom in do?
Good catch. I guess it shows NZ unis are doing a good job with sustainability at least.
Thanks for making and sharing this. I know I'll use it. I keep discovering features. I'm glad you've got the Basemaps imagery on there.
In terms of offline use, does it keep low-res tiles of the whole country for offline use, with the option to download individual tiles when you're zoomed in? That's how it seems to work.
The results of a new Otago University study comparing the harm caused by different drugs have been released. Here's the breakdown by drug:
This is the original paper in the Journal of Psychopharmacology: The New Zealand drug harms ranking study: A multi-criteria decision analysis
Other coverage:
If you don't regret it, it's not a shitpost
This is the most thoroughly reasoned and articulated shitpost I've ever seen. It's unprecedented.
Yeah, you're right. I didn't think that through properly.
Good. Non-replaceable batteries benefit no one but device manufacturers and miners of lithium, cobalt, etc.
I've never heard of that. But if they did it right, I guess we'd never know.
I think the point is to go after the leaders rather than the henchmen who will just be replaced.
Usually it's not too hard to establish who the leader is, even if it's not always easy to prove. I imagine that's another reason they're allowed to go after any member.
The RICO Act itself is strange. An organisation must engage in two or more "racketeering activities" within 10 years. It's a long list of pretty much all serious crimes. It's in the RICO predicate offences section of the Wikipedia page.
If an organisation is in violation of the Act, any member can be charged with any of those offences committed by any other member. The idea is to use that pressure to get them to turn on the leaders. It also means they can go after anyone they think is really in charged. But it's up to prosecutors to make sure only those most responsible are charged.
It's far too broad of a definition, in my opinion. And it's too open to corruption and interpretation. If we were to enact something similar here, those details would need to change.
I’m keen to hear more about the “strange ways it’s been used in the US”!
Because the definition is so broad, it's been used to go after members of regular corporations, like FIFA and a healthcare provider. Whether or not those people deserved to be charged, it goes way beyond the intended scope of the law.
Personally, I think it's fine for people to cross-post stuff they think is relevant to the communities here. I'd prefer it over links to Reddit, because it lets people engage with the content here. I doubt posts in [email protected] will get nearly as much attention as the ones on lemmy.nz. The Lemmit bot makes it pretty obvious that it's taken from Reddit. I think one guideline would be not to remove the bot's text from the post, nor the "cross-posted from" text that's generated when it's cross-posted here.
As for question posts, it would be a weird thing to cross-post. I guess if someone wanted to give credit to the OP on Reddit. I can't see that happening too often, unless it's a pretty broad question that generates discussion - in which case, it doesn't seem to matter to me if there's a separate discussion going on here.