Tylenol is interesting - it's a psychoactive drug. It reduces your brain's ability to experience pain, or even understand the possibility of pain, rather than reducing the amount of pain you're feeling. That means different people's brain chemistry will result in very different results with Tylenol.
Studies were done that show people are slightly more likely to take risks when they're on Tylenol. Wild stuff.
Rationalists are (supposedly) smart enough to figure out that Roko's Basilisk wouldn't waste cycles torturing someone in effigy if they decided they're going to ignore the threat of Roko's Basilisk. It's the opposite of a catch-22.
Oh, I'm sure there are bots on Lemmy too. The general userbase, however - of people who are sick of Reddit's BS - are also going to have very little tolerance for bot BS, so the instances are incentivized to try to keep bot activity down lest they be de-federated.
Ostensibly it's to protect things like credit card information. In reality it's to make sure Microsoft has more control over your computer than you do.
and don't sweat.
I'm staying, not because I want to - but because I have a lot of friends and family who can't afford to, and if push comes to shove, my savings are going towards helping them get out too.
except that the government run land registry can deal with disputes in a flexible and fair manner. A blockchain with smart contracts cannot.
at the same rate of time change
Not true! The faster you're moving through space, the slower you're moving through time.
This is why I use Open-Shell. Ever since MS decided that the entire program list should be in a tiny little scroll window I've been giving it the middle finger.
The main difference is that it requires TPM 2.0, which allows applications to run in a fully encrypted mode and prevent user tampering.
Tesla is finding newer and ever-dumber ways
The power door issue has been around since they first entered the mass market. It's one of the reasons I never considered buying one.
An "instance" is a server that talks to all the other Lemmy servers, where your account info and login are stored. There's a lot of benefits to decentralization - even if one instance goes down, like lemm.ee, it doesn't really impact the whole of Lemmy too severely. The cost of running an instance isn't super high, which means that if an instance is being annoying about advertising or something, you can ditch it with little cost to yourself and even run your own instance if you want. A single cabal of admins can't ruin it like Reddit (cough cough Spez) and it can be easier to curate your own experience by choosing what instances you want to ignore completely.
Any given instance is not necessarily a safe harbor, but as long as Lemmy is around, there will probably be multiple instances to choose from. The only thing you really lose is your post history - and you can link to your old account info in your new account for continuity's sake.