Competing standards and clueless sellers are bad, and then the tire marketing makes things even worse.

Marketed for road? That’s 700c.
Marketed for mountain? That’s 29".
Marketed for ebikes? That’s 28".

But all three tires fit on the same 622mm diameter rim.

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I think two issues have caused them to take baby steps here.
First, there was a big lawsuit between the Girl Scout of America and the Boy Scouts of America. The Boy Scouts wanted to open up to girls, and the Girl Scouts felt like their turf was being threatened. That took years to resolve.
Second, scouting has deep personal ties for some folks. People can get irrationally emotional about changes to the program, as if there’s some sacred tradition at stake.

Sure, they have more bodies. They increased the maximum conscription age to 30 last year, and keep calling people up by the hundreds of thousands. But a large army is not necessarily a good army, especially if a substantial portion are conscripts.

Life insurance companies could conceivably do this already. They sometimes ask for blood tests (among other exams) as a precondition of granting overage.

School: Cover several centuries of human activity in a brief class. There is no time for context or detail. Good luck trying to get more than a few key names and dates.

Self-directed: Dive deep into a specific topic of interest. Get to know the main people involved: their personalities, backgrounds, motivations. Spend all the time you like exploring how their actions still resonate today.

Not to negate your point, but Cape Cod beaches are a stupid place to build even without those problems. The Cape is a big pile of sand, constantly being eroded and reshaped by storms. The people who built those houses right up against the beach should have known better.

Edit: I was reading too fast and got the location mixed up. Though the problem is the same.

This smells like propaganda. It’s on a random “news” blog with no information about the organization. There isn’t even a name in the article’s byline, only “News Desk.” The article itself is lazy and biased, simply parroting taking points from a nationalist conservative think tank with a clear political agenda.

Thanks for the info! I didn’t know any apps could do that.

Using a browser (not a phone app) go to the instance’s main page and look for the Communities button. That will give you a list of communities. Filtering by Local lists all the communities on that instance.

Here are some examples:
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/communities
https://sh.itjust.works/communities

It’s yours. Have fun! Feel free to unpin this “Seeking Mods” post whenever you like.

That FediDB stats page is confusing. It isn’t clear whether they only count instances that have joined Fedipact, or also include instances that have blocked Threads without joining Fedipact. A quick glance at the list suggests the latter. But in that case, there are a bunch of instances missing from the list.

The list on the Fedipact site is a better source:
https://fedipact.veganism.social/

As for admins versus users, here on sh.itjust.works we held a vote among our users. The result was overwhelming: 78% of users voted to preemptively block Threads.
https://sh.itjust.works/post/11308397

(Edit to fix some awkward phrasing.)

three-month probationary basis

Stating this indicates they will never give you an ounce of trust, nor the benefit of the doubt in any situation.

Flag as NSFW please.

Yep, there must be lots of uncounted lurkers. If you look at the active user charts at The Federation there was a spike in December when 0.19.0 released. I expect we’ll see more spikes as additional instances upgrade to 0.19.

https://the-federation.info/platform/73

I suspect abandoned alt accounts are a huge reason for the long, slow decline in user numbers. These graphs should be titled “active accounts,” not “active users.”

Up through Lemmy version 0.18.5, “active” meant posting or commenting within a specified timeframe (past month, past year, etc.). Starting with version 0.19.0 voting also counts as being active.

Does this work?

Establish the community rules. Remove posts or comments that violate those rules or otherwise don’t belong in the community. Change the community icon and banner if you like. You can also grant moderator status to other users. And you will see any reports that users create for posts and comments in this community.

This community seems pretty chill so there may not be much to do.