There are, and the rules for each community (subreddit) differ, but there are also the instance (server) rules, so it can get a bit complex. The community rules are usually posted in the "sidebar" for that community, eg. https://lemmy.world/c/asklemmy, the instance rules you'll usually find in the "sidebar" for the servers home page, eg. https://lemmy.world/. you can tell what instance a community is in by the community name, if it doesn't have a "@" in it, it's on the same instance you are.

Just have a quick look at both sets of rules before you post something and you're probably fine. Even if you get banned from one community or instance, there are likely similar communities and instances elsewhere you can go. The biggest difference will usually be how active they are. You can also set up your own community, and if you're tech oriented, your own instance.

I assumed it was for insulin, which needs to be refrigerated.

His girlfriend in Canada has it. Along with the proof of aliens. Fuck off, Patel.

They were the only neighbors I've ever had to do this with after many years of apartment living. I am fine with normal sounds, but their noise far exceeded normal constantly, and I have an expectation that shared living needs to come with a level of consideration for others. I know it wasn't just my problem either, there were multiple complaints made to the property managers by other apartments, to no effect.

I chose this approach intentionally to avoid confrontation with obviously aggressive and unreasonable people. They had a reputation for regularly screaming obscenities at each other and anyone else who displeased them. Knowing the exact content of all their arguments, I knew that normal human interaction was likely to direct their aggressive behavior towards me, which would not achieve my goal of sleeping at night.

The message was just "you can hear me" which I hoped would then logically translate to "therefore I can also hear you". The normal kinds of sound just didn't get the message across for some reason so I added the awkward element - it allowed for longer sound duration than briefly coughing or laughing, and made it more difficult to ignore. I'm pretty sure they thought I was just doing my thing.

It's definitely a very oblique and passive aggressive approach to the problem, but it worked well enough that I didn't have to go for something more confrontational, which would have been the next step.

Interestingly India has lower vegetable consumption levels than you might think.

Image description: line chart showing the average annual vegetable consumption per capita in kilograms for China, India, USA, UK, Italy, Mexico and Russia between 1961 and 2023. China has roughly 4 times the levels of the other countries. Mexico has the least, and India second least.

Source: Vegetable consumption per capita, 1961 to 2023, for China, India, USA, UK, Italy, Mexico and Russia

I started making more noise after my neighbors clearly did not realize that the quiet they enjoyed from my apartment was out of deliberate consideration on my part, and not a mutual experience. I started with normal sounds like coughing or laughing or playing some music, but after that didn't work, I started to make noises they would be embarrassed to ask me about. It somewhat worked at reducing their noise levels. I knew they heard me because they stopped making eye contact. But they were also awful people so that was fine with me.

Thankfully they moved and I now have a quiet neighbor who gets to enjoy my silence. Occasionally they'll get a little noise from me to remind them that the wall between my bedroom and their main room is very thin, but I haven't had to escalate it like with the last people, for which I am grateful. My other neighbors are a very quiet elderly couple and I love them, but our shared wall is substantially thicker, which is partly why I love them.

OP specifically mentioned smiting and wrath, which is often considered violent and destructive anger, so I interpreted the question to include acting based on emotion. If we assume that this is about the Abrahamic religions, we've got some examples to consider where God may not have acted proportionally or appropriately.

That's where the paradox kicks in. Can God feel anger so strong he cannot control his actions? If God is omnipotent and therefore capable of acting appropriately despite emotions, or, because of omnipotence he is capable of not having those emotions at all, then why the carnage?

One example could be the Noahic Covenant, where it was somehow necessary to kill all animals (except two of each species) because of disappointment in human wickedness. Another might be the Ten Plagues of Egypt and ensuing Deuteronomy Covenant where the punishment for one person's disobedience requires the punishment of others, including children, future wives and livestock. It doesn't seem at all clear why all the creeping things that creepeth upon the Earth had it coming, when omnipotence allows for simply fixing the problem.

Omnipotence implies the ability to control emotions (along with everything else). Were God only framed as being omniscient, then your answer could explain it. It's a bit harder to ignore the gap for omnipotence.

OP's question is a version of the classic Omnipotence Paradox: "Can God make a rock so heavy he can't lift it?", which has had a good couple of thousand years worth of discussion, but no particularly satisfying answers. I doubt lemmy will have a breakthrough, but no harm in trying.

he’s not close to my side of the family at all ... and neither did I ever let my son visit them ...

he’s disrespecting our family lineage and his ancestors ... It’s like he’s trying to cut ties with his own heritage

If he had a valid reason...

Perhaps putting these parts next to each other might help you to see they're possibly contradictory. Is he severing ties, or were they only very loosely connected from the start?

It's not clear why he would find heritage a persuasive argument if he had little relationship with that heritage. Even if it held that carrying a name you didn't choose implies respect for your ancestors, it's not clear why changing a name for religion or marriage would be somehow less disrespectful.

I can see why you'd feel hurt that something you personally chose is not used, but when you give someone something, it is theirs to use or leave as they please. Changing your name is also not a permanent decision, there's no reason he can't change it back later, even if it is an administrative hassle.

It feels like he’s going through some sort of identity crisis

Given how intense your emotional reaction is to his decision to change the letters and sounds he associates with, and your refusal to respect his decision as an adult, is it possible that you are actually the one experiencing an identity crisis?

I hope you will consider talking to a professional, and I hope you can find a way to turn this painful experience into an opportunity to build a stronger and healthier relationship with your son. It sounds like this turmoil is a symptom of a much larger connection problem than just the symbolism of a name and it's relationship to your family history.

Let's not gloss over this part:

...that the Department of Homeland Security had also posted a few hours earlier.

It's all fucked up. I can only hope Easmin's family sues and get a massive payout for the extra trauma inflicted by having this tragedy exploited for political purposes by both DHS and Trump. Truly ghoulish.

Persona’s exposed code compares your selfie to watchlist photos using facial recognition, screens you against 14 categories of adverse media from mentions of terrorism to espionage, and tags reports with codenames from active intelligence programs consisting of public-private partnerships to combat online child exploitative material, cannabis trafficking, fentanyl trafficking, romance fraud, money laundering, and illegal wildlife trade

In the 1930's, IBM subsidiary companies were responsible for the census data and concentration camp cataloguing systems in Nazi Germany (and it's invaded territories). The numbers tattooed on prisoners were five-digit IBM Hollerith numbers, corresponding to their dedicated punch card. With an estimated 40k+ camps of different types, the machine leases would have been very lucrative for IBM. They won't say how lucrative, and they made sure they had complex financial setups through "neutral" countries.

IBM systems also underpinned the ~~concentration~~ "internment" camps in the US holding people of Japanese background. But of course, they're much louder about their 1930's history in winning the US Social Security contract - older SSNs were also Hollerith numbers.

It would be amusing that punch cards were a more secure system if history didn't look like it was rapidly repeating.