I don’t think that I’m “above” users of social media sites, I just disagree about the extent to which Lemmy and similar link aggregator websites should be considered “social media”. If we just go by the broad definition, I feel like that encompasses like 3/4ths of the entire internet.
People don’t remember that the whole world used to smell like cigarettes.
Ever go to a casino in Las Vegas? Like that, but everywhere all the time.
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I don’t quite understand why people think Lemmy is social media aside from the fact that it’s similar to Reddit which is also not really social media (but likes to think it is), unless the definition of social media is so loose that any two people talking online is considered engaging in social media - in which case, just about everything is social media.
I am of the opinion that link aggregators are not social media. At least not any more than the comments section of a YouTube video or the chat of a call of duty lobby is considered social media.
Sorry babe, boss gave me OT again tonight. We’re behind on our dragon soul quota.
I mean, he’s kinda right. It just needs to charge you enough to get you where you plan to go and then you can plug in again and charge passively. Being able to have on-site charging basically anywhere the car can actually go makes it more convenient for everything except road trips, and since initial charging from low battery percentage is much more efficient, people just need to not feel the compulsive need to top off at 100%.
Send him back, pls.
I remember typing random combinations of letters and numbers into the hex color field on my marquee span text on my Geocities site when i was a kid and marveling at how it always seemed to yield a different result.
Anyway, as an edgelord 8 year old with unsupervised access to the internet I discovered that my hexcode is #DEATH or some shit like that, I honestly don’t remember what it was but I was fascinated with the color it produced at the time.
Homicide is about the only thing that they ever seriously investigate. If you’ve ever been robbed or raped, then you’ll know that they are laughably ineffective at catching and prosecuting the perpetrator, even when presented with evidence.
The very fact that these crimes are still committed speaks to the efficacy of a police deterrent, which is to say, none.
If you feel as if you cannot criticize your law enforcement, then law enforcement will inevitably become more and more corrupt over time. Everyone should scrutinize the fuck out of their local PD and never give them the benefit of the doubt on anything.
That is true. Bare knuckle boxing is ironically safer for the athletes in the long term and avoids CTE/TBI related complications.
Boxing gloves became popular because it protected the hands from getting cut up when striking the skull, allowing prizefighters to have more bouts without having to wait for their hands to heal between each.
I will also join the voices of “abolish the death penalty”, but if we had to have it because there exist people with a twisted sense of justice who seem to think there is such a thing as a righteous killing, then I think the condemned should be allowed to choose their method of execution.
Wait, why do people actually believe that you need to be Force sensitive to activate a lightsaber?
You’re telling me Luke, who would not even begin asking questions about what the Force was for several more scenes, was handed a lightsaber from Ben Kenobi - a device he has never seen in person before, and activated it?
When Han solo cut open the belly of Luke’s tauntaun, was he using the Force to activate his lightsaber? Or was a delirious Luke on the brink of death helping him so that they both didn’t freeze to death?
The on/off switch is the only thing that actually makes any sense.
He’s only impressionable if you give him a compliment. How about “Stroke out already, pedo. Also why are you so handsome what’s your secret?”
That ought to do the trick. You don’t have to mean it because I doubt he’s ever received a genuine compliment from anybody who isn’t already in the Trump cult in his entire life.
Elon will just pay someone to come up with war strategies for him.
God I hate how shitter puts the reply on top of the original post so when you read it from top to bottom like a normal human being it feels like a Jeopardy question.
Darn it, I hate when the mortal races succumb to temptation!
The thing I have learned recently attending industry events is that while what you are saying is technically feasible, it’s not as tantalizing as what the AI giants are promising. They are selling an all-in-one solution that was supposed to reduce costs and make skilled work idiot-proof.
To run a local model, they still need to have at least a few people on staff that know what the hell they’re doing to set it up and maintain it. Not exactly the silver bullet that they were expecting.
Peertube, while great in concept, doesn’t do anything better than YouTube but asks you to give up a lot of comfort and familiarity as a user. By and large, most people don’t care about decentralization, and if search doesn’t work well and you aren’t getting good recommendations, it’s a strictly worse experience for them.
Users will go where the content is shared, so the real question should be “Why haven’t content creators left YouTube yet?” and the answer is quite simple, they married their livelihoods to the trapped userbase and switching platforms, even to another walled garden, would be financially detrimental. Uploading to another platform is extra work that they don’t want to do and actively harms their bottom line.
The devastation is difficult to fully comprehend. An entire city reduced to a fine concrete dust, and they’re still not done yet.
Makes me sick to think that people could look at this and think it’s justified somehow.
The problem with accepting a deal like that is that $15/hr isn’t enough to leave you with any real savings at the end of the pay period, so you’re essentially trapped working for the people who provide you housing with no way to dig yourself out of that situation and move on to more normal employment.
When they know they have that much power over you, expect working conditions to be brutal, the hours to be long, and the managers to be unfair and cruel.