I remember one vacation to Orlando where we went to Disney and then Lego land. At Disney they’ll put walls around construction and then add these inspirational posters like “excuse our dust while we reimagine your dreams” or whatever. At Lego land they had the same plywood walls but then these plaques with some ISO-compliant safety icons and a message like “construction area: trespassing may cause death”.

I genuinely have to ask because I no longer am able to differentiate sarcasm on the internet, but were you being snarky or did you actually want to know if a grown-ass adult managed to figure out using a website all by themselves?

Plot twist: mystrothedefender is actually the cat in her avatar and was actually just trying to insult dogs.

All it talks about is about how the woman has a better life working 4 days instead of 5. I don’t know that we really needed a whole article to explain that.

How do you fight willful — or even gleeful — stupidity? No amount of argument, information or even observable outcome is going to change the mind of someone who is happier to not know.

Perhaps the government should collect money from the AI companies — they could call it something simple, like “taxes” — and distribute the money to anyone who had ever written something that made its way to the internet (since we can reasonably assume that everything posted online has now been sucked in to the slop machines)

The concept of distinct races (let alone the “sin” of miscegenation) is beyond stupid in 2025.

I’d be willing to bet that there’s a direct relationship between not just the size of an online community and its overall “civility” level, but also its age. I’ve seen threads in chat rooms of 8 normally good-natured folks get Godwin’d just because they continued on for long enough that one topic turned heated. With Lemmy we’re seeing a natural increase in both.

I joined about 3 years ago and there was much, much less content and conversation, which definitely made me try to be more polite as possible to the few who posted (if only because it’d be the same folks over and over again and I didn’t want to discourage them from participating). Now that’s less of a concern, so while I still try to be mindful of my posts and comments, it’s to much less of a degree than before.

What, are we not doing sponsored comments here?

/s

Ah, the kind of nonsense the internet used to be all about. Refreshing.

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Haha fair, but he cites his sources which you can go confirm yourself. Also investment guys typically like growth and the data says this might be all the growth we get so it lends a tiny bit of credence (not that there aren’t a dozen ways to make money by selling things short)

I think the food production chart Is the least believable of the bunch for just that reason. We already know how technology can improve yields and distribution, and there are many, many places where it’s not yet used. For that matter we globally already produce way more calories than we consume, they just need to be distributed better.

😂 Ok so the “regularly” in my post is doing a bit of lifting. Not too much tho (anchovy is the only other one you could possibly consider frequently used, unless you have a particularly bizarre vocabulary).

“Bizarre” is the only word from the Basque language that is regularly used in the English language

(Can’t wait to be proven wrong in 5… 4… 3…)

If I might ask, why delete your accounts instead of simply not posting anymore? Wouldn’t deleting remove all of your posts and comments (which would probably be noticeable to a lot of people who would have “detached” comments in their histories - probably a sizable percentage for a platform the size of lemmy’s)

I’ve always wondered - how much time do you few superposters spend on this platform? Do you spend time with any other social media?

“People did different things at different times and places depending on their circumstances” is not exactly news, even in academic circles where head-in-the-sand disorder is all to real. Davids Graeber and Wengrove covered it to much popular acclaim in The Dawn of Everything, and the anthro/archaeology was going on for decades prior.

And the alien AI also talks like an LLM (and gets explained as such) written before anyone knew what the hell an LLM is.

Yes, but we can have the tax cuts now /s

Hope you don’t have to speak French.