Good. Can my Watch Later list please be the most important item I see when I go there?

It’s reminiscent of Lovecraftian monsters but it isn’t “literally” one. That word is so fucking overused.

Favorite… wait what? We’re supposed to LIKE things people do out of spite?

When Americans of all political stripes finally wake up to global realty, they’ll most likely do it lying on a sidewalk, naked in the rain, with their fingers in their ears saying na-na-na-na-na-na…

People will eventually have to face that the economic golden age of the 1950s and 60s wasn’t a normal state we can return to if greedy billionaires just let us. The rich definitely grabbed the biggest share of the prosperity, but that brief era of prosperity wasn’t normal, it was entirely abnormal, and it’s been over for quite a while. We’ve been fooling ourselves and keeping it going for the last half century by living on credit, and that’s about to end. I don’t know what new era is about to start, but the American era is over.

“OMG it was supposed to take out my LEFT kidney! I’m gonna die!!!”

“Oops, the surgeon in the training video took out a Right kidney. Uhh… sorry.”

Except not. Still nice to see any TNG or Community reference tho.

“Don’t call me Shirley!”

I’m just looking at lemmy.world in a web browser - does that count?

Heyyyyyyyyy Yaccarino!

I thought federated meant people see your posts no matter where you log in. But if going to piefed means you’re “leaving” lemmy, kthxbye I guess. I don’t see the need for an announcement.

My in-laws do that. Just today I ordered them a lighted electric kettle.

I like big-ass garlic stuffed green olives.

Ingenious name. I feel like Bitchat should be connected somehow with PenIsland.

Back in the 1990s I did a thought experiment using 1990s industrial cost figures and production volumes I found online. Turned out Americans could save the Amazon rainforest by cutting our beef consumption by 10%. I don’t have the math on hand but the gist was that if demand for beef in America dropped 10%, so would demand for cattle feed, which was mostly corn. Reducing corn production by that much and devoting the land to hemp cultivation (which would work) would produce enough hemp fiber to replace all the wood pulp being imported from Brazil to make paper. At that time most trees being logged in the Amazon region were being pulped and exported to the US. So boom, demand for Amazon pulp logs drops to zero, rainforest saved!

Admittedly this was simplistic and did not account for pulp producers selling to other countries that may have been competing with the US to buy the pulp. But they would have to compete with whatever other pulp sources those customers already had. Anyway, just the fact that the numbers worked out so well helped me understand how a trend in one area can affect seemingly unrelated areas. Like, I dunno, people buy fewer Barbies and the price of air conditioners goes down. I’m sure some people make a lot of money by figuring out stuff like that.

Steady now, my generation got through the Macarena, you’ll get through this. Nice deep breaths… in… out…

Clever. For me simply not being interested in buying stuff is sufficient.

Shifting personnel to grocery duty during work time to handle a surge or whatever is fine. Asking them to volunteer their free time is bullshit. I might do it if Bezos volunteered to come clean my house.

For clarity, Mozilla isn’t one thing. There’s Mozilla Corporation (profit) and the Mozilla Foundation (nonprofit). Firefox is a product of Mozilla Corporation. And yes, the need to make a profit is a bug not a feature.

ChatGPT didn’t “think” anything. It generated instructions telling users to do things incorrectly based on the human-generated content in its training data, which it didn’t understand because it doesn’t understand anything.

Indeed, which is why getting shot in the heel was every warrior’s Achilles Heel.