Remember when we all dressed like that 10 years ago?

They’re birds.

Good luck finding land that is not near fracking sites. It’s been done basically everywhere, right?

I’m not a judge, but isn’t internet essentially a utility these days? Cutting someone off because of piracy seems like cutting off electricity or water because they did something illegal with it.

Chess has taken over a significant portion of my gaming time since getting into it a couple of years ago.

It’s a beautifully deep game, and it’s refreshing to be able to pour time into something with staying power that people of every age play all over the world.

Thanks!

I honestly don’t know. It’s going to be a big problem. LLMs are capable of having this exact convo we’re having without giving away the game.

Some sort of personal vouching system? Ever changing “human tests”? I’m not sure it’ll be enough.

Everyone clustered on like 4 websites for convenience, and then browsing the internet started to feel like wandering around different sections of the same department store: sterile, corporate, advertiser-safe, and everything’s transactional. Plus, it made it incredibly easy for any party that wants to astroturf public opinion, because now they only have to set up shop on a few sites: botting comments, infiltrating moderator positions, abusing the algorithms.

We desperately need to break the internet’s monoculture, and I think federated social media like this is a great start.

Have you tried vacillating between comfortable indifference and acute outrage on an hour-by-hour basis?

Sometimes I forget how long it’s been!

Yeah, reading the article paints a more complex story than I had been reading on here since his death. The police had come out to their house “four dozen times” before, barbequing in the living room on the day of the house fire, allegedly showing up at his neighbor’s house with a crossbow before the police removed it from the home.

It’s a tragic situation, regardless of whatever details ultimately come out, but I think it’s probably best to let the investigation and courts sort out this mess.

Great rules

The moment I see myself in an ad, I’m giving up on technology and joining the Amish.

What a loss. =(

It’s a strange quirk of lemmy that we will continue to be able to see content from lemm.ee even after they’ve shut down. It’ll feel like seeing ghosts.

They’re still cities, but people tend to start calling them “rural” when you get a certain distance from the big cities and things spread out, often also near farmland and/or nature.

For example, this would probably count as rural.

That seems like a good instinct to me.

The true way to watch James Cameron’s Avatar is in the corner of a subway surfers montage.

I’ve seen videos of some of these for honey, eggs, etc. Sometimes there’s a sort of vending machine, but often if it’s rural/small town, they can just get by with the honor system: drop money into a box, grab what you paid for.