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?

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.

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

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Am I? That’s where the Olsen twins were separated!

What about my crazy surgical options, Dr. Spaceman?

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)

😂 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…)

Conceptually I don’t have a problem with population decline (naturally, not artificially). However practically it’s a big problem that societies are very clearly not taking seriously right now. If we had a stable global or regional support system to ensure that people are cared for even as there are fewer people to do the caring it’d be fine. But as it seems everyone in power is adamantly against that, it’s a big, looming problem.

I love it when SMBC seems to manifest thoughts that came directly out of my (ape) brain.

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

The blurb on the outside of the box of 666 CD-ROMs:

“SataNIX stands apart from other distros by putting the end user’s free will first. Want to switch package managers? No problem! Interested in swapping out GCC for LLVM/Clang? You bet! Able and willing to patch the kernel, alter reality, and throw down with the creator himself? Have at it! (but he may ban you from the kernel dev mailing list and/or revoke your merge authority)”

Doing the lord’s work. Uhoh, I didn’t capitalize lord. Need to go find my leg-stabbing fork.

Are there any non-Amazon purchase options?

The two things I always tell my type-A kids:

1. There is no “on time” or “on schedule”, and
2. You can’t min/max your way through life

Both are great ways to stress/burn yourself out.

Oh, I was just talking about if you averaged things globally. Of course it’s much higher than that if you limit the scope to specific countries or groups.

It takes only around $850k of net worth to be in the global 1% for wealth. Minimum wage ($7.25/hr) will put you in the top 10% of wages. So this really just says industrialized nations have been responsible for most emissions.