Not 30 minutes ago I burned myself on my cast iron pan because even though I could tell the handle was warm, I figured surely I could deal with it long enough to scrape out the crumbs. My oven mitt was literally within arms reach and I just... didn't bother.
Idk if that helps answer your question but there ya go
Yeah maybe there's some in-show context I'm missing but he's really not orange enough here
Judging by the way they spelled "teeny," I can't help but wonder if they might also be familiar with the Cyrillic alphabet
The amount of energy being spent on any basic social media services is completely dwarfed by what it takes to run generative algorithms.
why on earth am i being downvoted? you really think the energy expenditure required to save and serve text comes anywhere near what it takes to run an LLM?
Lol I never really though of it like that. That is almost morbid, isn't it?
That system is more commonly used at airports throughout the US, and I believe it's widespread internationally, too. Why the fuck don't we just have frequently running trains that have a stop at airports? I know my local airport technically has a bus service, but they only move directly between there and downtown (an hour away) and only during specific times of day.
Ehh being annoyed at someone else for being an asshole isn't equivalent to being annoyed that someone else exists. You don't seem hypocritical to me
honestly it's kinda fitting. if witches were real you just know that harry potter would be a total bastardization of their culture and practices
how did my parents miss my neurodivergence i have no idea
90% of the time it's willful ignorance. That or (assuming you're in the US) not having the means to pay for treatment, so it's easier to not get a diagnosis in the first place.
I've worked repetitive, hot, boring jobs before, but I don't know how the people working those trucks can keep their sanity with that music on repeat. I get sick enough of Christmas music in stores after hearing them like twice, and the blaring of an ice cream truck is 100x worse!
One just started coming through my neighborhood like 2 weeks ago, and there's a kid a few houses down who seems to always be ready to run out and stop the truck. Takes easily 10+ minutes for the music to fade out. Like, I hate to be a grumpy old man, but that music drives me fucking nuts! I'm on the verge of trying to beat the kid to the truck just so I can bribe the guy to drive away as fast as possible
Ease of use, I disagree. 99% of people already go to the one big instance of whatever service, whether it be Mastodon.social, Piefed.social, Lemmy.world, whatever; you type in your email and a password, maybe click a verification link in your email, and bam, you're set. Compare that to Facebook where you do that plus they'll ask you to set security questions or 2 factor auth, maybe even make you take a selfie or a picture of your driver's license--signing up in the Fediverse really ain't that hard. It's arguably easier! I'm not sure why people still say otherwise. Maybe to ease what little guilt they might feel about supporting monstrous corporations? But the truth is most people don't want to sign up for anything, period. IF, and that is a BIG IF, they go for a new service, they'll want to click the button that says "sign up using my Google account" and be done with it.
The real problem is the same one every gaming service that has ever tried to compete with Steam has: the default is already set. This is the type of problem that Epic hasn't been able to solve by offering tons of free games, nor GOG with its lack of DRM, nor Microsoft with its $1 Gamepass. Those services survive, sure, but the position of "top dog" has never been in doubt.
You might point to Bluesky as a success story, but it only got the audience it did because they ran an effective ad campaign with the original founder of Twitter, right as Twitter itself enshittified to a nigh unbelievable degree. It lost core features like reliable checkmark verification and blocking other users, and the new owner was making Nazi salutes live on national TV. And Bluesky still haven't truly managed to take the throne! Twitter is still the biggest service of its kind! Meanwhile the myth that Mastodon is any harder to join than Bluesky or Twitter is still pervasive, so people don't even give it a chance.
So, publicity, sure, that's a real problem we have, but that's a paradox that's damn near impossible to solve: people don't want to move away from where everyone is already signed up because that's where the most content is, and the most content is there because that's where everyone is already signed up. All we can do in the meantime is continue to exist as we have been.
My cope is that I don't want to interact with people who are so incapable of signing up for new services anyway. Whatever their reasons for their impatience, whether it be their nature, or if they have a stressful, time consuming job, or if they don't know how it works and just use whatever their grandkids signed them up for--whatever the reason, it's going to extend to their ability to disseminate what's happening on the platform, too. Those people are (in general) way more susceptible to misinformation, to spreading it themselves, and to generally being a toxic online presence wherever they go. So fuck 'em, we don't need 'em!