No, I'm fine with links if the thumbnails aren't big images. It's making a meme the entire post that I think is what makes the internet worst
I'm not proposing a POPULAR social media site, of course.
I spent 14 hours customizing my UI to look exactly like every other riced UI except I'm using a different anime child for the wallpaper
Copypasta is as easy to copy but memes are wayyy easier to digest so they're way more prevalent. Text uses basically no bandwidth in comparison, too.
It's just filler that keeps people scrolling.
How will kids be able to look up to Mike Tyson after this??
What? It's totally normal to put your index and pinky finger on the outside of a mug handle. It's not uncomfortable at all!
Watch: A look at an infected wound... in 74 seconds
Same energy
No images, text only.
My hot take is that memes made the internet worse. Why make a new joke when you can copy someone else's? Why write thoughtful political commentary when you can slap 100 characters on a picture and call it a day? Don't link the article, screenshot the headline and put a picture of your favorite favorite celebrity under it. That's content, baby!
Talking about dignity when it's a sport where adult men punching each other in the face for entertainment
Some might say this is virtue signalling because it will never pass...but this man has stayed consistent his whole career and will fight the good fight until his dying breath.
I do not care for those uniforms at all. Why did they pick that color...
I think the guy who asked for a source was asking in earnest at least. Personally, I thought that was common knowledge....but then again, maybe it's only common knowledge if you're old enough to remember Tyson biting off Holyfield's ear.
Ok...I get what you're saying...but your conclusion doesn't match your title. Correct me if I'm wrong but your post says that email is bad because most people use Gmail/outlook so we should start using the old, supposedly more eco-friendly, paper mail....for a little while...until we switch back to email.
I don't care if all the paper is recyclable/recycled when the first R is REDUCE. The only way physical mail could be environmentally-preferable is if we lived in a fantasy world where all mail is local and the mailman rides a bike. Unfortunately, that is not the case.
An "email protest" will not work because they do not care about the individual user. You said it yourself that most companies use these services so unless you can convince thousands of IT admins to pull the plug, the only impact will be a slight increase in emissions from paper mail.
I do like where your head is at so please don't take my criticism as an insult, I just think you drew the wrong conclusion after assessing the problem. I would be totally on board if your goal was to get stop using these providers....but I completely disagree with the steps you've laid out to accomplish it
This is gonna be like the one glass of wine a day thing.
It's good for you!
No wait, it's bad for you!
Ah actually it's good for you again
Wait....it's actually not good for you but it's not that bad either
She has an ugly soul and ugly makeup but she's definitely not physically repulsive nor unfashionable
I thought CoD was like 60-80gb??
Every vote for Trump normalizes his behavior. It's as simple as that. A clueless voter see 60 million people voting for him and thinks hey, he must not be so bad!
Yeah it's not flawless by any means but they have been receptive to fan "demands" and are being uncharacteristically transparent about it. Like making everything cross-faction is a huge project and they were upfront about the initial jankiness and the inevitable slow rollout. Right now the only things that haven't been made cross-faction/realm are LFG/LFR and mail.
You can really feel that Kotick is gone and that the devs are actually excited to work on stuff. It's very telling that so many old players who swore it off are back for TWW and loving it - including my friend who quit for FF14.
My only real gripes with the game are with the engine and I imagine they're a lot harder to fix...but I would be smitten if shit like trees and awnings would stop blocking my camera in dungeons. And if ground effects didn't clip into the terrain.
Let's say you just won the lottery (in the US). What is the smartest way to give money to your friends?
I don't know why stuff like this keeps me up at night but let's pretend you just won some obscene amount and there's a lot of people you'd like to set up for life. Let's say after taxes you have $300m in your account
You can give someone up to 18k a year without incurring a gift tax and while that'd definitely be a nice bump to their income, you still have way more money than you know what to do with. So what's the smartest way to hook them up?
A couple of options I've considered are:
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Give them a lump sum of $X million. They eat the taxes the first year and handle the savings themselves.
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Create a company and hire them to "work" one hour a month for a big salary. If you put $25m in an account, the interest covers the salary. They get a steady bonus income with the added bonus of getting the best insurance available. Is that legal?
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Set up a "shared" checking account they can use to pay for...whatever. But would these expenses count towards the gift tax? I do not know.
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Buy houses and let them live there rent-free. I don't really like this one because I don't want to be a lord to my friends and family.
For the record, I did not win the lottery. I don't even play it. I'm just working out the details in a fantasy world for some reason
Can you add the option to condense spoiler warnings into one line?
The MediaBiasFactChecker bot leaves comments that I like to see so I don't want to block it....but it's designed for how the browser version of Lemmy handles spoilers. It says "(click to view the whole report)" which expands the multiline comment.
On Connect, the entire spoiler section shows up (but blacked out, of course).
Honestly I prefer the way Connect handles it now but I don't expect the bot maker to change their formatting to cater to just one app so an option for it would be awesome
Did the new update break Card view for posts?
There used to be rounded rectangles around each post, now there's nothing separating it from the following post. I tried changing the colors and it's still gone.
Full Width had a bar between them so I'll use that for now...but I kind of miss the Card view showing cards
Is anyone else getting a replies to years-old comments on reddit?
I don't browse reddit anymore but when searching for solutions to various problems, many times I end up on a reddit thread with the answers. I haven't posted or commented since the exodus but I almost always have a red notification icon. And every time curiosity gets the better of me and I click it, it's a reply to a comment I left years ago.
I usually mark it as read and ignore it but last night curiosity got the better of me and I looked at the user's profile....lots of comments, all on ancient posts.
If they're bots, I'm actually kind of impressed. They'd be good and relevant comments if they were posted when the thread was active. I searched for some of the unique replies and the only result was the comment in question so it's not just copying replies. I just checked again while posting this and have a new reply - a question about a game tip I posted.
So is it someone farming 1 comment at a time or a sophisticated LLM? I'm leaning the latter but like I said.... it's an impressive one. If I didn't know that reddit was full of bots, I wouldn't have even questioned it.
Anyone else have the same "issue"?
Anyone Else But Me (2024)
A low budget film from Joel Haver.
I kind of ignored his feature length uploads after not liking one I saw before but I was surprised by how much I liked this. The premise is very unique and the characters are well-written. Worth a watch!
New player looking for advice on choosing a support class (Pathfinder 2e)
Hello everyone,
We are nearing the end of my first TTRPG campaign and in a few weeks, the DM is starting a homebrew. I joined this one half way through and a friend slapped together most of my level 7 character for me, a basic fighter. For this new campaign I'm hoping to have "more to do" in and out of battle so I'm looking for class advice.
I want to play a support class but I've been feeling overwhelmed by the class options. All I know is that I want it to be beginner-friendly support that can heal but also do more - like damage, buffs, or debuffs. Doesn't have to be all 3!
The group gave me a few suggestions but there was so much back and forth about how complicated they are, I thought I'd pose the question here.
Can someone help point me in the right direction on a simple support? Any help would be appreciated!
How many communities do you have blocked?
My preferred way to browse here is using All and blocking communities I don't want to see. That way I get exposed to new things I wouldn't seek out on my own (for example: British archaeology)
I accidentally blocked a community while trying to block a user and when I went to unblock it, I saw I had 1250 communities filtered. If I had to guess, 90% are either porn, sports, or anime.
What about you?
Subset Games created two amazing games: FTL & Into The Breach
I'm not sure if this counts as a "patient gamer" because I played them to death years ago...but I've been playing both again recently and they're just perfect little games with a ton of replayability. They're not retro (FTL 2012, ITB 2018) but they're old enough to regularly go on sale which is great!
Highly recommended if you like roguelite strategy games.
If you have any similar games to suggest, please leave a comment. I'm sure there's tons of great strategy games I've missed over the years
Arca - Love You In Chains
LYRICS: not fair to love you in chains sniahc ni ouy evol ot fiar ton not fair to love you in chains sniahc ni ouy evol ot fiar ton not fair to love you in chains not fair to love you in chain
Both artists are considered "art-pop"
Kind of a weak connection but man...I've loved the posts but someone had to get us away from space-related songs!
You must be this tall to ride.
I was messing around on Bing trying to generate animals camouflaging into various environments but never spit out what I had in mind. It did, however, expose me to furry porn despite my prompt not requesting it.
Some other examples (not including the aforementioned one because I don't want to get banned lol):
Malawi Mouse Boys - I'm So Tired Of You
Connection: it's a song about Satan
The link has 2 songs but I couldn't find this song on its own. "I'm So Tired Of You" is the first thing they play
Golden Vessel - sun+tide
Taken from my new album “everythingeverydayeverything“ which is out now via sumoclic: https://bfan.link/everythingeverydayeverything Socials: https://www.facebook.com/goldenvesselau https://soundcl
The moon has a strong influence on the tides
Tierra Whack - Body of Water
Supersoakers are (usually) filled with water
New album coming out soon too!!
Aqueduct - Living A Lie
It's not living a lie if you're not living at all.
Connection: Villain Mode is about living a lie
The Books - There Is No There
Of course she's not there....There Is No There!
The Books were a project by Nick Zammuto and Paul de Jong, two very different musicians who found common ground in their appreciation for strange production and "found sound" sampling.
They amicably split after a decade of making music together to pursue solo projects but neither has released anything in the past 5+ years. I've seen them live 3 times and would do it again if they did a reunion tour