LovableSidekick

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm confused - by Abbot do you mean Gov. Abbott of Texas, and are we talking about the same issue? Cuz the 99-1 vote was about a senate bill regarding AI. Greg Abbott can't vote on senate bills, and there's no senator named Abbot.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

I long for the era when fans who were asked if they would swallow future exclusivity deals would stare blankly and say, Wat?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Return of the Return of the Living Dead?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Seems like many people genuinely long for some kind of massive cataclysm that creates a Mad Max world. Kind of reminds me of some notable WWI veteran saying something like he rather enjoyed it. The difference is that he was looking back on stuff he'd actually done, and most of the people fantasizing are wannabees who wouldn't last 5 minutes if the real thing happened.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

What does it mean for Lemmy communities to be partners? I mean, most of them on the list seem related to Today I Learned, but there's also Jokes, Comedy Heaven and Lemmy Shitpost. Not putting those communities down, but what does the partnering mean?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago

We're not good with it and we hope it's not too late to turn it around. And no, I don't know how so there's no point asking me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

My almost total lack of organizational skills.

Also the unrelated memories I'm reminded of by words and phrases in a conversation. Otherwise I'd be constantly saying, "Ohh, there was a Firefly episode where Shepherd Book said what you just said. Another guy in it was also on Buffy one time."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 hours ago

Yeahhh, even if the evidence suggests otherwise, might as well cry SLAVES! cuz maybe there were - and possible evil should be called out even if we don't know, right? Unless you ever innocently go to prison for being Probably guilty. But oh well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Dunno what you mean by adjust, but if it were me I would just take it down since it just doesn't apply to the situation. The response comments are probably enough context.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago

Another Kirk POV: Watching a Beastie Boys song destroy a fleet of alien vessels... Realizing you were playing the same song when you drove your big brother's Corvette off a cliff as a kid.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (3 children)

Expecting people to know about that 99-1 vote might be misplaced optimism, since it hasn't been made into a meme yet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

Thanks, cap'n.

 

Typical pattern: "Scientists find something strange when they look at a common whatever - and it's not good!"

This kind of crap used to be the style of little blurbs at the side or the bottom of an article, but it's in the headlines now. Until you click the headline you don't even really know what the article is about anymore - just the general topic area, with maybe a fear trigger.

Clicking on the headline is going to display ads, but at that point the goal isn't to get you to buy anything yet, it's just to generate ad impressions, which the content provider gets paid for regardless of whether you even see the ads. It's a weird meta-revenue created by the delivery mechanism, and it has altered the substance of headlines, and our expectations of what "headline" even means.

 

Dunno what made me think of this just now. When I worked for IT in a school district way back in the 90s, a librarian told me she kept a supply of mouse balls in her desk because kids would steal them out of the school computers. What I remember about those balls was they picked up dust and crud off surfaces. Pretty soon optical mice came along and they were history.

 

No idea how I got there but somehow I saw this post somehow on sh.itjust.works, about a prefab house that was found floating in the Pacific. I wanted to comment but the only login I have is on lemmy.world. Notice the post is from The Picard Maneuver, whose posts I've seen many times, and it says lemmy.world above their name.

Lemmy.world has a whitepeopletwitter community but the newest post is 2 months old. This one is from 10 hours ago. Search on the lemmy.world main page for "Minding" turns up a bunch of posts going back months, but this one isn't there.

I thought I understood how federation works but I'm stumped. Is this really a lemmy.world post? If not, what does the presence of "lemmy.world" on it indicate?

 

Ever since I first heard about the Big Bang as a kid, I've never really bought it. The concept of the entire universe being literally a dimensionless point - I just don't think so. If that's what the math leads to, doubt the math or the observations the math is based on. Same with dark matter and dark energy - I mean come on, if a theoretical model of the universe says it has to be 20x more dense than we can measure, you rethink the model - don't decide 95% of everything must be "dark". Dark is for the 3rd movie in a superhero franchise when the 2nd one doesn't make enough money, it's not a way to define the universe.

/end rant

 

Seems to go way back to the B&W movie era - men in tuxedos, women in evening gowns and boas - glamorous socialites dressed to the nines, watching a couple buys beat each other up. Sometimes the MC is in a tux. I don't get how that whole package goes together.

 

American here. Granted, the tea stands on its own merit. But if not for TNG I probably would still be drinking standard Lipton like my parents did.

 

[SOLVED] - thanks to [email protected]

When I was using Windows, by holding down the Alt key I could highlight words in the text of a link the same way as in normal text, and then press Ctrl-C to copy.

On Mint, holding down the Alt key puts the cursor in a repositioning mode (a cross made of arrows) that drags the current window around. This happens identically in Chrome and Firefox.

How do you copy some words from link text?

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