RoundSparrow

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[–] RoundSparrow 2 points 11 months ago

us bad > us hate china > china good

Kind of like Roger Waters in recent decade regarding Ukraine - "USA bad" is more what he cares about...

[–] RoundSparrow 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

current predictions on launch date?

[–] RoundSparrow 1 points 1 year ago

corrected, thank you

[–] RoundSparrow 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

News Story

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/trucks-crash-columbia-river-biggs-junction/283-070f2a38-fb9c-4e2f-9044-0a435eadbed0

~~Over a full day between~~ Only a few hours between the two accidents at the same location. Notable that both were hauling two trailers each.

The first truck was hauling two trailers and crashed just before 9 p.m. Friday when the driver hit an abandoned vehicle that was parked on the shoulder of the freeway, smashing through the guardrail and plunging into the river. The driver was able to swim to shore and was not injured, according to the Sherman County Sheriff's Office.

The second truck crashed just before 12:30 a.m. Saturday as emergency responders were on scene for the first crash. A semi with two fuel tanker trailers in tow struck an Oregon Department of Transportation vehicle, slid off the freeway and crashed into the river next to the first two trailers. Investigators said the driver likely fell asleep before the crash. The sheriff's office said the tanks were empty.

[–] RoundSparrow 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It’s already like that here, friend.

Lemmy didn't take off until well into May 2023, despite being online and open source for over 4 years. The quantity of posts, communities, comments was very small for 4 years online.

Then everyone flocked out of hate and anger of an API money matter with Reddit.Then crowds got hate-filled and angry when Threads was launched by Meta/Instagram/Facebook on July 5. And crowds became hate-filled and angry over Elon Musk rename of Twitter to X on July 23.

Outside big growth in memes and shitposts, there haven't been big numbers of people flocking here out of organic goodness on organized topics. It has largely been a HiveMind of hate as a motivation to come here since May.

Some good seeds have been planted since May, but the atmosphere of hate motivates change is pretty much Mob Mentality / reactionary.

[–] RoundSparrow 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When cross-posted >= 2, should go to a dedicated page like Reddit has had for a very long time... and allow easy viewing of who posted, date, number of comments, date of last comment, votes, etc.

[–] RoundSparrow 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A joke that would mostly work on pre-digital camera generations.... those odd night sightings that would now be social media material.

[–] RoundSparrow 1 points 1 year ago

That's why I linked the hot dog eating contest, which is a drag race

[–] RoundSparrow 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

And the equal portions, starting gun, and ready to dive in pose implies that they are having a speed contest, a classic kind of American thing like 1972 onward hot dog eating contest, a race of 10 minutes (they have adjusted the minutes allowed, but time is the key to the race).

[–] RoundSparrow 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

my first impression is it's a play on unity, that they are already going, but he is saying start whenever he wants to? Still, I can't really tell if they are in motion already... and he is at the front. So I'm confused.

EDIT: 5 months ago on Reddit, someone gave a better answer when I went looking on Google Search: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheFarSide/comments/124clhy/can_anyone_explain_this_gary_larson_cartoon/

[–] RoundSparrow 6 points 1 year ago

looked good, they seem on a path of great progress this week

[–] RoundSparrow 2 points 1 year ago

15,500 viewers. They are estimating 1 hour from time of this comment.

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Test posting from SJW (self.lemmy_testing0000)
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Steely Dan: Show Biz Kids (www.youtube.com)
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I also find that when people post journalist news sites, they are using archive proxies to bypass paywalls, and you can't tell which news site the actual story is from.

The context of this being a "link posting" is not very clear. I encourage discussion and changes to the lemmy-ui webapp so that it more clearly presents that this is an "offsite link" posting(?)

 

Based on my weeks of code (and operating instance) study on lemmy_server, I strongly suspect that peer servers upgrading to 0.18 is causing a swarm of federation activity that lemmy.ml is getting as peers go down and back up.

 

Enterprise: enterprise.lemmy.ml - Thank you!

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Red Green on Being Early (www.youtube.com)
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