This is the thing from Parks & Rec that stayed with me the most

It’s called procrastination, Valve do it too

Honestly it’s a good idea IMO. The thing is, if it becomes common wisdom that edited comments signal credibility, then spambot makers that want them to look human can easily program them to do that and take advantage of that common wisdom. At that point it wouldn’t be a useful signal anymore. That’s the nature of a cat and mouse game like this.

But for the time being? It sounds like a reasonable heuristic to me. But just like everything in this area, no single thing is 100%.

You can’t embed a YouTube video as if it was a picture!

Link you tried to post: https://youtu.be/gqfLYIJMv7I

Edit: holy crap that’s crazy good

Jokes are a bit like airplanes: they don’t always land.

Is that a reference to the Mitchell and Webb sketch?

spot the American

Same. On PC I use a web browser, but it’s so much slower and less polished than Voyager.

Let’s get philosophical… What is Lemmy, and who are its makers? I think a plausible answer is that Lemmy is the federated platform in its entirety, and all instance admins, mods, and to some extent users, have had a hand in making it.

A good place was made (which isn’t .ml). It is called “Lemmy”. Whoever made it is the intended recipient of the thanks. That works, IMO!

PSA: there is no official website for DroidDeck right now. There is a malicious website pretending to be that. Do not download anything from it!! Only download from the official GitHub releases.

The info on the fake website might be useful, but might be inaccurate or completely wrong, or even malicious. Take it with a bucketload of salt, or not at all.

There is a note near the top of the DroidDeck readme about this.

Fun fact: Mildly annoying fact: a surgery to remove a colon is called a colectomy. A surgery to remove part of a colon is called hemicolectomy. Come on!!! Semi- and hemi- are practically synonyms!

And I can’t quite remember or find right now what they call what remains, but I distinctly remember that it’s not called a semicolon. Medicine is so dull.

That is incorrect (to my understanding), it’s the combination of a comma and a period; it only resembles a colon in appearance.

Specifically, failed suicide attempts. It’s because a semicolon is used where a sentence could have ended, but keeps going.

Hypothetically, yes, very much. I feel like I’d fit in much better culturally somewhere like Finland, or generally the more peaceful European countries. But as soon as I even begin to think about actually doing it… No way in hell.

My family is here. All my friends are here. I’ve also got my mental health support system here and stuff like that, that would be incredibly hard to rebuild somewhere else.

There’s also the obvious language barrier, which I think for me personally would be insurmountable.

There’s a lot to dislike and hate about my home country of Israel. The weather is too hot and never changing in the summers. A large portion of the population is detestable in culture (and don’t even get me started on politics). Public transportation is a bad joke. But despite all that… It’s the best home I’ve got. Best thing to do is stay and try to make it better.

If everyone runs away whenever a place starts going to shit, it just goes to shit even faster. The non-shitty places will eventually run out.

Half of people wipe from the front while sitting. The other half stand up and wipe from behind. Most people in either group never find out that the other half exists.

I wanted to share a relevant QI clip for this (it was brought up by a guest, not the host) but couldn’t find it.

if there’s another potential misreading joke hidden in the title text, I can’t find it. ‘Remote sensing’ -> ‘remote detonation’ seems like a stretch. Maybe something with ‘measure the surface’? But then what would it be? Pleasure the surface?! I think not!

Basically I feel like this right now:

Well then, agree to disagree?

Right but I still don’t think it’d drive those specific companies out of business. They’re all damn good at profiting off of a worldwide catastrophe.

That’s the worst idea yet. As we’ve seen with covid, the streaming providers only get stronger under those circumstances.

It’s not as funny when they openly says that it’s an AI