It’s really a great example of the problem: Your ability to conduct commerce has been heavily limited at the whims of a few corporations. That really shouldn’t be able to happen.

Hey, none of that. Around here, all content is valuable, low-effort and shitty or not. As long as it was posted by a human; fuck AI.

That’s cool. I hate that we have to vet every piece of media through the ‘is this AI?’ lens now, but glad to hear it’s legitimate.

The colors in the key don’t even match the colors in the graph, is this just AI generated garbage or do you have actual sources to go with it?

Well, hopefully all of those teen workers that are taking a pay cut as a result of this correctly understand that this also represents a decrease in the amount of effort they should give.

Assuming we’re talking about instances we’d recommend to new Fediverse users, I’d recommend against lemmy.world. Not because there’s anything wrong with the instance, but simply because it’s the largest, by a fairly large margin. A central principal of the fediverse is decentralization, and to that end, it’s healthier to spread the users across many instances than to have folks concentrated too heavily on any one.

If DMCA is going to continue to be ‘guilty until proven innocent’, it really needs to come with some really fucking severe penalties for false claims. Using automated claims services should not be an excuse.

Even if they did, the chance of one of them landing on someone’s eye is so astronomically low as to be functionally 0% - but that’s not the point! The point is to jokingly play into someone’s unreasonable fear of orbital copper needles! Work with me here.

This was fun in Smash Ultimate for the switch; if you had amiibos, you could load them in as characters and they’d (supposedly) learn from what you did when playing against them. We used to pit our amiibo characters against each other and treat it like Pokemon battles. It was a good time.

Can’t speak from personal experience but from what I’ve heard, it’s more about the concept / theme / emotions than the actual act itself. People (at least, the vast majority) who are into it don’t actually want to experience it in real life; just like with many other more mundane fetishes, it’s more about the fantasy and how it makes you feel to imagine yourself in that situation, and more nebulous concepts like the idea of becoming a physical part of another creature, or the imagined feeling of closeness, constriction, warmth, safety or comfort from being inside something’s stomach. Obviously not things you’d experience if it actually happened to you, but that’s not the point.

It’s an easy sell to the people supplying those jobs or their benefactors: If you educate people and give them jobs, the employers have to pay fair market rate for that labor. If you put them in prison, they can force them to work for pennies.

I mean, there’s very few people in that hall, so presumably they’re arriving before the lecture starts. Furthermore, if the lecturer (or whomever else) had a problem with it, presumably they would have put a stop to it during the two months depicted here.

I’m not super familiar with the exact specifics, but my loose understanding is that if it’s ‘soft’, the subject survives relatively unharmed. If they die in the process, it’s ‘hard’, whether that’s due to being chewed, asphyxiated, or dissolved (or anything else). (There’s a subcategory called ‘disposal’ which is… exactly what you think it is, following that digestion.)

I could not disagree more. They’ve clearly gotten to know one another in a positive way and are clearly all enjoying themselves; what more could you really want from a group? Just because they’re enjoying something you wouldn’t enjoy doesn’t make it bad.

I get what the comic is trying to portray, but from the time traveler’s perspective, having a palm-sized device that represents access to what is essentially the complete compiled knowledge of humanity is probably the best possible case scenario. What more could you possibly want to get, when newly arriving in the future?

I hate that I feel the need to mention this, but…

“Vore” doesn’t necessarily imply ‘torn to shreds’; it could be as simple as being swallowed whole. It comes in ‘soft’ and ‘hard’ varieties, with the former being non-destructive, and the latter being… well, what you thought.

Although the dispersed needles in the second experiment removed themselves from orbit within a few years, some of the dipoles that had not deployed correctly remained in clumps, contributing a small amount of the orbital debris tracked by NASA’s Orbital Debris Program Office. Their numbers have been diminishing over time as they occasionally re-enter. As of April 2023, 44 clumps of needles larger than 10 cm were still known to be in orbit.

They’re still up there. If they somehow survived re-entry, they could hit you. You could be innocently looking up and all of a sudden - copper needle from space, right in the eye.

I’ve played online games before where the entire point was to write a bot to play the game for you; I don’t know what the genre is called, but there’ve been a few of them over the years. The game is essentially just an API and the efficiency and complexity of your self-written bot determines your success or failure. It’s fun.

This is functionally that, except… you… don’t write the bot yourself. So… what the fuck is the point? Like, seriously. I’m not judging you - if this interests you, I would be legitimately interested to hear what the appeal is.

I rarely feel as stupid as when reading anything about quantum computing. The whole field could just be a giant in-joke where none of it exists and they’re all just spouting nonsense technical jargon to confound the plebs, and I’d be oblivious.

“Only she can provide the complete account. Some may not like what they hear, but the truth matters. For example, both President Trump and President Clinton are innocent of any wrongdoing. Ms. Maxwell alone can explain why, and the public is entitled to that explanation.”

There it is. Fishing for a pardon and giving Trump an easy path to grant it “in the interest of public disclosure”, when she’s already flagged to him that she won’t disclose anything about him.