She said “no glove, no love” and so he

Just put it on arxiv! (e: and then cite it in your thesis)

I think getting a lot of downvotes for this post is actually a win!

I assume bc The Fair Lady told him to. She bewitched him which is why his eyes are all crazed.

Go to scholar.google.com and look up the following, to see if it’s what you’re looking for:

• training simulations
• serious games
• interactive exhibits

Sometimes I wonder if it’s a complete waste of time to think through a post that I’m writing, if only a couple people are going to read it. But then I figure: a) doing so is its own reward: practice putting sentences together, keeping the mind sharp; b) some texts/ideas can be seminal, just as a music band may have very few fans but each of those fans goes on to create their own band; c) contemporary scholars study texts and articles (including ephemera such as handbills) from past decades, so it’s likely that future scholars will trawl and study social media posts from our era, using techniques we can barely imagine. Plus, it’s fun!

They grow the mustaches to hide the fact that their teeth were kicked out during initiation.

How about including latin names

I think they all have English wikipedia pages, which give their Latin names. For example: Eurasian eagle-owl and Northern saw-whet. Many also have wikipedia pages in other languages.

If Lemmy had weekly awards, you would win one for this post. The bland, LLM-inspired structure creates a feeling of rising dread until the very end when one is left with the horror of realizing this human (if they can still be called human?) has spent way too long talking only to AIs.

What’s more, the text is not a story or essay submitted as a post; the text only really works AS a post, with its references to Lemmy, Aspect, and SocialAI and contextualized among a stream of posts. The fact that it’s in !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world provides ironic distance, but not so much to prevent it from being read unironically for at least the first couple paragraphs. I don’t know what Aspect and SocialAI are like, but the differences between them and Lemmy that are pointed out in the text creates a picture of a platform that problematizes modern identity and the individual’s role in a society mediated by social media (ha) and AI bots. I bet someone could write a half-decent critical theory research paper expounding on your post. Well done.

watching on the phone means I give it my all.

That’s why I have Second Phone, an obsolete model but it has one of my favorite games on it.

Put metal triangle in water. Sinks.

Add more weight. Floats.

Problem?

I do martial arts. A couple months ago during a fight I got hit in the forehead and it made a little cut – not too big or painful, but it bled like crazy. I applied direct pressure until the bleeding stopped then went to the changing room to clean up.

When I looked in the mirror I had blood all over my chest and I looked metal/punk as fuck. That was the best thing to happen to me all year.

IIRC the March peak was another case in which Reddit did something stupid… So yeah, I agree that we can’t just rely on that, at some point they’re going to make it impossible to advertise the fediverse there.

OMG that sounds like a Bell Curve meme. Here you go:

Create more active communities NOT centered around politics or Linux. I swear there’s more things to talk about

Hey! We also have memes!

But yeah, I what I do is subscribe to every non-politics and non-tech community I can find and read through those first, then when I run out I just read “all”.

This time last year there was around 38k active users.

I think this kind of slow growth is fine. We just need enough influx to replace people who naturally leave, and maybe a bit more. We don’t have any CEOs or stockholders demanding exponential growth.

Those are all good ideas. One comment:

I also think the UI has to be shiny to attract normal people.

What I like about Lemmy is that it has a lower percentage of those “normal people”…

It’s a pedestrian’s fault. _/s

I was raised in repressive states in Latin America, and I had a lot of anxiety and depression that I thought was just normal until I came to college in the US.

Everyone is different, but I think I could have benefitted from the following advice: Defend yourself like a boxer against the ropes. Build up your strength and look for your moment. Always have a plan.

Unironically these are amazingly cool. Imagine an entire house built in this style.