Draegur
@Draegur@lemm.ee
- Comment on Is there any truth to this? 1 day ago:
Yet another case in point of how shitty mastodon’s name is. Even its abbreviations are trash. The best time to change its name was before it started. The second best time is NOW. And the longer they go without fixing this, the worse it will be. As long as mastodon never rebrands, it is doomed to fall behind scummy oligarch controlled trash like threads.
- Comment on Is there any truth to this? 1 day ago:
Critical mass of users on social media platforms.
Back on Usenet decades ago they called it the “Eternal September”.
It used to be that every September, fresh University students would gain access to Usenet for the first time, and there would be a rough adjustment period where they don’t yet know the ropes, the lingo, the etiquette, the unspoken rules, and the expectant decorum, etc. Then one year, home internet service providers made Usenet accessible to ANYONE who subscribed… And from that day forward, it was like September every day, all year round.
Now the general riffraff are flocking to bsky because even THEY see that Twitter is sinking. This surge of new users have brought all their bad habits with them. Bsky must adapt or it too will fall.
- Comment on gen z gorillas 3 days ago:
Feels like a metaphor for Gen Z at large tbh
- Comment on But yes. 6 days ago:
The same guy who deliberately messed with the vending machine will also intentionally misplace the delivery of the skull gun aug module, smh.
- Comment on But yes. 6 days ago:
Steam implies water! What if we used some OTHER phase-change working fluid? :D
||(No idea what, though. my question is implied with a playful tone and is at least 50% facetious; any actual discussion that might result would be little more than a pleasant coincidence)||
- Comment on But yes. 6 days ago:
“what if fire… But… MOAR”
- Comment on topical 2 weeks ago:
and as awful as trump is, he wasn’t even the worst part of his campaign or his administration. Metaphorically speaking, America voted a rabid feral jackal, but what’s really gonna fuck us are the fleas hiding in its mangy, matted, filthy coat and the parasites teeming in its guts.
- Comment on topical 2 weeks ago:
- Tim Walz.
…
That’s about it. Looks like I only needed one finger. Dang.
- Comment on Relationship goals 3 weeks ago:
if poop has touched a surface, i don’t care how much you wash it. no matter how thorougly sterilized a sewage pipe is, it’d still be insane and disgusting to use it as a drinking straw.
- Comment on Relationship goals 3 weeks ago:
Guilty as charged! I’m deathly afraid of having to deal with fecal matter any more than I absolutely have to.
- Comment on Federated social media from before it was cool 3 weeks ago:
Yeah man if I were in charge of the post office I’d definitely push for that AND the return of postal banking. Every post office in the United States would be your one stop service for this email so if there are authentication issues or anything you can actually go there and talk to a PERSON, IN-PERSON.
You would use this system specifically for official government correspondence, and also it’d be better for job seeking too - any situation where you need to be communicating as YOURSELF, fully verified.
I’d even throw in social media features. Forums, microblogging, live chat groups… however, everyone’s identity is clear and certain. No anonymity here. There is privacy insofar as what’s between you and the government stays between you and the government, but if you want anonymity and to express opinions without someone knowing who you are, that’s to be done elsewhere.
Instead of a social media website that lies to you and pretends dishonestly to give you privacy, this would have to be up front about the fact that it’s public property. A town square where you’re wearing a name tag. If you don’t want your neighbors knowing your rhetorical positions, post them elsewhere. Those other places, private services, and important and need to exist as counterbalance.
I’m sure many criminals would be stupid enough to use it for human trafficking and contraband smuggling shit though so that’ll help uncover and discipline rogue elements.
- Comment on Federated social media from before it was cool 3 weeks ago:
… but lemmy and masto do completely different things
masto’s a microblogging platform like twitter and lemmy is a link aggregator like reddit
honestly i kinda wish there were a rebuild of email that is compatible with the old system but was redesigned from the ground up to do the job better
- Comment on Relationship goals 3 weeks ago:
i like a mutual relationship where neither of us take it in the ass
- Comment on ... 3 weeks ago:
🔫👨🚀 I always have.
- Comment on "I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level" Season 2 New Key Visual, PV 5 weeks ago:
oh wow this show
it was super cute
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 1 month ago:
Is that why the animetitties sub now has actual anime titties again instead of being a more serious version of world news like it was for a while?
- Comment on Follow this daily workout for huge gains 1 month ago:
Doing this just now, it’s quite meditative. Clears the other thoughts away because it’s just this short little thing that won’t take a lot of time so tasks that would take longer are easier to postpone and discount. And when those “tasks” being discounted and postponed are mostly anxieties that are non-actionable so I can’t do anything about them anyway… It’s nice. A nice little pattern breaking reset button like taking a deep breath and stimulating your Vagus nerve and stuff.
- Comment on Ubisofts stock tanked this morning ahead of the markets opening 1 month ago:
Ubisoft will have to get used to people not owning their games.
- Comment on Move over Harambe 1 month ago:
dicks out for Harambetits out for Shabani - Comment on Oxygen 2 months ago:
Sol 3 is a Class-14 Deathworld on what used to be a thirteen-point scale until they found it.
Not only is the planet very geothermally volatile with active volcanic systems AND feature violent and chaotic weather systems…
“Earth” is the deepest gravity well they’ve ever witnessed chemical rocketry successfully achieve orbit from.
The biosphere is teeming with pathogens, so much so that the sapient population’s own bodies rely on symbiotic microbial colonies in order to digest nutrients among other tasks.
And the macroscopic fauna are ALMOST as scary as the microscopic stuff: every biome packed with highly adapted predators.
At the top of this complex carnal carnival of carnivory, the “humans” who live there are unstoppable pursuit and persistence predators highly naturally gifted in ranged combat that historically used to just WALK their prey to death. The animals which ancient humans consumed could sprint to temporary safety, but humans will catch up, ALWAYS catch up, and the prey will still be tired when they have to sprint again. Eventually the fatigue outpaces them, and humans catch up for the last time. Just walk right up and bash them with a rock, they might not even have to throw it: dinner is ready!
Furthermore, it’s not just the highly volatile oxygen that all the animals there breathe… Sol 3’s atmosphere also even contains a constant background presence of radon. The biosphere is passively resistant to some levels of radiation. One of the cities was consumed in the fallout cloud of an exploding nuclear fission reactor(they STILL use water to cool their municipal fission reactors even now!), and although the humans fled, the animals that stayed there are FLOURISHING. Deformed and mutated, but thriving.
WE DO NOT GO TO SOL 3.
- Comment on August 30th 2024. America adopts the metric system. Never forget. 2 months ago:
Bullshit. ISO 8601 IS THE SUPERIOR DATE STANDARD
Tomorrow is 2024-08-30. DEAL WITH IT. - Comment on Average game chat censorship 2 months ago:
I fucking hate censorship -_-
- Comment on New York Times 1924, Hitler leaves prison 2 months ago:
Yeah: we fucking killed him. He died last year. Shame we took so long. But in the end, right wing terrorists can only be dealt with ONE WAY: Detained and exterminated.
- Comment on New York Times 1924, Hitler leaves prison 2 months ago:
hitlers cannot be tamed.
they are ironically the only subject for whom the Final Solution is the only solution.
- Comment on I shall exercise against you my right of rejection because you have treated me with contempt. 2 months ago:
> Furries in the audience respond: "OwO neat sona~!
OK BE AT LEAST A LITTLE AFRAID
- Comment on Ideal Shrek Zone 2 months ago:
A Transcendent Shrexperience
- Comment on Lichens are things 2 months ago:
i imagine alien hivemind organisms looking at earth and our cities upon it and thinking “what are these growths and why aren’t the samples we collect producing them?”
- Comment on The world if Africa didn't exist 3 months ago:
would be greener on the continents with ice reaching further down because without africa there would be no humans and with no humans there would be no greenhouse emissions and global temperatures would be notably cooler.
- Comment on Truck wraps are like Lisa Frank, but for truck personality bros 3 months ago:
Holy shit I would fucking LOVE THAT SO MUCH GOOD GODS ABOVE AND BELOW
I wonder what kind of material we could use O_O
Polycarbonate maybe…?
The issue is, if it’s a plastic, it could degrade due to UV exposure… Plus there’s the overarching issue of micro plastic pollution. Any polymer that wouldn’t be an environmental problem might disintegrate too quickly.
But I still WANT it. I wonder if there even is an engineering solution.
- Comment on How come as of today I can't access politics@lemmy.ml from lemmy.world? 3 months ago:
Central planning committee knows what’s best now eat your slop or it’s the gulag for you /s