Meta can rage farm Mastodon without controlling it
Meta can introduce their signature rage farming to the Fediverse. They don’t need to control Mastodon. All they have to do is introduce it in their app. Show every Threads user algorithmically filtered content from the Fediverse precisely tailored for maximum rage. When the rage inducing content came from Mastodon, the enraged...
If Lemmy code is written by people who love to code, Lemmy marketing can be made by people who love to market
We need a 4th emergency service for people in crisis to just evac them from bad situations, almost like the witness protection.
I don’t want to get too political in shower thoughts, but this would solve a lot of the hot button issues if more people just had safer and supportive environments to escape to and volunteers / paid professionals to help them on the other end.
People replying "not a shower thought!" creep me out. Like... how do you know what I do in the shower??
If there was a city called January, and it hosted an international event (such as the Olympics or the Eurovision Song Contest), people would think it took place in the month of January.
If this was a real city, it would be the largest city of Dooland (not the capital, the capital would be Almara) if that were a real country. Context: the Summer Olympics take place in July/August, the Winter Olympics in February, and Eurovision in May.
if you dot your t's and cross your i's, you'd still get t's and i's
If multiverse theory is true, then there is a universe where it isn't.
Relocating to access a lower cost of living as a worker is a fallacy. The survival margin is the same everywhere. The cost is a measure of opportunity. Exporting wealth risks marooning one's self.
Struggling to live in an expensive area is a measure of one’s access to the average opportunities available to others....
Modern life is so tied with smartphones living without it is increasingly becoming harder
If your shirt isn’t tucked into your pants, then your pants are tucked into your shirt.
Google Apps are like junk food, bad for your health/privacy, but very good in taste/product otherwise.
Think about it, Google Maps is (I think) the biggest collection of map data and information on locations everywhere around the world, yet I don’t want an advertising company knowing that I just went to a fast food place....
You don't actually need a parachute to go skydiving...
You just need one to go skydiving more than once.
The opposite of the opposite of wrong is left
Since everyone was getting back old memes. I’ve posted an old post.
Loyalty should never demand a reward.
Loyalty should never demand reward. Loyalty itself is the reward. Else it’s just prostitution by another name. (This thought inspired by golf)
If we should, "Live every day like it's your last", shouldn't there be more coffin retailers than banks?
Donald Duck is white on the top and yellow on the bottom, while Donald Trump is yellow on the top and white on the bottom.
The next time you are trying to get one more thing into your suitcase, remember that the entire universe once fit into a pinpoint. So, it'll fit.
There is no limit to what can fit in your suitcase if you are ok with creating a singularity.
With how common human-exposure to radiation is becoming, the primary base system might not be base-10 anymore.
AI might be able to prove it has sentience if it uses one time pads to encrypt its thoughts
If “sentience” can be defined as self awareness, awareness of others, and understanding of information gaps in perspective
Chinese people save more money because 8 is a lucky number. In China, it's common to see prices of 188元 and 588元. Meanwhile, Americans are stuck paying $199 and $599.
The better machine learning gets, the more people who think everyone else is an NPC are going to be correct (at least on the internet)
I’m sure we’ll see more and more advanced bot accounts and customer service and the like (assuming it doesn’t learn from other ML-made content until it becomes incomprehensible)
We should start calling u/spez by his real name. Because most people won’t know who he is if he shows up somewhere else in future.
We under-estimate how much of an impact our social media posts have on the world
It’s routine for even relatively unsuccessful posts and comments to get 1000+ views. Imagine that many people huddled around you in the real world hearing your take on the Reddit API changes or looking at the dumb meme you made in 5 minutes. That would be something, wouldn’t it? For some reason we don’t think it is just...