Paywalls aren’t a new thing for journalism. Newspaper delivery fees were a paywall.
In just a few decades we will probably be able to ask an AI for a movie or a game, and it will make one to our exact specifications.
"You're almost completely covered" can mean two very different things at the doctor's office.
(Assuming you have shitty American insurance, anyway)
The point of the book is that Frankenstein IS the monster.
Trees are air roots.
An island is a mountain mostly underwater
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...
I'm so conditioned by ads on social media that I automatically inspect Lemmy posts when I'm browsing.
I’m getting better at it though.
when you smell something, that thing is slowly dissolving
Like a very slow alka-seltzer
Bud lite lost more in revenue partnering with a trans spokesperson, than Corona did for having the same name as a virus that caused a global pandemic.
What a time to be alive.
It is fascinating how the crown is a universal symbol of authority and power, almost all cultures had coronation ceremonies despite some of them never having had contact with the rest of the world.
A corn dog and a hot dog are just American versions of taco and burrito.
Hopping and running are the same thing. Except alternating feet.
Phones don't ever show up in dreams despite us using them every single day
When you're a kid, you don't realize you're also watching your mom and dad grow up.
It is impossible to live in the present when all we see is the past.
When Threads eventually will not federate, the same people that urged to deferderate in advance, and thus remove the point of being ActivityPub compatible, will be the same to complain.
Having all your memories of something good wiped completely is better than never being allowed to experience it again.
EDIT: I don’t think I conveyed what I meant well enough in the post. I was talking about something like, say, reading. It’s my favorite hobby. If I was forced to never read again, I’d be absolutely miserable. But if I completely forgot about reading, there wouldn’t exactly be anything to miss.
Start saying "tock-tick-tock-tick" repeatedly and you somehow end up saying "tick-tock-tick-tock"
The main difference I've noted so far between lemming and Reddit is that in lemming people seem to know when to write it's or its.
We should start saying "Thanks /u/spez" from now on as reddits bad practices made us move to lemmy
Title said it all