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Rolando ,

Advertise Lemmy there. It’s barely mentioned in the discussion.

Rolando ,

Compare to the “Cottingley Fairies” photographs of 1917.

Rolando ,

Calling !peterexplainsthejoke…

Rolando ,

Oh, it’s the D.E.N.N.I.S. system:

Demonstrate Value

Engage Physically

Nurture Dependence <- YOU ARE HERE

Neglect Emotionally

Inspire Hope

Separate Entirely

Rolando ,

Cover it in jeans fabric and then we’ll talk.

Rolando ,

I would do The Scarn.

Rolando ,

23 to 29 was amazing. Most of 33 to 41 too.

Petah explain the joke (lemmy.today)

A community where you can get your jokes, memes, reference etc explained by the one and only petah. I intially created this because i was not getting a lot of things and wabted a community for things like that on lemmy like on reddit but everyone should join because it will only work then.

Rolando ,

I think you’re supposed to put a link starting with an exclamation mark, like this: !petahexplainthejoke

Rolando ,

Take some examples that you saw in the past. Even if they were on other platforms. Copy them and post them in your new community for a while.

Rolando ,

This is an abomination which is specifically proscribed by Judges 15:8 and Ecclesiastes 2:23.

Rolando ,

No. I’m sure they thought: “Now, more than ever, we need Mr. Peanut.”

Rolando ,

Some good answers here already. Here’s a useful relevant article with more info: plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-method/

Rolando ,

Ask for the gun and the bullets.

Before I’m sent back, shoot the time travel master (nerd!) in the head. Shoot their attendants, too (nerds! nerds!).

Grab all the other options, and load them in the time travel car. VERY IMPORTANT: the Moog will be playing the Knight Rider Theme until further notice.

Time travel back to the Vatican, Apostolic Palace. Driving the motorcycle up to The Pope, I do a jump that involves me turning upside-down OVER the Pope, during which I look down, shove the LSD down the Pope’s throat, and then do an Akira-slide right in front of him.

In fluent Latin, I explain to the Pope that I am a messenger from God who has been sent to deliver a Mighty Revelation. For the next several hours I use all the other options I brought back to astound and amuse The Pope during the LSD trip. During this phase of the experience, the Moog will be playing selections from Pink Floyd, focusing on music from Dark Side and before. The key message of The Revelation is that I am an agent of God to be protected and revered.

After the Pope comes down, I scope out the Vatican’s Cardinals. (The Moog will be playing Guile’s Theme during this phase.) The spices are covertly swapped for hashish and opiates, which I use along with the Warheads candy to bring mini-Revelations to those Cardinals who seem friendly. Those Cardinals who seem hostile to me, are fed bits of the Uranium. I am declared a Cardinal. When the time is right, The Pope is also fed bits of Uranium.

After the Pope dies, a conclave is convened in the Sistine Chapel to select the next Pope. The Moog will be playing Objection from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (2001) during this phase. As a Cardinal, I attend, and will use the motorcycle to pop wheelies and do donuts until I am elected.

When I first appear on the Papal balcony, to be revered for the rest of my life as an infallible being whose words must be obeyed without hesitation, the Moog will be playing the instrumental version of We are Number One from Lazy Town, and I will be doing an appropriate dance.

Rolando ,

Hey y’all no need for that! Meet up with me in the year 1214, and Pope Rolando will set you up as Archbishops somewhere. We can even go on convenience store runs in my time machine!

Everyone taking this challenge is invited. All your sins will be forgiven!

Rolando ,

Or maybe this is how the Western Schism is avoided in the first place. The Lord works in mysterious ways…

Rolando ,
  1. The moog is “magic - works without amp or outlet” so it is magic. (Given.)
  2. Therefore the moog is AI, since magic and AI are indistinguishable. (Lemma: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” -Clarke. The exact workings of contemporary “AI” neural networks are insufficiently understood, therefore indistinguishable from magic.)
  3. Because the moog is AI, I can talk to it like ChatGPT, I just have the wrong keyboard.
  4. Use the keyboard like this: first key is “A”, second key is “B”, etc. Type out some sentences until the AI figures out the pattern. I have plenty of time to do so, since I have a time machine.
  5. Use the keyboard to chat with the moog to tell it what I want it to play.

Problem?

Rolando ,

I was using a specialized form of argumentation which I thought befitting this community. Here are the details: knowyourmeme.com/…/troll-science-troll-physics

Was this the right decision? Perchance.

Rolando ,

I agree. We need a new saying that parallels “One death is a tragedy, one million deaths are a statistic.”

Rolando ,

Speaking to MailOnline, she confirmed that not only had she not been paid she also hadn’t been briefed on what her role would involve. She explained: ‘I was angry at the time because I felt like this is embarrassing for me, and I felt bad for the people coming in as well. I actually ended up shouting at the guy. I just said to him he’s a joke and this is like embarrassing, and how can we basically live with himself, doing this to people. This is really embarrassing for me. My job is teaching kids yoga and I go into schools and stuff and I do kids’ entertainment. This is none of our faults at all. We got the job and then we got given the script. By that point I’d signed a contract and they said they were going to put us £500 for the two days which is a lot of money which is a lot of money to say no to.’

dailymail.co.uk/…/Embarrassed-Oompa-Loompas-actre…

Rolando ,

Apparently they were given the script only a day before. And on the day of, they were told to just let people walk through, and improvise. Source: dailymail.co.uk/…/Embarrassed-Oompa-Loompas-actre…

Rolando ,

“Pull up to window 1 to find out your total.”

Rolando ,

“we need another $3.50 to give you your food”

“For your convenience, you must now pay the Surge Fee of $3.50 to reflect up-to-the-minute pricing. Please note that this is in addition to any tips that you may choose to add.”

Rolando ,

Thank you… I had no idea there was lore behind that image.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expose_Yourself_to_Art

Fast food restaurant Wendy’s plans Uber-like surge pricing, with digital menu boards that change prices depending on demand (edition.cnn.com)

Fast food restaurant Wendy’s plans Uber-like surge pricing, with digital menu boards that change prices depending on demand::The price of a Wendy’s Frosty could soon fluctuate throughout the day as the chain looks to introduce Uber-like surge pricing on its menu.

Rolando ,

No, but we’ll be expected to leave larger tips.

A lot of Redditors hate the Reddit IPO | Reddit warned us that its users were a risk factor, and boy do they sound excited about shorting its stock. (www.theverge.com)

A lot of Redditors hate the Reddit IPO | Reddit warned us that its users were a risk factor, and boy do they sound excited about shorting its stock.::Reddit seems like a likely candidate for a meme stock. But the actual reaction suggests that r/WallStreetBets isn’t going to send the stock to the moon.

Rolando ,

Advertise Lemmy!

Rolando ,

If the masses don’t come here, that’s fine. For now, we just can just take the people who post and comment thoughtfully.

Reddit: 'We Are in the Early Stages of Monetizing Our User Base' (www.404media.co)

Reddit said in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission that its users’ posts are “a valuable source of conversation data and knowledge” that has been and will continue to be an important mechanism for training AI and large language models. The filing also states that the company believes “we are in the early...

Rolando ,

At each new monetization stage, we should once more advertise Lemmy.

Rolando ,

As we get older, our bodies start to wear down. If something starts to fray, it’s generally not a problem unless you completely ignore it until the little problem becomes a big problem.

Don’t get freaked out by some of the words thrown around in these responses. You should probably invest in an annual medical checkup, this is a great thing to ask them.

Rolando ,

Newt was badass too.

Hudson: Seventeen DAYS!? Hey man, I don’t wanna rain on your parade, but we’re not gonna last seventeen HOURS!!! Those things are gonna come in here just like they did before! And they’re gonna come in here AND THEY’RE GONNA GET US!!!

Ripley: Hudson! This little girl survived longer than that with no weapons and no training!

Newt: [salutes]

Rolando ,

is there an intellectual powerhouse anymore?

tildes.net is a candidate. Though I like it better here for the memes and the music.

uhrbaan , to fediverse
@uhrbaan@mastodon.social avatar

@fediverse Fediverse user growth jumped to ~50'000'000 users. What happened ?
The FediDB Fediverse User Growth graph shows a significant jump in user count in February. Software distribution is also 81% other, and the biggest server is fediverse.hanbitgaram.com with 39 million users ! What happened ?
https://fedidb.org/

Rolando ,

On resume: “dramatically increased corporate data security, drawing notice from management company-wide.”

Rolando ,

Charlie, Frank, and Arnold are all in bed. They start arguing, and Arnold says: “I’m going in the crevice!”

Rolando ,

No US companies thought that Americans would ever understand or get into this weird Japanese stuff

I miss the subtitled “translator notes” about cultural things. US companies just change the meaning of things if there’s no easy equivalent.

Rolando ,

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Doctorow


<span style="color:#323232;">Awards
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    2000 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer[91]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    2004 Locus Award for Best First Novel for Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    2004 Sunburst Award for A Place So Foreign and Eight More
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    2006 Locus Award for Best Novelette for "I, Robot"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    2007 Locus Award for Best Novelette for "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    2007 The Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award[92]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">For Little Brother
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    2009 John W. Campbell Memorial Award[93]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    2009 Prometheus Award[45]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    2009 Sunburst Award[46]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    2009 White Pine Award[94]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    2018 Inkpot Award[95]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">For Pirate Cinema
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    2013 Prometheus Award[45]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">For Homeland
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    2014 Prometheus Award[45]
</span>
Rolando ,

Mood: !synthwave

Rolando ,

–==Knight Rider==–

Upon careful analysis of the top posts, I believe lemmy needs more unhinged text posts

man cannot live on memes and news alone. there is a void here. news stories breed reasoned discussion, generally filled with stringent, on topic remarks. memes breed tepid remarks, a step above twitter blue check replies, but little worth reading....

Rolando ,

!copypasta

!copypasta

!copypasta

!copypasta

Rolando ,

Would you say it looks… angry?

Rolando ,

She probably doesn’t have some goal or plan. She’s probably just like: this guy seems like he’s got his act together. And he’s kind of interesting. What does he like, Linux? Hey, want to hang out and talk about Linux? Oh shit I got some work to do instead for a while. Whew that’s done, hey let’s chat for a while. Hey that was fun, let’s do it again sometime.

You can sometimes tell when someone is interested by how they look at you and respond to the things you do.

Maybe. I could never tell. A lot of times they weren’t sure themselves.

Rolando ,

Obviously fake. The real He He-Man would only wear one wrist guard.

Rolando ,

Lavate las manos!

Rolando ,

Never seen this before. Had to know what happened next: yewtu.be/watch?v=jQMpBZNAOks

Music Piracy Is Back, Baby (gizmodo.com)

“Muso, a research firm that studies piracy, concluded that the high prices of streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music are pushing people back towards illegal downloads. Spotify raised its prices by one dollar last year to $10.99 a month, the same price as Apple Music. Instead of coughing up $132 a year, more consumers...

Rolando ,

I really miss iTunes circa 2007 (I think?) before it got enshittified. I had it running on a Windows machine with my carefully-curated music library until the machine died. I got the music files off but had to reinstall iTunes and by that time it was a bloated piece of crap. I haven’t found the equivalent since!

Rolando ,

If I need something, I just give the money to a friend and have them order it for me.

This is awesome. Amazon is as unscrupulous as a drug dealer, so you need a “connection” to deal with Amazon.

Rolando ,

the convenience of getting things mailed to me

You can still get things mailed to you, with free shipping. Just order $35 of stuff at a time.

Rolando ,

The ones who had kids seem weird to me, never got a chance to goof off in their 20s and figure out who they are.

I definitely needed to goof off in my 20s and figure out who I was. But not everybody is like that, and the meme in question suggests it’s “weird” to know who you are and not need to goof off.

Rolando ,

Imagine the following scenario: you meet someone in college, and when you graduate at 22 you don’t want to split up. They say sure, let’s live together, but we need to get engaged; if it doesn’t work out we can just break it off. After a year you realize your lives are much better together. You decide to get married but not to have kids until you’re 30. If it doesn’t work out you can divorce, but you sign a prenup and at least no kids would be involved.

If you both have clear and compatible career goals, that scenario saves you a lot of dating drama and gives you valuable support. I wouldn’t call someone in that scenario “weird.”

Rolando ,

I think that the key is to have a “safe word”.

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