Vampire

Vampire , 9 months ago to asklemmy in Why can big beards make a man look immediately crazy?

mentally ill people don’t groom themselves properly, are sloppy

Vampire , 9 months ago to asklemmy in What is a street name you would want to see in your city?

What’s with these Reddit-style questions that are clearly designed to elicit PII?

There’s been a lot of them recently. Can mods do something?

Vampire , 9 months ago to science in Chinese scientists have developed a gene-editing tool that doesn’t use CRISPR

There’s lots of those: ZFN, TALEN, zinc fingers, prime editing

CRISPR gets all the headlines

Vampire , 9 months ago to reddit in How many people actually dropped Reddit for Lemmy?

Who is RiF

Vampire , 9 months ago to technology in X’s new terms of service insist that tweets are now posts

I don’t care

Vampire , 9 months ago to asklemmy in Future of social media in 5/10 years from now?

How would monetisation work on a decentralized platform? Would the creator be limited with merchandise and promotions without ads?

The patreon / liberapay model is the future.

Vampire , 9 months ago to asklemmy in What is the most fascinating emotion or feeling for you?

fascination I suppose

Vampire , 9 months ago to asklemmy in What is the most logically empty argument that supports capitalism?

“Free markets are the most efficient way of allocating resource resources”

“How do you measure efficiency?”

“I don’t know”

Vampire , 9 months ago to worldnews in Russian Anti-War Activist Sentenced To Six Years In Prison For Internet Posts

Stop the war

Vampire , 9 months ago to asklemmy in What is the best reddit-/lemmy-style post you can make from the plot of a movie?

Ha. That casual self-incrimination about Lemmy having no posting style beyond aping Reddit.

Vampire , 9 months ago to worldnews in Threats, insults, and Kremlin 'robots': How Russian diplomacy died under Putin

Diplomacy isn’t cozying up to nations that are your friends and and insulting others

Yes it is.

it’s having cordial relations with all nations.

No it’s not.

Vampire , 10 months ago to worldnews in Ukraine tells critics of slow counteroffensive to 'shut up'

What are you trying to say?

Vampire , 10 months ago to worldnews in Ukraine tells critics of slow counteroffensive to 'shut up'

Thus the highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy’s plans; the next best is to prevent the junction of the enemy’s forces; the next in order is to attack the enemy’s army in the field; and the worst policy of all is to besiege walled cities.

Vampire , 10 months ago to asklemmy in Do you like waffles?

I don’t mean to brag

I don’t mean to boast

but I’m intercontinental when I eat French toast

Vampire , 10 months ago to linux in Today GNU/Linux is 32 years old

Actually it’s just called ‘Linux’