Plants just do weird shit sometimes.

I currently have a flower plant that is growing about a foot-and-a-half-long… tentacle out of the middle of one of its flowers, just hanging in space. What is it? I have absolutely no idea. It’s just there.

Yeah, probably. The other side of “this is so badly needed why haven’t you done it for us” is “if this is so badly needed why haven’t any of the server admins or mods implemented it yet.”

I feel like this is an example of how the core dev team running on an instance that basically just has 3 of the admins do more or less all the moderation for the entire site is not ideal. This type of feature is probably one of the most-requested pain points for most people who run most servers, but my guess is that it’s basically completely invisible to the .ml team why it would even be needed, because their model works fine for them, so why would they.

Of course they’ve got a right to work or not work on whatever they want, but if their goal is success and good moderation for most servers this type of scalability and teamwork enabling thing is super important.

Every person on the planet has forever chemicals in their blood. Literally every person we’ve ever tested. Eskimos, African tribesmen, people who have never been within a hundred miles of a piece of tupperware or a water-resistant boot. They have it too.

Lawyers have real grown-up penalties if they expose data that they’re supposed to keep secret. There are lawyers who wind up paying the price for it every day, and it hurts enough that they really try to avoid doing it.

San Francisco tech companies, who none of those things are true about and who have a constant track record of exposing people’s data, have absolutely no business lecturing anybody on this topic. How long ago was it that someone figured out how to get ChatGPT to dump OpenAI’s training data including people’s personal information? Oh, I don’t know, I’m sure someone remembers though

ICE doesn’t give a fuck what the court says is allowed

• Tiny pop-up tent, easier to carry if you can fit inside
• Headlamps
• Sleeping pad or something to separate you from the cold ass ground
• Don’t interact with the cute little bear cubs

It seems unlikely that their participation here is going to be productive lol

Google bought Waze, so at this point you’re probably not making any Israeli spies money if you make use of it. On the other hand, you’re making Google money, which is almost as bad.

Well, it’s okay, because for once the planet has intelligent life on it that can understand and react to these big events.

Surely once the unimaginable horror of what’s coming really becomes clear to people, even the confused, stupid, and apathetic people who for some reason are in charge of everything, all it will take is some concerted effort on the same scale they spend on all their massive-scale activities like making cars or televisions, to create enough plant life and sustain it, enough to break the cycle before it really gets going.

Right?

They wouldn’t just keep driving off the cliff even once it gets started for real…

You’re a modern marvel.

I literally can’t tell if you are a bot designed to gin up conflict, or if you’re legitimately someone who has this much difficulty in having a normal human conversation with anyone for personal reasons or something. If it’s the latter I hope you get better as time goes on.

Me: I like killing IDF people

You: HOW DARE YOU TRY TO CENSOR SOMEONE WHO WANTS TO KILL IDF PEOPLE

Me: What? I am not censoring anyone, I actually listed that censorship as a reason not to go to lemmy.world

You: IDF DESERVES TO DIE YOU MONSTER, HOW DARE YOU

Is there someone else near to you that I can speak with? Maybe I can explain it to them, and they can explain it to you.

When did I advocate for censoring the people who express that right? I think you maybe have me confused with someone else here.

People will straight-up kill you for drawing Muhammad, this guy is probably going to die. The civil authorities deciding that it’s a crime is also fucked up, but it’s almost not really relevant to the danger he’s in. Even in the US or Europe it can get you killed. Comedy Central still has an ongoing feud with the South Park creators where they constantly try to put Muhammad in the show, and it only ever works when they’ve snuck him in without it being obvious who he is.

https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/Muhammad

I have a memory of him appearing in “the Muhammad episode” somehow, with Jesus and other religious figures getting covered in literal shit and all kinds of egregious obscene disrespect to them, and then Muhammad walking onscreen and saying “Hello” to the viewer and then leaving, just to make the point. I suspect that my memory is lying and he was only ever broadcast as a big black “censored” bar in that one though.

Bottom line, it’s a big deal.

(Also, for some weird reason, my spell check doesn’t know that snuck is a word.

Jeez, I thought I took Lemmy too seriously.

I’ll happily advocate for the Palestinians’ rights to kill as many of the IDF as they can manage. It won’t solve their problems, but they’ve got every right to do it, and nothing else that I can see will solve any of their problems other than better leadership in the US.

I think you’ve probably understood me pretty well, what you decide about me is up to you just like it is for everyone else.

Don’t go to lemmy.world, it’s a silly place, for this among some other reasons.

And this situation is likely not helped by the vendors betting big on so-called AI PCs selling like hot cakes, despite the fact that there is no killer app for these devices, they carry a premium price tag, and the industry can’t even agree on a standard hardware specification.

The frame.work desktop with the AI capabilities has sold out into where they are now taking orders in what is clearly the “we’ll take your money but don’t hold your breath” batch. The difference is it has 128GB of VRAM and it costs $2,000. In other words it seems like a sensible thing to buy if you actually want be able to do AI stuff, instead of whatever unwanted nonsensical trinkets these other people are trying to shoehorn into their shoddy products.

I actually rephrased my statement and made it in the exact way that I did because of the Lord of the Rings. The movies are excellent, easily good enough to be masterpieces by Hollywood standards, but they are still a pale imitation of the original.

Nice try Steve Bannon