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Cake day: March 3rd, 2024

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  • If we had better systems in place to help everyone who needs it, this probably wouldn’t be a problem. Telling someone they need therapy isn’t helpful, it’s just acknowledging we aren’t aiding the ones who need it when they need it most.

    I’ll go further and say anyone who thinks any of these AI are really what they’re marketed as needs help, as in education of what is and isn’t possible. So that will cover all instances, not just the romantic variety.


  • Places would change up and down in tone and attitude since the days of Usenet, BBSes, and FidoNet. It’s not the platform, it’s the people. How the world is in RL affects how people talk online, and the world changes over time.

    The simpler answer may be that your feed has changed some since you started and you’re pulling in discussions that have a different vibe than when you started. Just as you can grow your feed by browsing around, you can cull certain places that tend to be darker by blocking people or instances.









  • The thought experiment goes past everyone’s point on gravity eventually creating a velocity that is devastating. What would such a mass (between 100 and 180 km in diameter based on map of Corsica) do if it just magically settled gently onto a land mass and then gravity came into play? It wouldn’t be extinction level, but there are lots of regional effects to consider. Weather patterns would be a huge one. Continental plate deflection, which would affect ground stability and water flow. Certainly earthquakes if anywhere near even smaller fault lines. A change in Earth rotational speed and wobble.



  • That’s just it, it doesn’t deserve to be called a truck at all. Had they taken the basic uses of a truck and built around that maybe they would have then made something worthwhile, but instead they took Elon’s crayon drawing of a truck from his childhood and tacked on the truck name.

    As a sidenote, I’ve never seen anyone use the “þ” for “th” before in internet conversation aka old english. I could read it but it took a second to get used to it.