At this stage it’s a trope that people imitate, perhaps without really thinking about it. Originally it was almost certainly an ironic joke about the value of the medals, playing on the old-fashioned bite tests that would be used for for items of dubious worth
“can be” is doing some heavy lifting here. I confidently predict the amount actually recycled is a fraction of one percent
Loads of people - probably most people - didn’t have Sky. When did shoveling cash at Murdoch become some sort of minimum entry level for society? Not having a TV would be vaguely interesting, but not having Sky means nothing
If you ask, some places can do early check-in. You might have to pay for it, because it disrupts their routine
Thanks. I’ve never blocked anyone, so it won’t be that. Could be the other thing
It’s not just Sync, I find. I’ve had this issue with other Lemmy apps yoo
I’ve just tested this and it didn’t work. I think this issue, of posts saying there is 1 comment when there are none, is some sort of Lemmy-wide issue. It drives me crazy, as it’s impossible to know whether posts have a comment or not without looking at each individually.
I wonder if my colleagues have picked up on the fact that when I start an email “Dear-” rather than “Hi-”, it means I’m annoyed with them
There’s a fair bit of published work on this. 33 senses is a common number but there are others who’ve claimed up to 53
You can buy very convincing stickers that make your frame look rusty
They shoot down training drones all the time, so shooting things down isn’t novel. “In anger” is a normal phrase to describe doing something in a conflict situation, in contrast to training
I think the problem is that you’re not explaining which country you’re thinking of, and seem to be suggesting it’s the same legal situation everywhere
Don’t ask online strangers for medical advice. Go to a doctor if you’re worried
Comparison with current excitement about AI is interesting. Look at the language people use to describe the behaviour of LLMs
Flipboard sounds a lot like what you’re looking for
Because we have a lot of history. If we’re doing an historic festival it would be more specific about the period, not just some homogeneous “past”. But that said, such festivals are quite rare anyway
I’m a professional researcher and we all use Google Scholar. I’ve never seen Captchas on there. Are you on Scholar itself, or standard Google?
2 and 3 are massive. I’m on Mastodon, but am having a much better time on Bluesky. Mastodon is full of gatekeeping and policing and people complaining - Bluesky is just fun and interesting, like Twitter 12 years ago