.va = Vatican city officials, for those too lazy to Google.

No it isn’t! Not doing genocides is what matters!

Think more along the lines of a garden. If you want to create an environment that’s suitable for something like vegetables to grow, you’re also going to be creating an environment for lots of other plants to thrive. Why clear out and till a plot for tomatoes if you’re just going to let the kudzu grow over it again?

Not necessarily. Something like a new advice animal or a deep fried meme can be entirely novel, but still derive meaning from the context of existing memes.

While every meme has to start from nothing, expanding the community scope to “any thought that can be shared” makes it so broad as to be meaningless.

Shamelessly stolen from wikipedia: “Two fundamental characteristics of internet memes are creative reproduction and intertextuality.”

I’m other words, memes have to derive substantial meaning from its overall positioning in Internet culture.

As an example, this post derives most of its context and meaning from horror movies, outside of Internet culture.

This meme, however derives its visual elements from a tv show, but these have been recursively co-opted by Internet culture, and is further embellished with internet-centric experiences (steam friend activity).

In a more hypothetical approach, imagine a news headline with the subtitle “I FUCKING KNEW IT!” A headline like “rising home prices linked to decreased fertility” would not really be a meme, but one like “tube breach causes historically large Internet outage” would. Both posts are materially similar, and either could be a meme in differing circumstances of Internet culture, but context is everything.

“the community will do what it do” isn’t really a solution. It seems the majority of engagement comes from inattentive front page readers. You can see this in a lot of Lemmy communities. People cruise in and post generic content, generic content gets upvoted to the top. Every community just ends up moving towards generic content over time without moderation.

Which leads to the question of why even have themed communities?

Tune in for more tips!

Cross stitch has an incredibly low barrier for entry, you can get all-in-one kits for like $2-3 at your local craft store. There’s also knitting/crochet: it’s worth trying both, many people can’t get one or the other to click.

If you have around 10 yards indoors or outdoors, a cheap air pistol or rifle can get you started on target shooting, though shooting sports can easily spiral into one of those comically expensive hobbies.

It may be worth looking at what your options are for local maker spaces. They’ll often have the fixed assets for lots of different hobbies.

There really isn’t much in the way of “more suited for men” hobbies, outside of maybe penis hammering.

Just put the Saturn back in saturnalia!

Which is funny, because even Xmas is a christ-centric spelling.

Yeah, you’ve clearly never seen my code!

I genuinely can’t believe that there’s still anybody left who’s principled enough and isn’t afraid of losing their job (or much, much worse) in retribution.

People have been making these same mistakes for literally decades… How does the government not have a 1-click dedicated tool for this yet?

https://slate.com/technology/2016/06/house-democrats-improperly-redacted-documents-wrong-but-they-re-not-alone.html

Pretty much the only reason this is unpopular is because we’re conditioned to expect it at the top or bottom. Having it on the side is a huge advantage for real estate, especially now that we don’t really have text on window tab thingies anymore.

Ooh, that one is probably pretty unpopular… Most desktop sites are absolute garbage on mobile.

Though I do hate when a mobile site won’t let you zoom for some asinine reason.

I don’t mind one way or the other, I just wish people would settle on one convention!

The right answer would be to mandate an architecture for cookies to properly label their purpose and origin. This would allow you to set policy on the browser level and never have to think of it again.

Instead they just prop 65’d the whole Internet.

I absolutely hate those scrolling number pickers, like on alarm apps. Just pop up the numpad and I can enter a time in 2-4 taps, not 2-3 coarse scrolls of minutes, a fine scroll to the minute I actually want, then repeat that process on the hours.

I personally like using the word meth.

I believe in a thing called meth, just listen to the rhythm of my heart!

Article calls them privateers… Then proceeds to not describe commerce raiding and that they’re (mostly) state-owned… Literally the two things that define what a privateer is.