I’m seeing lots of reports on this for rule #2, and while I think this sort of commentary is obviously the basis of a lot of political bickering, I’m not sure if the framing in the meme itself is wholly political.

I might be way off base making a judgement call here, but I’m going to leave this one be.

I see a bit of both sides being argued in the comments here. We don’t have a clear rule about this atm, so removals have been inconsistent and case-by-case, often based on reports.

Maybe I’ll start and pin a discussion thread about this during the week (when we’ll get the most eyes on it) and see what the wider community wants, and if desired, maybe we can come up with a rule wording that isn’t too restrictive, but removes stuff that genuinely feels “off topic” for a memes page.

I’m running PopOS and Debian with Nvidia cards that should be affected by this, if I’m understanding this right. Ugh.

What a pain.

Isn’t this P3?

I think it’s the harsh consonant sounds. I’m not a linguist and am sure there’s some term for it, but it seems like we identify words in English more from the distinct “framing” of the consonants and are more flexible about hearing variations in how the vowel sounds in between are pronounced.

For example, it’s the same reason that whispering (which largely takes out tone/pitch of vowel sounds) is super easy in English, but more difficult in some other languages.

Piefed has been going slow for me for the past week. Not sure why, so I just swapped back here for a few days and will try again soon.

It was just so much simpler then. Aside from the viruses.

Well that’s much better

I can read this as either: AI allows anyone to code their own stuff.

Or

AI is hogging all the million dollar ideas.

It’s nobody’s decision but yours, but I will point out that as humans, we are very poor predictors of how we will think or feel in the future.

When we’re depressed, our brains process thoughts of the future as if we’ll be sad forever. When we’re happy and have lots of energy, we make big plans as if we’ll always feel that way. Lottery winners feel an initial euphoria and think they’re set for life, but studies show their mood returns to baseline after about 1 year. Age and development helps you push the fog of foresight a little further, but it’s still hard.

I don’t know you, but if I were speaking to myself at age 22, I would caution making a decision like that so early. I still cringe about being tasked with picking a college major at 18 and how wrong that could’ve gone, and this is easily 100x more important.

Gotcha, sorry. I’ll hold off on posting reddit screenshots here.

RIP to a legend

It’s real, but it went viral and they got a ton of backlash online for it a few years ago.

Just did some digging, and it’s legit and from a 1994 book called “The Internet Guide for New Users” by Daniel P. Dern.

Mildly interesting side-note, I found someone’s blog about posting this image and book to a (now non-existent) fediverse server. https://doughnut.neocities.org/blag/15

It’s against the rules!

I love my Logitech G502, which I’m sure you will see recommended anywhere you look because it’s pretty popular.

I’m still using the wired version, but if I were to be in the market for a new one today, the wireless one would be the first I checked out.

The band Green Day invited a fan up on stage to play one of their songs, but he played the song Wonderwall instead as a joke.

Guitarists playing Wonderwall for people has been a meme since the 90s. Here’s more about it if you’re interested:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wonderwall

Oh!

Oh.

I nearly dropped this in c/mildlyinteresting, but I also thought it was too cool.