No no, don’t recommend Linux to a Mac user. Suggest other kids toys, like an etch-a-sketch or something.

Seeing CA propositions get rigged with misinformation and tricky language suggests to me that direct democracy might also not work without proper safeguards.

I found success just saying Alexa wasn’t working and a bunch of stuff uses it. Not even that far from correct, at least?

Jokes on you, these were actually written by dogs enjoying the sweet scent of manass.

“Remember memes… though half a weeks gone by. Remember memes, even if work makes you cry. For even if it’s far away, the weekends in my heart. I sing my silly songs to you each time we make meme art…”

Marketing weirdly effective, for one. They pump a large portion of their budgets into hype and they make just enough back to keep going. It’s like the same people who watch an ad for a fast food place and go even though it’s never as advertised.

And most isn’t direct marketing. They very much pay influencers to buy this slop and worse. You pay a half million to a guy to make something look popular and it becomes popular. It’s very annoying.

So funny I read this post right after my 3yo dishes l ate all her broccoli, her brothers broccoli, and seconds on… broccoli. Didn’t finish her rice, though.

I think she might actually like fruits and veggies?

That said, I think a good trick is to style the performative foods as Japanese bento style because kids are kinda easily swayed by look and feel of food, so if it’s cute or cool they are more likely to eat it. We’re planning on doing that anyway, mostly cause my wife was raised in Japan where that was common.

Another thing to keep in mind is parents are often the role models, so liking or disliking things will matter. If you hate fruits and veggies, they’ll notice.

I thought that too until today, it’s never clear until a quarter of the Internet is down randomly.

Same, Canvas is perhaps the most used Learning Management System in the US and they apparently are entirely hosted on AWS East. The real kicker is I had my students midterm due date literally today for two classes. I’ve been swamped with panic emails (and I made clear my due dates aren’t even that important when there isn’t a national outage lol).

My head canon is someone wished for a miracle due date extension somewhere in the country and they monkey’s pawed AWS into non existence.

Oh that makes sense, the codes probably open source. Those goons probably have minimal experience actually developing an app from scratch.

Oh no this one I know is real, I just mean, imagine how incredibly unlikely a story it’d be if they joined Lemmy or a Piefed instance.

They don’t really fit bluesky either but it’s popular enough I can see them try, lol

Edit: or wait, did you mean Truth Social being federated? Cause that’d be Not the Onion material lol

Now we need a parody article telling us the Whitehouse started hosting a fediverse instance. For once I don’t think people would eat that onion, lol

This is the worst Weekend At Bernie’s sequel, and that includes the weird, racist voodoo one.

Hmm… maybe. The state of the world has been pretty awful for the past year so I imagine that plays a part. Aside from trolls, lots of us are on edge as the whole world seems to tilt right with propaganda and AI.

That said, I like us.

I browse bluesky too and find I actually prefer Lemmy because it’s a bit more self-policing… Like regarding AI slop, bluesky is fucking rampant with it, like Trump dressed as a clown or Newsom with abs, it’s fucking awful. Lemmy has a couple communities for AI but on average, you try that shit and you’ll get publicly shamed. That could be considered mean, but I appreciate it (especially if it’s AI I can’t even tell).

Good examples from others but I also want to bring up microaggressions. Basically, small things that add up, like a white woman gripping her bag tightly when a black man enters an elevator, or a white man crossing the street because a Latino guy is approaching who looks a little “gangy.” Usually they aren’t that progressive (e.g. they support diversity but critical race theory is a bridge too far).

That said, prejudice is something we all have and is part of human nature. It protects us historically from things like snakes and spiders who may not be venomous but on the off chance they are, better safe than sorry. Prejudice leads to stereotypes, stereotypes lead to discrimination. Conscious effort is needed to overcome that, and progressives do that better than not but no one is fully immune to your natural instincts.

Set it to humanity’s highest point: 1999. Things will get very confusing when they try and break me from the Matrix only to find it we’re in the holodeck.

I mean, they could include VPN for premium subscriptions I guess. Although at that point you already have a person’s credit card information, lol.

Mayonnaise is mostly oil and egg, which is kind of more akin to carbonara than Alfredo. That said, it has a sourness that isn’t going to mesh the same way-- basically, vinegar and/or lemon juice, which one generally wouldn’t want much of (if at all) in something meant to be creamy. Main reason I don’t particularly like it as a butter substitute in grilled cheese.

Knowing what goes into things like mayo, ketchup, Sriracha, etc, can work well when you’re in a pinch, though. It’s just harder to control the ratio of sugars, salts, and sour components so you have to offset that elsewhere.

Apparently very little data on this, so I did digging. Nothing worth sharing as a source, just seems most animals may nibble to try and wake a human, and once decay sets in, both may eat since our scents change.

Dogs do seem to guard a body, cats do tend to escape before eating, and neither really wants to be in that situation (I imagine we don’t taste very good).

Interesting, but torrents have legal uses so it shouldn’t be too surprising. I’ve had data sets provided by torrent due to size, although it’s not that common.

Do keep in mind, is a school Internet if it’s on the dorm so this is probably more a warning than anything. It’s not that different than trying to do illegal stuff on a library computer (or even legal stuff like porn. Don’t do that on a school or work computer, lol).

I did find it interesting that my own school Internet in student apartments didn’t have this problem, though. Iirc, that was because it was individually done via spectrum, not a campus intranet. My personalized orientation, the grad student showing me around even had pirating suggestions, lol.