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I assume all the bot farms are paying for the privilege.

So, the Internet of Shit is not just a euphemism now. Great…

I was dragged along to see it at the cinema in the (then) new 3D format (versus the old red/blue glasses).

Took me 10 minutes to realise the story is Pocahontas, so I’ve always thought of it as Pocahontas Smurfs. And the 3D, while a cool novelty, gave me motion sickness something fierce.

While clearly no money was spent on the script, it did move animation technology and adoption along quite a bit.

Gobsmacked a sequel was made.

Quokka on Rottnest Island (Western Australia)?

Followed by trying to stop fuckwits from playing “quokka soccer”. 🤭

The clock on my PVR (01:59) and the light switch. It’s time for bed…

That’s a fair point. I shouldn’t have generalised your entire country, as it has so many linguistic differences.

Even outside of the whole pop/soda/Coke thing. 😄

It’s regional. I grew up in Australia, where it’s pronounced as it is in the US: dah-tah. But I now live in the UK, where it’s pronounced day-tah.

The same is true of “router”, the network device (but not the woodworking tool): rau-tah vs roo-ter.

Working in IT made it a ballache for a while until I remembered to always change my pronunciation for them. 🙄

I asked this question many years ago on a Usenet group, and the answer was along the lines of what we’re seeing is many millions of years after those orbits began, and that they all eventually flatten out due to the gravity of the other objects in orbit.

So you could have 2 objects at roughly the same orbital distance but perpendicular to one another (eg. one orbiting the star’s poles and the other around it’s equator), and over time the small amount of gravitational force they exert on one another will bring them roughly into the same plane.

Hopefully someone better versed in the topic can come along to explain it better than I can.

Been there. Christ, it was hard. But the vet team left us alone for the end. The best of the worst situation, so to speak.

Ten years later and I still tear up at the memory of it.

Knowing I have the same experience coming in the near future sucks. But it’s better than the alternative, I guess…

TIL that version appears to be on the AUR: MicroEMACS/PK 4.0.15 customized by Linus Torvalds.

Last updated in 2014, it probably has serious cobwebs now. Even the upstream hasn’t been touched in 6 years.

I’m assuming work and personal?

I’ve done the same for years, but am thinking of making use of the second SIM slot in my personal phone and using profiles to separate everything. Many phones can also use an eSIM, so that’s also an option for multiple numbers.

bxActions, probably? Turn the useless button into something you want.

Match of the Day theme where I live. (It’s probably playing in your head now, sorry).

It was Greensleeves where I grew up, halfway around the world.

Same result: synchronised yells from nearby houses of “Muuuuum… iiiiiice creeeeeeam!”

As with all my online accounts:

• Visit a name generator website.
• Find one that doesn’t suck.
• Check if it’s available.
• Here we are.

And each has a different email address. I hope adtech loves me. 😁

Sending me news links that are social media posts containing a link to a news article. Especially if it’s from Xitter: no way I’m logging into that place just to see replies.

It tells me that they didn’t read the article and that they expect me to care what the shit posters reacting to the headline think.

Likewise. I much prefer the sitting around the table and discussing differences approach to the alternatives.

Life’s too short. 😊

I agree with a lot of what you’ve said, and am starting to think I may just be being cantankerous about something for no good reason.

I’ve no issue with shitposts nor trying to get All The Upvotes (nor, I guess, All The Downvotes) here. I think it’s just that lazy and transparent “This is a real question?” type of post - repeated over and 'cking over - that makes my teeth itch for some reason. 😅

The web version screenshot you provided was interesting when compared to the Voyager mobile app view of a profile:

It’s possible I was being lazy or stupid (they’re not mutually exclusive) in misreading the Comment Count metric as something else, like “karma”, rating, or whatever. It’s definitely not that. Either way, you and others are right in saying there is no karma here (for that I apologise to all). I still have doubts whether the people doing the above kind of posts understand the - literal - pointlessness of doing it for any kind of account cred.

I dunno. Anyway, I’ve had a day to reflect on it, and I’m wrong. So it goes… 🙂

Definitely agree. I had zero interest in sculpture until I walked into the Louvre and d’Orsay museums in Paris. I was transfixed by the sculptures there. Specifically the Winged Victory of Samothrace, the Rape of Persephone, and the Venus de Milo.

As in staring at each piece for nearly an hour, unable to imagine how the artist got that out of stone. It blew my mind, and the memory of it still does.

I don’t care how good your photos are, or whatever visualisation technology you’re using, nothing - absolutely nothing - compares to standing in the same room as the real thing.

Conversely, being in the same room as the Mona Lisa was unexpectedly disappointing. It’s so small and hard to see with 800 fellow tourists crammed into the viewing room. That probably is better examined online, though seeing it in person is an experience.

The Sistine Chapel is also something worth seeing in person. You can’t judge the scale from photos.

I’m not OP, of course. I think the point is that some people seem to really care about how many upvotes they get for a post (or comment) based upon the type of post they make. I get that it doesn’t get accumulated against the user profile.

Internet points is the only/main explanation I can think of for the repeated low effort/value “questions” that people post. The “what was ‘the incident’ at your school?” one I moaned about yesterday is something I’ve seen posted many times to Lemmy, and is a good example.

If this were Reddit, we’d put it down to karma farming for an account that would eventually become a spam, scam or porn bot, or something like that. But I struggle to understand why it happens here.

That’s the gist of my involvement in the topic, anyway.

Haha, I recognise myself in OP’s comment, I think. I was soundly downboated for my comment. 😄

Internet points are the objective for some people, regardless of the platform or meaning. I’m usually reluctant to tell someone they’re having fun the wrong way - whatever floats your boat - but I’d much prefer some kind of reputation based on quality rather than the groupthink “hur hur, that made me spit out my drink” system that Reddit and Lemmy use.

But what do I know. I’m just some Internet rando with opaque motives, just like the rest of us.

Edit: For the ideologues spouting the tired “Lemmy doesn’t have karma!” party line, the number alongside your username is what people are taking about, not what we call it. FFS.