ExtremeDullard

It’s not the insult, it’s who says it. If a MAGAt called me a great guy for example, I’d feel offended.

I only answered your question about what they are 🙂 I have no idea how much they’re worth. Probably too much if you don’t live in the middle-east, as you’d have to import that stuff I guess.

Frankincense and myrrh are incenses you would burn in your house if you want to pollute your air with micro-particles and make your house smell like a middle-eastern souk.

The only thing you want from the Three Kings story is the gold. Trust me on that one.

Agreed.

Here’s the depressing thought of the day: for every byte of Unix v4 archive that’s been lovingly rescued from data storage rot for months, there’s a million more containing important bits of human knowledge that disappear every second.

She’s right: she lives with a dumbass.

I’ve never understood this “old people are vulnerable” thing (not to mention that 69 ain’t that old): even if the scam is really good, at some point the mark is asked to make a large amount of money flow out of their bank account: anybody with the good sense the good lord gave to donkeys would have alarm bells ringing loudly between their ears. Everybody I’ve met in my life reacts like that.

I might understand if the scanner impersonates a close family member really well - although if one of my children started asking me large sums of money, I would get suspicious because… well, they just don’t. But Elon Musk? That guy ain’t a victim, he’s a moron.

Reddit, like Facebook, has the advantage of inertia: most people are on Reddit, so other people patronize Reddit, making Reddit even larger. And just like Facebook, it takes something particularly egregious from Reddit to get enough people to walk out at the same time. And you’re correct: Reddit has learned to slow-boil the frogs to avoid this.

But - maybe I’m naive - I’m banking of the Fediverse offering consistently better quality and less drama than Reddit to slowly attract people who want something better, and I’m trying to do my part to increase the S/N ratio on here.

I think it’s waiting for some new event that will drive a lot of people away from Reddit again to achieve critical mass and finally outgrow Reddit.

In the meantime, I’m trying to keep my little corner of Lemmy alive - my dinky little special-interest communities - so that those who don’t want to partake in the big Reddit equivalents know they have alternatives on here that are not stale.

On the plus side, the White House would look a lot less gaudy.

I wonder if Mamdani’s nickname is Bubba…

That’s easy: just say “Allahu akbar” when you get in.

You’d be surprised the number of head hunters you’ll pique the interest of with that line.

I think it’s not the first doomed generation. The previous one already had pretty high chances of being worse off than their parents (i.e. us). But sad - and quite frankly scared - though I am to recognize it, this one is in even more dire straights.

And the reason I’m scared is, desperate people are rightfully driven to do radical things. I’m fairly sure the desperate kids of today is the generation that will eventually drive the world off the cliff and into WW3. And I won’t even blame them.

I’m so glad my kids have long been out of the house and have well-established job situations at this point, because I genuinely wouldn’t know what to tell a teenager about career opportunities that wouldn’t cause them to fall into a deep depression. All I can foresee in the near future is mass unemployment and war. And goodness knows I’m normally an optimist.

An alien who isn’t being harassed, arrested, detained without due process and disappeared in a foreign concentration camp by ICE is newsworthy!

A lot of them end up culling the believers too in the end.

That should be concerning to MAGA.

I suspect a lot of people use Facebook because they’ve always used Facebook - mostly older folks at this point - and a lot of the younger folks go there because their favorite association / football club / local restaurant / library are there too.

Meaning Facebook’s success today is mostly inertia: there’s no way any open-source replacement would pull a critical-enough mass of people away from Facebook to fight the inertia and enjoy any meaningful success. I’m pretty sure open-source developers know this and chose something fancier and more exciting to spend their time on.

Creating a Facebook replacement would be about as exciting as creating a Visual Basic replacement: millions of people still use VB, but nobody wants to touch a dying technology.

Facebook is like Myspace: it’s has-been. If I was a developers interested in contributing to the Fediverse, that’s the last social media I’d choose to spend my time reimplementing.

That’s because Shitler is obsessed with her, and you hear a lot more about him that you want to also.

Just a reminder: Taylor Swift is a billionaire. Maybe she’s just as principled as all the other billionaires.