No downvotes from me. I cycle every day, it’s my only mode of transportation, and the number of poorly adjusted lights on other people’s bikes is staggering.

Very well put.

Because many people in the US (and elsewhere, sadly) are not media-literate enough to understand the difference between the veracity of an article and their opinion about it.

Cereal is now stuck to the bottom of the cup.

Ah yes, the White, Blue & Red.

MFW I see that Sauron is a fellow pineapple enthusiast: “Okay, let’s hear him out.”

Slightly OT, but how did you like the game?

National IQ in the US is about to drop a couple of points.

Block out your annoying wife’s contractions with these Audiophile Headphones™.

Although I understand this on a factual level, I still question the set of priorities that leads someone to install an operating system in order to run a single game.

Also, his wife must’ve been enthused to see he brought all his “performance upgrades.”

Is this what she meant when she called Hitler a “communist”? Not like “ew, communists” but “oh yeah, communists, like the good folks in the CCP who gave me money”?

not sure WHAT the Roman one is holding, but it doesn’t look like any recognizable weapon.

In this case, it may just be AI generated garbage. But historically, the Roman eagle was sometimes stylized holding bolts of lightning (as a reference to Jupiter).

Like a glove.

T470 here (the anniversary model). I’ll part with it when someone takes it from my cold, dead body.

Die Grundidee des ÖRR ist doch gerade, dass sie NICHT von Werbeeinnahmen abhängig sein sollen. Deshalb bezahlen wir Rundfunkgebühren.

Dass die Programmleitungen beim ÖRR mittlerweile so viele AfD-Positionen präsentieren liegt in meinen Augen eher daran, dass (a) die AfD den ÖRR seit Jahren als “Staatsfunk” diskreditiert und die Programmleitungen davor einknicken und (b) einige der häufig konservativen Programmleitungen diese Positionen gar nicht so schlecht finden.

I mean, there’s a chance someone knows, right? We don’t all have to.

Happy Pal-entines Day, everyone ♥️

I think Lemmy needs a higher-level sign-up procedure that hides the complexity of the fediverse. This could be a webpage with a simple, clutter-free interface that handles picking and registering on an instance from a curated list semi-automatically, for example, by asking you 3-4 questions before giving you a suggested server that fits your responses (which you can change) and a button to register there. The procedure could also handle the occasional additional sign-up requirements that some instances have.

IMHO, 90% of users will never interact with the “federation” aspects of Lemmy after that, and they also don’t need to. I personally don’t feel like Lemmy being federated has much of an impact on my user experience day to day.

More like Sauron and his Mouth.

What should those people do?

Back then, it was already extremely clear that the Cybertruck was a stupid vanity project intended for people who wanted to feel futuristic but wouldn’t have bought a regular EV, because it wasn’t cool and mean enough. So my potentially hot take is: Those people got what they deserve.

What can they do now? Take it as a learning opportunity. Be better.