The idea, that keeping a device for more than two years is "short term" thinking that could doom the economy, is a pretty damning indictment on the state of your economy.

Same as Liz Truss killing the queen. Sometimes, when you're old and in poor health, you just experience something that makes you think "fuck it, I don't need to put up with this shit anymore."

Important story, horrible situation. Definitely not "mildly infuriating"

If anyone is curious (as I was):

In real life Nemo's dad would have become female after mommy got eaten. https://evolution.berkeley.edu/fisheye-view-tree-of-life/gender-bending-fish/

"of all the animals, fish are sexually the most fluid" - https://www.bbcearth.com/news/fish-are-the-sex-switching-masters-of-the-animal-kingdom

There's a fair amount of evidence linking wage stagnation over the last 50 years to erosion of collective bargaining and union membership. Unless there are very strong incentives companies are not going to pay employees more than they need to. Employees as a group have a lot of bargaining power, but as individuals, very little. Unless you happen to worn in a highly skilled, and high demand occupation, which are exactly the jobs that have seen wages remain comparatively high.

To be fair, most cats 'train' every day, they just sleep in between. If you ate a controlled diet, spent most of the day sleeping, interspersed with some stretching and running and jumping on things, you'd be I'm pretty great shape.

Is everyone too distracted by the cringe to be infuriated at the punctuation? Wtf is happening with those quotation marks?

Yeah, the current run of bot posts has really gotten me down. Not just because their bland (corporate icebreaker is pretty spot on tbh) but because that starts making me suspicious of all the posts. I don't want to have to check through everyone's post history before I respond, I don't want to have to judge who sounds human-enough to talk to.

Not really sure what to do. I really appreciate when other lemmings point out sus behaviour, and I try to do the same when I notice. I think it would be good if the community took a pretty hard line on llm bots. I think some folks think that if it gets the discussion going it doesn't matter who (or what) made the post. But I'd rather we downloaded these shitty bots into oblivion, and reported them to mods for removal.

Up lemmyed, funny, but for anyone else confused about the satire https://www.truthorfiction.com/rep-jack-kimble-a-whopping-25-of-american-students-are-in-the-bottom/

Our staircase was built over two centuries ago, and still does its job!

I have to actively keep myself focussed on sex by fantasizing some scene or story to myself. Just actually having sex isn't enough, not because I'm not into it or not enjoying it. It's just that if I don't fill my mind with something sexy it's going to get full with chores, or dinner options, or the way the bed squeaks... And then I'm completely out the moment.

I commented at the same time as you, otherwise I'd have replied to you directly. It is a real tweet, but satire, Jack Kimble is not a real politician (he purports to represent California's 54th district, out of 52).

It's the transitions that are the enemy! Getting un/dressed and getting dry are both annoying. In summer when I'm only wearing shorts and can airdry in the warmth I'm fine taking a shower. But most of the year I just hate the transition...

Nah it's not. You think that, but you're wrong actually. Don't bother checking, it'll just make you feel even stupider.

Anyone come up with a good measure of distance that makes the speed of light a nice round number? I like the metric system, but the meter feels pretty arbitrary. We could do better!

Maybe he means Hannah Schmitz who has been Principal Strategy Engineer for Red Bull since 2021 (and was Senior Strategy Engineer for ten years before that).

If my friend told me the were senior strategy engineer I could well imagine remembering that as 'chief engineer' or 'senior mechanic'. Also, she's British, which would fit with MOT.

I think your absolutely right that people shouldn't call a question stupid in c/nostupidquestions. But they can and should criticise a question for being a rant disguised as a question (eg. "Why are X people so stupid?"). More borderline is a questions that maybe meant in good faith but seems to have so many problematic assumptions built-in, that it's difficult to even engage with fairly. It might not be a stupid question, but it's been phrased in a way that makes so many wrong assumptions, that answering it becomes an unnecessarily difficult chore.

I saw your question about veganism, and I can imagine some people took it as way of poking vegans. Vegans get a lot of hassle online, and are often asked to justify this or that, so asking "why don't they eat roadkill" (in so many words) could be seen as not coming from a genuine place of curiosity. I'm not saying your question wasn't genuine, but I can imagine that other people thought so.

I do think your question falls into the "too many dumb assumptions". There were responses along the lines of "vegans don't eat meat, so of course they don't eat meat that has died naturally". And you responded with "I meant the philosophy not the diet". If that's true, then it was a "badly phrased" question, not a "stupid" one.

Nostupidquestions is meant to be a place to ask questions that you feel like you should know, or everyone else seems to know. If you ask confusing or misleading questions, it's reasonable for people to respond with "that's not what veganism means" or whatever. But I do 100% think people shouldn't say it's a stupid question (although, having read through the thread I don't see anyone saying that to you...)

I don't think people are bothered by "female coworker", which is perfectly normal. It's the reference to a "female-only" community, when the actual com is called WomensStuff and describes itself as "women only" and "a women's community".

Some kids make fake 'fairy' photos in 1917 and lots of people believed them. As others have mentioned, the USSR removed people from photographs. A forged will in the middle ages let the papacy claim authority over Europe, and shaped the western world as we know it today.

There have always been lies and fakes, and there's always people who've ignored real evidence claiming it's been fake. AI certainly makes things worse, and will be used to discredit legitimate evidence as much as it is used to fake shit. But humanity has lived most of its existence without a "pics or it didn't happen" attitude, and will continue to figure stuff out (and make mistakes) through investigation, interpersonal trust and community.

I remember when everyone was excited about playing Pokemon Go and wishing that there was a way to do something similar but in the wilderness rather than cities. I wanted to be able to wander around the wilds trying to encounter strange and rare creatures. Then I realised I had just invented birdwatching.