https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_inventors_killed_by_their_own_invention

Would you be interested in running a new version of iAMA on Lemmy?

Lol I can do a Lemmy AMA if people really want to hear about developing spacecraft. Should note most of my friends at JPL are people I went to college with - I only worked there as an intern

The problem with Mastodon is that they don’t have very many major entities actively making posts. The main thing I track on twitter is OSINT and US politics, and that community basically doesn’t exist on Mastodon right now

Keep trucking little copter! I know several of the engineers who developed that thing. Really smart engineers who absolutely deserve to take a victory lap

I think your posts here are quality

Question: is it acceptable for owners of EV’s to post pictures of their trunk on Motor Mondays, but only so long as they make a reference to their car having a V0?

TL;DR for people who don’t want to read the article:

EV’s are losing range, likely due to increased AC usage during hot weather.

Theoretically extreme heat can cause batteries to degrade, but modern EV’s have thermal management and probably can keep their batteries cool.

Let’s be real, Fidelity isn’t devaluing Reddit because of what’s happening right now. They’re devaluating them because all social media is in a valuation tail spin right now. But Reddit didn’t seem to get that memo, and is now desperate to do anything they possibly can do to boost value before spez passes the bag to another sucker

Well, luckily for all of us, that’s his problem and his mistake to make. We can all just hang out on our unaffected instances

The Mary Poppins remake. To be honest, the movie was ok, but what really ruined it for me was the fact that a girl asked me out on a date to see the movie, then decided I wasn’t The One halfway through and just up and left

How about we meet in the middle and photoshop in pictures of hampsters running in wheels?

I think the better way to ask this question is “why do physical games not cost more than digital copies.”

Nowadays the majority of game sales are digital, which means that publishers are going to set prices so that they can sell a digital game with an optimal profit. According to this article, physical retailers cause price parity because raising the price of physical copies would cause them to not stock your game (which would of course open shelf space to other publishers). In all likelihood, physical copies will go up in price once they are only stocked by niche retailers and/or online distributors (who don’t have the shelf space issue since most folks already know what they want by the time they browse Amazon).

Nugget_in_biscuit was indeed part of this, the first lemmy in-joke in history

Reddit has clearly decided that their strength is as a Generic Social Network, with a priority on content that will appeal to as many people as possible, and be as addicting as possible. I’m a broken record about this, but this is why you see so many negative communities and posts getting promoted by their algorithm.

Lemmy has the opportunity to be something even greater - a social network that is for the users, by the users, and of the users. No profit motive. No doomscrolling. No shitty videos. Just good discussions and funny memes.

I sure hope they set that up to record regardless of whether sentry mode is enabled

It would be foolish to think that Reddit the business won’t survive this. Let’s be real, they are going to keep thriving. They’ll likely follow the pattern of facebook or twitter - it doesn’t matter if they are profitable or not, but they are going to stick around regardless.

Now, I think that there is a reasonable argument to be made that Reddit the experience is dying. Many of the large mods and content creators were users of third party apps, and a lot of those folks are going to start drifting away now that Reddit is basically telling them to eat dirt. Reddit is going to slowly shift towards lower effort content, and I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of posts start getting AI generated at some point

Instructions unclear. Will fill entire car with Duracells and then take picture

Not sure why this is diwhy. So long as you don’t care about aesthetics, this is an effective system for cooling a building without investing in central air or multiple AC units.

What I find hilarious is that Twitter is adding paid features that only go halfway - paid twitter shows less, but not no ads, and now it shows more, but not infinite, content.

Where Musk goes, apparently so will everyone else, so it’s just a matter of time before Reddit does it too