In a 2020 post, Lemmy's co-creator Dessalines wrote about the origin of the name Lemmy. "It was nameless for a long time, but I wanted to keep with the fediverse tradition of naming projects after animals. I was playing that old-school game Lemmings, and Lemmy (from Motorhead) had passed away that week, and we held a few polls for names, and I went with that.

From Wikipedia.

On that note I am noticing with growing concern the big push to transition to and rely on technology that is nowhere close to the level of reliability that is being presented. I am not a Luddite in any way but pushing apps everywhere with little regard for functionality and privacy, as well as endless "do you have an app for this?" questions are unnerving. Same with AI.

Great, now do Clarence Thomas and his wife

I wish they were just as outraged about Clarence Thomas and his wife.

One of the things Durov lost since becoming a visionary is the ability to wear a shirt.

Temu is absolute cancer in terms of business practices so no surprise here at all.

I like the most recent The Verge variant: Twitter, X, or whatever it’s currently called...

People who have headhunters lining at the door do not want to be office slaves? Unbelievable.

Growing donor organs from patient's own cells. So many people die because their bodies reject the transplants.

So, do something about it?

"Hours later, Linda Yaccarino, X’s chief executive, tried to mitigate the damage. In a post on X, she shifted attention to Mr. Musk’s apology for associating himself with antisemitism and appealed to advertisers to return.

“X is enabling an information independence that is uncomfortable for some people,” Ms. Yaccarino wrote. “X is standing at a unique and amazing intersection of Free Speech and Main Street — and the X community is powerful and here to welcome you.”

It's called information independence y'all, look it up. Kinda like alternative facts but better.

Legacy media wants to be the kingmakers, aka "you cannot deliver your message without us, we have to shape the narrative". She's communicating directly to her voters and it's pissing them off. And then, whenever they get a chance to ask her something it's always some inane shit like "why do you think Trump says you're not black" and not a single actual policy question.

Man you wouldn't believe...

Who?

If you didn't mean it you shouldn't have lied about it in the first place. What kind of deranged asshat would make up stories like that.

It makes me sad in ways I cannot put into words but I'm happy to witness such an amazing achievement of science and determination.

I was born in USSR and it collapsed when I was seven so my memories of it were at the very end when things were tough and scarce. I remember school books that were still about Lenin and Stalin, and we would write essays about Labor day parades and red hammer-and-sickle flags during our English classes, it sounded funny even for us first graders.

Yet, whatever little was available was cheap, we would have deficit problems but not financial ones unless you were trying to buy something that was smuggled into the country, like jeans.

We would take flights to Kazakhstan where my grandma lived, no borders no visas obviously. They lived on their own land there and were much better off in terms of food availability (Google USSR deficit to see what stores looked like).

Then we reached the point when food stamps had to be distributed and it was outright scary. I remember standing by our front door crying, because my mom gave me a bread stamp and sent me to get some bread, and I lost the stamp on the way and couldn't bring myself to go back home. Eventually I was absent long enough for her to start worrying and she opened the door to go out and found me there sobbing.

No, it's common practice now, not just for those who has been imprisoned for years but for fresh convicts too - they are offered draft instead of imprisonment right after conviction.

When I had my first job as a receptionist, our fax still printed on thermal paper rolls and we had a particularly bright customer fax us a 50 page contract. I was almost in tears as I watched a newly replaced very expensive roll getting wasted in minutes. I called my supervisor to vent and he walked to my desk with a sharpie, wrote IMCOMPLETE across the roll and said "fax it back to them". They were calling us back in less than a minute screeching on the phone to stop transmission.