Just think of all the great things you're going to learn about emergency boot recovery!

From reading the penny arcade blog about it and watching the trailer, it seems to be an arthouse movie that just happens to be made by the most famous people on earth. You might love it or hate it but most people just won't get it either way

You can hear him screaming "I'M NOT OWNED! I'M NOT OWNED!!!!" right through the internet

Competition is good! Unless it makes shareholders sad.

The private for profit health insurance industry - because what could make number go up better than a (LEGALLY MANDATED) do nothing middle man who's only purpose is to take your money and ensure as little as possible is spent on healthcare sitting between you and not dying?

9.0, would have been a 9.5 if Shadow had a gun

Reading more of these comments it's clear we need to invest heavily in biking and transit infrastructure so taking away some idiots drivers license doesn't damn them to poverty

These sound right to me, especially Dying Earth - a podcast I listen to covered Gene Wolf's Book of the New Sun trilogy and they described it as such. Wikipedia calls it Science Fantasy. Great books by the way

A federation superhighway, if you will

Just like the old world internet, whoever owns (or rents) the server and pays for the connection pays for it. The frontpage has a "Donations" section that lists an OpenCollective link and a Patreon link if you want to send money to the operator. It's https://opencollective.com/mastodonworld which sounds like they also run a Mastodon instance.

I don't know the traffic questions, hopefully someone that does comes by or looks it up. It probably varies a lot. You could run your own private instance that would go out and fetch the content you subscribed to but no one else could join. Your comments would go out to the federated instances to be shared if you so choose.

There is no central place. As I understand it if Lemmy.world or Beehaw is destroyed permanently, all those users and and the content is gone but every other instance that shared those communities (the common ones, like this) they will still exist just without the content coming from the disappeared instances.

I'll look around for an explainer vid because now I'm curious, I doubt most of my guesses are right

Havin' fun isn't hard when you have a library card

An issue I see locally is they can't just paint a circle on the road with a couple signs. It always has to be a million dollar project widening out the curbs, building up a huge curb in the middle, putting a big goddamn planter in the middle, then sprinkle signs liberally until it's unreadable.

Not an idiom, but a slogan for a sugary children's cereal Trix.

I saw the wall of text, skipped to the punchline, and rolled my eyes glad I saved myself a couple minutes

lot of that going around I guess

Yeah, but does their government convert 1.5 trillion dollars a year in public monies and national debt into defense industry and health insurance industry profits, providing incredible value for shareholders?!

Checkmate, communists

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Sort of like pheromones.

Getting mysteriously horny during the test drive

Better yet getting mysteriously aggressive smelling a rival and wanting to fight the car.

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I try not to do it often but it always feels good to go triple digits every now and then

No idea there was such a thing as an affordable fountain pen. I had assumed they were only hand crafted and $100usd minimums. Are they closer to gel pens for feel and ink or a completely different animal to write with?