This was an indigenous community that believes that eating these turtles grants long life and health. They don’t recognize the endangered status at all, and aren’t equipped to detect the threat of toxic algae contamination. In many cases, the victims of these incidents are children, who are fed turtle meat for its proported benefits.

Think carefully about publicly celebrating these people’s deaths.

A dollar’s worth of Asian street food every day. From a place like Vietnam, a dollar goes a long way. I could turn that into an amazing lunch every day.

Hey, maybe the Department of Education just never had anyone in charge with professional wrestling experience. Maybe that’s the change we’ve needed. /s

ATProto Federation is hypothetical at best. Bluesky remains centralized for all intents and purposes.

Founders are all cryptocurrency dorks. The CEO got her start in selling shitcoins and peddling AI slop. Not a lot of confidence in their ability to lead a successful social media company.

It’s a for-profit company, and so far their actual profit-generating function has yet to be determined. Maybe it’s ads. Maybe it’s subscription fees. Maybe they just end up selling all your data off to their 1,000+ data broker partners. Nobody knows yet, but it isn’t going to remain free and open permanently.

ActivityPub is already fully federated with dozens of different services, and thousands of different instances. Every instance has its own leadership, and most are run by generous sysadmins, donations, and volunteers. It can’t make top-down decisions, it can’t go out of business, and it can’t be bought.

Eh, depending on what you like to program, C, C++, and Rust are often the only languages that will let you do certain things.

If your specialty can’t be done efficiently or effectively with other higher level languages, then you would be justified in thinking of those languages as BS.

Just as a data scientist who specializes in quickly sorting and comparing data with Python or R would consider C, C++, and Rust to be awful tools for the job.

Uh, Shared GPU memory absolutely exists on Linux. Mind you this only exists (regardless of OS) when you have a shitty integrated GPU with no dedicated VRAM, but I am not sure why you think this only exists for Windows (or some other non-Linux OS, you did not specify).

That’s 1.7 quadrillion dongs.

‘5’ does come before ‘M’.

Every seat on a train should have this.

Steroids usually decrease libido, so I doubt they would tell you otherwise, and if they did, they would be talking testosterone esters, and not a natural steroid hormone.

One industry can be hiring while another lays off.

The vote was for NATO to demand that the conflict come to an end by September 2025. It is an advisory vote, NATO has no authority.

As you can see, the vote succeeded. NATO’s position is to the conflict to end.

Now the protesters want Canada to pull out of NATO because what? NATO agrees with them?

I see no need to go back over history constantly bringing this shit up.

Bringing what up? The truth?

You might as well say that you don’t see a need to even observe history if you take issue with people discussing the verifiable fact that Newton’s wealth came from slavery.

If anything, it sounds like you might have a vested interest in downplaying information like this. I would be curious to see where your family’s wealth came from.

Bold of you to assume that conservatives are capable of thought.

We kinda do. Trump nearly had Pence hanged by a lynch mob.

When the cost of going forward exceeds the cost of stopping now. No consideration of past costs to get where you are. No sunken cost falacy.

Sometimes you have to accept failure and move on from something. You should never give up on yourself, but sometimes you do need to accept your own limitations and reconsider your projects, hobbies, relationships, and career decisions and accept when you’re on a losing trajectory.

Gracefully giving up when you know you’re on the path to failure is the best way to move on to the next thing that you might have a chance of succeeding at.

You have fallen for the ultimate trick: wanting a “big” community.

You only get that from big, centralized social networks that want to maximize the amount of content you are fed, because it maximizes your ad views, and their profits.

Embrace the smallness. Lemmy still has room to grow, and having lot of different options for communication that aren’t all owned by billionaires is a good thing. The fact that it isn’t constantly trying to earn your attention is a feature, not a bug.

Literally anything. See something you like at the store? Take it. Just walk out the front door with it. It’s yours now.

I really don’t care about either of these men, but they seem like they’re having fun and nobody that matters seems to care that he wore a bald cap instead of shaving his head. In fact, it kinda seems like that’s the joke…

Clearly not. They don’t even clarify which SSB they played, or on what console.