I suppose people complained? Or it’s the substitution of fat for some god awful synth version.

I find Haagan Dazs stays pretty solid. Ben and Jerry’s too. But even then, it’s only just.

Carte d’Or and all its kin I find the same as you, so soft as to be no longer ‘ice’ cream, but rather some sort of sickly sweet whipped soup.

They’re often just sequential words in the alphabet. The next one could be Flapjack, Fortress, Foghorn whatever…

I have worked for financial institutions that have variations of the last one. If I saw it I wouldn’t even blink. Semi realistic reasons might be:

Status attribute - because the project is using the base library of [project whatever] which was the brain child of eNtErPrIsE aRcHiTeCt whose hands on skills are useless and the off-shore dev team who assigned [random newbie] because that’s who was available at the time. They used a status attribute because they didn’t know how to get the status of the http response. No-one with budget control is interested in hearing about technical debt at the moment

Message code: because “we need codes that won’t ever change even if the message does”

Message: because we still need to put something human readable in the log. Bonus points if this is localised to the location of the server rather than the locale of the request

I have seen it all etc

Probably one of those regional variations that would look interesting overlaid on a map…

You would say “too much mash potato” rather than “too many mash potatoes”, and the consistency is similar

Difference is with “refried beans” the countable noun is plural (“refried beanS” vs “mash potato”).

Saying “too much refried bean” sounds a bit more natural.

Given both groups have been large and vocal for a long time it’s more likely that your social media algorithm has recategorised you and you are simply being shown things you didn’t used to

Only has one “l”

Our propensity to depression is a feature of the human mind, it’s not an inevitable consequence of facts and deduction. Our ‘hardware’ was trained in an environment where mystery abounded, where our ‘clan’ was our universe and where we were immersed in social interaction daily. We are depressed to the degree that modern advances separate us from that, where we thrived. But computers don’t have any of that. Computers won’t, by default, have an amigdala which is the seat of so much emotional regulation that humans find difficult. We are literally old hardware.

Salt (Angelina Jolie)

I thought it was a pretty decent film…

Any of the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett

Knightmare! https://youtu.be/eU5pdZOA9vc?feature=shared

… 1.5/8

An above average number of MPs are landlords but they’re still a minority in the commons

Humans are apes. It’s monkeys we’re not descended from.

http://i.imgur.com/zf92o.jpg

Since I was quite young at the millennium, but old enough to totally remember it, they’ll come a day (hopefully) when I’m one of the few very old people in the world who “remembers the 20th century”. Like how there were a small number of people kicking around in the 1980s who could remember the 1800’s…

Dosbox

Am seriously considering founding a not-for-profit to provide an ad free / spam free / bot free basic community. Would cost a dollar or two a month. Chief differences to the lemmy would be one account per person via proof of identity signup (I think this would improve behaviour and discourage spam), a single authority to tackle voting abuse and other things useful to be not federated.

Aside from that revenue would cover technical staff costs + hosting and the rest could go to some good cause. There’s be no ads. No data selling. Not conflict of interest over how the platform evolves. Would be open source. Adults only.

Id keep it as basic as possible to try and capture the spirit of 90s fora. Am not even sure I’d allow inline images or vid.

Thoughts?

Should be a filter on tinder

How it is. It’s not unusual to come across replies that on the surface are passable but are ever so slightly…off. And the comment history is the same. People who make it their business to undercover bot networks regularly find groups of accounts that post automated chat-gpt type responses and seem to act in unison. Their methods vary but sometimes they all post the same low effort zero depth reaction comments as a strategy to build up karma without being spotted. The fact the platform is structured for popularity and engagement in such a way that this is worth doing (and polluting any regular discussion in the process) is entirely what’s wrong with Reddit.

E.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/TheseFuckingAccounts/comments/1176jfy/literally_these_fucking_accounts_fed_up_with_them/

Type of thing that would be found. This particular investigation sub now private but there are others