I’m not a very tech savvy person, so forgive me if this is a dumb question. But does that mean that each instance of Lemmy is personally paid for by whoever owns it? How can that be sustainable?

You know what I have enjoyed about Lemmy? Compared to Reddit, I get fewer replies if I make a comment, and fewer upvotes. Yet the comments I do get are generally more interesting and more likely to be human. As I’ve grown more accustomed to Lemmy, I’ve begun to wonder what percentage of Reddit interactions were bots.

However, I’d love to see this grow some more. The large communities are taking off, but I will still use Reddit for more niche subjects (area-specific gardening, following a local sports team) because they haven’t taken off on Lemmy yet and I’d be talking to myself. And that means that you are useful, because a community needs members to thrive.

Took this photo just at the moment the bananaquit decided to fly off, which gave a neat view of its feathers

40% of their crazies is 120M, compared to our total population of 40M (and let’s assume about 2-4M of ours are Maple MAGAs.

Even if they have 180M who would see our side of things, that group has had enough trouble within their own borders, so we can’t rely on them to solve our problems.

There are T-Rex skeletons in Drumheller. According to Jurassic Park, if we mix their DNA with that of an amphibian, it’s a sure shot

From Canada, this sounds especially ominous. We don’t have enough of a human population to fend off 300M Americans, so I think we need to focus our efforts on grizzly bear and wolf breeding programs.

Definitely not China specific. At minimum, let’s add my Indian parents to the list

If you scoured the world for the most punchable face, you’d surely come up with Sam Altman

Well, you see, it works like money. You go over budget and plan to pay later. Then, when you go beyond what you expected to borrow, you change the debt ceiling and borrow more. And then when you are beyond your ability to pay off the debt, you change the rules such that you can take a few extra decades. Keep doing this until you have kicked the can down the road beyond your anticipated lifespan. And then your grandchildren can just get fucked for all you care.

I suppose you’re right, which is odd to me as the phrase “ChatGPT says…” automatically makes me question the validity of the information

I’m flabbergasted that they admit that ChatGPT said it, rather than copy-pasting it and pretending it’s their own work and hoping you don’t read it closely.

Even plagiarism has become lazy these days. At least do me the respect of concocting a lie.

I’ll just sit in the back and give you some space

Thus we can only assume that you are a giraffe or an okapi.

But shipping doesn’t eliminate the truck driving from the harbour to the grocery store - that’s still needed. It just also adds a ship.

I think many people call themselves apolitical that more accurately should fall into the apathetic/ignorant category.

Truly apolitical people are pretty uncommon - although you may not side with a particular party consistently, it’s hard to keep informed of facts and events without forming any opinion

Potatoes get a bad name, but they are full of potassium, vitamin C, and fibre.

The number of touch screen clicks I need to turn my windshield wipers on is just plain dangerous.

I’m old enough to remember a time when windows were rolled up by hand. It wasn’t perfect, but you never had to turn your car on again to deal with a window forgotten open.

Well, it’s very simple, don’t you see? When he makes money, it’s not addiction When he makes no money, it’s addiction

It can be hard to pay for online goods with Interac, unfortunately. I’d love to see it become more widely available on e-commerce sites

Everything’s coming up corpse plants