Funnily enough, I saw this meme earlier, and thought it was an AI rendering of the world’s fastest manhole cover. Then I scrolled Lemmy, and here I am.

I’ve noticed that too. I have a lurker account but I’ve been largely out of touch with Reddit since 2014 or so.

Is there a new influx of Reddit users? If so, why?

Swamp ass? Fine. It’s when it turns into full on monkey butt, where the salt crystals from your own ass sweat chafe your ass as you walk, that you need to fear

How do they identify a particular person though? I get you could see people as present or not or moving around the room, but it’s insane that they would be able to tell facial features etc.

Welcome, friend.

The meme communities are great.

!memes@lemmy.world

!lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

!roughromanmemes@piefed.social

[!historymemes@piefed.social

No problem. Us dirt (and rock) nerds need to stick together.

10/10 username btw

This is called pedastalling. It’s also what happens when hoodoos form, just on a larger scale.

We watch for this as an erosion indicator in environmental assessments

Just a skiff

This isn’t reddit; we don’t have a host of frothing-at-the-mouth pendants. You don’t have to label stuff for the most part.

The only real no-no people will jump down your throat about is posting AI stuff (unintentionally or not).

I’m with the other commentator - you sound young. Nothing wrong with that, but our brains don’t fully form until 27.

When I turned 27, the pop of me pulling my head out of my ass was heard by rural farmers in India. I’m now 40, and I wish I knew now what I knew then, so badly.

This is a very long winded way to say, don’t paint yourself into a corner with dislike of formal education. Figure out what it’s about it that you don’t like and work to find a way to address or at least cope with it. Online courses are fine to learn things but they aren’t widely recognized by employers, should you wish to work.

One of the things I learned and pass on to my mentees is that it’s often the experience we don’t like that’s the most valuable. That doesn’t mean suffer unnecessarily, but if you are in a tough spot learn what you can from it. In my case, I hated working with contactors, but that work is what got me a much better job where I’m home all the time.

Think about the best version of yourself and what that looks like. What are the major goals you need to meet to get there? What are those goals broken down into? How do you know if you met your smaller goals? Your objective (best version) is met though sequential steps and measurable progress

I like the moss effect on the tree ;)

I thought your UN looked familiar.

I left for the same reasons. Their native app is shit. They got bought out and took private. I have a dental problem with authority - back me into a corner by taking away my choices and you get brick.

I used to reddit a lot in 2011-2013 but set it down then just lurked periodically. I found out where everyone else was going and here I am. A bit of a learning curve to get set up but now I’m happy and this place feels like reddit (but friendlier) before it started sucking

The Doge days are over
The doge days are done
The FBI is coming
So you OUU oo out better run.

out of all the comments in this thread, yours is probably the best thought out. I’ll admit, I’m very much in line with OP, in that the more someone hypes something up, the less I want to do with it. I get increasingly skeptical, and that gets seriously compounded when I see C-suites give nebulous answers on how things will improve with a new invention.

I think it’ll find its niche, but right now, the fucking thing can barely do math, and is at best, a learned pig. There’s really big barriers to making AI actually useful, such as the scalability and energy/water requirements. Until we can get elegant coding and inputs, we’re going to struggle.

I think your admin can appoint you

I also got a microscope around this age - now I’m an environmental scientist

Another good one would be an easier STEMmy puzzle. I had one that was a bunch of shapes that had to fit together into its small case. Kinda of Tetris like.

IIRC weren’t you a power user or whatever too? Been a loooong time since I was on reddit

Christ, that’s a hell of an instance name.