1991 Ford S10 pickup, on the farm, when I was 8 years old. I only crashed it on the farm once – in first gear, stopped. Took foot off clutch and lurched forward into the wall in front of me. In my defense, I hadn’t been instructed on how to turn it off yet ;)

Hypothetically: Lemmy instances where every user has to have physically met an admin and proved that they’re real or something. And they’ll only federate to other instances following the same rules.

It’ll almost be like the early 90s dialup BBS small communities, with FIDOnet ;)

The end of the anonymous web is nigh. We may not like it, but it’s probably the only way. We used to joke in the 90s about requiring an internet driver’s license before allowing people on Usenet. It might actually be happening.

Justifying. Basically you already have a behaviour in mind, but you need an excuse to execute on that behaviour.

It can also be retroactive. You can create an excuse for your behaviour after you’ve already done something – retroactive justification.

Went to a strip club once and the stripper was handing out fake $69 bills with her image on it and a link to her OnlyFans…

Definitely not in ziplock bags hidden in the nearest forest to the school, put there by your older brother…

You might need help. If you’re unwilling to seek help, then at least learn to code and, you know, read the code.

The game engine that Paradox uses in their games is named after him. For reasons

This variant on the forkbomb brought to you by Google.

Do you have a program to help you count sheep to fall asleep? Asking for a friend

Fair, but you can still post about it in the more general cars communities, no?

Even Reddit didn’t start with all these specialized subs. It started without subs at all, actually. And then the big general subs were born, and only later the niche subs were born because the signal to noise ratio in the big ones got too bad. Post your content here in the general communities until the signal to noise ratio warrants a dedicated offshoot.

This advice generalizes. There aren’t enough fans of each sports team here yet to have team specific communities, but there are enough fans of each sport to have general communities for that sport. Branch later.

“space music” – I played Mass Effect 1 long ago and got hooked on the idea of musicians trying (and often failing) to make music for futuristic settings. This is like Star Trek episodes that reference classical music but some person has to predict what classical music will sound like in 2300. So they go with with future retro stuff and it just tickles me. So I seek out these sorts of experimental musical pre-trend predictions cause they’re often hilarious.

There are dedicated communities on Lemmy to these things – and they’re pretty quiet. Post new content there and engage in conversations and be the change you want to see.

I think it is a common high school shop class project. Or similar.

It’s interesting that it is smooth specifically in the x direction, but the y direction has more abrupt changes.

We have data at 5m resolution for free, or better. Source: am geoscientist

This is a weird presentation. Was someone trying to make a minecraft mod or something?

Saw (or rather heard) a few at a football game recently. They’re still here, but at least it isn’t a stadium full.

Instead we use cowbells like God and nature intended ;)

That truly is beautific

Nice perspective.

What would you consider to be a contribution of value? Posting? Comments? Moderating? Installing a server rack in your closer for nightly backups? What would you suggest a minimum contribution for continued use should be?