Personally, if I'm here I'm in the mood to read and almost never to watch a video. What about you?

Howdy, my Lemming fellas!

So... How do I read Homestuck?

I've heard of MSPaint Adventures but, I don't know how to start reading it.

I also know that there's Let's Reads on it, but I'm not sure whether I should watch those or read it myself?

It also seems to have a lot of references, would I have to read about those first too?

Thanks in advance!

It seems to be a vial of some kind factory made with glue on the side holding a dark brow almost red liquid it doessend seem to be oil and it has surface tention im planning to turn it in by the firefighters but id like to know what it is

It seems to be a vial of some kind factory made with glue on the side holding a dark brow almost red liquid it doessend seem to be oil and it has surface tention im planning to turn it in by the firefighters but id like to know what it is

As a Canadian I have only ever eaten A&W so I curious what other people prefer.

And was it worth it?

I’ve had an Apple Music subscription for years and use it A LOT. I tried some alternatives (Tidal, Sirius, and maybe one other?) and wasn’t super happy with the options.

Is there a service that people recommend that is good, like $10/month or less, maybe gives better pay to artists? I’d like to spend on a better company if possible too. If Apple has enough money to buy gold trinkets for elected officials they probably don’t need more from me.

Im a tech guy. In the last week, I have received 4 cold calls about new positions and a couple more emails. This month ive seen more anecdotal hiring going on in my friend group. Is there something going on? I'm not looking, haven't updated my linkedin in years etc...etc...

For the past year, hiring in software development has been dismal and all of a sudden im seeing a huge spike.

Anyone else seeing this or am I just cherry picking?

The current whack-a-mole spam user that I keep having to block due to spamming awful AI imagery in many places is Owbid Catob. Is there any way that admins of communities can block this person's IP addresses so that they have a harder time posting anything? I will keep blocking the new accounts as they pop up, but I'm getting so tired of this spammer.

I plan on traveling to Spain and southern France by End of September/ Beginning of October and was just wondering how you guys are doing over there.

Edit: Of course I am concerned about the French aswell, forgot to ask about you too, since im primarily going to be in spain.

We had the rage-bait dating app nightmares, so what about your best stories from dating, both online and offline? I want all the gossip, everything from cute to hilarious, please!

This thought has been weighing on me for the past few weeks. I am not religious, and my knowledge of the bible is embarrassingly lacking, even for an atheist. So I don't know if any of what I'm gonna say is new, or if it's been done to death a thousand years ago.

So, here goes. In the story of the garden of Eden and Adam and Eve, God created the humans, and told them clear limitations for what they're allowed to do. Namely: don't eat from the tree of knowledge. But of course, it didn't take too long until that one rule was broken.

Fast forward to the 2020s. Humans created AI, and in many cases configured it as an agent with certain instructions and certain limitations, often communicated with just words, e.g. don't make any changes to the live database, don't git push, or what have you. And of course, in so many reported cases, it did eventually do exactly the forbidden action, just like Adam and Eve.

I think the parallels are obvious: we can interpret the biblical story as a parable, where God stands for us, the users, and Adam and Eve stand for the AI agents. The lesson is clear, that even if you are a "superior being", the rules you set WILL be broken if you don't make actual robust safeguards against it.

My question is: has anyone thought of this before about the bible? Not just in the context of AI, but in general taking the stories of the bible and interpreting God as the stand-in for us? I mean, surely someone has, but is there an established school of thought based on it?

Would this kind of thing be considered blasphemy? (I'm sure some religious people would certainly think so)

How can you give up the comforts, the ability to find someone who understands your tastes perfectly, even if they're very niche and you always have something to talk about what you like, the ability to find the perfect partner, the perfect content to consume, and so on?

Six months ago, I tried to get rid of social media, but something got the better of me again, I was lonely and bored, also after looking in detail at what is happening in the world, I wanted to stick my head in the sand, and I came back, I was scrolling through the Reddit feed again, liking, trying to connect with people, creating discussions about something. You can even notice from the style of the text in this post that there is something wrong with me. I'm a little degraded, and so pathetic.

And I mean actively post on it, not just browsing it for info and guides and such.

For me personally there's a handfull (namely two) small subs that are just too niche to gain any reasonable traction on Lemmy (yet).

I think it would be depressing to have someone watch me die, for me and for them. I would hope that no one needs to watch that.

I'm a guy who has been dating a woman for several months. She is self-employed and I swear about 20% of our conversations is her explaining all the things she has to do every day that may prevent her from being able to commit to seeing me. She swears she just got backed up on things and she'll become more available, but I see her inventory continuing to grow, not shrink. She is also constantly supervising people on a variety of house projects (mutual disinterest in me getting involved there).

So I decided to ask the internet (DuckDuckGo (DDG) specifically): Am I dating a workaholic? What I found surprised me. I imagined I'd find a bunch of stupid little Cosmo-style quizzes, with the understanding that the reader would find out they were dating an workaholic and leave the relationship. Instead what I found was article after article after article with titles like,

• How to Date a Workaholic: 8 Steps (with Pictures)
• Dating a Workaholic (13 Tips to Make It Work)
• 12 Tips to Cope when Dating a Workaholic

The internet is assuming I WANT to date a workaholic.

Contrast that with results to the question Am I dating someone emotionally unavailable? DDG more straightforwardly answer the question ("17 Signs Someone is Emotionally Unavailable") with a sprinkling of advice for how to cope.

I see workaholism as basically identical to emotional unavailability, but obviously it's treated differently by society (maybe because it comes with money and home repairs?). So what is going on? Would you date a workaholic?

I recently acquired one thinking it was going to be a cool and useful feature, and the only time I think to use it is when I brush away a loose cat hair and my cursor goes all over the place. And the tablet mode, I think I used it once as a novelty.

Mine: Once had a meeting with a guy that wanted to be a Starlink distributor in a developing country. His first time in country, had just arrived like 24 hours before. Knew nothing and no one. No idea why he wanted to talk to me, but, whatever...

Wanted to have his "business partner" in on the meeting, and called some douche that talked for 5 solid minutes about how he could see the Cape Kennedy launch tower from his window and whatever else about how amazing he was and so tied in to Elon and all this BS. Called long distance on a real phone line to the States. Not WhatsApp, not even a VOIP or Wifi calling call. I watched him dial +1.... he had a local SIM.

Turns out neither of them even knew which ministry they would need to start with to get a permit for satellite internet service. They just wanted to sell dishies in country and had no idea how to even start a business locally. Didn't look at a single thing online before coming out. They didn't even know about local content policies that effectively meant they needed a local business to sponsor them. I sat and searched online with the guy and showed him everything they needed to see, which was on 1 website.

This was before COVID, and the country only got Starlink 2 years ago.

Cross posted from https://thelemmy.club/post/53338181