for example, certain accounts just show up everywhere and mods tell scary stories about them around a campfire roasting smores

some accounts genuinely are public figures in the fediverse

for example

FelixCress littlecow Satansmaggotycumfart etc

I’m not trying to troll, I’m genuinely curious. Thinking about deer specifically, it doesn’t seem like visual camouflage would really help much when hunting them. Deer sense predators by sensitive hearing (big ears) and smell (long snout). Their eyes are on the sides of their head, so they detect motion rather than high-resolution.

So trying to blend in with the surroundings doesn’t seem to be an advantage in this case. Assuming all this, what’s the point of clothing with camo print on it?

Apologies if this has been asked to death already and i haven't seen it. I'm also not trying to be too much of a downer but it's kind of unprecedented.

I'm wondering what you think it'll do to you personally? I think we're just getting started and haven't experienced the full shock yet. Inventories are still being burned down and even if the strait opened tomorrow no oil would flow for 8 months since you need to demine it and line up passages of tankers.

My biggest worry is over fertillizer. The strait closed right at planting season for the northern hemisphere stranding like ⅓ of the world's ammonium nitrate. Farmers in rich nations buy it in advance and have it staged for spring, so I'm unsure how the rest of the world does it or how bad that's going to be...

Not sure how else to title. So basically I currently shop in various stores for work here in a major city in the Northeast US and am seeing huge price increases when stores are re-stocking as well as going through their weekly price cycles for the last 2 weeks.

These batteries are just one example from this morning with a $20 difference, given one being on sale:

I've noticed a huge price jumps and spreads similarly in various office supplies, paper/paper products, cables and flash storage (no surprise), aluminum foil (doubled in some stores it seems), water bottles, gloves, fruit, and other things.

I haven't saw much talk on it other than basic inflation 3.8% that came out earlier today in the news. Nothing on reddit either from a basic search there so wanted to start a thread here to see if anyone else has noticed the differences. I know most people dont shop 3-4x a day so aren't as hyper aware but might see something they may want to share with the group. I've been sharing them and grabbing stuff for personal if I do spot them while out grabbing things for work so I'm pretty stocked up on what I feel might not come back down in those updated priced stores. Most the talk seems to just be about gas which I get is the most immediate expense for majority of Americans but products seem to be jumping drastically.

TLDR: Prices go up, big spread between stores, do you notice?

Every time I search something like “Why is X bad?” on reddit or other forums, the majority of comments is always people arguing the exact opposite. This has been my experience countless times over the years. Recently I started searching the opposite of what I want to know, like “Why is X good?”, and it works flawlessly.

I don't think it makes any sense to keep investing in an old language, while writing code for today.

Which make me ask, will it ever be ported/modernized?

It feels like all the joy I used to feel from being an enthusiast has been completely voided as computing has become the modern vector for fascism and surveillance. I find myself recoiling from all online spaces, even independent and open source ones that I'd loved and supported in the past.

It's been an exceptionally strange impulse to go from having an elaborate online presence to now feeling like the only acceptable way to engage with the network is to have as minimal of an online footprint as possible.

This especially hurts when it feels like an issue of skilling, where I know how to do certain tasks with computers, but have to teach myself for the first time the analogue alternatives that my parents and their parents likely already knew well.

How have you chosen to deal with it? Do you find yourself moving away from computing and the internet, despite formerly loving it as a hobby? Have you replaced things that computers used to do for you with analogue replacements?

I'm curious how other people are experiencing this.

I know someone is gonna be like: You can't build a nuke with only the information, the hard part is getting the [uranium/plutonium (or whatever its calledl]!

Thought Experiment:

Suppose in the future, humans all have an innate ability to summon nuclear bombs by doing a ritual, should instructions on how to do this ritual be legal to disseminate?

Or would you censor it for the safety of everyone? I mean, imagine everyone having a nuke that they can just summon... 👀

So... what say you, fellow fediverse user?

Should this hypothetical "summon-a-nuke" ritual be legal to teach people?

What kind of new world order? In short - own anything, be happy (including privacy, freedom of choice, freedom of thought, freedom of speech, decent work, financial freedom, and so on)

...

The Fourth Industrial Revolution: most of the intellectual work is done by AI (office work, programming, creativity, art, сontent сreation) people are left with the shittiest and lowest-paid jobs In most cases. I'm not sure about manual jobs, but it looks like companies will try to replace them too, with an AI-controlled humanoid robots.

Well, they will try to replace couriers with the help of delivery robots or drones, for example, I found one article about this: https://chicago.suntimes.com/technology/2026/03/20/chicago-food-delivery-robots-controversy

What do you think, can such a system work or will it simply collapse due to its fragility and high cost?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46761610

Like when you set it to English in ya profile Settings you get this error message: "Warning: If you deselect Undetermined, you will not see most content.".

When you post, when you make communities, that setting is everywhere and it's just confusing the hell outta me and I'm scared to select English anywhere tbh

When I had it on English, I couldn’t even see any replies and comments at all anymore. Took me like a week to figure out why! 😱

Left this post on “Select language”, but when I added these last 2 sentences with the “Edit” option, without changing anything about the language, it gave me this error “Language not allowed” and I had to switch it to “English”.

After changing the language to "English" I was unable to see it from the 2 crossposts or the profile page. Like you can only see the crossposts from the original post, but the original post is not visible from the crossposts ;)

Had to press the "X"-button next to "Undetermined" to make comments and the "English" post appear again.

How much automation would be required? What mechanisms would be required (social, economic, governmental).

I love all kinds of bread but personally my favorite is a nice seeded rye bread, and my favorite context for it is a good reuben sandwich, heavy on the kraut. We were chatting about it at work so I was curious what the lemmings think.

Samsung has great hardware, but their version of android is getting more and more bloated. And android itself is moving in a direction reminiscent of how I felt about Windows after win7.

Some 20 years ago I used Cyanogenmod on a Samsung phone, and that worked great, but it seems to no longer be active.

I see many alternatives, such as graphene, lineage, et.al... what are the pros and cons of each? For one I see that GrapheneOS only supports the pixel.

Note: I'm not 100% ready to deegoogle entirely, so if possible I would like to keep some features related to Google Play and its services.

I'd love an actual linux phone again; I bought a Neo FreeRunner early 2008, and while the tech wasn't very mature at that point, it was my daily use phone for a while.

And no, I'm not buying a fucking iPhone. Made that mistake in 2009.

Wtf even is the cure?

Doesn't have to have been in person, just has to have been hella cool.

How many days of missed sleep do you think you could hide from people?

There are plenty of headlines about AI induced psychosis, and they all tend follow a similar pattern:

•Individual with a pre-existing vulnerability begins using AI, usually it's use of AI as a conversational partner.

•Gradually they lose the ability to hold conversations with humans who aren't programmed to stroke their ego and replace human connection with AI.

•Eventually, they spiral and completely lose touch with reality. During this time they make terrible decisions that destroy their lives. Then at some point, they are forced to confront the reality of their decisions/behavior, similar to coming out of an extended splitting episode in Dissociative Identity Disorder or waking up sober from an alcohol or drug fueled binge.

Given everything we know about plasticity and human behavior, it would be silly to believe frequent use of AI isn't changing our brains. Even if the majority of users don't develop full blown psychosis, if suddenly your day is spent talking to a self affirming mirror, it's going to change your brain and behavior. It's more a question of "what/how" it's changing people than "if" it's actually changing them.

So, what are some of the more subtle changes (as compared to psychosis) you've noticed in people who frequently use AI? Have you noticed a difference even in those who don't use it as a conversational partner?

I heard that there would be a new Great Depression.

I've also heard a lot of different theories, and one of them interested me: after the bursting of the bubble, AI will not disappear anywhere, is it in vain that so many data centers were built? AI will be embedded everywhere, people won't even be able to test how it works, "it works somehow, great!" because all human workers will be fired, not at once, of course, but gradually, In a few years, about 2-7 years to be exact(depending on the industry). And because of this, AI systems will begin to get out of control, this will cause incorrect diagnoses, failures in the banking system, arresting or killing innocent people by drones, and so on.

The reason I've explained this so poorly is because, in the first place, the topic of AI and the debate around it is terribly infuriating to me, and it's obvious that the harm from AI won't be able to compensate for the little benefit it will bring. Secondly, I use a translator, so my text may seem crooked, unnatural, or silly.

I heard about Lemmy from Mental Outlaw and it caught my interest. The Reddit API situation made me finally decide to drop Reddit and make an account on lemmy.world. I haven’t turned back since.

What about you, what brought you to the Fediverse?

In life we all have unwritten rules like how far behind someone you stand while you are in line or the "nod of recognition" you give someone if you make eye contact while they are walking toward you.

There are lots of these about airplanes, famously about 3-deep-seats.

But I'm curious about the unwritten rule for the window.

To me, if you are in the window seat, unless someone specifically needs the window to be open for motion sickness or something, you are responsible for closing the window once the plane is at cruising altitude so people can sleep if they need to. If you dont do that, I find it a little grating.

Curious what other folks think.

Include a basic definition of what you consider trolling. Because people seem to deem a huge variety of things trolling. Silly comments are fine but no direct personal insults.

I see marriage as a traditional legal binding that can alter your life significantly depending on your state and country.

You might see it differently. What does marriage mean to you?