Th4tGuyII

Honestly, yeah.

For certain niches, the Fediverse is great - but it absolutely does suck for local community stuff.

Big tech platforms make those hyper-niche communities easier to set up, in exchange for all that sweet sweet data - and that won't change anytime soon.

To do that on Fediverse you'd probably have to host an instance and get people to sign up if they aren't already. Which for a techy or privacy orientated group they might actually do - but I don't picture most hobbiest groups having the technical know-how or want to do that.

Maybe one day enough of the population will become tech-savy or privacy aware that niche local community Fedi instances might actually become a thing - but that day certainly isn't today

Yeah, there's a reason many instances are defederated from Threads. It's a classic strategy, and the only way to avoid it is to not give them the foothold they want.

I do understand wanting to give people a trial of sorts without having to dive in - but personally I reckon that's the best way to do this, and its the way I did during the first Reddit Exodus (RIP kBin)

As long as you do some research to avoid the more toxic spaces, and are respectful, people here will help you figure out the rest.

If coding is easy...

Think of it like DJ'ing.

The rock bottom level of being a DJ is putting a playlist together and playing it. Anyone could do that, you've already probably done it on your phone. Maybe even grouped songs by genre or year if you're feeling fancy.

But a good DJ does more than that. They arrange the songs to give a particular vibe, they play around with the transitions to keep people in the music, they may even remix songs or their entire playlist on the fly. They're artists in their own right, making more than the sum of what went in.

... And that's the same as a programmer. Anyone can bumble their way through to writing code - but is that code anywhere close to optimal, properly annotated, maintainable?

GenAI throwing out thousands of lines of shitty code that has to be bug-fixed multiple times over by a developer is a waste of time, energy, computer parts, and money.

While I'm not surprised, I think this is yet another showing that the Jenner's really will exploit any and all good will they have for money

Ideally one would walk everywhere or take public transport, and in Europe at least a lot of people do...

But even then that's not always feasible - especially if you live in a country that has actively sabotage both those methods of transport - so making the cars they drive able to operate off of renewable energy (dependent on their source of electricity) is better than ranting like an old man and doing nothing

Trees don't actually produce that much excess oxygen at all. If I remember correctly, only about ~1/1000 molecules of O2 generated by a given tree actually ever leave its local environment. The rest gets used up by the tree itself and surrounding wildlife

Ah yeah, the old "Good Guy with the X"...

Cause we know that argument pans out so well when applied to other facets of life

Honestly mostly just the latter. Was joking that they would've maintained them so badly that none of the nukes would make it out of their silos, even if they were still capable of detonation.

While I was aware the warheads require maintainance, @impairedimperator@lemmy.zip definitely said it better than I could.

I'd say go for it, even with Putin's threat of nukes.

With how much Russia's oligarchy plundered their own war-chest over the years, to the point where they had to rely on Iran for weapons, I actually question if any of Russia's nukes actually work.

The gross bit sure, but from my understanding pissing on them would help put them out due to piss being mostly water

Don't particularly care, except for that she is essentially just promoting anorexia to her fanbase of young girls who don't know better, which is pretty fucked up because Ariana should know better.