We’ve just run out of superlatives. Unfortunately we seem to have a society always looking for the extremes and craziest behaviors to the point we have a churn of “new words” like brainrot with everyone desperate to coin the next “fetch” and trying to make it happen. So stacking hyperbole on superlative on brainrot is what we get.

Yeah.

I “blame” popular neighborhoods. Used to be you went around your neighborhood or went with a friend in town if you were more rural or something.

Now there are “it” neighborhoods or even small towns that seem to attract large groups, it’s almost like a block party. Tons of people arrive, there’s wild and extreme halloween decorations, effort gets put into costumes, and sometimes even full-size candy bars. My kids started going to popular areas with friends, one friend lives in a neighborhood like that so everyone uses his house as a starting point. It’s cool, but unfortunately large gatherings tend to bring assholes, too, and now there’s a cop nearby on standby because some people have to be dipshits and start being destructive or try to start fights.

We barely handed out one bag of candy in our neighborhood, last year we went through two big ones.

My heroes? The instance operators and good mods, of course, along with everyone who contributes material.

Plus there’s more community when dealing with issues, such as problem instances and users. The fediverse doesn’t have the “old internet” feel, it’s still more restrained than that thanks to instance owners probably not wanting to host a lot of darker material thanks to the instances being under private ownership, but it feels more free than a place like reddit.

But what % of overall traffic do these bots make up?

“We don’t want to go through the trouble of trying to verify who the legit owner is even of we think it’s you.”

The republicans took every shitty thing they said they hated about other countries like Russia, China and even North Korea and made those things goals.

Good luck.

Y’know, I’ve been hearing that drumbeat for well over a decade. News doesn’t sell if it isn’t bad. Eventually the Boys Crying Wolf will be right, but it certainly won’t be because of their prognosticating accuracy. The market has long stopped making sense.

You cannot know what the market will do, and if you can figure it out, it’s already too late. If you want to assume the parent comment will actually lose money because they didn’t put stops in place or whatever, fine. My comment is still correct: If you sell above purchase price + fees and gains taxes, you don’t “lose” money. The rest is just making stuff up.

Hang on… unless it tanks below his/her entry price they aren’t losing anything. Just gains that were missed by the drop in value, but selling at any time before that point will make them money (above any brokerage/trade fees).

They’d grab anyone’s house just like they grabbed the Capitol on Jan 6.

It’s a purchase of No DEI, not a donation.

Are these re-used lids?

So you’re saying the 80.lv “team” are AI generated? Wouldn’t that be ironic…AI making shit up about AI.

Dinosaur? None really. But I really like the explosion of life in the Cambrian (give or take a little) period was like nature trying out all kinds of absolutely crazy shit just to see what worked. I really like just checking out the era, truly alien and bizarre. So no favorite dinosaur, but definitely an era.

He needs? Go pick yourself up by your bootstraps. Somehow I don’t think he means $1T of his own money.

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It’s a little less about reading what you’re saying or looking at on your phone, it’s mostly about tracking where your phone goes and figuring out who you are that way.

Probably removed by the respective app stores under pressure from law enforcement agencies. A lot of free “snoop” or network detection apps have been removed or paywalled.

AI is also putting pressure on the ability to have multiple, independent sources by diverting traffic away from those sites. Just like reddit kills independent phpbb boards, AI will (and is) killing critical thought.