The explanation page doesn’t have anything yet, but this feels like it has references to the Futurama episodes “The Late Philip J. Fry” and “Lethal Inspection”, with just a hint of Slartibartfast from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

[EDIT: After making this comment, I noticed that those two Futurama episodes happen to be back-to-back with each other. xkcd must be in the middle of watching the series]

Maybe they got to the dump and there was a big sign and chain across the dump saying “Closed on Thanksgiving” and they had never heard of a dump closed on Thanksgiving before and with tears in their eyes they drove off into the sunset looking for another place to put the garbage. They didn’t find one. ‘Til they came to a side road and off the side of the side road there was another fifteen foot cliff and at the bottom of the cliff was another pile of garbage. And they decided that one big pile is better than two little piles and rather than bring that one up they decided to throw theirs down.

I would think the underground ones that host content which is horribly abusive and illegal (in ways beyond merely piracy)

Yeah, with the asterisk in the title and the discussion about it, I would think that this was the marketing plan from the start. The movie’s performance may have affected when exactly they decided to pull the trigger on the rebrand though.

I am playing GTA V and have just swapped players to Trevor and I will continue playing as such

Andor

Keep showering. The Lord will provide a towel when it is time to leave.

Cool discovery.

This post is a good resource for other Lemmy formatting tips and tricks.

I recently discovered that Lemmy’s desktop site shortens groups of more than 3 exclamation points and groups of more than 3 question marks in a row down to only 3, and that pairs of periods will be rounded up into an ellipses.

I’d like to see a community to help document all of the obscure formatting tricks and quirks for Lemmy.

Edit: You can apparently circumvent Markdown formatting by putting a backslash \ in front of the command to format. For example, if you wanted to start a line with the greater than symbol >, you can put the backslash \ in front of the greater than sign > to prevent the text from being formatted as a quote

It would be fitting that his hand would be stuck upright in that “awkward hand gesture”

They don’t respect their audience

Edit: but also in your case, you either lack the ability to scrutinize and critically examine media enough to reasonably parse AI from actual photographs or humanmade images, or you’re trolling.

I would assume so? The material would get hot through solar radiation and probably not radiate much heat off itself while receiving radiation. There’s no fluid medium in space for convection, so conduction would be the main mode of heat transfer for a person.

Disclaimer: I am not a space craft scientist and my info is from just a web search and my memory of formal education sciences

The outside of a space station in sunlight (~121° C or ~250° F)

Google showed no results for the comment in quotes. DuckDuckGo showed no results for the comment in quotes. Bing showed one result for the comment in quotes…. and it was a self-described incel forum; a post/comment on this forum said the comment came from this YouTube video which is no longer viewable because the account has been terminated. https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y3pdwcE534c

EDIT: Wayback Machine has an archive for this link and one of the snapshots does indeed resemble your screenshot. The video’s name was “Burger Andy gets left behind” by LivestreamFails.

In general, Reddit has made the move that all big name old social media have made (except maybe like Snapchat? I can’t think of any other exceptions) and kowtowed to corporate advertiser money, rightwing misinformation and bigotry, and the egos of oligarchs such as Elon Musk. This is essentially done to make the fat cats in the corporation richer.

I was able to find your deleted Reddit post [EDIT: understanding now that you were referring to posts across multiple subs]. My best good faith guess [for r/frangrance] is that the mods may have considered it to be within the scope of the “No medical advice or health questions” sub rule? Navigating to even find the sub rules was difficult since the mods have attached them via a link that immediately redirects to an account sign-up page. My workaround to even read the rules was to copy the link and change the “www” to “old” and it worked.

[EDIT, continued: For r/zerowaste, the only good faith issue I can see — and it’s a stretch — is the verb tense of “[Crafting] Posts must be something that you have made yourself.” Since you haven’t yet made the fragrance in full, maybe they don’t allow WIPs or for others to help with WIPs?

I don’t see anything with r/sustainability’s rules that would apply. They do have a “No Surveys” rule but there are other posts that do solicit input and advice, so that apparently doesn’t apply to your post.]

You might find Lemmings who are happy to help with your fragrance situation on any of these communities:

https://lemmy.world/c/askscience

https://lemmy.world/c/science

https://aussie.zone/c/environment

https://mander.xyz/c/science

This post title reads like a rhyme

or you might prefer this version instead

I also came across this interesting series of Picassos while finding reference images

This is so much better. Thank you for spending the roughly 5 minutes to make this that OP should have spent instead of barfing out some soulless junk.

The spam DMs are real, but I think the “reposts” are scuttlebutt based on people not understanding the screenshots of the DMs that they’ve seen in their feed

I think that is the general consensus — that she is likely an unwitting victim

Repost bots? Do you have an example, either by way of link or screenshot?