All status symbols are cringe. Change my mind.

Just FYI for anyone who needs to read this: it doesn’t matter how fucking wealthy you are, ranking yourself with a watch is cringe and idiotic. Don’t be a fucking sheep if you are poor. Don’t be a fucking sheep if you are rich.

I’m not really sure I’d call the Atlantic a “corporate news sewer” tbh.

A brand new rider makes around 50w off the couch. 100-200w functional threshold power is normal for someone who rides casually but regularly. Pro racers are doing like 5 w/kg so around 300w for a smallish person.

My ex wife left various toys and accessories when we got divorced and there were definitely a few tinder dates who seemed into the idea of “general admission” toys. Maybe not something to bring up on the first date but it’s usually pretty obvious what kind of partner is going to be open to that kind of thing after a couple encounters.

Pretty sure they already did. Turning it into a right wing boomer platform is going to chase all the kids away and with it whatever broader cultural relevance it might have had.

I actually unplugged the TVs in the gym

Gaza: fucked.

Immigrants: fucked.

LGBT: fucked.

Democracy: fucked to death.

Totally real internet “leftists”: совершенство

As if you need any additional evidence how .ml and their spinoffs are funded

Unfortunately, Lemmy demonstrates pretty clearly that decentralized systems are just as vulnerable to propaganda and brain rot.

The solution here is distributed trust by proxy. You start with a single exchange between two trusted peers, and build from there. As long as every individual link within the network is trusted, then any route between two disconnected endpoints can be trusted as well. As the network grows there is a very high statistical likelihood that there will exist many individual trust graphs between two nodes, which provides redundant validation.

I have always thought this would make a cool chat app. You enter the network by scanning someone’s QR code to become their validated peer, and then you can theoretically communicate with anyone else on the network by exchanging keys via trust graphs. You could then build a social network on top of it which shows you how many hops it takes you to get to some celebrity or some shit.

That Mark Zuckerberg holds several records for most fists shoved inside a human body at once

It’s pretty obvious that .ml runs a custom version of the code because they are engaged in all parts of sketchy shit

They may take our lives.

But they will never take our brain rot.

Yeah this shit is wild I don’t remember ever wanting to join a millennial community and I’ve never really heard anyone talk about it.

There’s no way GenZ can possibly be this stupid, right?

Yes the American government tried to ban a book I can get for $6 on Amazon Prime. Why do people believe these things?

Bend over and I’ll show you

In a real coffee shop you’d get a fixed amount of espresso and milk. A proper latte doesn’t just add milk to fill the cup, and “no ice” isn’t some hack to get an extra shot.

Automated espresso machines are becoming the norm all over the world tbh.