When I was young and that video was new, one weekend I went to hang out with a bunch of friends. They were all quoting it and I hadn’t seen it. I was real worried about Al’s butt until someone showed me the video.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's your favorite non-bloated video call app right now?
2·2 days agoDoes signal do like team meetings anyone can join with a link?
Apparently yes: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/7860719423002-How-to-create-and-share-call-links
But I’ve never tried it for that.
I use it for text voice and video with friends though.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What minimum amount of money in your bank account would make you feel comfortable never working again?
5·2 days ago$3 million. Averaging 10% returns is plenty of money without touching the principle.
Then there’s sliding “hmm this is risky” down to maybe $2million. Far below that I don’t know if it could tank a market dip or sudden expense.
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Games@lemmy.world•WB Games owner Skydance introducing five-day in-office mandate alongside 'Voluntary Buyout Program'English
30·2 days agoMandated in office is a climate crime. Send the leadership to do climate repair and seize their wealth. /Bangs judge gavel
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Amazing first 2 dates but he's giving cold shoulder now - please help me understand because I'm so confused and bummed
6·3 days agoDon’t over think it. Meet other people.
Everywhere I’ve worked that did micro services it was kind of a pain. One of the places I’ve worked had a simple monolith backend and it was great.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•do you think that lemmy needs to have a different culture than reddit?
4·3 days agoI don’t really like the parroting of in-jokes thing. Probably any sufficiently long lived large group will probably have in-jokes, but reddit-isms always grated the most.
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Games@lemmy.world•MMO players (past and present): what is your attitude towards "forced" group content?English
111·3 days agoIf there’s a good in-game group finder, where you can specify like “first time doing it” or “chill group” vs “speed runner” then it’s probably fine. If you can find players, that is.
I played a lot of guild wars 2. I’d start groups on the lfg with a message like “chill [content] run - I don’t care about your build” and people would join, and we’d have a fine time.
Some other MMO, I forget which, I’d end up sitting at the lfg for a long time and never got a full group
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Technology@lemmy.world•What's wrong with AI? (explaining AI skepticism)English
2·3 days agoI thought it was going to be pro-ai from the title, but I didn’t vote based on that assumption
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Technology@lemmy.world•What's wrong with AI? (explaining AI skepticism)English
4·4 days agoEvaluating the whole argument is expensive. “Is the author a known idiot?” is a cheap heuristic to save effort.
Though that does remind me I had a long argument with some bizarre poster on here who insisted that the source of information is not important, and the unwell guy screaming under the bridge is just as viable a source as someone with a PhD on the subject.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What does kink mean to you? What about fetish?
21·5 days agoThat’s my understanding as well.
A kink is also typically something at least a little uncommon. You wouldn’t call “I like putting my hard penis in a woman’s vagina” a kink, typically. But “I like when she slaps me” might be.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Google quietly changes privacy policy so your Gmail and Photos could be used in targeted ads - DexertoEnglish
83·5 days agoTargeted advertising should be illegal. Solves a lot of problems. You can pick an ad based on its location (sports.example.com can have sports ads and astrology.example.com star ads), but not based on who’s viewing it. Now there’s less motivation to read all your personal information.
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Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•Man walks nearly 3,000 miles from New York to San Francisco
5·5 days agoThat link got mangled for me for some reason. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_walked_across_the_United_States
Anyway. I knew a guy who did the walk. It was his fun fact at parties. He wasn’t white and said he learned to call ahead to let authorities know he was coming through on foot.
The point is that when they average person double clicks an MD file, it should probably open and display.
It does? I mean, I guess it depends on your OS and if there’s an handler for .md files. My machine opens them fine. I don’t know what the default is on windows. Handling a file extension with a smart default is really on the OS provider, though.
We could call it… Flart. That seems appropriate.
One time at a party we were standing around chatting and bad dates and such, and someone goes, “Yeah, don’t date republicans.”
One guy, a young white guy, goes, “Hey! What??”
Everyone turned to look at him and we were all like, “Go on, do you have something to say?”
So far as I know he’s not a maga-hat now, but has a big “rugged individualist” streak.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Would you kill bad people using a death note? Would you kill those that did?
31·7 days agoYeah, a lot of awful people in positions of power would go. I hope I wouldn’t use it for petty things like “parking in the bike lane”.
Removing a lot of the forces keeping the capitalist dystopia in place might let something else grow.
I work at a shitty megacorp where they hire people as “contractors” and then have them act like full time employees, but without any paid time off or health insurance.
I have made this joke a few times when people were like “work late to finish the thing!”
The ICs found it funny. The corporate ghouls and boot lickers did not.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Anthropic logged net loss of over $80 billion in first half of 2026English
372·8 days agoIf it’s going to make LLMs it’s not as useful as the other things I listed. Paying a bunch of software engineers $300k each to work on LLM nonsense instead of something useful is a shame. Sure, the money isn’t set on fire, but the opportunity cost is large.


It’s a big multiplier on incompetence. It lets someone who’s kind of bad at their job produce a lot more bad than they could before.