GoosLife @ GoosLife @lemmy.world

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Why are those bananas growing upside down

The post is by an AMD employee, and the "insightful" button is not to say that you learned anything from this necessarily. Just that the post is, well, insightful. In this case, they see that he's an employee who made a post sharing knowledge about something and are using it to show support. They're basically using the company account to back him up by confirming he knows what he's talking about. Like you do when you confirm peoples skills etc.

I don't know about car companies specifically, because I'm in IT, but 99% of my feed is programmers sharing basic programming stuff that is liked by other programmers who obviously already know, or power users sharing OS specific tricks that everyone else who liked definitely also already knew. That, and invitations to seminars on cyber security. It's like a big ego stroking fest where the only way to make your presence known is to make posts like these, so everyone else who knows the same stuff you do can look at it, stroke their beards and say "hmmm, quite, yes, yes" in a very sophisticated manner.

I don't get it? This looks like standard, boring LinkedIn stuff to me?

Bond needs to be a thing of the past. If you've already determined he should be in custody for the time being, paying money doesn't make it less so. The fact that it's pocket money for him is just even more absurd.

Absolutely majestic.

Wasn't it terrifying?! Or was it clear that you were safe in their presence? I've never done anything more exotic than swim with dolphins, so I can only imagine how much respect the mere presences of these creatures can summon.

Same, I also block communities that consistently show up on my all-feed with negative content. I'd rather miss an interesting post than see negative stuff regularly. There's enough stuff to be depressed about, and those 5 minute pocket-lemmy breaks add up. If all those moments were to be consistently negative, I'm sure it'd do a number on my mental health in the long run.

We need a second third party HR team to investigate OUR third party HR team, and make sure they stand up to scrutiny!

Isn't that just what they say if they like you?

I had ties to both Zee and Zed-speakers growing up, but in my experience, Zee and Zed can be used somewhat interchangeably, even across the pond. This might be in order to account for names (like Z Z Top and Jay Z), puns (such as La-Z for lazy) or even ease of pronounciation - when playing CSGO, I've heard Americans refer to the CZ-75 as Cee-Zed-Seventy-Five, because they found it weird to switch between the cee, zee and seven sounds, but I'm not sure how common this is.

Which is exactly what they're doing if you read the article.

Remember when googling was done by (assuming this info couldn't be found in the lexicon) calling directly to the source and asking the receptionist?

I remember my dad and uncle couldn't decide when they thought Coca Cola was founded, so they went to the phonebook, found the number for Coca Cola and just asked. They were happy to help, too. I also remember calling directly to the publisher for Disney comics to ask how much certain comics were, and they sent us a form in the mail that we would fill out to order the specific books we wanted, which then arrived in the mail like 2 weeks later. Pretty much the internet but with extra steps, mandatory human interaction and extremely long wait times lol.

That's good advice, but tbf when I've done something like this, it's not because I've had a little money and decided to go for olives and chips

At the store, busy being expensive

Unhappy with the direction investors were taking Reddit, Spez secretly started working on an alternative to the website that he lovingly named the fediverse. However, he couldn't figure out a way to drive traffic to the Fediverse - at least not without publically breaching his contract in a major way.

His distress grew and grew. His own company was a disappointment. He had the solution, but no way out.

On top of that, his favorite activity - doomscrolling twitter in bed for hours - had become a less and less satisfying experience, as well, since Elon Musk bought the company.

It was for that reason he typed into DuckDuckGo: "twitter alternatives" - and immediately, it dawned on him. He couldn't help but say it out loud:

"Elon, you beautiful son of a bitch, you might have just saved the internet".

I switch. I'm typing this comment out key by key. But I swipe onehanded just as fast.

If they have to trick you by installing unwanted apps on your phone, where you don't even know it's them doing it, then it sounds more like a scam than a great deal.

But cave sharing is not private. Once it's in the cave, it's there forever. Do you want some scientist to study your nudes 10,000 years from now?

Jerboa for me, too. Mostly because it was the first thing that came up on the app store for me, and there isn't a Lemmy is Fun (...yet?). So I tried Jerboa and it's perfectly capable.

Breaking news: Reddit CEO purchases free software: "still not the dumbest decision I've made this month" says Spez in rare moment of self-awareness

I used to get a notification every year for some dude who had posted on reddit that he was alone on his birthday one year. He stopped replying several years ago, but I still messaged him each year at the prompt of remindme. So that's also a use case.