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The extremely rich would rather not have another Einstein unless they knew they could control them and it wouldn't hurt the bottom line.

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  • The nerd can also create a startup, and get a friend to be the business person. Usually this involves selling the startup to a large company at some point.

    If the nerd is an academic, the university can "help" the academic to market the invention; the academic will get a tiny amount and the university gets the rest. Or the academic can create a startup on the side, and set up their favorite graduate as the business person.

    • My kids bored out of their minds with a house full of toys, don't know how good they got it

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  • I was gonna say "the timeless need to keep the kids quiet"... but I bet there was some ancient Mesopotamian nerd who made dozens of these and built a little model city and was like: one day the the wagons will drive themselves and there'll be roads everywhere and the people will live in tall buildings and fly in the sky...

    Ancient Mesopotamian nerd, I salute you!

    • Pixelfed's first plateau in progress

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  • the more popular places on the Fediverse seem to be stagnating right now

    Dunno, from Fediverse Observer, it looks like lemmy and mastodon are growing slowly over the last couple weeks. (the mastodon stats look a little weird tho -- there's a plummet on Jan 30th that looks like a data collection artifact.)

    • Pixelfed's first plateau in progress

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  • Excellent point, do you happen to know where I can find longer-term usage data?

    • Pixelfed's first plateau in progress

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  • I dunno... it's like the difference between a chain restaurant and your favorite local cafe/pub/diner. The chain restaurant has its benefits, but you have the best interactions with your buddies at your local cafe/pub/diner.

    • Pixelfed's first plateau in progress

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  • o yeah thanks!

    • Pixelfed's first plateau in progress

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  • user retention

    yeah, hard to tell.... Lemmy peaked a little under 70k MAUs and is around 45k now... if pixelfed peaks at 300k it's reasonable to think it levels at 200k (i.e. a hundredfold increase from a month ago).

    ofc every situation is different... e.g. pixelfed has tighter Mastodon integration (pro) but may depend more on a network effect (con). also iirc the lemmy MAU count methodology shifted at some point, from post/comment to post/comment/upvote/downvote which is a confound for the lemmy dropoff count...

    • Mod of a similar comm deleted my advertising post, now downvotes half the stuff I post in my comm

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    • Hey kid, wanna buy some eggs?

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  • slangin that cluck-rock...

    • 30 active communities which are not politics, news, memes or tech

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  • oh we doing this here too?

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    • Nobody hates working together with leftists more than other leftists

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  • But they didn't slaughter our livestock. Gotta give 'em that.

    • Nobody hates working together with leftists more than other leftists

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  • I kind of agree, but it's funny how now we're blaming the republican victory on the vegans, of all people.

    • finally

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    • Wow, ok.

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  • Then it accurately represents von Trier's movie style.

    • Good morning I choose creativity and recycling.

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  • Woah, that's intense, at first I thought that was some kind of eldritch creature. The house I'm in just got a new hot water tank, I'll ask what they're doing about maintaining it.

    • Wow, ok.

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  • Start with Dogville if you really don't like her.

    • Good morning I choose creativity and recycling.

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  • Thanks for the explanation. I don't drink hot water (I filter drinking water in the fridge) I just didn't realize hot water was undrinkable and that there were laws against hooking it up to cold water.

    • When you forget that you hired THEM because you weren't skilled enough to do it yourself

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  • If you're being serious, the intent is: "don't bother me while I do my job".

    • Good morning I choose creativity and recycling.

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  • (it’s dual because law forbids connecting undrinkable water to drinkable water systems)

    Are you implying that hot water is undrinkable? Sorry, I don't understand but it sounds really interesting.

    • Protesters in cities across the US rally against Trump's policies, Project 2025 and Elon Musk

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