Sergio @ Sergio @slrpnk.net

Hi, I'm also Terencio on mastodon.social and Sergio on lemmy.world.

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try https://xcancel.com/BrandonT4546

"Preorder now for 30% off!"

Bah, thanks to my years as a shut-in tech dweeb I already have lots of Gadgets, a Feral appearance, and I Super Smell.

ikr "beyond the scope of the current effort" also works.

Not Linux-specific, but if he's looking for new casual games take a look at:

• https://flashmuseum.org/
• https://www.newgrounds.com/games

A bit subtler than that. We still have the largest economy and the strongest military, but the problems we're facing (both individually and globally) can't be solved with those tools.

So we're "great" but we can't solve these problems... why not? Someone offers a scapegoat or similar "common sense solution". And if you believe in it then everything makes sense. But for it to make sense you have to get angry.

Take a look at !fosai@lemmy.world ... they have lots of info in the sidebar and it's moderately active so people will probably answer questions.

tbh if animals had social media that’d be pretty sick innit?

Cats do. That's why they rub against surfaces. Other cats can tell smell if it's somecat they know, and also how long ago they were there. Then they can decide when to go there and when to avoid that place. I reckon other animals do something similar. Traditional human hunters look for those social media posts and act accordingly.

Typical fediverse drama:

• Lemmy is like Reddit for the fediverse. Mastodon is like Twitter for the fediverse. there's a version of facebook for the fediverse, instagram for the fediverse, etc.
• the fediverse is better in that it's designed to be non-corporate and open-source and other good things
• in theory, you should be able to post from one part of the fediverse to the other
• someone was like: here's a proof of concept that you can post from one part of the fediverse to ALL the other parts of the fediverse!
• a mod was like: your post is pointless and an annoyance and you are just working for advertisers
• the poster was like: wat? how would advertising work?
• the mod was like: give me money or leave me alone, and then locked and removed the post.

dude that's awesome... it should be a meme or something...

The quote doesn't say anything about forever tho. The kid is just figuring out that death happens to people and wolves, but not to words and books. The parent is the one pretending that the kid's making some profound statement about the permanence of ideas.

Nah, everyone knows that Winston Churchill said that.

Explanation of the post title:

The first ever Roman fire brigade was created by Crassus. Fires were almost a daily occurrence in Rome, and Crassus took advantage of the fact that Rome had no fire department, by creating his own brigade—500 men strong—which rushed to burning buildings at the first cry of alarm. Upon arriving at the scene, however, the firefighters did nothing while Crassus offered to buy the burning building from the distressed property owner, at a miserable price. If the owner agreed to sell the property, his men would put out the fire; if the owner refused, then they would simply let the structure burn to the ground. After buying many properties this way, he rebuilt them, and often leased the properties to their original owners or new tenants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Licinius_Crassus

ikr Latino goths are awesome

As I recall, portable CD players skipped a lot. Not sure if they ever fixed that, I went straight from cassette tapes to MP3 players. Now those were a real game changer.

Instead of doing LinkedIn, look at individual companies' web pages for their careers section. Make a temp email, look at LinkedIn or other job sites to see who's hiring, then look at those companies' web pages.

Create a dedicated gmail account.

Great advice. I got a cheap Chromebook, a burner flip-phone, and use Google docs, meet, email, etc only when on that system.

This. Write an email that says "Happy belated New Year..." and says you're looking for a job and what kind of job, and send it to everyone you know in your field.

STEALTH 100

lemmy.world is a great instance for your first account. Part of the value of Lemmy is being able to move to another instance once you know your way around.