The article indicates that there’s a monthly fee for the “service.” So it’s not a passive income situation.

Oh, yeah, I had to learn how to block communities pretty quickly when I arrived. It’s been so long that I had almost forgotten about that process.

My experience with Tumblr was largely the same. My list of filtered tags there is rather long.

Lemmy currently feels a lot like reddit used to in the beginning, when posts came from real people who just wanted to share ideas about things they cared about. I’d rather keep it as is than see it grow into the bloated bot farm of garbage and advertising that reddit has become.

The bar thing just sounds like they don’t clean their taps very well.

So much this. I live in a country with a sugar tax, so almost every soft drink on the market has part of its sugar replaced with some kind of sweetener. I didn’t drink a lot of soft drinks before, but now I can’t drink them at all.

Is it still possible for people who use Twitter to see, or have they already cancelled that feature?

I think you’ll find that preparing for the Rapture is kind of the opposite from shopping at Costco.

Please note: I normally would not accept BuzzFeed as a reputable source for news, but I think the one thing they actually do well is reporting on social media trends.

Let’s be real; C-suite positions are rarely filled by anyone who brings actual value to the company. They’re figureheads, but they’re also largely interchangeable.

And with so many CEOs, CTOs, etc., doing so much of their jobs with LLMs, that basically proves that you don’t need actual intelligence in those positions.

Playing hockey?

My uncle was a factory worker and a daily regular at his favorite local bar for more than 30 years.

My mom wouldn’t allow me to go inside the bar (because drinking alcohol is a sin, you know). But in the '80s and '90s, before cell phones, I knew exactly where to find him after school if I needed anything.

Unfortunately, 30+ years of excessive drinking caused a lot of really serious health problems that caught up to him when he was in his 50s. The owners and staff sent a huge flower arrangement and all came to his funeral.

That’s really a question for your doctor, but there are other types of pain relievers than NSAIDs or acetaminophen.

I remember having to steal magic spells from enemies. It really turned me off from the game.

I was glad to see FFIX go back to a more traditional system.

This. Times 1000.

Kids aren’t born with internet-connected devices in their hands. Adults give devices to them and then walk out of the room.

Would you let the average internet poster or YouTuber babysit your kid? Because that’s literally what you’re doing.

I grew up in the '80s and '90s. My mom did her best to pay attention to the shows/movies I was watching, the books I was reading, the music I was listening to. And up until I was about 13, it was all very tightly controlled. It’s still possible to have that kind of oversight, but it’s more work than a lot of parents are willing to do.

I live outside the US now, and most of my elementary-school students have parents who very tightly control their screen time and actively monitor their usage. The kids have sports training, dance classes, and other activities that get them out in the world. It’s very, very different from the kids I used to teach in the US.

Donald Trump: I’ve never heard of Project 2025. I don’t know what it is. I’m not a part of it.

Also Donald Trump: Appoints Project 2025 authors to high positions in his administration, signs a ton of Project 2025 policies as EOs on Day 1.

It’s called “Mar-a-Lago face” and I’m pretty sure it’s what tacky people think beautiful women look like.

This is the correct answer. Notice that they have no compunction about punishing parents who secure gender-affirming care for their trans kids, but there has been zero discussion of holding parents responsible for their kids’ internet usage.

Far-right groups in the US have been crying “Big Brother” about everything for years because their whole plan has been to create a surveillance state where to gather information about dissenters. Every accusation is a confession with these people.

I have definitely worked jobs where I know more than the IT department, and that’s scary.

They already have 6 kids, so their genes are highly likely to carry on.

So … wait for the EU to outlaw this practice as price gouging, then use a VPN to appear to be buying from the EU?

Instructions unclear; now I look like Nicolas Cage.