You’re comparing apples to oranges.

Come on man. Don’t we already have enough wars going on? This can get messy really quickly.

Saw a toddler with a phone in hand today, maybe a year. Couldn’t walk yet, but had no trouble scrolling.

8 years are 2 election cycles. Much can happen in that time.

Writing is way more than creating outlines or checking the plot for problems. It’s more than even writing a first draft. In fact, it starts with the first round of edits, when characters awake and find their voices etc.

People who think writing with AI is just pushing buttons underestimate the complexity of the process, and using AI for things you’d usually use other writers’ feedback or betas or developmental editors for is just an evolution of tools, the same way we don’t scratch on stone tablets anymore today.

Croatia is a true friend.

That I actually have to ask if that was a joke is simultaneously hilarious and sad.

It’s very simple actually. Russia invaded a souvereign country. The end.

We don’t have the medical treatment yet. But we’re getting close.

Medvedev is like Trump, pulling all kinds of stuff out of his arse all day, and it’s all smelly.

For Ukraine, it’s total war for survival, whereas for Russia, it’s not. Forcing Russia into total war is well within the realms of possibilities, if it drags on for too long, and even with reduced backup, Ukraine has the manpower to do so. Russia, on the other hand, has to switch mode and forcefully conscript ethnic Russians from Moscow or St.Petersburg to maintain the war, which has historically led to uprisings, whereas Ukraine already has ever reason to fight to the last.

It’s impossible to make long-term predictions either way. Needless to say, I’m rooting for Ukraine.

The war isn’t over when Putin says so. It’s over when Ukraine decides it’s over.

Gonna check out Connect, thank you :)

On sh.itjust.works, shit just works.

As for apps, I’m using Liftoff, which works well, but hasn’t seen an update for a while, and I don’t know how active the dev is. I’d rather not use Jerboa, which has been created by tankies, or any of the ad-infested ones, like Boost, because I think it’s despicable to try and profit off of user-generated content on a platform that’s meant to be free (could have stayed on Reddit if I wanted that).

I don’t think Lemmy will reach or overtake Reddit. That’s a good thing in my opinion, because massive platforms come with massive moderation problems that aren’t so easy to tackle for decentralised networks. We’ve seen that when someone posted kiddie porn and several servers went down to scrub the filth from their systems.

If anything, Lemmy already has a pretty high amount of troll communities, thankfully mostly contained within their own servers, which enables separation through defederation (speaking of defederation, I’d love to have an option to block servers on the user level).

Jam 'em back and see them piss off in a hurry.

I’d think it’s more that there’s now more media fighting your attention. When I was a kid (GenX here), we had a handful of TV channels and books. Books was what I went with.

Nowadays, I get home from work and watch something on YouTube before bed. I still read, but my standards have risen, and a trashy space opera won’t do it anymore for me. It has to be a great one now, and there are fewer of them. So, naturally, YouTube gets a bigger share of my time. Or games, when I have time to play on the weekends. My comfort game used to be Civilization, and currently I’m hooked on Baldurs Gate.

Ending Russia would have the desired effect, too.

What exactly is the “truth” in that zero effort meme?

Was waiting for this. Wonder if it has internet access, or just got a data dump.