CombatWombat

If it’s any consolation, most of my favorite facts I’ve learned about my closest friends have been because they lost the plot while telling a story.

I strongly believe that you should have a connection to the place that your sports team is affiliated with, but I think you should be very liberal about what you consider a connection. If you’ve moved a lot, it gives you a lot of teams to choose from when you’re choosing your alliances. I think it also makes sense to consider other sorts of connections as well — a grandparent’s alma mater, the team your dad followed when you were a kid. I know a lot of people who recommend watching a league and letting the team choose you, which also seems reasonable, but I prefer the place-ness of sports fandom. The only way to choose a sports team to follow that is objectively wrong is bandwagoning.

Patching is a reasonable temporary solution while you are actively working to get the patch merged upstream. If you’re not doing that, a better solution is to fork. If you’re not doing that either, then you should be updating your resume.

Every day? How many people post to lemmy every day? It’s gotta be zero, right? No-one’s dumb enough to post daily.

I’ll count it. Sounds like a great trip!

They send catty text messages after four glasses of wine to their friends to complain about their kids’ third grade teacher and think they’re being manipulative.

Hypothetically, yes. Practically, no. Arguing is fun and engaging when you have a sparring partner who is sharp, engaged, and persuadable. If changing someone’s mind isn’t on the table, or if all you’re capable of doing is poorly repeating memes and headlines you’ve seen, I’m not interested.

What is the coolest, awesomest, most mind-bendingest thought you’ve thought while high?

The boombox is the only concrete clue I can identify. It’s an am/fm cassette, but doesn’t seem to have a cd player, so I’m assuming it went out of style in the early aughts. Best guess, this trash is about 20 years old.

The earliest known english-language account of a dinosaur bone is in Robert Plot’s 1677 The natural history of Oxford-shire: being an essay toward the natural history of England. This is how he explains what we now know as a megalosaurus thighbone:

There happily came to Oxford while I was writing of this, a living Elephant to be shown publickly at the ACT, An. 1676, with whose Bones . I compared ours; and found those of the Elephant not only of a different Shape, but also incomparably different to ours, though the Beast were very young and not half grown. If then they are neither the Bones of Horses, Oxen, nor Elephants, as I am strongly persuaded they are not . It remains, that (notwithstanding their extravagant Magnitude) they must have been the bones of Men or Women: Nor doth any thing hinder but they may have been so, provided it be clearly made out, that there have been Men and Women of proportionable Stature in all Ages of the World, down even to our own Days

The whole account is pretty interesting. He speculates about the origin of the bones and their medicinal uses and discusses the particulars of a few giants.

Eh. It only feels dead if you let it.

Oh of course🤦‍♂️

I was wondering when in the world that exchange rate would make sense. That’s definitely correct.

If anyone’s curious what happened to the translation here, the original Russian is abbreviated — the full phrase would be «мороженое в ассортименте» (ice cream in assortment) — but they abbreviated assortment and Russian doesn’t have articles so they use them when you wouldn’t expect. Also, this is most likely eastern Ukraine because they quote the prices in both hryvnia and roubles.

Uh-oh, seems like trouble in paradise:

upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers. reset reason: connection termination

Hope you get everything up and running again — keyboard vagabond is awesome.

Lots of things would happen, but the specifics wouldn’t much matter because there’d be no-one left to tell the tale afterwards.

There’s a capital strike on, and you can’t simply withhold capital or else it is put to use elsewhere so it has to be employed for enshittification.

If you used Google Translate previously for translations, they’ve switched out the backend for Gemini. Most of the existing translation tools have been destroyed and replaced with LLMs already.

If you create a new community and start up megathreads for big news events, people can vote with their feet (so to speak). Folks who don’t like them can keep posting to their communities, and folks who do can join yours. I like a megathread for folks who have a take on an event, but don’t care to read the particular article they’re commenting under — I totally get it can be tedious to read a bajillion articles on the same event just to participate in the conversation, but it’s also annoying for those of us who are interested in discussing the contents of a specific article. Megathreads seem like a good compromise that can make everyone happy, so long as you understand that your thread will not prevent other kinds of posts in other communities.

There’s a lot of people who come to fedi looking for this spot — maybe it makes sense to see if programming.dev is willing to host such a community?

I dunno about your district, but we usually have some pretty good candidates through the DSA on our ballot: https://platform.dsausa.org/