Sure, but… is “too much discussion” really a problem that Lemmy has? This is kind of a threatening time for some of us, especially if we don’t have a lot of friends irl.

I never really “got” Bach until I saw the smalin visualizations.

Mr Auld-Thomas and his colleagues named the city Valeriana after a nearby lagoon.

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It is “hidden in plain sight”, the archaeologists say, as it is just 15 minutes hike from a major road near Xpujil where mostly Maya people now live.

This archeologist just discovered a Maya city, and they decided to call it “Valeriana” (in the language of the conquistadors) insted of something like “Xpujil” (in the language of the people who still live there.)

They’re not thinking big enough. They should call it “openai.com” and go for corporate sponsorship!

If you have a cat named “Garfield”, you are in big trouble.

Love that Muhammad Ali pose.

their stance is that the school policy didn’t explicitly say he couldn’t use AI,

According to the school’s lawyers, the policy against AI was stated in a presentation that the student attended, and the policy against AI was handed out at a parent’s night and on an online portal, see pg 4-6 of the following: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.275605/gov.uscourts.mad.275605.13.0.pdf

It’s OK dog. The thing is, you figured it out. You’re better off than those that never figured it out. Now you just gotta move on from where you’re at.

Choices - we make them, chances - we take them

Some are mistakes, some we celebrate them

We don’t look back, cause so much we facin

I always stay proud of myself, I’m yelling, “Fuck regret!”

Excel is the one good piece of software in MS Office.

Last time I used MS Office was 10 months ago, and it had a bunch of annoying “features” related to sharing, etc. But PowerPoint has always had some great authoring tools. Sometimes if I was writing an article in LaTeX, I’d still do the figures in PowerPoint.

LibreOffice is a solid substitute, though.

Emo nights are a thing around the US, not sure about the crowd age.

tecpatl

Those Aztec weapons are awesome. We need more movies taking place in pre-Columbian times.

Agreed; and Lemmy communites require not only seeding, but tending by a dedicated poster. There are plenty of dead places where someone created the community, maybe made a post or two, then never posted again.

Narrator: That night, GrammarPolice dreamt of a world in which they had not commented in any communities…

A few important people providing updates on reality

The problem is if those people get burned out for carrying a sub-Lemmy by themselves.

Welcome to the community, fam!

I dunno, there were plenty of people, presumably not all of them incels, who nominated it for a “best film” award: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accolades_received_by_Joker_(2019_film)

I nominate Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation (free on Dailymotion)

From the article:

• Jaws: The Revenge (1987)
• Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
• Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
• Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)
• Coming 2 America (2021)
• A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)
• Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)
• Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
• Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000)
• Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
• Highlander II: The Quickening (1991)
• Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
• Curse of the Cat People (1944)

I was expecting to start the batton running, and pass it off to the next idea, or the continuation of the idea.

I think I see what you’re saying. Lemmy is indeed a place where it’s very easy to get involved, and people get involved in different ways. A lot of us just pick a community and start posting regularly. Some of us adopt dormant communities and bring them back to life. Others contribute by becoming mods or admins or setting up their own instances or debugging/coding. Even those people who were giving you reasons why the “transfer your account easily” project was difficult, they were helping you by telling you the challenges involved. Whenever a well-run project is started, you think about the hurdles, risks, and mitigations, then integrate those into your project plan.

I encourage you to keep getting involved. The trick is to find the right level of involvement for you, then sticking with it and seeing it through.

What I do to get around that is: subscribe to communities that are not memes, news, or tech, then read new posts by “subscribed” and “scaled”. When I run out of those, read “all” to find new communities to subscribe to.