I’ve watched an 18 minute video of an Indian scammer talking to an answering machine randomly repeating one of like 10 pre-recorded voice lines. This one is most likely much better and will steal hours of their time.

Also for a lot of people, their social circle is partly there.

I get that, but at this point I’d actively try to get them to use a different site/app. I managed to move large parts of my friend group and my whole family to Signal. I’m now trying to get some to transition from Discord to Matrix, though moving there has definitely been not as smooth.

It should be much easier with Twitter, there are a bunch of very similar and usable alternatives. You just have to put in some work and convince people with solid arguments and support.

There are a lot of leftists still “fighting the good fight” on Xitter, even if the platform is pitted against them and all they do is drive engagement to it. I never understood why some people can’t bring themselves to leave. I left reddit for much less.

Europe used to be Russia’s largest trading partner before the sanctions. The US won’t be able to bail them out.

I’ve never even used AOL mail and I still know exactly what the notification sounds like.

Regulations on fossil fuels have become very strict in Europe and any manufacturer wanting to sell there is going to maximize aerodynamics. Not to mention the increased range for electric cars. Most people still view cars as utilities, they care more about how far it can go on one charge instead of cool angular designs.

Modern cars are designed in wind tunnels. We’ll never get the cool designs back.

The problem is not that the deer was hit, a human driver may have done so as well. The actual issue is that the car didn’t do anything to avoid hitting it. It didn’t even register that the deer was there and, what’s even worse, that there was an accident. It just continued on as if nothing happened.

The poster, who pays Tesla CEO Elon Musk for a subscription to the increasingly far-right social media site, claimed that the FSD software “works awesome” and that a deer in the road is an “edge case.” One might argue that edge cases are actually very important parts of any claimed autonomy suite, given how drivers check out when they feel the car is doing the work, but this owner remains “insanely grateful” to Tesla regardless.

How are these people always such pathetic suckers.

Source?

It just says “mod” for me.

I’ve used Lemmy for a while and just recently felt like I was missing a feature for the first time: I’d love if there was some kind of mod mail functionality. One of my posts was removed by a moderator and I wanted to ask why, but I obviously didn’t know which mod did it, so I just randomly messaged someone from the list. There should be a more “elegant” way to do this, like some kind of functionality that allows a user to send a message directly to the community or the moderation team itself.

One of the nice things about Lemmy is that you actually get replies under your posts/comments and it’s not just repeating phrases to earn as much karma as possible. There’s always a sweet spot of engagement in online communities and I feel like we’re pretty close to where it begins. Other sites just make you feel like you’re shouting into the void.

Interesting to see that China is ranking fairly low on the index and Vietnam so high. Really didn’t expect that.

They are heavily biased towards China and Russia, two countries with fascist governments. That kinda speaks for itself, even if they claim to be communists or socialists.

Your files are not lost. You will be able to access them with your local root user, either through the command line or a GUI file explorer that supports actions as root.

Isn’t "Open"AI already a for-profit company in everything except their name?

Huh, I wonder how well a fly could handle a zero G environment.

That bit actually really surprised me, I didn’t expect them to be so blunt about it. They say the Russian army is unbeatable but for some reason they still need Trump in the White House to have a chance at winning lol.

Why? Doesn’t look like there’s any explanation for this move.