It is made up of snowflakes so this checks out.

E: I see someone has already pointed this out further down the comments, my bad.

Decades of propaganda by the auto industry, especially through cinema and TV, has programmed people to think that if you don’t have a nice car you won’t get laid.

I managed to move my family and a few friends there but my main group chats and nonchalant gf are impossible to move over unfortunately.

According to Wiktionary it’s likely that that’s a backronym but not confirmed. Could have come from Nancy/Nance or Ponce.

It’s a production company that has made movies you’ve probably watched or have definitely heard of (e.g. True Grit, newer Mission Impossible movies, Top Gun Maverick), but more importantly, it’s run by Larry Ellison’s son, David. As in Larry Ellison the billionaire who founded Oracle and is consistently somewhere in the top 5 richest people globally.

So the answer is having a stupid amount of money to throw about, as usual.

Oh damn, I’ve never seen this thanks for linking.

Thoughts and prayers xoxo

Unless you’re setting up your own stuff like Frigate already suggested here, I would suggest one without Internet connection but wireless video monitor. I used a eufy E110. Signal worked all over the house and picture is clear. I didn’t think any of the COTS solutions with an internet connection and app could be trusted TBH.

Yeah whatever brings positive nostalgia to people will be looked at fondly. I remember early internet fads and viral websites in a positive light that are just as dumb and transient as whatever viral content is being pushed out today. People view things in a different light and some kids in 15 years time will get nostalgic about Skibidi Toilet and talk about how “Dance Hype Craze” fell off after video 983.

Briefly joined Discuit during the Reddit API ruckus but I was already on Lemmy so I never stuck with it. It’s been open sourced and the people seemed mostly pleasant so it seemed like it was on a reasonable path towards creating a good space.

Welcome home.

Obligatory Carlin (YouTube)

A Goodboy Education for Dogs.

Yeah apologies, that’s a good point - thanks for adding more context!

Yeah it says in the link it’s a rough draft of the cartoon that got rejected which is probably why it looks a bit shopped.

IDK why people say they have better privacy: They just settled a lawsuit over evesdroping using Siri. I think they probably have less interest than Google in selling data for advertising, mostly likely using it internally for their ecosystem so they probably come across more privacy focused but I assume they snoop just as much as any other big tech company.

Title is misleading, FTA:

Confirmation that I am 63% British and Irish, 17% Danish and otherwise “broadly north-western European”. I felt a resounding ambivalence about the results, including some disappointment that I had not discovered a newfound heritage – a piece of information that would give my identity new dimension.

But also:

My father’s side of the family is meticulous about tracking our ancestry, with records that hold the name of the exact small village in Ireland our ancestors hail from.

Those results often can’t narrow down to exact countries so it says he’s 63% British and Irish. Seeing as his fathers family has records of being from a small Irish town it’s likely he’s more Irish that British, not that it means anything if you’re actually American anyway.

I see your point but do you really have that level of complexity on the fediverse?

You pick an instance, create an account and then browse; much like you would pick an email provider, create an account, and email your friends.

Sure if you’re setting up your own domain for email, or configuring a mail client to work with your email provider, then you have to deal with these things but in my opinion the analogy works reasonably well. Maybe I am being dense.

It’s wild that no one ever had a problem with this with email and yet this is apparently so confusing they abandon it.

Yeah it’s called Pasta ca’muddica and has a whole bunch of variations such as adding anchovies.