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Cake day: August 16th, 2023

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  • If it’s all a truly random selection, which I believe it was, then half of all people would cease to exist, leaving half of their gut biomes behind, still alive (albeit briefly). I guess the end result would be the snapped people leaving behind a mist of gross intestinal bacteria which would itself mostly die out without a host. Meaning much more than half of all gut biome bacteria would be killed as a result.

    Of course it would make more sense to consider a person and their gut flora as one being, but the joke is about how stupid the initial conception of Thanos’ plan is, not creating an academically rigorous argument.





  • I wish police would simply enforce noise ordinances

    Easier said than done, unfortunately. They need sound meters to do anything reliably, and then there’s the issue of catching them. Even slow, inefficient bikes tend to be much faster and more maneuverable than patrol cars, so motorcyclists are quite a bit more likely to run. Especially the ones that are already violating noise ordinances.


  • The reason they don’t want you using your own WiFi access point is probably because dorms are prone to over congestion if everyone sets up their own WiFi network.

    If you wanted to fuck with them-and you don’t mind spending money-then you could set up your WiFi and get internet via mobile carrier or starlink, so that you never actually have to agree to their terms. Then when/if someone comes around to bitch at you you can watch them slowly come to the conclusion that they’ve got nothing on you.

    Otherwise your options are to follow the rules to the letter and live without vr streaming, or accept that you might get in trouble. Some WiFi routers can be configured to not advertise their network; annoying because you’ll have to manually enter the network information on every device, but it might keep you from getting caught.

    As for connecting multiple devices without paying; there’s probably some creative ways to tunnel all your traffic through a single device to get around that. Could still get you in trouble if you’re caught.

    If you’re doing anything that could get you in trouble with the school make sure you save the email in which they told you using your own router is allowed.













  • Open mobile app support

    Ad free (depending on the app and instance, but its pretty easy to get Lemmy without ads)

    No CEO to make whacky, unpopular decisions without clear purpose or recourse

    No shareholders whose priorities will always take precedence over the users

    There’s also something to be said for being part of a smaller community

    Of course any and all problems can occur in microcosm within a particular instance or community, but it’s trivial to just block that instance/community. As for brigading, bullying, and harassment, Lemmy offers no solutions to human nature, unfortunately.



  • Because the casting made it clear they aren’t even trying to make a true adaptation is the games, so they aren’t courting any Borderlands fans.

    And everyone else is asking why they made this trashy, lame mad Max ripoff.

    And it’s not really appropriate for kids, so you can’t even use it to make little Timmy shut up for 2 hours.

    And there isn’t a new game coming out (afaik) so no brand synergy.

    They haven’t given a single person a single reason to watch it except ‘Kevin Hart is allegedly funny, right?’