Reminds me of this tweet from Merman_Melville: “Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it’s probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day” The experience itself is probably harmful and changes the person.

It being a bad idea aside, couldn’t teens just show the camera any picture of an adult? Supposedly the system doesn’t save the photo anywhere, so how would it know?

If you read the article it’s not about naked selfies, it’s about verifying the age of people visiting porn sites

This place is pretty. Stupid?

I did. The article isn’t about planes.

This doesn’t have anything to do with fake parts. The Polish government bought trains. They have the right to get them serviced by whoever they want. And the original manufacturer intentionally and secretly sabotaged those efforts. Instead of worrying about a hypothetical problem, why not worry about a shown actual problem? That a product the government bought to benefit its citizens can be disabled even when nothing is broken?

I don’t know exactly. That site says 437,146 people make below $30k/yr, whereas $7.25 works out to about $15k/yr.

You’re right. I would love to see legislation that ties the minimum wage to cost of living.

I mean, I guess there’s hurricanes

It’s big for sales people too - I research who is the right person to contact at an organization, and also to find out what they’ve been up to lately that might be useful in a sales pitch.

Well you know, “quantity has a quality all its own”

Kids these days are too soft with their avocado toast and their graphical user interfaces

No, I don’t expect a company’s website to be open source, just their primary product or service

It makes a difference for the person hosting an instance. Suppose you’re hosting an instance with ten users, and you run into some kind of configuration issue, and stuff isn’t working right. Or maybe the server cost is more than you expected. You might just decide to let it shut down. If you have ten thousand users you might decide to stick it out because people are counting on you. Or you’re getting donations from a hundred people, so you decide to make it work because so many people are counting on you, or maybe there’s a specialist who’s also a user, and they help you figure out the issue.

What these lists are missing is a word for a person who is doing something bad/unwise.

No I mean someone better tell them to stop development on the uni wheel because you disapprove

For the same reason cities form: the larger they get the more benefit there is to being there, so they keep getting larger.

I like the federation model and have switched from twitter/reddit to mastodon/lemmy. Still, we should expect and plan for massive instances, because of their inherent advantages. (More users = more content, more referrals to new users. Lower cost per user in terms of servers/resources)

Ultimately what I’d like to see are democratically run instances. Right now each server is essentially a benevolent dictatorship, which is fine when they’re small and/or you don’t have much invested in an account. Once they start to get big and making a change is a lot of work, it becomes more problematic.

Social.coop on mastodon is cool, however not necessarily geared to scale. I think if there was a multi-stakeholder coop where employees can make a living and users get input on how it’s run, that could really take off.

For some reason video wouldn’t play on mobile for me, if anyone had a similar issue here’s the link: https://youtu.be/Nd6C0y8xc20

Somebody better tell them

More like the ultimate friend