Lol. I have a 2500, and it’s borderline too much truck, even in my line of work. It’s flat out stupid for just day to day commuting. And their marketing sure does go after egomaniacal dumdums.

It was about that time…

Anyone willing to spend $50m on an email address probably has more money than sense.

Same purpose as warning labels: to keep ding dongs alive so they can spend more money

Plus the movies were alternating hit and miss. The first was so-so, Wrath of Kahn was good, Search for Spock was meh, Voyage Home was my favorite, etc

Fediverse: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise Instances of Lemmy. Its Their continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds threads; to seek out new life memes and new civilizations places to post them; to boldly go shitpost where no one has gone shitposted before.

On one hand, the emergence of these technologies is pretty exciting from an evolution standpoint, and it points to the possibility of a bright future for humanity. On the other, unfortunately, most of these developments will be gatekept by billionaires with the implicit purpose of enriching the select few.

Maybe one day we’ll all be able to benefit equilaterally.

I’m having a great time fucking with this guy on another thread. He just won’t stop lol.

Considering a significant portion of their userbase adores ragebait, it probably works out quite well for them lol

Virtual therapy sessions are a big thing now. I’m sure there’s added benefit to in-person sessions, but if time and life are constraints, the option is there.

My mom has one of these and she loves it.

Only weird bit was when I was staying at her house and didn’t realize it was a thing, only to have it go through a cycle at 4am and not knowing what the cyborg sound was.

A prostate exam with every wipe

The big difference is see is that Lemmy requires a fair bit of onboarding to learn about federation, different instances, etc that may make it difficult to gain mainstream appeal. Reddit/Instagram/Facebook/etc are a little easier in that they autopopulate your feed with defaults, whereas on Lemmy the defaults are whatever instance you sign up with.

It used to be that you didn’t need an email to sign up. The account I had before the API crap this summer didn’t have an email associated with it. Couple that with using an always on VPN browser anti-fingerprint measures, and you could theoretically maintain a reasonable degree of anonymity, assuming you don’t dox yourself. I assume a lot of this also has to do with users utilizing VPNs to circumvent band as well.

Advertisers probably don’t like an anonymous user base.

IPO = Initial Public Offering

It’s basically when a private corporation goes public and offers shares of their company to the public for the first time, as well as listing on a major stock exchange. It’s worth noting that private corporations can issue stock to individual shareholders, those shares just aren’t traded on the open market.

except with the manufacturer attending

And charging an exorbiant fee

Exactly right. Net neutrality stipulates that carriers must treat all traffic equally, not how a provider can meter your connection.

Time flies

PFOF accounts for a small chunk of Robinhood’s revenues today, Tenev said, while much of its income today comes from net interest income which is generated from cash in user balances.

“If you look at equities, PFOF in particular, it’s about 5%. of our revenue, so a much smaller component of the overall pie. And we’ve diversified the business quite a bit,” including other areas like securities lending, margin, and subscriptions.

Not saying I agree with the practice, but as long as the guy isn’t lying, there it is.