[-] SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org 17 points 8 months ago

I can definitely see certain brands doing well with their own forums. Sports teams would be a very good niche for hosting their own instances. Another one would be the entertainment industry. It's just not feasible for companies that aren't interesting to talk about. Like there won't be a Coca-Cola instance worth a lot of users.

[-] SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org 30 points 8 months ago

"Metaverse" was the idea that you would use only Meta services instead of the wider Internet. Much like AOL and Yahoo tried back in the 90s and 00s.

[-] SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org 21 points 8 months ago

I don't see how this is much different from u.s. police. You could easily be charged with "assaulting a police officer" in the u.s. if a cop wanted to be a jackass. You could get thrown in jail for months or years until it gets sorted out even if you are found not guilty.

[-] SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org 34 points 10 months ago

In keeping with Nintendo naming conventions it with be the "switch u" or more likely "switcheroo" It will be a VR based system that seems like an add on peripheral for the switch, but is actually a new system that nobody buys due to confusion and lack of titles.

[-] SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org 16 points 10 months ago

You're probably too young to remember when computers were a huge pia to use. Your MIL probably knows more about PCs than you do if she worked in an office in the 80s and 90s.

[-] SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org 17 points 10 months ago

NPCs is ten times worse because it is used to dehumanize people you don't agree with, further alienates you away from normal society and pushes you deeper into cult like thinking.

[-] SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org 28 points 10 months ago

When I worked at McDonald's I would "kill them with kindness" my manager would get calls from people so pissed off because I would escalate the niceness to match their enragement.

Customer: "you can't do anything right!"

Me: "Have a wonderful day!"

Gets them mad for sure.

[-] SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org 26 points 11 months ago

The advice on stack overflow is trash because "that question has been answered already" yeah, it was answered 10 years ago on a completely different version. That answer is depreciated.

Not to mention the amount of convoluted answers that get voted to the top and then someone with two upvotes at the bottom meekly giving the answer that you actually needed.

It's like that librarian from the New York public library who determined whether or not children's books would even get published.

She gave "good night moon" a bad score and it fell out of popularity for 30 years after the author died.

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We live around the corner from the farm/home store. They sell 8ft sections of this livestock fencing, they had a pile of damaged pieces for half off!

I just carried it home, I passed a guy who was working on his yard and I said, "just out walking the fence!"

[-] SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org 18 points 11 months ago

Or you can pay no money and not look at it at all!

[-] SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org 17 points 11 months ago

I always assumed that trolls used it for brigading since people on 3rd party apps couldn't see it.

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submitted 11 months ago by SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org to c/chat@beehaw.org

I can't get email working and I federation doesn't seem to work either, but it's up!

I created an instance for the town I live in as the main form of communication is a fb page. Once I get these issues fixed I will promote it and hopefully get people using it.

[-] SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org 20 points 1 year ago

That's unironically the point. Science should not be blindly trusted.

[-] SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org 15 points 1 year ago

Make sure to grab a Logitech F710 for a more immersive experience!

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