Suggest a first date that involves a mosh pit.

Not sure what you mean. Apollo 11 used radio communication. It would have been possible to develop laser communication (i.e. light speed) without building a worldwide internet.

It was supposed to be space travel, instead it was the internet and cell phones. Good trade.

Awesome, thanks for the lead.

Hey, sorry for asking this here… I used to access public instances through a URL like this: https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=sTEm--FVNe0 and previously there’d be a long list of public instances, whereas now there are only 3-4. I assume this is due to Google’s attacks. If you have a link available, can you direct me to a web page or discussion or something that explains exactly what’s going on there? I’m interested in learning more about the technical details. Thanks.

I didn’t; I made the chart almost a year ago, click on the link above it to see the 11-month-old comment.

Lemmy had around 1000 active users for the first half of 2023.

Maybe Twitter would go for a Vichy France figure.

I would suggest listening to the original Neil Diamond version of Red, Red Wine and the UB40 version. Basically all UB40 did was make it a more reggaeish sound and add a dub bit in the middle and they took an absolutely awful song, turned it into something new, and made it theirs.

Hey, I agree. Check out the Tony Tribe version from 1969, if you’re not familiar with it. It kind of reinforces your point, because all these versions are so different.

Art by Ed Valigursky, was used for a paperback called “Wandl the Invader”

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Someone overhearing this now knows that if they reach a Halloween party, they will be briefly immortal.

Excel is the one good piece of software in MS Office.

Last time I used MS Office was 10 months ago, and it had a bunch of annoying “features” related to sharing, etc. But PowerPoint has always had some great authoring tools. Sometimes if I was writing an article in LaTeX, I’d still do the figures in PowerPoint.

LibreOffice is a solid substitute, though.

https://www.pinballmuseum.org/

Also, the Hoover Dam is nearby.

ikr where’s that bias-detection bot when you really need it? _/s

So what you’re saying is, you don’t hate the fools, you pity them.

Winston never talked to Big Brother, right?

Or maybe he did, and that part was expunged by Amazon.

If you chopped the onion, sprinkled it over half the bun, then melted the cheese over it, you might have something amazing. (Depending on the type of cheese.)

I like watching art house movies and then figuring out what I don’t like about it.

Have you seen Aimy in a Cage? It’s a great example of that. It’s an art house film that does many things right, but unfortunately “something” wrong (I think related to editing or cinematography) so it’s not very good.