Except the corn posts were hilarious and varied

I used it that way for years. It’s better for memes than fediverse or Reddit, except for two things: 1 occasionally the user base freaks the fuck out and starts spamming the same thing, like this. I don’t like Nazis, but that also means I don’t want literally everything on my funny picture site to be about keeping them out. 2 increasingly all the popular stuff isn’t memes at all, but shitting on trump and musk. See point 1.

Then they blocked the UK because they didn’t want to put an age field on their registration form (note this is not to do with age verification)

Is that on the 17% joke rate?

Right that’s why no other country had dreams of home ownership.

American exceptionalism really did a number on you guys!

You just haven’t tried it with the latest release of this fork of Plasma.

Ok but this is a joke, not an instruction on how to behave in real life.

You can consider anything to be something it’s not, so yes.

Only if they’re an insufferable twat

There was a puzzle at an online puzzle hunt recently that was about this phrase. It was annoyingly ambiguous due to languages that have more than one phrase.

is a hot dog a sandwich

no

is cereal soup

no

is a foo a thing-which-obviously-is-not-a-foo

no

The UK is becoming more automatic now, and we also have a lot of EVs. I learnt on a manual but didn’t get a car until last year, which is electric. It’s much better.

It’s all a matter of time and focus. I have broad, shallow knowledge in other areas and narrow, deep knowledge in maths. Maths was my job for several years, so I was putting in a corresponding amount of time.

I have above average knowledge in a lot of areas due to browsing Wikipedia a lot.

I know more pure maths than most people in the world so there’s that too.

I dunno about that, but I do know Reeses cups taste bad. Too much sweet and salty.

Europeans don’t eat peanuts? Or chocolate?

1. Identify a problem. (User wants do something and can’t, something that is supposed to work doesn’t, someone wrote shit code that works and we want to fix it)
2. Get more info about it: ask users for more context, find out about their workarounds, assess the impact of the bug, find solutions to similar problems. Get together with others and hash out some design.
3. Do the coding. Often involves a bunch of reading documentation and trial running code to see if it works
4. Come up with a way to confirm the change does what it’s supposed to: write a new automatic test, or a procedure a person can follow to verify it works
5. Write a description of the change and test plan
6. Get someone else to check what I’ve done and make any changes they ask for (as long as I agree)

One of mine learnt in postwar Britain but surpassed such stereotypes. The other did too but then lived in India for a long time and so made great curries.

The tried-and-true method is to get recommendations from people you trust. Or even algorithms you trust.

“The 100 best movies” will be mostly generic with a small amount of rage-bait. If that’s boring to you, then find some less generic resources. https://www.allmovie.com/advanced-search can be useful for films. You can throw some pretty weird search criteria at it and find more off-the-wall stuff.

Starting from something you know you like and looking at the “other people liked…” section is never going to be 100% reliable but better than nothing.

Worse than anything is scrolling through Netflix. They purposefully make their descriptions beyond garbage-tier. Presumably they think that means people will just pick whatever slop is put in front of them and then… turn it off again? I dunno, maybe they want to be able to aggressively cut that new show after two seasons without biasing people’s expectations with a useful description. This is now just a rant about how useless Netflix is.

I’ve only just joined lemmy.ml communities, is it US only or something?

Many of their songs are in Icelandic actually, and a couple in English.