Or it turns out you accidentally left caps lock on, and now you’re locked out for a few minutes.

I didn’t, actually, but thank you.

The Star Trek ones over on startrek.website. They weren’t the most active to begin with, though their activity has dropped a bit more over time.

That “little more complicated” is asking for a lot, though.

Say you’re coming from Reddit, or Facebook, or something.

It would not be unreasonable to believe that, like Reddit, every single Lemmy instance is its own separate, self-contained site.

And that’s even before figuring out federation works, and how to access things from outside of your instance, or all the nuances that come with defederation and all of that. You made the mistake of joining beehaw? Whoops, all the other “subs” are now inaccessible, because beehaw is not connected to any of the others.

Central places like Reddit don’t have that complexity. Reddit communities are singular, and there’s no overarching layer to complicate things. A community that disagrees with another, and blocks them doesn’t affect your experience as an user.

The decentralisation probably doesn’t help either. People coming to Lemmy from other places are coming from a centralised system. That takes some getting used to.

If you’re new to this, you can be forgiven by thinking that all the Lemmy instances are their own separate thing, like the forums of old, rather than that they’re all interconnected (excluding a whole bunch of stuff about defederation and all of that mess).

Part of it is that people also moved on from Lemmy too. Lemmy is nice, but there also isn’t very much by way of activity on it, which feeds back into itself. No activity means there’s nothing to draw people into it, and not enough to keep them around when they are there.

One of the communities and (non-world) instances I frequented is all but dead these days.

If they somehow succeed, that’s how you know you’ve found a keeper.

You also constantly shed skin, so any mould that tries to get a hold would have a difficult time staying on.

Especially if they also misuse acronyms.

“Grandma died LOL 😂”

Other companies? Companies also need things, so they would also need things to buy and sell. Buying and selling to each other doesn’t seem entirely unreasonable, particularly if the goods are non-physical. A company selling editing services for articles to a company that writes those articles for a news company who might be selling stocks to an investment company, and ad space to an ad company, etc.

Realistically, though, that doesn’t tend to be that high a priority, or much of a long-term worry. Most of the concern these days seems to be focused more on the short-term profit more so than anything else, even if it will ultimately harm the company.

Not that it would really matter for most, since a lot of the people who might otherwise be affected would likely be out and away by the time that that rolls around. It would barely affect them.

Or have a single general footer that they all refer to.

Error message? McAfee can’t write to the drive because it’s full of photos of their grandchildren and dogs, so it clicks up “can’t write to c:\temp\sqlite_arcane_computer_magic.log: Disk is full”, and it goes from there?

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Assuming that they went out to look for it, and didn’t just poke google with (“sqlite hacked my computer”) until they found a phone number.

If they had gotten the phone number for a company called Super Queasy Lite and Easy/SQLitE instead of the developers, the company might well have received the calls instead.

I don’t think that’s how you’re meant to use a WHERE.

It even has questionably-helpful mysterious blinky lights at the bottom right which may or may not do anything useful.

One of the reasons why the 1/3rd pound burger lost to the 1/4 pound burger, was because people saw the 1/4, and thought that the quarter-pound was larger for some inexplicable reason.

I would be very surprised if there wasn’t at least some marketing suggestion focused around “number that looks big is better”.

Unclear. But eventually, people would work. People get bored, it’s nice to have something to do, and get paid extra on top of it.

UBI just ensures that if they don’t like a job, they can just quit, rather than be forced to keep working on pain of starvation.

Tests so far seem to be fairly positive about it working. People who get UBI aren’t likely to sit on that money, they’ll just go and spend it either paying back debts, or buying something nice for themselves, so the money will keep going around (just look at the COVID economic stimulus packages). They might even spend more than they might otherwise have, if they’re not just scraping by.

Making the world a better place doesn’t need to be some grandiose revolutionary affair.

All the little things you do while being alive would add up. Whether it’s hanging out with a friend, giving your pet some extra pats, or cleaning up your own space, and that would put you a good deal of the way there, if not be enough on its own.

Where’s the professional? Box plot?