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there’s no way to monetize lemmy, right?

just making sure i’m on the right liferaft…

Sometime later (and deeper): “hmm… seems very uneven… going to have to use a self leveling magma…”

You are not making much sense

Oh it won’t end

“retention bots” of some description wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest…

endless wars of who’s federeated with who

i’ve been here for months and months, i might have seen this mentioned as an aside once or twice. but “endless wars”?

It’s a bit like why drilling into a wall might make the lights go out if you hit a cable. Your brain only registers “feeling” in any part of your body because a nerve carried that information to it. The nerves from your lower arm and hand pass your elbow. Hitting the nerve directly causes signals in it which you brain interprets as pain in your fingers. Presumably the nerves for the pinky side of your hand are slightly more exposed.

Can you guys keep it down? I’m trying to sleep on the loo

I don’t think there’s an easy solution. There are a lot of people who don’t regard tolerating illegal entry in any form to be a workable solution. I should think they disagree with you over whether illegal crossing can be stopped. They just regard the punishment to not be high enough. Callous as you say. But I should think they’d regard the toleration of undocumented crossings that a tiny minority of are criminals evading detection is also callous on the people that suffer as a result.

I personally think more liberal but documented movement in tiers is a solution. But I don’t think the status quo of what America had been doing - tolerating illegal crossings and toying with the idea of naturalising undocumented people - was a solution because the writing was on the wall for a long time that America was democratically moving against it. The catastrophe that’s currently happening is the result.

Some people just don’t regard illegally entering a country to be a misdemeanor, rather they regard it as a serious offence. Such stances are usually as emotional as they are reasonable. But so is most politics…

I suppose people just dislike the idea of ‘anchor babies’. That is, if you’re going to illegally enter a country, you should be pregnant (or take a pregnant wife with you) so that when they’re born the state has to decide if it wants to deport the parents of an American citizen. That probably the emotional resistance to it. At least I’ve not heard people have problems with it in the context of legal migrants who start life in America, marry and have kids who are then citizens…

I read this a while a ago. Shows a snapshot of most significant country of origin for immigrants in each state in 1900, 1950 and 2000. You can see how widespread German immigrants were in 1900 and 1950…

If you want to try an ‘old world’ replacement, the England v France rugby match from 8th Feb (part of the six nations tournament) was great

Just because some unnoticed game implemented some fairly easy to conceive game mechanic doesn’t make that game influential. It just makes it first. To be influential you have to show that later game developers had played it and been inspired to build on it.

And I can confidently state that without 005, there would be no Metal Gear.

Ah c’mon

What are the top signs someone’s having a stroke?

It’s that after the wash cycle or after the drying? Pretty normal for towels that are heavy with water to be pinned to the drum after a high spin. But if they don’t then tumble off during drying (or are physically caught on something) then yeah something’s wrong. (You could just try a lower spin cycle)

There are plenty of portable second screens for laptops now. But it seems weird you can’t just hardwire a second laptop without having to resort to internet based screen sharing solutions.

I’m pretty sure in that case the sound alone would kill us…

What was your experience of r/NeutralPolitics?

Really makes me wonder what cybernetics will look like in a hundred, a thousand(!) years. No-one can experience someone else’s consciousness. But if an artificial brain extension generated consciousness the same way we do and if it could be swapped between people safely. It might be the first time we have something saying, objectively, it has experienced being both of us in each of our brains and we see “red” the same way. The mind boggles…