Lemmy is full of dorks, and I love that. Among its other flaws, Reddit could be mean-spirited at times. I haven’t seen the same willingness to ignore ordinary human decency in favour of karma-farming here.

I left Reddit in disgust during the API situation. All the cool kids were coming here, so I did too.

I don’t think they’re worse overall, but I do think they’re more visible when they’re being silly and thoughtless.

A teenager near me got convicted of burglary a few years back because he filmed himself doing it, to show his friends. A young 20-something had his license taken away because he filmed himself driving at 160 KPH.

BRB, launching a disabled person across the carpark.

Richard Pearse, New Zealand aviation pioneer. He was a farmer by trade, and had a reputation for making crooked furrows because he would read technical books while he plowed. He worked on powered flight at the same time as the Wright Brothers and actually achieved his first powered take-off before they did. It wouldn’t be fair to call it a success - his plane was built with no tail section, making it difficult to control in the air. The test flight ended by crashing into a thornbush hedge and Pearse received minor injuries.

Did you close the shower door on your dick again?

Pre- hair plugs:

Every argument I’ve seen against the cool science fiction future boils down to “we couldn’t do it this financial quarter, so it’ll never be possible at all”.

We’ll just keep a window open on that side of the Dyson sphere.

Hmm. Maybe the quote came first. There’s a lot more hits for it than for the story.

This is a quote from a horror story. I’m annoyed that I can’t seem to find it with a search, or remember the title or author. It’s a good story. It goes on like this, iterating through more and more awful Nandos-based scenarios without ever losing the Chav speech patterns.

It took years to get away from green/orange text on a black background and bring actual colour to computers.

Now all anyone wants is the black background again.

He has a hand on Bob’s shoulder for leverage.

The president I’m thinking of gets applause when he signs his name to something because people are so relieved he still remembers how.

No. That’s doubleplus ungood.

You’ll absolutely be judged.

Why no headphones? Seems like that would make the job more enjoyable.

if we restrict art sources to human artists

That worked five years ago. Why wouldn’t it work now?

Speaking from experience? How many generation ships have you travelled on?

OTOH, you’ve yet to encounter any conclusive evidence that you’re mortal.