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Historical legacy. It made sense when they were first rolling out. Someone would take the risk of trying to build up a market for these really expensive new devices and then the factory would swoop in and undercut them and destroy their business after they had done all the initial leg work of creating demand for the vehicles. They wanted protection from this.

Well, cars are now everywhere in the US market and it doesn’t take a whole lot of effort anymore to convince someone they need a car, and not just a horse. But the laws protecting “car market development” in the former of dealerships never went away.

Because it allows for proper prioritization of needs, allows for the better exploitation of our surroundings (as tool using animals), and is INCREDIBLY useful for helping us try to “model” other human’s behaviors and act as social animals as opposed to just being the regular kind.

Probably the most impact “Why” question probably started occurring before we were even human and it was “Why did they do that?”

Being able to understand the motivations of other beings is absolutely fucking incredibly overpowered both in terms of cooperative action with your fellows AND destructive action against foes/food sources.

It has a pretty severe memory leak issue during the period where Chrome siphoned off most of its users.

BIFF|@|AOL.DELPHI.PRODIGY.COMPU$ERVE.NETCOM.WORLD.MSN.B1FF.EDU DUDE!

Cause they were annoying as shit, and only a small class of users even liked them in the first place.

Back in the 90s, a lot of forums would also ban your ass if you had an obnoxious signature to boot.

You should consider setting up a small donation to the site, if you can afford it. If you throw $5 a month at them, you’re not only covering your own hosting fees, but covering for some of the folks who can’t afford to as well. And maybe Ruud gets to buy some beans.

Oh interesting, so it seems like the actual winning play is to swish with water and a bit of toothpaste probably, since it contains a small amount of base to help negate the acid.

Based on the article, it’s the mechanical brushing part that makes it bad.

That’s probably the optimal play, yeah.

Make sure to brush your teeth afterward and don’t make a habit of it. Acid damage will fuck your teeth up real good if you’re turning to this regularly.

Depending on how many gummy worms and their manner of entrance, they will potentially expedite themselves.

Eternal September comes for all sites eventually. Arguably, we’re the first waves of Lemmy’s Eternal September for some folks here.

Lmao

What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun

On reddit, reaching a certain negative score threshold would often hide your comment, meaning that your contribution to the thread would be hidden. As the site got older, karma began to be used as an initial leaping off point for participation in some communities, making down votes socially expensive for casual participants, since that slowed their ability to interact with the more restrictive communities in the site.

I remember one of my friends had TWO phone lines, so they can use the phone AND the dial-up at the same time.

I was so insanely fucking jealous. I hated that kid so much, because he could be online all night and he would FUCKING RAID MY KINGDOM IN UTOPIA WHILE TALKING TO ME ON THE PHONE! FUCK YOU ADAM!

Not quite kid.

If you want the real experience, you need to become a worker bee. When you find a link the leads out, don’t just stop at whatever it links to. Hit their home page, look around. Read some stuff. And don’t come back until you have something to bring back to a community somewhere else here.

That’s the real 90s experience. Consuming entire swathes of a website at a time and then going and telling people about it and talking about it.

Do you think we need a community? Well open it. You can’t mod? So what, who cares, you can always give it up later. Open up the community anyways and start posting cool shit for other people to see and encourage them to bring cool stuff to show you too!

If you start doing that, then you’ve got a taste for the 90s experience. Also, listen to ska while you’re doing it.

Convince some eccentric millionaires that its got an incredible depth of meaning, and only the truly discerning eye can see it for what it really is.

I think someone else hit it on the head with the suggestion that there should be some sort of warning that the community is essentially view only and cannot be interacted with. If it has that, then everything should be good.

The thing to keep in mind if you are on a Fediverse instance right now is that you are a very early adopter.

We’re still in the stage where we need people acting like bees. Go out to the greater web and find web sites (REAL WEBSITES, NOT AGGREGATORS), and bring back their content. Stuff that has some actual meaning and teeth that can enable people to make comments.

If you’re a commenter, you need to get in there and engage with people. Not every comment needs to be a top level comment. If you see someone has said something, and you’ve got a response to it, even just a conversational one. Post it.

And finally, memes and images are cheap content. They can be looked at and consumed quickly which makes them great for lurkers, but awful for community building. You need actual content for that.

This is the hive, everyone here are drones, if you want the site to thrive, you need to bring back high quality feed material and you need to communicate with your fellow drones, not just hope that other people will communicate with you.

Some people have, so it’ll be a little slower, but there appears to be a fairly critical mass of users here now. It’s now a question of actually creating active communities to start luring people away.

It’s easy.

You don’t pay for your games in cash. You pay for your games by being an attack node in a hire4pay DDOS botswarm.

The wonders of living in the future.