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Ok, so I keep getting gaslighted by people around me (USA) when I comment how crazy the weather is, and how we've never had it like this, and they say things like "oh, you just notice it more now because you're older" or "the weathers always done this"

But I don't think it's normal for weather to be -10 degrees F with snow, and then 3 days later 75 degrees F! That seems insane to me!

Unless I'm wrong and we really have had this insane type of weather "forever". But it doesn't feel like it.

the Question: Am I crazy, or right, and is there proof?

I'm lucky that I can say yes. That said, I still wouldnt do it for free. What about you, how do you feel about your job/career/field in general?

I notice that when watch videos not from the 10ish vids recommended to me, it buffers alot, even on a 10 sec short.

I, as many others do, use Lemvotes to check the votes on any Lemmy post or comment.

It's a VERY simple website: you paste in a url and it returns a list of votes. That's it.

So why are there 6,000 lines of obfuscated javascript? What's it all doing? It serves 18 js files all referencing each other:

which amounts to 6k lines of javascript:

https://pastebin.com/JKUrS7H5

I know just a little js so I briefly tried to understand some bits of it but it just looks unrelated to the page. It has a load of strings that sound related to database queries, but there's only one query you can make so that doesn't need 6k lines. And I'd expect the query to be done server-side anyway so idk.

Any idea?

Frequency, not volume.

Yesterday I was at a restaurant with my friends. This Asian guy came in and sat near us. I noticed him speaking Korean on the phone. I consume a lot of Korean content, so this got me really excited. On a whim, I decided to go up to him and chat. I introduced myself, and he invited me to sit with him if I wanted to, even though he was a bit awkward, lol. He ordered some stuff for me. I found out he’s here in Switzerland for work, and we had a good talk. I ended up hanging out with him around the city. We exchanged contact info and are seeing each other again today after he gets off work. It was my first time doing something like this, and I honestly didn’t know meeting people could be so spontaneous and organic.

I'm not sure that I've phrased this question well, or that I even know how to ask this question well.

Once upon a time, I looked at the web as akin to an igneous rock, whereas now I think of it as a sedimentary rock.

The web has changed a lot in the last ~5 years. Sure, it can withstand a nuclear blast or whatever it was designed to withstand, but it clearly wasn't designed to have usage patterns designed to endure.

For me, the thing that really drove this point home was a (possibly fake, possibly a joke) business card I once saw online. I don't specifically remember where I saw it, but I remember it was like a name and then where the title would typically go, it said "bounty hunter, soldier of fortune," and other dubious jobs. When I saw it, I thought it was hilarious. However, when I tried to find it again years later, I could not.

That experience got me to thinking that the primary usage pattern I had come to expect was not prevalent. Moreover, I remember having to cite sources in school papers by listing URLs, and I was never also taught that those links are transient -- that was something I learned via living.

Obviously, a public school college professor is not like a magic oracle that knows all the right answers and how the future unfolds, I get that. This all just gets me to thinking about the ephemerality of knowledge. I remember being very enthusiastic about Google once upon a time. I saw a Google video where someone from there said Google's mission was to make all human knowledge universally accessible. I was like majorly seduced by that. Now ~20 years later, the web -- you know: the one Google owns 😒 -- is like a maze of ads. That isn't really what I had in mind when I heard "all human knowledge."

Anyway, I mention all of this because my first impression was that humans sought to record what was known so as to build upon that. Now, my impression is that the digital commons got turned into forum of captive buyers without the language used ever changing, so it's a shift that's difficult to detect.

I was just banned from there for making 4 comments about how a couple commenters could be CCP agents.

While aristocratic oligarchs taking down a populist tyrant isn't the unambiguous step towards freedom it's sometimes portrayed as, it's important to have a day to celebrate the end of tyrants.

Who will you be toasting the demise of today?

I wondered if there was an appetite for a ridesharing drivers' community here.

I was looking at Graphite Editor project and how the hell is 24k stars on GitHub translate to 600$ per month?

This is not the first open source project that I see with this problem.

Why the hell is no one supporting open source developers?

I love learning, but I don’t like formal education (which is why I do online school - it's mostly a formality, not much actual schooling). No career really appeals to me. I honestly just want to be a housewife. Thankfully, I have my family's unconditional support, so I would never have to depend on a man.

I bought a safe. wtf do I need a safe for?

I was wondering how users tend to judge what to upvote, what do downvote, and what not to vote on.

I made this comment which got me wondering what others think and do

Personally I upvote almost everything. I see upvote as "this is a good Lemmy post/comment" and downvote as "this is a bad Lemmy post/comment". Most of what I see is good. Bad things are things such as misinformation, bad faith stuff / trolling, people being mean/annoying, bad (in my opinion) takes, people being wrong/stupid about stuff, irrelevant things, etc. When I do not vote it's for one of 3 reasons: either I don't understand what it is saying, it makes a reference I don't get, or I can't determine whether it's good or bad (usually because it's unclear).

What's something normal that should remain a taboo?

cross-posted from: https://suppo.fi/post/11006271

This is probably a really weird question for most, and I apologise if this doesn't fit this community, I couldn't find a more applicable one. I'm trying to find a roleplay group. It's very strange and niche, but I'm looking for people interested in roleplaying as anthropomorphic countries (CountryHumans). The platform would specifically be Stoat Chat. If anyone is interested, DM me for the invite link! For some reason I'm not able to view replies on suppo.fi, but I can on piefed.social, though I don't have an account there, so replies may be slow and I will just make comments and @ the person I'm replying to, sorry!

Hi all,

I want to start a photo community.

I'm trying to figure out the best place..

Mastadon?

Lemmy?

This will be a lot of (hopefully) high quality images. What is the best place for this?

What about pixelfed?

I'm a bit stumped!

You can take "justifiable" to mean whatever you feel it means in this context. e.g. Morally, artistically, environmentally, etc.