Lol, yeah. There's almost always something. I (and I think most millenials) had the housing crisis/economic crash as we entered the age of employment.
Beyond AI tools in IDEs, the reputation of the site's attitude towards new question posters definitely doesn't help. Neither does the site's pivot towards AI that alienated a bunch of the power users. The reputation issue isn't new though, and I'm not sure of when the AI pivot started.
I'm also not sure if it's a great metric. Personally, anything complicated enough for me to want outside help with is usually so far into the specifics of my work environment that it's not safe to ask about online. It'd either be too revealing or devolve into the classic "I refuse to answer your question because I refuse to believe your starting scenario and limitations". Otherwise it tends to be stuff I can sort out by piecing together stuff from blogs, documentation, and tangentially related stackOverflow answers. Not always easy, but easy enough that I'd rather work through it myself instead of asking the internet for help.
Don't read/clear your replies and you too can achieve this glory:
You could fit two fleshlights in it! One sideways in the head and one in the torso. Bikini Bottom fun with friends!
Pardon me, I'm going to go scoop my brain out with a melon baller and bleach it.
It's only going to increase as midterms get closer. Much like 4chan, just because lemmy isn't run by business and political interests sure as hell doesn't mean it has any further resistance to astroturfing than social media that is.
As long as it's easier to make accounts and posts than it is for moderators to moderate, you'll see shit like this.
Even if it's astroturfing that aligns with your beliefs folks, please keep your eyes open for it.
Sucks is an understatement.
Look, there's enough to go around. If anything, the horrid state of the Democrats should only highlight just how fucking bad the Republicans are.
Like, the bar was set down a mine shaft by the Democrats to begin with. What do you mean the Republicans reached the fucking planet core?
I don't know how you can look at all the pictures and video clips of Biden creeping on girls, read testimony from some of them from the past who have grown up, know that Epstein's Island wasn't some politically partisan affair (how the fuck did Trump suck off Bill Clinton at an Epstein event if Bill wasn't there)... and decide that of all fucking people, Joe fucking Biden deserves the benefit of the doubt on being a pedo.
Hands down he was better than the sack of fat and bronzer we have now. That doesn't mean he wasn't an obvious as fuck pedo.
It is in fact possible to understand the horrors of the Democrat fuckstains while understanding the Republicans are monumentally worse.
What the fuck? I was like dead certain that you were stuck with a bunch of high schoolers at a grocery store or something. That should never be happening anywhere remotely close to a cube farm.
Best strategy is to play dumb. "Hello, [fuckface's manager], I have some concerns about the tiktok content [fuckface] is making for the company and some questions about my job responsibilities in relation to it. [Fuckface] pretty regularly interrupts my work to request me to act in these videos and it is getting in the way of my usual duties. If my participation is required, could you please let me know in writing? I'll also need to discuss with my manager about how this should be prioritized and scheduled alongside my other job duties."
Force their awareness in a way that doesn't immediately look like an assassination. The more you can get in writing the more rope this guy makes to hang himself with. If somehow they claim it's actually work related, keep pushing the edges of "I just want to be sure" until his channel is company property or he shoots himself in the foot.
Alternatively, get paid to intentionally do bad acting. "Oh, I've never been good on camera, sorry!"
Why would that take the fun out of it? Just tell them no.
Just like this coworker. Just tell him no. "I'm not helping you with your side hustle man, find someone else."
There's no need for them to go fishing when they've got more incriminating shit from lemmy data for free. Community subscriptions and even up and downvotes on lemmy aren't private.
It's a limitation of Lemmy itself. Either link OR image for a post, not both. And you can put whatever you want in the body.
Someone gifted this to my wife and I after our successful IVF. Still haven't put our photos in it, and everytime I see it I giggle.
Miracle Love Baby sounds like some magical girl anime shit.
Honestly? That's rookie numbers.
Preface
I'm not trying to call out the mod action of removing my post from the comm so much as I'm calling out the complete lack of mod action leading to the comm becoming shit and having the current top post by scaled, hot, and active being a post that explicitly targets another lemmy user.
That out of the way... !mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world has clearly been slipping from the purpose of the comm for a while now. Most of the posts are actually infuriating and/or political. I understand that what qualifies as either of those can be different for different people, but I feel most of this shit clearly isn't mundane or simple enough to fall under the label of just mildly infuriating.
Here's some examples from the first page right now, sorted by scaled.
While I could have sworn the sidebar had a no politics rule, it doesn't at the time of me writing this up, so politics are arguably acceptable, although I personally feel these all clearly don't match the theme of the community, violating Rule 7.
Sidebar, and expanded rule 7
A few other posts have been made calling this out.
Mod harder and [META] What actually constitutes "mildly infuriating" content?
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Beyond all that mess, we have what was the final straw for me.
Rule 1 (and less so 5), and the current top post by scaled, hot, and active.
I cannot accept that a post to mildly infuriating that targets a specific user while not even removing their username is respectful, and I personally consider it harassment (while it may not violate rule 5 as there is no call to action). Removing the username is usually the bare minimum even in the fucking reddit brigading subs, for plausible deniability.
And regardless of whatever arguments can be had about interpretations of the community's specific rules, it's a dick move. Just block the guy. It reminds me of the god awful reddit dogpiling and brigading. I don't want any of that to come to lemmy.
So I reported it, then saw the recent posts asking mods for action that got no response. I then looked at the mods.
So I did something dumb as hell. Roughly an hour after I reported it, I made my own post (now removed from the comm). I find people who make call out posts about others, and the absentee mods allowing it, mildly infuriating. Yeah, childish as shit. What's done is done.
Modlog:
Removed for "doesn't fit community", but what do you folks think? Does it really not fit when the top post is what it is? Personally I think both should be gone, lest that comm descend further into shit.
Either way, now that I have this yell into the void out of me, I'm blocking the comm. Maybe I should have made my post in actually infuriating? (kidding)
That is a threat.
From some back to school flyer.
I have so many great memories from childhood vacations to Mystery Flesh Pit National Park. I cant believe the disaster happened all the way back in 2007.
At least someone has been collecting and documenting everything they can find from the old place: https://www.mysteryfleshpitnationalpark.com/
I still can't make it all the way through the disaster report.
Definitely a repost, but it fits the season
I have a hard time believing this isn't a shitpost project.