I feel you. My thoughts often spill out that way, too.

Lots of compound sentences. And a “tone” suitable for USA Today. At least, that’s the vibe I get from ChatGPT.

I would guess part of it is Google getting worse and people adding reddit to the query hoping to find answers to PC problems, etc.

Wholesome meme: Kill All Humans.

–Bender

That episode was so great. It has aged a bit strangely, because now we have 500 streaming platforms and we’re still getting screwed.

Spez: Guys, we need to brainstorm so hard here. What else can we do to make the site even worse.

Dev Director: Sir, don’t you mean more profitable?

Spez: No, dipshit. I didn’t stutter. Brain. Storm. Let’s hear your shittiest ideas. Go nuts, guys. Nothing’s off the table. I fucking hate our users. They must suffer.

You ain’t missing a damned thing. Reddit is an AI content collection agency. It’s swarming with bots, unhappy users, and those too dumb to find alternarives.

Reddit users will be so surprised when leopards eat their faces.

The Fediverse welcomes the future influx of more content creators!

“AKSHUALLEEEEE…”

“God, no. No!”

Just a wild guess on my part: it might be that there are more nerve endings on your arms than on your legs, so your arms are more sensitive to the sensations that you need to re-apply sunscreen. Nerve density varies greatly between body parts and even people.

My grandmother made it all the time. My parents seldom made it. I have never made it. I associate it with hospitals and crappy school cafeterias.

They seem very backwards when there are drone displays and other forms of entertainment. Humans cling on to things way too long.

This might be your client app, maybe…? On Jerboa, tapping a post takes me to the lemmy comments first. Opening the link is a second deliberate tap.

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Skyscrapers typically take 2-5 years to build. I’m going to hazard a guess that a pyramid like the Great Pyramid of Giza would take more like 5-10 years.

There’s a lot of variables to this, especially the location and the source (quarry) and transportation of the high-quality limestone that you would need. You would also want to use some granite and other stone materials if you’re trying to match what the ancient Egyptians did. (If you’re allowed to use modern concrete and steel, it could change things dramatically.)

The Great Pyramid is about 147m tall and 230m wide along each side. Assuming it’s mostly solid stone, You would need roughly 2.5 million cubic meters of material.

Preparing and grading the site would go much faster with bulldozers and graders and the like, but is still a time-consuming process. Quarrying the limestone would also go much faster than the ancients because we have explosives, hydraulics, etc. But there’s still a lot of precision cutting and fitting to be done. Cranes would make placing the stones go faster but again, still time-consuming.

CAD software would also make the whole project faster and easier (and would further highlight how ingenious the ancient people were with this accomplishment). Experts already know a lot about the pyramids, but I bet if they built one they’d learn even more.

My wild guess is: if you marshaled enough resources and put a highly competent person in charge of it, you could get it done in 5 years.

Yeah, he was a hypocrit and I despised the guy. Woz was the real hero of Apple. But Jobs did say that stuff, and he was correct in that moment. We see it over and over.

As much as I disliked Steve Jobs, the man was 100% correct when he talked about companies rotting from the inside. They get taken over by sales & marketing types and the product designers and user experience experts get kicked to the curb.

TY!

Is there a Pirate Bay for books?