Meldroc

I think in the later dying days of the floppy disk, the manufacturers made them with really poor quality. It used to be in earlier years, say the 8-bit years when floppy disks were still floppy, that the disks could keep your data for years if you treated them like vinyl records and never touched the magnetic surface.

In the late years, I’ve seen floppy disks that failed almost immediately.

These days, the only people still using this debunked wolf talk are douchebros, chuds, & incels.

Easy. Manufacturers pay for endcap displays and choice shelf space. It’s advertising for them. (source: I work for a brewery, and that’s how they put together the beer aisle. I’ve seen the software used to build the shelf arrangements.)

Grocery chains have software for putting together shelf arrangements. Suppliers have to pay if they want their products at a quality location at eye level, or near the ends of the aisle. And of course pay more for things like endcap displays.

Barista working a Karen convention.

Indeed! I think a lot of people here are getting wise to that.

No.

I think we understand the other side just fine. They’re a combination of malignant narcissists and complete idiots.

Exactly. The cancer may wear a swastika or a hammer-and-sickle. Either way, it’s authoritarian cancer.

Yep, they get bored when they don’t have people to bully after the rest of the planet tells them to fuck off.

Just ignore the genocides perpetuated by the Soviets…

Oh look, tankie horseshit. How many millions died as a result of “efforts to establish socialism”? So why don’t you shove that disingenuous bullshit up your ass.

Damned right. Fuck nazis and tankies. Fuck the bigots and fuck the authoritarian Putin-lovers.

Lemmy, and occasionally getting actual work done.

They scream about it, but MRNA tech & the other advancements involved enabled us to get from zero-to-vaccine in record time, and I’m convinced that because of that, my 84yo mother with COPD is still here!

They call it conspiracy, I call that victory!

Ah, the things we do to attempt to preserve our dignity when we think we’re getting something only entertainingly hot, but turns out to be Chicken à la Mace…

On the bright side, at least you don’t have coal-rollers…

Yep, the Daily Fail. Fucking Murdoch rag.

I just noticed that Lemmy.world’s getting upgraded to 0.18.4 - will this patch up some of these SQL problems?

That, or it could be right-wing neo-nazi chuds from the detonating-craniums instance that are butthurt that nobody wants to federate with them.