When they fail, it won’t be their fault of course, it’ll be AI’s fault.

@PugJesus@lemmy.world it’s time to “cross the Rubicon” to full federation!

These are all excellent communities, and invariably some of my favorite posts of the day. I’m seeing them on lemmy.world, btw.

!cyberpunk@lemmy.zip - mostly games, movies, shows, and music in the cyberpunk sci-fi genre

!wavemusic@lemmy.world - music: synthwave, vaporwave, etc. A fairly new community, a couple different people have been posting

!gothindustrial@lemmy.world - music community. I was hoping someone else would make the 300th post, if not I’ll post something later today.

!fullmoviesonyoutube@lemm.ee - a larger community, a couple of us are posting regularly, but could use more discussion

!fedigrow@lemm.ee - a community about how to help grow the fediverse. @Blaze@reddthat.com has been posting a weekly thread on “how is your [niche] community doing?” which is kind of like a support group for people keeping communities alive

edit: how could I forget, !shortstories@literature.cafe - links to short stories online in all genres

I don’t usually recommend anime, but if that concept sounds interesting, check out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyouge_Mono

I liked it better when I was trying to guess what it was.

Finally, wave comes to lemmy.

!synthwave@lemmy.world has been here a while and there was waveform.social before that, but it’s good to see a community with an active mod. I think I’m a switch to this one.

if you took the world and seperated its humans by intelligence, the “idiot” group is going to be much bigger than the “PhD” group. Like…by a lot.

No… you’d have a bell curve. But even that assumes you have a single good measure of intelligence.

I kind of agree with the rest of your post, but I would have worded it a bit differently, emphasizing that people who found it difficult to start using Lemmy might still be worth having around. Also, I don’t think “as large as Reddit” or “small niche unknown” are our only options.

I just say: “It’s like email. There are different email servers, but they can all talk to one another. If there are things you really like, you can subscribe to them, and if there are things you don’t like, you can block them.”

Or replace “email” with “instant messages”.

at least two people with Lemmy World accounts downvoted this post.

Maybe they don’t like the thought of Ruud getting older.

If we can’t meme, I don’t want to be part of the revolution.

~(that’s a joke, based on something emma goldman kind of said)~

Take some examples that you saw in the past. Even if they were on other platforms. Copy them and post them in your new community for a while.

I think you’re supposed to put a link starting with an exclamation mark, like this: !petahexplainthejoke@lemmy.today

On resume: “dramatically increased corporate data security, drawing notice from management company-wide.”

No US companies thought that Americans would ever understand or get into this weird Japanese stuff

I miss the subtitled “translator notes” about cultural things. US companies just change the meaning of things if there’s no easy equivalent.

Statement 1: “You can save up to 77% if you buy now”

Statement 2: “you can never save by buying something. I save if I don’t buy”

Statement 2a: “save 77% compared to buying at full price”

Statement 2b: “Save 77% compared to not buying the item”

Statement 2’s first use of “save” suggests that of Statement 2a, and Statement 2’s second use of “save” suggests that of Statement 2b. Statement 1’s use of the word “save” corresponds to that of Statement 2a. I don’t think we disagree on the semantics, though we may be phrasing things a little differently.

You’re playing a semantics game though. The assumption is that you ARE going to buy the thing. Society has decided that “save 77%” is a valid shortening of “save 77% compared to buying at full price” because that is the most logical comparison to make. Yes. “Save 77% compared to not buying the item” makes no sense, but that is clearly not what is being implied here. Implying and inferring things is a normal part of human communication, and refusing to accept the implications doesn’t make you clever.

I agree that the original poster was playing a semantics game; indeed, I interpret Statement 2 as follows.

Interpetation A: Statement 2 is a witticism that plays off the contextual use of the word “save”. Specifically, the humorous force of Statement 2 is in its reinterpretation of the word “save”. Statement 2 is saying: “Statement 1’s use of the word ‘save’ is that of Statement 2a, but I choose to reinterpret Statement 1’s use of the word ‘save’ to that of Statement 2b!”

Comment 1: The reinterpretation performed by Statement 2 is mildly subversive in that it rejects Statement 1’s interpretation of ‘save’.

Comment 2: The reinterpretation performed by Statement 2 is mildly empowering in that it performs a reinterpetation of ‘save’ to the benefit of the writer.

You say “refusing to accept the implications doesn’t make you clever”. There’s a bit of an aesthetic judgment to the “doesn’t make you clever” part which we can agree to disagree on. But Interpretation A does not depend on “refusing to accept the implications”. Rather, it accepts the implication, and subverts it to provide the effects described in Comments 1 and 2.

Note: The original post that started this discussion seems to be unavailable apparently because the original poster (I am not the original poster) deleted it. I believe we are just discussing among ourselves.

Ok you’re right. This is worse than NFTs.

The assumption is that you ARE going to buy the thing.

Sure, but that’s the assumption created by the advertisement. If you’re debating buying something, and the ad says “You can save up to 77% if you buy now” then suddenly the presupposition is (sneakily!) introduced that you are going to buy it. In that case, identifying and rejecting the presupposition is the smarter thing to do.

I’m wondering how often do people beyond kids re-watch movies and TV shows?

You should become acquainted with The Office fandom. Some of them have it on permanent repeat.

So it’s basically an NFT.