• Apr 7: “I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks”-

Nice! Good luck! Maybe there are good recipes for frozen banana ice cream online too?

Thanks! And for sure it was. I found this link with info and it seems that it had more ingredients than I thought, but main ingredients were still bananas, coconut milk, and dates. They had other flavors besides these. https://godairyfree.org/product-reviews/must-love-bananas-reviews

It probably wouldn’t be too difficult to make it at home, or perhaps someone else will eventually pick up the idea and start selling it again.

Please share what it was… There was this amazing “ice cream” that was sold a few years ago that was made basically from frozen bananas and dates. I think it was called Hakuna Banana? Unfortunately, the company stopped making it. :(

@jdr@lemmy.ml @Furbag@lemmy.world Wait, that wiktionary explanation seems weird too. I always thought of homie as being a derivative of “homeboy” or “homegirl”. I could be wrong, but I definitely started hearing homie after those two and have always thought that they were connected. In fact, the wiktionary page for homeboy lists homie as a related term, so to me it seems like the two pages are contradicting each other.

The impression I have is that Germans are bigger users of the Fediverse in general than other countries, as in statistically overrepresented. Mastodon is originally a German project. Germans also created a Fediverse application for buying and selling second-hand items, Flohmarkt (Flea Market). Some other posts here have mentioned that Germans are culturally/historically more interested in privacy than many others, which may help explain the interest in the Fediverse. Finally, Lemmy is also an European project, so it makes sense that there would be more Europeans here, and Germany is the largest European economy and the most populous Western-European nation. Those are all probably factors contributing to this.

I came here to mention Pimsleur as a good option too. You can get them as audio books through sites like Audible for much less than that, but I don’t know if it’s the same amount of modules per course as if you get it directly from Pimsleur.

I’ve seen people recommend Michel Thomas’ products too, and have seen others compare Paul Noble’s audiobooks positively to those. I’ve tried both and find them a pretty interesting approach.

This one was also recommended by someone on Lemmy a few weeks back: https://www.languagetransfer.org/ - I don’t know anything about it other than that (and that it’s free?)

Far from the only one: https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes

Millions of users, no. That only happens with either massive marketing and/or sheer luck to become the popular thing.

Niche communities, yes, if the software is tweaked a little. We already have niche communities. Now it’s just a question of making sure that the people who are interested in those topics and subscribed become more aware of posts in those communities. In other words, just a different algorithm for the main feed. Lemmy and Piefed have already tried adding new algorithms, but they didn’t seem to do the job (at least Lemmy’s new algorithm - I haven’t tried Piefed’s yet). Oh, and those new algorithms that would promote posts in niche communities to have more even standing with posts in large, general communities would need to become the default or at least widely adopted by users in order to have the intended effect.

This has been part of the us navy’s war gaming/training exercises for decades now. Of course, they use incorrect information about their own equipment’s capabilities and limitations and underestimate their enemy, but they have pretended they can accomplish this for a long time

If you haven’t heard of “Millennium Challenge 2002”, check it out. It was a major US war game where the “red” team obliterated the “blue” team with non-electronic communications and attacks with cruise missiles and small boats. Sound familiar yet? They had to reset the game and start over with the red team being artificially hamstrung in order to ensure a blue team victory.

Yes, this is the kind of counter-example I was thinking of as well, as opposed to rent-seeking.

Got it, thanks. I agree that those two things are pretty different from each other.

There’s a pretty wide range of things that are considered passive income. The examples you listed are some of them, and I agree that they are or can be exploitative, but there are many (particularly the ones where someone benefits from monetizing their own creations) that I wouldn’t.

Edit: I’m not trying to give you a hard time. I was trying to better understand what you were saying.

I think that for us to evaluate this one you would have to give an example of a similar act (singer/songwriter/performer) who is not overrated or even underrated in your opinion.

I think this needs a bit more explanation. I have a feeling that you are thinking of some specific examples of passive income that would qualify as labor appropriation (or some other type of exploitation), while there are examples of passive income that aren’t.

For sure!

I think it’s pretty common, and it’s super annoying. If I’m looking for something and see that it’s the exact same item with a price higher than on Amazon, I suspect that it’s a drop-ship and they’re pocketing the difference. I’ve gone through the effort to return that stuff if I happen to order it inadvertently. I’ve considered straight out asking them if they’re drop shipping before ordering, to be sure.

I don’t know about spambots, but here is one explanation of the Piefed karma mechanisms I’ve read here:

https://lemmy.zip/post/57943283/24279809

Oh, yes, I only noticed after replying to you that the OP mentioned gaming. I generally wouldn’t recommend most SFF PCs for gaming either.

Though spend a bit more for a solid i7 and avoid SFF.

The SFF’s can be great for just browsing, office use, light photo editing, etc. Obviously nothing too demanding, but they save a lot of power for their intended purpose. I picked up a USFF Lenovo ThinkCentre about the size of a Mac Mini for $100 a couple years back.