No Stupid Questions is typically for questions that have answers that are not based on speculation or opinion. That might be better suited for Ask Lemmy. (!asklemmy@lemmy.ml or !asklemmy@lemmy.world)

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I’m not sure what’s better: The alligator wearing the hat, the conservation instructor seemingly grabbing its tail to stop it, or the alligator just not giving a shit and carrying on with its day.

Dude should just delete his account in a form of internet Harakiri at that point.

Hamas staged a public ceremony in Khan Yunis before releasing the bodies as they displayed images of the hostages and blamed Israel for their deaths, a claim Israeli officials strongly ‘rejected’.

Yeah, they spent more than a year basically leveling Gaza, killed tens of thousands of people, but the suggestion that these 4 might have been among those they killed is just unthinkable.

Diet.

I’m increasingly convinced that that’s his ultimate goal. Or maybe Putin’s ultimate goal and Trump is just being used as a puppet.

The fact that this is considered newsworthy is a big part of the problem. A lot of people say dumb shit every day, but they don’t have their shit takes broadcast to the world with a huge microphone. Who gives a shit if some asshole said something stupid? Why does anyone need to hear about it? (Directed at BRICS News, not at OP, to be clear.)

I like that movie quite a bit. Watched it many times. Didn’t realize it was so critically disliked. :(

I don’t have the links you’re looking for, so I can’t be any help there, but I do want to give you a hearty welcome to Lemmy anyway!

They had two wolves inside of them and the experience left them feeling weirdly aroused and it scared them a little.

It does, though, because not every instance federates with every other instance. If someone is coming from Reddit, and they interact with a set of specific subs there, and they want to interact with the analogue communities here, they don’t want to join an instance like, for example Beehaw, that has very strict federation policies, or (probably) .ml or lemmygrad, where they’ll be exposed to stigma they weren’t aware of going in and which might not apply to them.

A list of servers with very open federation could solve this problem in theory, assuming new users knew to reference it, but that might not be what they want, either.

The invite code idea is actually solid, I think, assuming they’re handed out to people who have things in common with the target userbase of the instance, and not arbitrarily.

There’s also some instances that hold united views on specific topics, for example blahaj with trans rights, and someone arbitrarily choosing that instance that doesn’t hold those same views might feel that they don’t fit in.

Obviously anyone can just choose a new instance and move, but for a new user coming in, that’s a ‘quit moment’ in many cases. Giving an invite code to someone that leads them to an instance that at least broadly fits what they’re interested in could help solve for this.

Edit: I think having more instances that have specific themes and topics, like slrpnk or programming.dev (or pawb, for that matter) would help, too. Someone looking in from the outside might not understand federation, but if they see an instance geared towards a topic they’re interested in, they might be inclined to join it even if they incorrectly think that’s all they’ll be able to interact with.

If Musk had a brain aneurysm tonight, it would be a net positive for the human race.

I’m glad you thought of this, because I was very confused by this post. I thought the question was asking which group of countries you’d want to be allowed to visit.

This is a great example of survivorship bias! Someone surviving those types of events is a very rare occurrence, so when it happens, it’s noteworthy and the word gets around. You don’t hear about all of the times those things happen and the person doesn’t survive (or at least, you don’t hear about them as prevalently.) Similarly, when someone stumbles on a curb and survives, it’s not news, but when someone stumbles and dies, it is!

Something like many Reddit subs do with the snoo, where they took a common, recognizable icon and customized it for their instance would have worked well if there was a similar icon for instances to latch onto, but we’re past that point now.

This looks pretty dumb. Who would ever use this?

I legitimately love this collection.

You could break the handle on one of the Engagement Mugs and have two perfectly usable mugs. Similarly, the Uncomfortable Mug works just fine as long as you just hold it like you would a cup.

The champagne glasses could technically be used if you only filled one side of it, and only enough that it didn’t tip over. Alternately, break the stems off and just don’t set them down.

The fork on the other hand doesn’t seem to have any practical use. I’d nix that.

Aww, man - I’d forgotten about Empire Earth, that game was absolutely the shit at the time. Wish it’d gotten more attention and credit.