No, they don’t. Because they’ve never left America once. They just like to sit in their shit and ask why it smells.

Indoor cycling / running is “just as hard”, you can scale it to the difficulty you prefer.

Exercise, for 95% of people, is about being healthy. Making that more convenient means you are more inclined to stick with it which is a win. Making it artificially harder in ways that don’t directly contribute to your goals just increases the chance of burnout, skipping days, etc. Or just making it easier in ways that actively harm your goals.

I would prefer someone take every opportunity to make their exercise experience easier in non-material ways if it meant they tried a bit harder on the actual relevant stuff e.g. increase resistance, time, weight, etc.

People who say this make me laugh because it is extremely obvious that you don’t exercise, either indoors or outdoors. It’s like asking “why would anyone ever buy an oven when you literally could just eat the raw ingredients”, presumably you’ve just never consumed food before.

There are benefits to stationary cardio. 1) More convenient 2) Easier to zone out 3) Built in pacer 4) Safer 5) Doesn’t matter if it’s snowing/raining/humid/hot/dark. 6) Can be done from home, relevant if you have kids, on call duties, etc 7) Good way for adults to learn how to ride a bike in the first place 8) two people can run next to eachother at different paces while chatting 9) can be stopped at any point and you’re never 2 miles from your destination 10) Some people just don’t enjoy riding in the road, and riding on sidewalks is illegal in many areas 11) can be set for very long downhill or uphill segments that aren’t realistic in the real world 12) easier to follow a class/routine.

Like. People aren’t just idiots. They use them because there are good reasons to use them.

I got banned for one of those “How to kill orphan after parent is dead” jokes in a programming sub.

Which… the whole joke is that without context it looks awful. But also. Did the bot think I was sincerely asking…? I killed the parents but I needed Reddit’s help on the next steps.

“Overeducated” is quite the pejorative.

Especially in the context of critiquing grammar.

I know everything about everything but first I’m going to make this Earth simulation to see how you behave since I don’t know yet. And then I will make decisions based on this information that I didn’t know even though I knew it.

Pretty much anything about science.

We all know models and simplifications but even the people at the utter cutting edge of any sub-niche of any sub-field you pick will agree there are parts they don’t really understand.

You can master & fully understand sufficiently simplified models but to actually understand the underlying process is to take a step beyond what humanity is capable of.

I generally find it unhelpful. People’s reaction time sucks and and so many people hear ‘left’ and jump in that direction before their brain can process. It’s not an intelligence thing that some people try to make it seem, it’s just that the average person has this interaction like once per year thus don’t have muscle memory baked in.

I yell out ‘excuse me’ from several feet back or ring a bell if I’m on a bike. Or more often just slow down as I normally don’t really care.

No I enjoy it. I’m not sitting there getting angry over anything or having it ruin my day.

Just once and a while swing by and laugh for a bit. It’s like a zoo I guess? But I have more respect for zoos.

“What are the idiots up to today… oh being idiots lol”

Yeah this is all second hand from an announcement about something that is “going to happen”. So details might differ from what actually shows up.

And yes I think mod abuse is starting to show up in their bottom line. They need people commenting so they target ads more effectively, same reason they killed r/All. They need to know stuff about you so they can send ads.

Mods being the toxic assholes they are is driving people to lurk, as you stated.

They recently had a mod event where they announced they are restricting ban abilities from mods. Basically AI can ban, mods can choose to unban - but not initiate a ban in the first place.

There are a couple mods I like to hate-watch, once a month or so I swing by and see what kind of BS they have been doing lately. The schadenfreude of watching them mald over this was the best I’ve had all year.

Websites are basically just a program on a different computer somewhere. Think of it like passing notes back and forth.

User sends a note using their computer requesting the website content, that note gets passed to someone elses computer. That computer looks at the note and sends back a different note with some different information on it i.e. the website content. Then they keep sending notes back and forth as the user takes actions. The main two categories of “taking over a website” is to either catch the notes while they are being passed and change what it says (MITM attack) or to convince the other computer to send different notes to begin with.

But of course, the owners of the website have layers and layers and layers of protection to make it really hard to ‘convince’ their computer to do something unless you have all their special keys/passwords. That’s why you need to find some defect that lets you in anyways, or somehow get their keys/passwords.

Has yahoo become so desperate and/or scammy that they rely on malicious extensions to drive traffic to their shitty search engine

Yes basically. Ask.com went the same way.

Create an incentive program and then let the less ethical side of the internet build adware.

There are many news commentators I generally enjoy but EVERY SINGLE VIDEO has a headline about some person getting destroyed or how “it’s over” for them.

I just want like, 20-30 minutes coverage of whatever happens to be the most interesting & important stuff without a whole bunch of bullshit fluff. I’ve stopped watching news on YT in general because of this and just stick to the content that knows it’s slop i.e. video game challenge runs lmao.

View count is a tipoff. For whatever reason I get a lot of ultra-low view count videos in my feed, like single or double digit view counts. It’s almost always AI slop

Millennials were teenagers during peak cigarette campaigns but before vapes were readily available.

Also benefits your community. Kids that do little side gigs like that are significantly less likely to pursue nefarious ways of getting cash.

I’ve heard of Halloween parties where people wear cheap tank tops & what not and then via various games other people can cut away at the fabric, removing pieces until the inevitable orgy

Which is all fun and good for them, maybe they occurred once or twice for people in my orbit but I heard about them all the damn time. People were very proud of the fact that they were having sex.

Yeah Lemmy mods are just as ban-happy as Reddit mods. Lemmy as a platform is just more forgiving.

There are many that don’t know it’s theft, and others will argue with you that it isn’t even theft to begin with once informed. So yeah this sign probably does stop some theft.