Would you like somebody to introduce you to broccoli? There’s a lot of ways to enjoy it, and it’s much more than just a boring “health food” (while simultaneously providing the benefits of a boring “health food”).

This is just one of multiple bangs for the Internet Archive, and probably more intuitive and quick ones include:

• !ia for the Internet Archive generally
• !wbm for the Wayback Machine

Obviously the newest Intel is the 13th generation

Erm

Why read an actual article written by humans when you can turn it into more generative AI garbage instead? 🙄

“People of Earth, I am Lrrr of the planet Omicron Persei 8.”

Useless red circle.

You understand why advertising when it isn’t clearly labeled as such is worse, right?

Your punishment is already that you can’t healthily enjoy the company of a woman and that you can’t post anything other than unfunny boomer Facebook memes; what else do you want?

But Mom would be sad! :(

Nuclear weapons didn’t prevent Ukraine.

If you know even a single thing about Ukraine’s history as an independent country, you know this comment is completely braindead and oozing with irony.

“WHERE’S MY FUCKING MONEY, CEELO?! T’D YOU DO WITH FUCKING MONEY?!”

Since I missed the post two days ago and wasn’t at my desktop with the screenshots yesterday, I decided to bundle three posts into one day for Super Bowl Sunday! 🥳 (This didn’t really happen to me, by the way; I just wanted something darker today.)

Whoops! I didn’t even notice the Modlog because (at least for me) it’s tucked away at the very bottom of the sidebar and nestled between the list of mods and some statistics I don’t really care too much about. :P Genuinely my bad, though; I should’ve looked harder. Appreciate it now that I can finally see it!

I can’t emphasize enough how bad Lemmy’s moderation tools are. It’s not just that they’re abysmally anemic (including that you can’t perform moderator actions on someone in your community without a comment of theirs to click the context menu on? what??). It’s not just that reports don’t synchronize correctly across instances (i.e. if you want to moderate a community on another instance, you’re at a severe disadvantage). It’s that they’re wildly fragmented, presented just all over the place like some kind of scavenger hunt.

• As I said previously, the context menu of a comment is the only way you can ban and unban users (except that you actually can ban them if you use the API directly).
• Moderation has zero hierarchy, so 1) any moderator if they want to can perform a Night of the Long Knives and become the sole moderator (fine for now when admins can quickly intervene, but impossibly stupid if Lemmy ever became bigger), and 2) every moderator has access to all of the tools (including appointing other mods).
• You can’t view a list of banned users and unban them from there; this gets back into point 1 where you need to dig up the last comment on your community (not easily if you removed it) to unban them.
• On Voyager (third-party mobile app), I have more tools than I do on desktop, which indicates to me that the tools are there in the API but just aren’t exposed on desktop for some god-forsaken reason.
• I literally can’t even view a per-community modlog on desktop. I have to go out and find the Lemmy.World modlog (usually from a search engine) and then filter by action and pray that it was recent enough that I can find it in the rest of the heap.
• Oh, but don’t worry. There’s a third-party tool for viewing the modlog, which is just ??? What the fuck?? How is this in some random tool you have to go searching for instead of in Lemmy proper? And even then, this tool has its flaws.

Edit: obviously no automod either, although I know that’s a much larger undertaking than any of the things I’ve listed thus far.

thank mr skeltal

But the question is: how would a mosquito that develops this trait have an easier time reproducing? Assuming it reproduced and had quite a few offspring, would that collective group of thousands of mosquitoes have an easier time reproducing? It wouldn’t, because humans don’t have some kind of vision that tells them the mosquito won’t make them start itching 5 minutes later or whatever, by which point the mosquito is long gone. Even if they did, they’d still smack it upon noticing it, because it carries deadly diseases and is an annoying insect.

Correct. A vestigial structure however is one that is no longer needed and is greatly diminished but is retained anyway because there’s little selective pressure against it. It need not be completely useless, but fingernails serve multiple legitimately important functions in humans and thus aren’t vestigial.

There’s still debate over how exactly teeth originated.

It also serves to enable very precise grip in a way that a blunt fingertip couldn’t (pinching something very tiny), to enable us to scrape things, and to protect the fingertip from injury. It definitely isn’t vestigial.

The itch doesn’t begin until well after the female mosquito gets her food and leaves, so what reproductive advantage does it give to that specific mosquito over the others to make the itch not happen at all? The answer is “none”.