At first, the title of the post made me think that we killed all (possible) life on Mars, not just in the samples taken, just by having landed there and contaminated the planet. Now that would have been a true tragedy.

As long as they can go from their taxpayer-funded air-conditioned offices, to their taxpayer-funded air-conditioned limos, to their taxpayer-funded air-conditioned mansions, they’re good.

If it’s not Shrinkflation, it’s Diluteflation.

I occasionally see posts and news articles about how AriZona Tea Company has “held the line” and kept their giant cans of iced tea priced at 99 cents for so long.

Well, after drinking a few cans of the stuff recently, I’m almost certain they’re watering down their product. The tea is nowhere near as concentrated as it was a few years ago. There’s practically no flavor to it anymore.

How big is this, in real numbers?

Agree with all of that. Blue LEDs, especially, have gotten way out of hand, and manufacturers have got to tone it down.

I think the biggest limiting factor here is the lack of RAM on that system.

If you run out of items to view on Lemmy, you can always go out and, like, engage with family, or hobbies, or grass-touching…

Thanks, Elon. This is why we can’t have good science.

Adding, I found an option in my Mastodon client to hide boosts from my time line. Which solves my original problem. 🙂

Ahhh. See, I didn’t realize the “@news” I was following on Mastodon was actually a Lemmy group. I though it was specific to Mastodon, and expected it would be a news repeater/aggregator. Didn’t know it would also include all responses to the news posts.

It goes with a larger confusion on my part about how Mastodon works, I guess.

Lemmy is like every social medium since the dawn of time: a cross-section of humanity… the good, the bad, and the ugly.

When I was a kid, and we had a power outage, we made do with kerosene lanterns and board games.

How times change.

Truth.

I have a box I meant to store my cat’s toys in, but she commandeered it for napping purposes.

I have to wonder whether Musk knew Meta had the trademark, and intentionally used it in order to rile them up.

… Nah, that would require actual planning on his part.

Age 30?

Pfft. Amateur.

I half expect that, if enough programmers use ChatGPT-written code verbatim, someday it’s going to lead to Skynet. I mean, what’s to stop ChatGPT from inserting bits of extra code to be used for its own distributed processing botnet?

And completely ignored the crowdsourced contributions in favor of the Most. Generic. Logo. Ever.

I mean, if you look at it and squint hard, it kind of looks like a bird in flight with its wings spread? But hardly immediately recognizable, much less iconic.

I want to know, what are “tweets” and “tweeting” going to be relabeled as?

I can just see conversations like:

“Dude, did you see the latest X from Eminem?” “Yeah, I re-X’d it to all my buds!”

Ark Survival Evolved. Been playing it through two GPU-only and one full-PC upgrade. So satisfying to see the game situations which used to send FPS into the single digits, now stay above 60 FPS at all times. (Yes, the game is that horribly optimized.)