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@ The_Picard_Maneuver @lemmy.world

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  • WTF is a rural town in the USA?

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  • They're still cities, but people tend to start calling them "rural" when you get a certain distance from the big cities and things spread out, often also near farmland and/or nature.

    For example, this would probably count as rural.

  • When you marry someone who thinks ahead

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  • When you wanted a different set

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  • That's Blind Jerry for ya. Anything you hand him gets shaped into the millennium falcon.

  • When will you "quit" the internet?

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  • I don't imagine quitting the internet, but I can picture the internet fracturing into smaller sites with resistance to AI through obscurity - sort of similar to how we DO get occasional spam bots on Lemmy, but it largely isn't worth bad actors' time to target this platform.

    Either that, or larger platforms with some sort of verification process, but that seems like a losing battle in the long run.

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    When you wanted a different set

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    When your company needs a mascot, but you don't know an artist.

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    Shields activated

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    I need your help with something. Don't be a wuss.

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    It's rare to find this model these days

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    Guilty chuckle of the day

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    A Discord romance story

  • Shirts That Go Hard @lemmy.world
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    Title admiring this rad shirt

  • Shirts That Go Hard @lemmy.world
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    The backscratcher

  • Dad Jokes @lemmy.world
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    Cowboys in the Wild West were pioneers

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    With friends like this...

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    I bet it's an engineering marvel though.

  • Why is my community modding everyone who comments?

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  • Ha, I can definitely see how that could be visual clutter. You should also see it for posts when scrolling through the community.

    I help mod a handful of communities, and I suppose it helps sometimes when I'm navigating into random threads from my inbox - just as a reminder.

  • Why is my community modding everyone who comments?

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  • That shield symbol just means that YOU are a mod in that community and can take mod actions on those comments.

  • Sounds pleasent

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  • I'm trying to book a reservation at the resort, and the only length of time I can select is "indefinite". That's weird, right?

  • I would like to recommend Blue Prince to anyone who likes puzzle games

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  • I loved the demo and would also highly recommend the game solely based on that.

    I'm just waiting for a free weekend to pick up the game now that it's out.

  • Why does it seem like so many (young) men these days flock over to types like Andrew Tate?

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  • A lot of young men are lacking role models and community these days.

    More kids are growing up without fathers around now (single parenthood is up from 9% in the 1960s to about 25% today).

    Most people's source of community used to be church, but since the advent of the internet, people are rapidly moving away from organized religion. I think this has disproportionately impacted men, who tend to be less social on average.

    And I think in general, a lot of young men feel like nobody cares about their personal struggles.

    So, even some toxic dude like Andrew Tate can show up and say "Hey, you're great. Here are the reasons why things are bad for you and what you should do, and here's a community of like-minded people to interact with." and these guys are going to dive in head first.

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    Why is Jean-Luc Picard so hot 🙏

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    Why is Jean-Luc Picard so hot 🙏

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  • anyone remember these (soap shoes)

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  • I had them! Hurt myself plenty...

  • Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message?

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  • Schools (both K-12 and university) keep loosening their expectations of students, and now we have kids starting college with 6th grade reading levels.

    School administrators don't want their graduation stats to look bad, and universities don't want to lose $$ by flunking students out, so there's a massive conflict of interest that is ultimately resulting in a disservice to students and society at large.

    The other day, I saw this 8th grade graduation exam from a county in Kentucky in 1912, and it drives home how much things have changed:

  • What must his life be like?

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  • The Bull Moose!

  • It's fewer people every day though

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  • I hope you're frequently making jokes about how you're into older women.

  • It's fewer people every day though

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  • As long as there's one person older than me, I'm still young.

  • Choose wisely

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  • My immediate assumption is that lobsters are for dudes, but I'm not sure why. I guess because they look taller and less curvy?

  • Does anyone here use RSS, and do you have any recommendations for feeds to follow?

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  • Whoa, so much to browse through. Thanks!

  • Does anyone here use RSS, and do you have any recommendations for feeds to follow?

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  • I've been having decent luck adding topics that I like (e.g. Star Trek), but I guess what I'm most curious to find are types of feeds that translate well to RSS. Like, weather alerts, podcasts, webcomics, etc.