Tell her you are going to get her what she wants with the budget you provide? She can pick it out and you know she will be happy with it. Sometimes its the thought that counts, but no woman wants to be stuck with jewelry they think is ugly and they dont want to wear, no matter how thoughtful the person that gifted it to them was.

You thought you were slick, didn’t you? Rad? Tubular? Mean?

Fads come and go. Some are better than others, I am personally partial to “slick.” Fire will fade away but cool will return just like it always has.

This is unfortunately very true in my experience as well. In my opinion it is actually worse than when I was on Reddit. Nothing can be done about it, sadly.

I think when it comes to blocking, the best approach is when a blocked user is still able to reply but those are hidden from the person that blocked them. While this does basically lead to “harrassment behind their back,” it also prevents users from stifling conversation intentionally by preventing those users from blocking others that may disagree with them so that there is no real discussion or conversation on a comment or topic.

Its a shiniest of two turds option, as the ideal situation is that everyone can be nice and not nasty when someone has a different opinion, thus a block feature not needing to exist. But since we can’t be having any “wrongthink,” (whatever that may mean to each user is different) and anonymity brings out the worst in people, a block feature the way it currently works is necessary.

One annoying feature is that all replies to a blocked user are also automatically hidden regardless of if those people are blocked or not, which I wish wouldn’t happen. Even if the client loaded a dummy comment in place of a blocked user it would be better IMO.

But at the end of the day, there is not really anything anyone can do to prevent other people from reading or interacting with your Lemmy account. They can just not log in, or they can create a new account. They could even create a whole new instance just to keep making accounts. Its like playing whackamole, you just hope the ones you block dont go that far.

I’ll be real, this sounds like a question a criminal would ask.

Extremely expensive to upgrade to and broadcast. Most places that broadcast NFL games still do it in 1080p instead of 4k. NFL makes a lot of money, but not enough for that.

Plus it would take excitement out of the game and players would have more information than the referees. This would lead to disappointment when a play is called or not called or a foul happens the referees didn’t see, etc. This already happens a little bit and NFL fans are heated about it, I don’t think this kind of tech is viable for football.

The sport is an experience, and part of that experience is the current way it is broadcast.

Also:

What could possibly be more American than mock battles over an inflated pig carcass with military tech shit?

This is worded in an unnecessarily rude and inflammatory manner.

When Reddit stopped supporting third party apps, some people who moved to Lemmy did use bots to try to transfer content from Reddit to Lemmy.

Unfortunately, Lemmy users are kinda like Luddites when it comes to bots and AI. They’re tools that can be very beneficial of course, but Lemmy users treat them all like they’re literally worse than Hitler despite the great value of the content they were transferring. The hate, reporting, and blocking of bots and bot accounts was so bad that most people that operated them just gave up completely, and I don’t blame them.

Look, I don’t like bots that advertise as much as the next guy, but Lemmy has a serious drought of content, even now. And I mean real, valuable knowledge content. I certainly was not and still am not opposed to bot transferring data from Reddit or forums to Lemmy. But this is where I must admit, I am a serious outlier when it comes to Lemmy user demographics.

No seriously, get a dashcam. Everyone should have a dashcam. Its probably one of the most invaluable tthings you can have installed onto your vehicle these days.

If its hovering above the lane and you can drive under it without crashing and it seems like it isn’t going to land or inte ding to land, there is no law requiring you to yield but I personally would try to switch lanes and not be directly underneath it.

If it seems like it is going to land, I would yield to it same as a plane landing on a highway, but usually highway police are there to start a traffic break after being radiod by local ATC anyway.

There is no need to put on your hazards, they can see that you have stopped. If they can’t, then it doesn’t matter since they can’t see you.

I would honestly recommend trying to leave the area as quickly and safely as you can, because if it isn’t hostile already, it will be when the army arrives.

Probably recycle the oldest ones because those people will be long dead by then.

But let’s not kid ourselves, everyone paying into SS right now is never going to get the benefit of it because it will have collapsed.

Beehaw seemed too fast and heavyhanded with defederating a while back. IMO, defederation is really a “last resort” style of option, not a “first response,” so Beehaw using it essentially as a “first response” to some of the bigger instances kinda told me that Beehaw wanted to be off on an island by itself. Like it wanted to be a private forum instead of a Lemmy instance.

I don’t miss Beehaw, and Beehaw disappearing from Lemmy wouldn’t matter to me, because as far as I am concerned it kinda already did that.

The purpose of Lemmy is to be open and connected, not a private walled garden. If it doesn’t fit what you want, then use something else.

Basically, what is there for 90% of Lemmy users to miss, if you effectively banned 90% of Lemmy users by defederating the biggest instances in the first place? They already dont interact or see your content, unless they’re using multiple accounts, which would be no different if Beehaw wasnt a Lemmy instance at all.

Plants are also living creatures, but don’t tell the Vegans.