if ever by some unlucky chance such a crevice of time should yawn in the solid substance of their distractions, there is always soma, delicious soma, half a gramme for a half-holiday, a gramme for a week-end, two grammes for a trip to the gorgeous East, three for a dark eternity on the moon.
- 50 Posts
- 973 Comments
egrets@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Euro-Office, Europe's open-source alternative to Microsoft Office and Google Docs, launches June 9English
1·5 days agoSwapping US technological control for Russian technological control? I don’t know to what extent the current solution is dependent, but it would be extremely naïve to just use OnlyOffice as-is.
egrets@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Google requests permission to release 32m mosquitoes in California and FloridaEnglish
2·6 days agoThat’s not the only factor in the die-out of the Neanderthals. Another is thought to be a massive reduction of the population and geographical constriction during the ice age, isolated communities afterwards resulting in little genetic variation, and thereby high susceptibility to disease.
egrets@lemmy.worldto
Enshittification@lemmy.world•Do you think logos will ever be interesting again?
2·6 days agoYup, it’s meant to describe the gradual process of changes to a thing, like a service or product, that are hostile to the user as a means to make extra profit – paywalling formerly free features (or just removing them) is the classic pattern. Changing branding text is not.
Ironic that we’re witnessing the enshittification of the word “enshittification”.
sponge bonge squonge ponge
Your eyes cannot see it, but you actually glow.
egrets@lemmy.worldto
News@lemmy.world•Trump's name must be removed from Kennedy Center, judge rules
2·9 days agoUh-oh – don’t they know that venerating statues will make them both evil and gay? 1 Romans:
21For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.
24Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy.
egrets@lemmy.worldto
Unpopular Opinion@lemmy.world•Cloudy days are a huge motivator and not dreary or gloomy at all. Sunny days are annoying.English
82·9 days agoI had to stop myself from downvoting you from sheer outrage, so you’ve got the right community!
I’m so much happier in sunny weather. I’m jealous that you enjoy it being overcast.
I can’t find much about these! They seem to have been digitized by Barbara Levine in 2014 and the caption seems to be correct - the internet vaguely suggests the photos are in New York’s Grand Central Station, but I can’t find the actual origin.
Here's a low-res montage with more and the full three from the post.

I once worked supporting a guy who’d built a business intelligence system in an old dBase system that was restricted to 8.3 filenames.
The result of the filename length limitation is that almost every output file was suffixed with “anal” as a shorthand for “analysis”.
If he realized, he never let on.
That’s not the Lemmy approach:
looks like AI? no? comment “AI slop” on it anyway, just to cover your bases
egrets@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Musk says US military suicide drones used Starlink in violation of SpaceX rulesEnglish
63·11 days agoI hate the idea of arguing in Musk’s favor, but Starlink use by Russians has generally been achieved by them obtaining foreign terminals.
Ha, a dichotomy is XOR by definition.
egrets@lemmy.worldto
MeanwhileOnGrad@sh.itjust.works•It's "Bigotry" to call Trump a Russian asset on lemmy.ml, according to Dessalines, main .ml admin, head Lemmy devEnglish
7·11 days agoI helped moderate a couple of mid-sized communities and users had to actively accept moderation appointment, but maybe that was only true after a certain date?
Sounds like a cool book title or band name.
But not both!
egrets@lemmy.worldto
Reddit@lemmy.world•The BannedFromReddit subreddit has been banned from Reddit alongside the ModsKillReddit subreddit
41·12 days agoI don’t disagree, but by the same token, this is specifically !reddit@lemmy.world that you’re in advocating not talking about Reddit.
That one guinea pig community probably wouldn’t appreciate me telling them not to talk about guinea pigs.





















Wesa got a pink Chevrolet Corvette convertible. That’s why you no liking us, meesa thinks.