Annual raise time: “Your performance was great, but we gave you a low review because if we rated you appropriately we’d have to give you a raise, and investors want us to cut costs.”

That doesn’t mean verified anymore, it means she paid Elon for special treatment.

I think about 90% of these posts that are images of random people’s social media posts are just people not getting jokes

The problem is in parks everyone is too spread out to talk to strangers. There needs to be a park with a bar to bring everyone together.

If you have a retirement account, it’s probably in some sort of stocks. Be aware of what those are. Consider including some non-American index funds that are not particularly tech heavy. S&P index funds are significantly exposed to AI-related tech companies, and their usual safety is currently questionable.

To be fair, the question is “Write a function that simultaneously determines if the number is even and works as a timer”

Yeah but first boyfriend/girlfriend drives me crazy because then I’m going back through my various early relationships trying to figure out who counts as a “girlfriend”. I’d say Sherry was the first but she always said we were never really together. Well now you’re a security question answer so you can’t deny it anymore Sherry.

Apparently stops existing, to outside observers who’ve never been able to see it anyway.

Let’s be real - we always assumed that we could hear our parents walking in but there’s no way they didn’t sneak up and check what we were watching once in a while

See this is when you would slam the phone

Someone could make an app that detects a slam and hangs up the phone, then also sell a padded slam-receiver to replicate the experience. Or just use a pillow.

Edit: Found one. Unfortunately it no longer seems to be installable, probably because Google keeps fucking over independent app devs with new requirements. Source is here in case someone wants to see if they can build it.

I’d imagine lemmy has among the lowest has-sucked-dick ratios of any potentially mixed-gender community.

A sword by definition has a “pointed blade” accordingly any object with an infinitely long blade cannot be a sword. Rather, it’s a blade ray.

This is a type of ad hominem fallacy because you’re downvoting based on something about the speaker that is unrelated to the argument. You might argue that there is a correlation between the misspellings and logical fallacies, but you offer no evidence, and the fact that you committed this phallusy while spelling everything correctly speaks otherwise.

There’s a lot of assumptions in saying it’s just meaningless chemicals

• That chemicals are meaningless and lacking intriniic value. Seen from the outside they may appear that way, but evidently from the inside it seems quite different.
• “We” are not some other unseen brain behavior (not a crazy idea since we’ve never seen consciousness working in the brain)
• We are within the brain
• The brain exists at all
• Any knowledge exists at all (dubious as Mickey points out)

But then what perceives the illusion? How can the whole concept of an illusion have any meaning without a thinker to perceive what isn’t true?