Hey, if you remember, the last time you whined about this, I appended the most recent 2025 position to the bottom of the list – just to soothe your oh-so-good-faith concern that the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics might’ve decided between 2016 and now that “actually, modern medical research is bullshit and plant-based dieting is unhealthy”.

Adding to what you said, I’ll just drop this here.

The “Ronda Center Tourist Apartments” in the background adds a funny touch. Specifically tourists. I wonder if Nathan Drake checked in while he uses this bridge for climbing practice.

I’ll bet the babies who eat around the box are the same ones who’d throw a fit if their parents didn’t cut the crust off their sandwiches.

Heroic is an impressive achievement. It just isn’t a full replacement – and most of these points I’m about to list aren’t things it’s trying to or should necessarily do as a games launcher. Off the top of my head:

• It doesn’t work for social aspects like friends, statuses, etc.
• It doesn’t work for monitoring achievements.
• The storefront is just the actual gog.com webpage rendered as a surface. GOG Galaxy’s store UI, by contrast, flows with everything else.
• I don’t think games auto-update, although I could be wrong.
• It’s bloated by nature of also being a launcher for Epic and Amazon – platforms I will never use. GOG Galaxy allows crossplatform stuff, but it’s not a full-on multilauncher.
• The UI is pretty ass. I sympathize a lot with this one as someone who works on the (often disastrously undercoordinated) UI of a similar-profile project.
  • Rectangular UI elements’ corner rounding is all over the place (from sharp 90° to Material 3 and everything inbetween).
  • Themes are extremely samey with an enormous bias toward dark themes (I say this as someone who exclusively uses dark themes: a single light theme and thirteen dark themes means you don’t give a shit).
  • You can’t hide the left-hand menu bar to actually center the page you’re viewing.
  • Actions like toolbar dropdowns have no animations (I understand not wanting these; that’s accommodated with a “Disable Animations” option).
  • There’s absolutely zero compatibility with Orca (screen reader) that I can find.
  • Etc.

Again, all of these except the UI aren’t things Heroic is doing wrong or even supposed to be doing at all.

Side note: in Heroic, the GOG storefront opens with UTM parameters in the URL for “adtraction”. Wonder what that’s about.

I take some sense of ownership over my Steam library in that I can and will immediately pirate the game with the DRM stripped out if Valve ever decides to revoke my access to it.

On the other hand, this – and buying from a better company – is why I actively prefer GOG, even in cases when the price is higher. (But pssst, hey, Beyond a Steel Sky is $3.50 on GOG right now compared to Steam’s $35.) The fact I have to launch the Steam client to play a game I paid for is absurd, and I regret every purchase I made, like Stardew Valley Terraria, before I knew GOG existed. The main outstanding issue to me now is that GOG refuses to port its Galaxy client to Linux.

The reason I think this is important is because we keep throwing money at bigger and bigger dark matter detection chambers, and we keep operating on the possibly incorrect assumption of dark matter while we create new theories.

Okay, Sabine, whatever you say. I’m sure bubble chambers and TPCs (I assume since you’re targeting “chambers” that other experiments like DEAP are fine) for direct detection are a catastrophic money sink that you’re totally not exaggerating even a little.

Edit: Wait, are you specifically targeting the funding for the search for WIMPs? Since you’re just joining us from your 15-year coma, I’m afraid to inform you that problems have gotten much worse for science than bubble chamber and TPC costs.

Microblogs are differentiated from blogs almost entirely by the short length of their posts (we’re normally talking hundreds of characters); that’s why they’re called “microblogs”. Wikipedia accurately summarizes and properly sources:

Microblogging is a form of blogging using short posts without titles known as microposts or status updates.

I could’ve also invoked titles, but the length difference is so vast that there’s no need.

Reddit categorically fails the micro part, but it even fails the blog part. The whole point of a blog is that you follow an individual account’s writings, and – except for a new, tacked-on, superfluous, barely used feature where you can follow users – Reddit has you follow subforums.

Basically, I’d already be confused about how someone could categorize Reddit as a blog, but to think it’s a microblog is to fundamentally not know what that is.

Edit: just to illustrate the absurdism, the average English word by usage is about 4.5 characters, implying about 8500 words. A single-spaced, 12-point page can fit about 3000 characters, and thus you’re looking at roughly a 13-page, 8500-word essay.

Trade tensions between the US and Europe had eased since the two sides struck a deal at Trump’s Turnberry golf course in Scotland in July.

God, even amid everything else, this sentence is so fucking rancid.

> Veganism is abstainment from, as far as is possible and practicable, the exploitation of animals for any purpose.

> Editable meme templates are “exploitables”.

> Memes with animals are animal exploitation.

> These are therefore not vegan and hereby banned from /c/vegan@lemmy.world.

It’s… not an op-ed. Why does this come so “clearly” to you when it’s actually completely, obviously, and immediately provably wrong?

What exactly do you think an op-ed is?

Reddit is a link aggregator and forum. There’s no hard line for how many characters is too many to be a microblog, but Reddit’s 40,000 for a post and 10,000 for a comment is plainly disqualifying.

Edit: Oh, but Reddit is also a meme. Case closed; I retract my objection. /s

Pictured: sanitizing the words “fuck” and “perverted” out of a joke about voyeuristically getting off on watching real, actual birds having sex.

• Not a meme
• Not a microblog

I think the only reason he hasn’t so far is because he hasn’t learned to count that high yet. It’s hard for him to practice, too, because every time he shows everyone how high he can get now, he falls asleep and shits his pants midway through.

Just showing a quote verbatim from Harry Truman isn’t a “political meme”. Communities mean nothing, I guess, just like when Reddit enshittified.

… I guess as opposed to the Elon kind of African American?

Isn’t this the same “HR News” whose Medium article you posted the other day that cited a nonexistent study in its headline? And you didn’t leave Lemmy in embarrassment yet? Fuck out of here.

People who premeditatively use words like “cunt” and then decide to censor it are behaving like 12-year-olds playing MW2 on Xbox Live who want to call somebody a “fucking bitch” but whisper it into the mic so their parents don’t ground them.

Like, we all know what you mean, and you censoring it isn’t protecting anyone’s delicate sensibilities. You only end up looking immature. Just use polite language or fucking don’t, you daft cunts.

It was obviously a statement about how large image models gobble up other people’s art and spit it back out.