I think the idea is that people talk about the country in a positive context, such as sports. Trying to stem the onslaught of negative news regarding human rights, OPEC etc. But what do I know, I’m not a doctor

Connect lets you block whole instances

If you let me know how to help you, then I’m in. I have a raspberry pi 4 and some external hard drives. That’s it. But I also have some money and would rather help you than host a lonely instance, Mr skankhunt

MS unintentionally creating awareness, gotta love it. I hope this leads to an increase in donations. While Mr. Gates is busy pretending to be Saint of Africa, there’s people starving on his doorstep.

Commenting because I’m also interested

Monkey’s paw curls, you get the weather of Bakersfield.

The movie Employee of the Month had that

Great! Thanks for the tips. Happy to find my next project lol

Yes, this thread contains a lot of great banter and I’m here for it!

No way! I’ve got a r pi 4 buried somewhere in my garage. Gonna have to try to set up my own instance. Is there a starter guide for people of limited intelligence? How’d you get yours set up?

What kind of specs do you need to run a personal instance? I’d like to, but I don’t really want to invest in a bunch of computer stuff right now

His name is fucking Bowser!? He needs to sue Nintendo for infringing on his trademark

Sorry for the flip comment, but I couldn’t resist that dunk. I hope you’re having a good day

Ohhhh Naked is watered down Odwalla. Can’t believe I never made that connection but it all makes sense now. Used to love Odwalla, kind of like Naked if I missed lunch or something

By using this little thing called arithmetic

I like lime sparkling water. You get the bubbles and it has a nice taste

Dude I love puzzles and would love to drag solving that one out as long as possible bc money. But you know the supervisor is telling them to hurry up and ignore the lines so his boss can make some more money.

My only guess is that they would hope Taiwan would pressure the other countries to shape up. But that makes no sense based on the culture/religion of Malaysia and Indonesia vs Taiwan so idk

For me personally, I joined Lemmy a couple days ago because Reddit shut Joey off with now notice amidst trying to negotiate payment for a paid API. Maybe the users you’re noticing are in a similar situation. I personally have no issues with reddit but I was a lurker there.

Anecdotally, that’s what I did. 30% raise and my boss did not even try to match. Just started shit talking the competitor I was going to lol