If it's not Shrinkflation, it's Diluteflation.

I occasionally see posts and news articles about how AriZona Tea Company has "held the line" and kept their giant cans of iced tea priced at 99 cents for so long.

Well, after drinking a few cans of the stuff recently, I'm almost certain they're watering down their product. The tea is nowhere near as concentrated as it was a few years ago. There's practically no flavor to it anymore.

At first, the title of the post made me think that we killed all (possible) life on Mars, not just in the samples taken, just by having landed there and contaminated the planet. Now that would have been a true tragedy.

Maybe, but Kentuckians have been voting against their own best interests for years.

Lemmy is like every social medium since the dawn of time: a cross-section of humanity... the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Yeah, let's just keep on drilling and burning and polluting and climate-destroying.

This administration can't see any future beyond the tip of their noses. Certainly no future that doesn't make them even richer.

If you run out of items to view on Lemmy, you can always go out and, like, engage with family, or hobbies, or grass-touching...

Try to find an instance that's local to your country or region.

As long as they can go from their taxpayer-funded air-conditioned offices, to their taxpayer-funded air-conditioned limos, to their taxpayer-funded air-conditioned mansions, they're good.

Totally agree. Video has really gotten out of hand.

Personally, I hate how so much instructional material (of any kind) is posted in the form of YouTube videos. The same information could be posted in a far more compact and succinct form as a combination of text and still images. I can read far faster than most of these video "instructors" are able to convey useful facts. Plus, with a text, I can skip forward or back, and re-read key sections easily, without having to use a damn seek bar.

Also, does it not occur to these video posters that, by posting everything to YouTube, you're putting all of your eggs in the same basket? YouTube may use multiple huge datacenters around the world, but how much of that video data is actually backed up? If a given datacenter is destroyed by a disaster, it would take a significant chunk of YouTube content with it. I'd much rather have the same information (in text form) spread across multiple, unrelated websites scattered around the world.

I recently saw a TV commercial for Little Caesars Pizza, where they're now offering a limited-edition pineapple-flavored Pepsi as part of a meal deal. That way, you can have your pineapple flavor without necessarily pissing off the "no pineapple on pizza" purists among those you're sharing the pizza with.

Whether anyone will like pineapple-flavored Pepsi is up for debate.

Ahhh. See, I didn't realize the "@news" I was following on Mastodon was actually a Lemmy group. I though it was specific to Mastodon, and expected it would be a news repeater/aggregator. Didn't know it would also include all responses to the news posts.

It goes with a larger confusion on my part about how Mastodon works, I guess.

That site only lists Lemmy instances and communities, with several filtering options. It's not a search engine for Lemmy content.

Adding, I found an option in my Mastodon client to hide boosts from my time line. Which solves my original problem. 🙂

Age 30?

Pfft. Amateur.

I have a box I meant to store my cat's toys in, but she commandeered it for napping purposes.

How big is this, in real numbers?

And completely ignored the crowdsourced contributions in favor of the Most. Generic. Logo. Ever.

I mean, if you look at it and squint hard, it kind of looks like a bird in flight with its wings spread? But hardly immediately recognizable, much less iconic.

I remember how, years ago, an AI was asked to write a script for a Batman comic book, given a bunch of real comic issues as its learning input. The resulting script was horribly stilted, and hilarious to read. It was popular enough that an artist turned it into an actual comic book.

Today's AIs have come a long way.

Edit: just out of curiosity, I asked ChatGPT to "write a Batman comic book script, with The Joker as the villain". That's it. No other input.

What came out was far less stilted than the one mentioned above, but bare-bones, extremely generic, and boring. The real Batman writers have little to fear at the moment.

Thanks, Elon. This is why we can't have good science.

Ark Survival Evolved. Been playing it through two GPU-only and one full-PC upgrade. So satisfying to see the game situations which used to send FPS into the single digits, now stay above 60 FPS at all times. (Yes, the game is that horribly optimized.)