not just that, but demand customer support for something that was supposed to be a hobby

There's also the option if user-owned cooperative (like social.coop) - https://blog.opencollective.com/...

There are also some masto instances that have their own lemmy instances, funded through their existing funding structures - https://merveilles.town/about

didn't lemmy.world just defederate from exploding heads tho?

https://lemmy.world/post/747912

I think the "magic" of bugs is that they can eat things that would be inedible or unhealthy for other omnivores (like pigs). If we can convert some of our food and paper waste into protein and chitin, it might be worth the investment.

For me the exciting part about bug farming isn't really their use as food (for humans or animals) but more their potential to eat "real" waste (like things that birds and mammals shouldn't eat) and then be turned into non-food items - like chondroitin or have other derivatives made out of their chitin.

Right now it's not very efficient but with some selective breeding (or faster, GMO mealworm gut bacteria) they could start working on the landfill issue. Their poop would have to be incinerated since it would concentrate flame retardants and other toxins, but we might be able to get something useful out of them.

edit: i have a box of mealworms that I wanted to try feeding just styrofoam to to see how many generations it would take to have mealworms that thrive (not just survive and turn to cannibalism) on the stuff, but i felt bad, now they eat kitchen waste and shredded paper.

from what I understand some men feel very uncomfortable around non-family women, and don't have a third place that doesn't involve alcohol.

It does seem to add a layer of complication, but perhaps that's the point.

what's a Men's Shed?

realistically it will help high-achieving east-asian first- and second- generation immigrants.

neither does the north, involuntary servitude is constitutional in the entire country

they're also pretty open about this, it's not some dark secret.

and the devs copy+pasting code from it probably are aware of that it doesn't know anything, and that it is likely synthesizing something based on StackOverflow, which they used to happily copy+paste from a few months ago.

If the libraries ChatGPT suggests work ~80% of the time, this leaves an opportunity for someone to provide a "solution" the other 20%.

noob question, but where is the block UI

thanks, found those. I guess blocking an entire instance is still WIP

if you ask generic customer what they feel about minor holiday X that retail stores make a huge deal about - if there aren't massive sales, most customers will be equally ambivalent.

there's nothing really to be "on board" about, it's an ignorable decor change. They don't even have music or large amounts of candy like in the winter holidays.

Realistically, whoever is the admin of the instance can decide to block another instance for any reason, or no reason at all. Admins of threadiverse sites are maintaining (and owning) these instances as a hobby. If they decide they don't want to look at content about penguins during their leisure time, they can just ... block them.

Since threadiverse is a bit less mature than the mastodon ecosystem, there aren't any "big" democratically owned and managed instances, so most people are stuck with benevolent dictator for life situations.

Edit: Also, if an admin doesn't want penguin content stored on their servers (which they pay for), it's a bit strange to say they must store content they don't like on what is essentially their personal machine.

if you're still on there, why would they leave?