Decimals are the devil’s work.

I’m not sure it works on me. Not because I’m some super human resistant to advertising (I’m not) but because I’m so bad at math that when they start asking me about anything involving small change I tune out and overestimate by 50% rounded into nice whole numbers.

“This is 19.99”

“Okay so it’s basically 30$.”

It gives me nice surprises sometimes when I get my receipt.

I might advise not downing an entire pound-and-a-half jar of spaghetti sauce in one go.

5-7 times a day

You must have good lube, or bad chafing.

I can’t even understand your foreign measurements, are they even in English? Weigh things in Cheeseburgers With The Cheese Pried Off So There’s A Little Cheese Left like normal human beings smh

Yeah, there’s definitely no explosive growth currently. Might be that some communities here are getting more ‘solid’, though, and feel more active.

Marry her.

The link should take you to the Lemmy page.

Some ~30% net MAU growth since December of last year is nothing to sniff at.

i.e., the Reddit drama may have caused people to come check us out, but then the largest majority of people left, likely going right back to Reddit. Possibly bc of the deep (niche) content stores that they still have - e.g. if everyone else uses Windows, it’s just easier for you to use it too, and it takes a special mindset to buck that trend.:-)

Most people who left from Reddit after The Great Exodus did so in the first 3-4 months, though.

In fairness, there’s still total net growth of some 6000 MAU since February

https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy

Oh yeah!? Well I’M thinking of how MESSED UP it is to think about how other people are thinking about other people’s rates of masturbation in November!

That’s like voyeur voyeurism. SICK behavior. TWISTED

Me with computers that have operating hours comparable to the number of hours it’s been since I got them:

There’s a coal train still in use in my hometown. It’s a tourist thing, but still.

There are more contributions now than there used to be, but if no one has posted in a day, I try to make a post.

… I still post most days.

It takes a large userbase. I remember on The Old Place a community might need 2 or 3 thousand subscribers before it became truly self-sustaining. The more esoteric and obscure the knowledge or material needed to post, the more subscribers you need - meme communities can hit it at 2-3 thousand, while others, like history communities, can reach 5k and still be reliant on a small number of contributors.

Explanation: Ancient Roman predecessors to modern pizza used pomegranate, amongst other fruits. Of course, such proto-‘pizzas’ lacked tomatoes (as tomatoes come from the Americas) and probably lacked mozzarella (as mozzarella is first mentioned during the Renaissance).

Me, an intermittently suicidal person, when holding a big knife: “No one is around - cut through the air like a sword so it makes that neat ‘wooshing’ sound”

Pidgin ONLY

Don’t know what you’re doing wrong. I abuse the hell out of my computer and the last time I got a blue screen was… 2021?

I haven’t seen a blue screen in years.

Yes, Linux Preachers, I am a Windows user.

This has been a debate for the past century. The anthropological consensus seems to be something along the lines of “it really depends, but they are far more egalitarian on average than state based socities”

Insofar as there is less wealth that can be hoarded, yes, but insofar as division of power is concerned, which is what wealth inequality is a consequence of, hunter-gatherer societies remain extremely unequal.

There had been a consensus that they were chiefly egalitarian in the 60-2000s, but since then our notion of egalitarianism has become stricter.

And our studies of non-state societies more rigorous.

It’s a fascinating topic. I took two entire classes on this debate at the masters level.

… well, you’re probably more informed on the topic than I am, then. I only took a few anthro courses when studying for my Bach, lol.

And just as states were only able to form after the agricultural revolution, they believe the nomadic nature of hunter gatherers makes states forming nearly impossible and thus lets them live in small decentralised egalitarian groups.

Which, itself, ignores the nature of hunter-gatherer societies, which are far from egalitarian, and are only decentralized in the sense that they’re small, not in the sense that power is distributed equally amongst its members.