Probably signing up with Bluesky, even if slightly off-topic. The lack of algorithms means the only way to swim up is to post everyday at prime time in the hope to catch some exposure. Because quality posts with high interactions with likes will not bubble up from the crowd.

That is probably true, but doesn’t mean much when gaming is such a mainstream activity.

tl;dr

"The grass has been cut as short as possible, and loose, dried grass has been removed from affected areas.

“Prior to tomorrow’s sessions, the grass will be dampened, and specific response teams will be stationed around the track.”

This is on-topic, because it happened at Microsoft’s event.

https://lemmy.world/post/27740032/16212983

For orientation you could use much subtler ways. There are models which look like a dumpster of random colors. For these it absolutely is only about cost savings, and I grew up from a time building 1300+ pcs models as a kid when Lego didn’t even have the colors for “orientation” and never had an issue. There are enough methods for orientation which don’t require using screaming lime and azure colors. There are enough shades of grey for that.

Lego’s tolerances are pretty good, and so are a couple of other non-counterfeit brands. They might be a bit “stickier”. Lego as an overall product is behind. The prices are not just high, rather borderline questionable. Color consistency is notoriously poor with certain colors, due to cost saving measures. They stopped using colored granulated plastics, and instead inject ink.

They charge premium licensing prices and deliver stickers while Cobi is able to print it properly. Cobi is pricey mind you, but they at least deliver. Lego has no proper lighting, which opened the market for Fun Whole. They butchered and killed their robotics line up of Mindstorns. Lego butchered their Technic electronics with compatibility breakage and forced app usage. Lego abuses the that brand to keep selling model cars with few functions. Lego abused the Technic brand to publish a Mars Rover which has a design failing suspension and zero chassis stability.

For cost savings, they fill the invisible insides with random colored blocks, drowning alternate uses.

Their product photos are misleading, with photoshopped headlights which don’t exist and other trickery.

Lego has likely a way too big catalogue, sells perhaps not enough of most, and goes quantity over quality.

The truth is, there are very well designed sets, with prints, no random colors, at acceptably high prices and they are adorable. And I would and maybe will purchase them and have done so not long ago. It’s the amount of crap which comes out. I often assume the Internet scandalizes Lego’s state, and of course they do, but when I walk past my local Lego shops, I see terrible designs, at ridiculous prices.

If Lego would position themselves as a mainstream brand at medium prices, nobody would bat an eye. It’s them often surcharging 50% above competition at lower quality which grinds people’s gears really badly.

HQ Lego Alternatives:

Military, aircraft, small cars: Cobi. Technic: CaDa has licensed premium lines like the AMG GT One . Models with Lighting: Fun Whole, but can near Lego pricing, with higher quality. Kids: Buy used Lego sets, don’t bother too much with lost parts, replace them on Bricklink.

And there is a few others. I listed only companies not ripping off duplicates. There is more good ones, and of course a lot of copycat companies.

Might be, because it affects threads only on their server, but it doesn’t happen with the web interface.

Unfortunately comments don’t load anymore with Sync. Sad to see no barebones maintenance on this software.

The dbzer0 thing is not because of simple drama, but because lemmy mirrors contents onto the server itself. To not become liable for piracy, they blocked the instance, because it was linking pirate content. Even on reddit you were never allowed to post that.

Low blow for a struggling competitor. I would endorse aggressive marketing against monopoly holders, but Firefox isn’t it.

All three of them, and many more in the background.

Commented here on this post: https://lemmy.world/comment/14631383

It isn’t an all that interesting post in the first place and many people claiming they are so stoic and smart they would whitelist by code inspect, for something which is a single click is wild.

Not everything has an alternative, and thankfully the core website works 95% wit adblock enabled.

It is a recent screenshot from overtake.gg, a sim racing community hub.

NTA. Her buying the last ice cream in the grocery store in front of you is a war crime by Geneva Convention and only setting her house on fire is the calmest response.

We need fact checkers more than community notes. Because disproving a claim takes a lot of time and skill, and notes will be abused for financial and personal gain in the long run. Perhaps it is also better to use the word content moderator instead of fact checker, as finding the ultimate truth isn’t possible, unless you just present a mathematical proof.

From personal experience susceptible people get paranoid schizophrenia like symptoms with cannabis use immediately, which should be a warning. From a scientific angle there are statistic links, but not a proven causal link. But we do know it reduces hippocampal volume which probably isn’t healthy, and hyperemetic syndrome tells that it does have negative lasting effects.

Truth is, you probably should not do it, but likely it’s not going to wreck you either. Nobody knows for sure what will happen to you.