A paper on this phenomenon would certainly get the Ig Nobel prize!

He still has the user base. But not for long, one might say.

As does Reddit, Twitter still contains some valuable information.

Nitter is also blocked.

Love it! Reddit was unusable to me with its crazy mods, so I mostly lurked. I also personally find lemmings to be more welcoming than redditors.

And I like to be somewhere closer to the start of the journey we’re all making here on Lemmy even though it’s been years since it was released. We’re still early (but for real, unlike with creepto).

Well, something like this.

Remote work threatens the status quo.

I wonder how universal that phenomenon is across different cultures.

Browsh is pretty cool for a text-based browser.

It’s so that the machine elves have some time to hide!

On a serious note, I found this explanation here:

Washing machines must have some way in which you can lock the door closing mechanism when the machine is started up and then unlock them with a certain delay (normally two minutes) after the current has switched off via the program or on/off switch, in order to ensure that the door cannot be opened while some of the components are still rotating initially (in particular the motor and the drum of the spin-dryer).

Washing machines have a bi-metal strip inside the door lock which is heated by PTC Heater (resister) when live and neutral are activated on to the pcts it heats up and bends the bi-metal strip which then moves the arm to activate the common terminal and push a pin into the closed door to lock it in place. Once this has happened (usually a second or so see video) the power then can flow through to the common wire, and therefore on to the rest of the machine allowing it to start.

It was a metaphor for personal hygiene.

I’m just happy that (relatively) a lot of people recognized the reference.

Orthography is hygiene for written thoughts.

TIL banana is a berry! 🤯

You can also make your own ketchup.

But store-bought tomatoes are nearly tasteless…

Related article about how the language for colors evolved.

I would say since faking most Lemmy interactions isn’t profitable, there’s no point in using chatbots to generate content for it apart from, perhaps, some sort of a social experiment, but your exposure to such experiments would likely be minimal.

Of course, you should always beware of astroturfing when, for example, looking at product recommendations, but I don’t think we’re there yet in terms of numbers to be a target.

Thanks, I hate it.

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