Hint: photo and video evidence has only been a thing for less than 200 years when photos and videos were invented. So if humanity managed without it before that, it can do so again.

There actually was a diesel ICE for some time too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICE_TD

Entering “artificial intelligence” in my instance’s community search gave me a few like: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

There is also one in German: [email protected]

Certainly not, just look at [email protected] for some examples of things unlikely to have been said ever before. (The non-federated link aggregation website has a busier version of that.)

Do you really think that you will get better answers on non-topical questions from these chatbots than from generic LLMs that are free to use anyway?

because when I wrote the above comment, around 80% or 90% of my lemmy homepage was just your posts, which felt kinda spammy

Guess not, outside of sentences like this one. 😉

bro are you just mass-crossposting things from reddit or what? Those camel case titles aren’t really common here, you know.

I only buy calendars as Christmas gifts.

I know of a company where you can order custom calendars with your own photos and design and IIRC you can make those start in any month, they can be for any period of 12 consecutive months.

FWIW I think the third one isn’t anywhere near as bad as the first two. You are getting more value for your money when you get a percentage off.

maybe you should explain it because several users seem unfamiliar with it, including me (who doesn’t natively speak English and therefore isn’t 100% familiar with all slang terms used in English)

It does? [email protected] and [email protected] are exactly what you describe. I’m subbed to both, although obviously not everyone is (we can’t force people to read things they don’t want to).

You don’t, but I at least rarely use my phone while it’s charging anyway.

Right now I can access it. They seem to have a status page https://fhf-lemmyworld.instatus.com/ that says that earlier today there were some problems for approximately an hour? I don’t have more information than that.

I remember once meeting someone (a woman) on IRC who was over 40 or even 50, I don’t remember the exact age. I remember just being surprised that someone that age would be on the same part of the Internet I was hanging out on. But I don’t think that person was there for any bad purposes.

Mid 2000s. Web forums based on UBB, WBB, vBulletin, phpBB, etc.

Went on to discover wikis at age 11, IRC at age 12, most of my social contacts in my teen years were with people I met online because they were generally a lot nicer than people I met IRL.

I would see nothing wrong with people born after me doing the same, although admittedly those years would have been a lot better if my school hadn’t been full of people I had nothing in common with and I hadn’t needed to use the Internet to socialize.

I think you may be looking for this: https://ourworldindata.org/births-and-deaths

Most people I communicated with at the time were also minors, maybe a few young adults, and it happened almost entirely in public forums, not private conversations.

I first became active on web forums at the age of 10 and didn’t keep my age secret at the time. Not once (!) did I encounter anyone who appeared to be a child predator or anything like that. So forgive me if I don’t see a lot wrong with “kids talking to strangers online” although it certainly depends on the kid’s age and maturity level and also what kind of online space it is.

We shouldn’t do either nor do we need to. Billionaire-owned social media can continue to exist if people want it. The important thing is that there must be alternatives to it.

And the result of literally any new government regulation of “social media” (I still don’t like that term, but if everyone is using it, so am I) at all, including but not limited to age verification, is to make that harder.