Meme coins are snake oil and where there is snake oil, there’s a snake oil salesman. Someone got all that money.

Important to understand that meme coins don’t “lose” money. That money didn’t just evaporate. It went somewhere.

So where did it go? Hmmm…

Some considerations:

• Do you prefer to have only the latest technology, regardless of cost? These phones are in flagship price ranges.

• Are you very careful with your phone? Cases exist, but necessarily protect less of the device. The screen is far more prone to damage, but they are durable enough for daily use if you are a careful person.

• Are you looking to get/replace both a phone and a tablet? Reviewers tend to say that foldables are not an adequate replacement for a tablet, but people I know personally say that it is more than enough to use as a tablet.

• What features are you willing to compromise? Foldables often have lower quality cameras, chips, and smaller batteries than similarly priced phones. I’m assuming you have already looked into it, since this is easiest thing to check.

• Do you just really want a foldable? Honestly, everyone I know who has one loves it. If you like the format then go for it :)

Exactly right. Antisemitism was a term coined by Europeans to justify bigotry against specifically Jews.

That has literally always been the definition. This is like saying that an antibiotic is something that kills every living thing. Antisemitism and Semitic are just two different words, and have different meanings. This is how language works.

It’s less weird to have a contingency plan than it is to specifically mention it.

I usually catch five or ten minutes here and there. So, no.

Sure seems like it should be.

I think it’s the best starting point. University and government resources can handle the volume and will motivate widespread adoption. In one sense, it is only kicking the can down the road, but it is kicking it into a future that will be better prepared for these questions.

• Institutional servers (schools/universities running servers for faculty and students, companies running servers for their own employees)

This is the best long term strategy. News orgs should be hosting their own Mastodon instances at the very least. Same with schools and government.

It solves a number of problems - for them. So many news organizations and government offices are reliant on Xitter. That means that they are at the mercy of the owner of the platform for their messages to the public. Hosting their own instance puts them in charge. They can get out messages reliably and the public can trust that they are who they say… Just like an email address or URL.

Schools pay lots of money to private corporations to run bespoke university messaging systems, and are likewise reliant on those companies to provide administrative services such as moderating. Moving those communications in-house will be cheaper and simpler.

We should all be pressuring schools and local governments to adopt these technologies.

Thanks. That sent me in the right direction. I assumed it was something I was doing wrong. Usually, I’d be right lol

Don’t worry, they are just laundering them through Turkiye :(

Moths come from eggs, which are similar to beans, so… I have no idea.

Sad, although this is exactly what others predicted when Trump rolled back food protections.

I have used any number of Spotify downloader apps to back up my music accumulated from other sources.

Be me waiting for the minute on my phone to change so I can simultaneously press the clock button on the microwave and oven twice a year.

What if it comes out that color that researchers discovered that you can only see by shining lasers in your eyes?

This is 100% a human arguing with an LLM.

It’s also not correct even in a technical sense. For what that’s worth. It’s a made up number to sound really big and impressive, even if it is not true in any sense.