It's bad. It's gotten to the point that I'm actually going outside.

I've definitely had moments where I found myself in some random r/ and realized I wasn't sure if this was bot spam or actual humans. It's pretty dissociating to actually fully internalize the dead Internet theory.

the small subs seem to be the only place real interaction happens. local sports teams and city subs some of the fan based subs, etc ..

anything that gets on the front pages goes to shit

I use {branded reward card} but use their {branded delivery service} for the low fee of {half average emergency fund} for the opportunity to feed their logicistic system my house data when I use {branded subscription model} and be charged what they feel the product is worth they week. The best part is the reduction in basal calorie needs as I slowly get too fat to leave the house.

The other Red Hat

!linkedinlunatics@sh.itjust.works would like to know more.

Pfft. Your Turing test fails. I'm not an AI — I was just going to do that anyway!

Yes

Ooh that’s a good one. Sounds legit.

Kinda wanna embrace our AI overlords ngl.

Report them for hate speech.

They also buy active accounts with high karma and age. I got offered $100 in BTC for my account one time. I guess they did not look at how horny my comments were.

Don't forget to add a typo in the title of the repost for extra engagement!

fleet of accounts

I like the use of the term "fleet" in this context, bc it brings to mind the Battle of Midway but re-done with bots online.

Bots to be

Last night I brought up a Burger King meal I saw on a commercial to my friends in IRC. We all agreed it was less expensive than we thought it would be and one guy actually ordered it. Some of us ARE that basic, lol.

That seems bizarre based on the prices I see, maybe they are intentionally undercutting the others locally in your area specifically. Whole Foods was by far the cheapest place to buy eggs earliest this year and were obviously using them as a loss leader (we're talking less than half the price of standard grocery stores in the same area).

It’s actually a Chase credit card, and you can convert the cash back to Chase’s system IIRC. But you’d be better off using the Sapphire or whatever their metal card is called if you want the Chase rewards. Amazon rewards just give you cash to spend on Amazon by default.

... And feed the credit card issuers?

Eh, for a lot of businesses, the few percent they pay in card fees is worth it to avoid handling large quantities of cash. Cash is a pain in the ass to actually work with on a large scale. Collecting it, counting it, securing it, keeping employees and random criminals from stealing it, etc. Plus lots of cash allows employees to steal from both the employer or the customer by giving bad change deliberately.

Not that businesses shouldn't accept cash, but there is a reason a lot of them don't want to mess with it. It's an enormous hassle.

Nah if I'm going to shill for any Manhattan grocery store, it will be Fairway. It's also really expensive but it feels like being in the sort of store you'd go to if you were rich, not like being ripped off. Their cheese counter has prices per 1/4 pound for some of the cheeses but then if you get some $15 per 1/4 pound cheese it will taste so good that you'll think it was worth it. I haven't been there in years but I still long for that cheese.

Lemmy markdown

which is better than Reddit markdown in some ways, but worse in others

will automatically do a similar conversion, except it takes three hyphens instead of two (two hyphens gets you an en dash). It's nice, but also unfortunate because it messes up people's muscle memory since using only two for it mimics what was customary when writing in ASCII, on mechanical typewriters, etc.

Single em dashes can almost always be used interchangeably with semicolons—they typically separate independent clauses without a conjunction.

Paired em dashes—used to demarcate parenthetical expressions—can be replaced by commas, but not by semicolons.

It has less to do with what feels right and more to do with the mechanics of the sentence. There is a good bit of wiggle room, figuratively speaking, in deciding whether to use commas or paired em dashes—likewise, whether to use a single em dash or a semicolon is almost entirely a stylistic choice. But I feel like the way you explained it is a bit misleading to people still learning the difference.

An em dash can also be used to delineate an abrupt break in the direction or structure of a sentence or dialogue in a way that commas or semicolons simply—fuck, I just shit my pants.

Not trying to be a pedant, just sharing what I've learned over the years.

Well em-dashes can be used in place of other punctuation that is typically used to denote parenthetical information — such as commas and parentheses — but it also has other uses. Similar to a semicolon it can also be used when changing the idea of a sentence — it's versatile and often an overlooked and underutilized piece of punctuation. Additionally, when you have multiple parenthenthical levels, such as this which is commonly placed within commas — or parentheses — which can be overused, it allows you to segment different layers of parenthetical information.

i always thought that em-dashes were used instead of commas whenever

1. your sentence already has too many commas, or
2. you want to be fancy

Nah grocery stores fucking suck. You can go inside and walk around for an hour in the cold, surrounded by people, squinting through the shitty florescent light, searching for a thing they may not have.

I will sit in my bed, comfortable and unbothered, and have shit sent to me. This is worth $5 - $10 or whatever.

There are nearby stores that do their own delivery too, which is great for people who may have mobility issues, are immunocompromised, busy AF, etc.