It’s naval tradition, if your ship is being hijacked by pirates or enemy forces, raising the flag upside down is a way to signal passing ships without alerting the hijackers.

The thing is, that’s why the Jan 6 insurrectionists were using it as a symbol in the first place. Trump convinced them election was rigged so the upside down flag was used to signal that they believed the country was being hijacked.

Disagree, without IP laws whoever has the most money can crush all competition. An example of this is how the first pump hand soap softsoap couldn’t patent the hand pump design because it already existed so they just bought all the existing stock to prevent anyone from releasing a competing product.

If you get rid of IP laws you’ll just further entrench the existing winners.

Write a good book? Without copyright, Penguin random house publishes an exact copy at a higher quality and sells a million copies while you sell a handful to discerning fans.

Build a quality product? Without trademark, proctor and gamble flood the market using your brand name and nobody can distinguish their products from yours even though their quality is much worse.

Invent something revolutionary? Without patents you have to keep your process a secret so you don’t get copied. If you get hit by a bus your invention is now lost to society forever unless someone manages to reverse-engineee it.

Not before abolishing capitalism or you’re just making things worse.

The leak didn’t include phone numbers or emails but I’m sure there will be attempts at spear phishing businesses since they can figure out the business name from the physical address.

I actually dont understand why we not do something drastic. I mean like ban cars and planes.

Talk so some other people about your idea and you’ll understand why we don’t.

Because blocking an instance only blocks their communities from showing up in your All feed, it doesn’t block comments.

Thanks, I appreciate for all the work you do for the site.

Only pinned for a day on a weekend? I feel like there’s a significant segment of folks who only browse Lemmy at work.

Welcome… to Nightvale

That’s not gonna happen, the Hawaiian volcanos are created by a hot spot in the Earth’s mantle which Kauai shifted away from centuries ago.

Me: it’s never good to work late

Also me: I know I was supposed to go home an hour ago but I’m so close to fixing this bug

I did actually, we still get folks popping in from all telling us our memes are “normal behavior” or whatever so I thought it was worth mentioning.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but if you’re suffering from this level of social anxiety and executive dysfunction you’re probably not “just introverted”.

They don’t taste different but they have different levels of saltyness for the same weight/volume because the crystals are shaped different. The shape also affects how they dissolve and spread out over your food.

Table salt is tiny crystals that dissolve quickly for mixing in to sauces or soups.

Sea salt is wide thin flakes, it’s good for when you want to coat the top of something evenly like a sea salt caramel.

Kosher salt is large crystals that dissolve slower, it’s good for drawing moisture out of meat or veggies via osmosis (the original purpose of kosher salt is to remove blood from meat to make it kosher).

If coders are good AND know the project

Those are some pretty big ifs.

It’s a decent value to play the ad while you actually pay attention to the show you’re “watching” for 30 seconds.

That message doesn’t mean your prompt was bad (there’s a different error for that), it means it thinks the image it generated had banned content. False alarms are pretty common IME but usually you can try again with the same prompt and it will work as long as the prompt isn’t too likely to create something that looks like violence/sexual content/etc. for whatever reason.

I should write some documentation so I don’t have to remember which memes have already been posted here.

You didn’t notice Louie was Bobby Moynihan? His voice is pretty distinctive to me.