“Do you answer this question with no?”

Im beginning to think that, as annoying for users and difficult to build a userbase for as it may be, the answer might ultimately have to be for future social sites to charge people for use in some way, be it to create accounts or as a subscription or just for the ability to post/comment/vote or whatever. If it’s no longer going to be feasible to keep bots out, and there’s a financial gain for their use, then they’re going to get used, so at that point it has to be somehow more expensive to run a bot than that bot can be expected to bring in as a result of it’s contribution to an advertising or manipulation campaign, to deter them. On the bright side, I guess it might lead to a shift away from advertising everywhere. Either you charge people and therefore dont need ads, or you dont, and have most of your ads being “seen” by bots, which advertisers probably don’t want to spend money to reach anyway.

Hadn’t considered that you can just glue fabric together, I suppose that might be something to try if I start feeling crafty at some point. As for matching the hat material, it’s just what I’m picturing in my head, not convincing ears but just some ear shaped stylized part of the hat, like from that same grey zigzag patterned material seen here for example, whatever that’s called.

I don’t mean like to give the illusion of being real ears, just as a stylistic element. And for whatever reason, Id like ones that look like they fit as part of the hat, like maybe that same grey patterned material but with some pink triangles in the front to suggest the inner part without going too detailed

Would take some sewing knowledge I’d figure, especially to make it structurally work so that they stand up, and finding ears the same material as the hat so that they look like they fit might be difficult

I dont wear hats generally, but I got it into my head a few months ago that a cool hat to wear, for my weirdo taste in fashion, would be that style of cap, but with cat/animal ears integrated into it. Tried looking for one because I figured with the internet being what it is it surely must be out there, but no, couldn’t find it. Only could find a different style of cap done up that way that I don’t think looks nearly as nice as the style here.

Sounds like someone trying and failing to start a car in a horror movie

I mean, it accepted in the sense that entire governments aren’t trying to forbid her from using public bathrooms over it.

I believe that space exploration and development is of such high potential future utility as to become a moral imperative, but I suspect that view will be unpopular given that in recent decades some of the most infamous tech billionaires have stuck their hands and toxic branding in that area.

Whenever I see this headline, the pedant in me asks, shouldn’t every interplanetary space mission alter the path of celestial bodies? Like, if we launch a probe away from earth, the mass used to build and generally propel it came from earth and we’ve ejected it from earths gravity well, shouldn’t that give earth a tiny kick in the opposite direction? Or if a gravity assist is used, momentum gained comes from whatever planet we get the assist from. Obviously there’s a big difference in scale given the mass of planets vs asteroids, but still. Do they just mean the first time we’ve been able to actually measure this change, or just not counting missions where this wasn’t the intent behind it?

Ive seen this said a lot here lately, but like, cloud computing still requires computer hardware, so shouldnt an increase in hardware prices make that more expensive as well?

Hiding the score doesn’t stop people from disagreeing with you or from vote count affecting sorting. It does help a bit, at least for me, if you’ve found yourself habitually checking your comment vote scores in a mentally unhealthy search for validation, and wish to train yourself out of that habit by making those checks futile. On a place with no overarching control like lemmy, vote counts are probably too easy to manipulate to provide trustworthy feedback anyway.

“If I were Iran, I’d build a fully automatic chicken farm that uses lava floating over slabs to cook the chickens as soon as they grow up.”

I mean, they did say “most people didnt own a car” rather than “road vehicles don’t exist”. That removes the more serious of those concerns I think, because the existence of delivery vehicles, freight trucks, moving vans, or even vehicle rental services for the occasional road trip doesn’t depend on a majority of people owning a car personally.

Gross, yes, but not every gross thing is improved by having a law banning it’s depiction.

Probably cheaper than solid steel, enshittification strikes again

There are apparently people out there that take “Roko’s basilisk” and such seriously, they might come close to that i guess.

Everyone dies immediately as all the water in their body gets replaced with milk, thus the broken toilets never become a problem.

Presumably because as a cat, he doesn’t have the capacity to communicate this to humans in a way that they’d understand?

Lowering the amount of people wouldn’t help such a thing, because demand for stuff and therefore number of potential jobs in an economy is at least partially a function of the number of people. If you reduce the population, you also reduce the number of needed employees, leaving you right back where you started.