“I want a DQ Blizzard!”

“We have ice cream at home.”

“But home is a bunch of shipping containers welded together.”

“Correct. And it’s wonderful.”

I’m not an expert by any means, but my understanding is there is a “tax accounting lobby” that works hard to prevent any measures to simplify it, because they would go out of business. Intuit and others.

Love the meme but JFC I wish they would just send us a simple invoice (or refund) every year. You know, the way adult nations do things.

“How long do you plan on cheating on your current employer?”

“Wait, is that you in Groucho glasses, boss?”

Automation also cuts down on mistakes.

Or greatly amplifies them if you coded it wrong.

Why did I read this in RFK jr’s voice.

Wholesome meme: Kill All Humans.

–Bender

By permitting advertising.

Reaches for pitchfork.

TL;DR: be careful what you wish for.

Puts pitchfork down, embarrassed cough.

More people would be great, especially for niche communities.

I don’t see #2 as that big of a problem. Do we want people who won’t expend any effort to join? I guess everyone sees the line between accessible and “dumbed down” a little bit differently. I’m not saying #2 is great. I recognize it is an obstacle. But it’s also kind of the point of Lemmy…in the sense that this is not a monolithic corporate one-size-fits-all kind of endeavor. In a way, the obstacle also serves as a teaching moment, if you will, of how this thing even works.

Item 4 seems a bit chicken-and-egg to me. But my guess is, not being able to find those communities isn’t nearly as big of a problem as those communities not having any content / participants. I can see the argument that one causes the other, but I haven’t found it very challenging to find those empty places. It’s just not much fun to hang out there by yourself.

That episode was so great. It has aged a bit strangely, because now we have 500 streaming platforms and we’re still getting screwed.

Spez: Guys, we need to brainstorm so hard here. What else can we do to make the site even worse.

Dev Director: Sir, don’t you mean more profitable?

Spez: No, dipshit. I didn’t stutter. Brain. Storm. Let’s hear your shittiest ideas. Go nuts, guys. Nothing’s off the table. I fucking hate our users. They must suffer.

You ain’t missing a damned thing. Reddit is an AI content collection agency. It’s swarming with bots, unhappy users, and those too dumb to find alternarives.

Reddit users will be so surprised when leopards eat their faces.

It was the sectional’s fault, she was wearing Naugahyde, she clearly wanted it, I’m not weird you’re weird.

I love that.

True, but I’ve also worked at many places where they hang on to old software systems for years or even decades (think banking, mainframes). Because they “it works, and if it ain’t broke don’t fix it”.

The CADT model…that was a short but fun read. I have definitely encountered that model many times in the various jobs.

Years ago, when I was a developer, I loved fixing bugs in other people’s code. I felt like I learned a lot from that, and I got a sense of accomplishment out of it. It made users happy, it made my boss happy, and the puzzle solving aspect of it was fun. I was what they called a “maintenance programmer” which was something of an insult, but I didn’t mind.

Unfortunately most developers I know hate everyone else’s code, think others’ code is “garbage” (every single time) and they definitely have a lot more fun building something from scratch than doing bug fixes. They even hate their own code once it’s a few months old. Always chasing for the perfect architecture, etc. Which is unfortunate, there’s tremendous value in repairing and upgrading existing things.

!trendingcommunities@feddit.nl is another one

The Fediverse welcomes the future influx of more content creators!

“AKSHUALLEEEEE…”

“God, no. No!”