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My kids are very literate. :D Maybe because it’s such a drawn out word it stood out to him and he mimicked it. I don’t know.

It’s possible he’d rattle off not the names, but parts of lyric, if he’s been exposed to them. When he was very young my son would request “boulevard” when we got into the car for a trip, since we’d regularly listen to Green Day.

I normally suggest using the Calvin version of this meme to avoid promoting him in any way, but he is part of the discussion topic here.

I guess we’re going to get more denominational splits based on if Jesus’ teachings about loving others is Biblically accurate. Yet another reason why he isn’t coming back.

The real reason.

To further the spirit of the topic:

picture: An individual painting, drawing, or other representation on a surface, of an object or objects; esp. such a representation as a work of art. (Now the prevailing sense.)

image: An optical appearance or counterpart of an object, such as is produced by rays of light either reflected as from a mirror, refracted as through a lens, or falling on a surface after passing through a small aperture. Such an appearance may also be a mere subjective impression on the sense of sight, as an after-image (q.v.), and the negative image or accidental image seen after looking intently at a bright-coloured object, and having a colour complementary to that of the object. An image produced by reflexion or refraction is called in Optics a real image when the rays from each point of the object actually meet at a point, a virtual image when they diverge as if from a point beyond the reflecting or refracting body.

Source: the interweb. Fight me.

They didn’t learn the lesson of Sim City.

Are these in order? So stealing her shoe and a hairpin with hair in it, and then when she confronts you offer the cheese as a diversion?

I think it’s even worse. They didn’t tell us what was and wasn’t recyclable. They used symbols very similar to the recycling logo to stamp on various types of plastics to classify them. Most of the types used are one time use, they never were meant to imply recycling, that’s just the symbol appearance.

Recycling started off as the third R and last resort, the first two were Reduce and Reuse. Those were not compatible with an economy based on consumerism and growth, so Recycling became the focus, creating an industry to pick through the few things that could be recycled and trashing the rest, and encouraging the public to buy more because it’s not a problem as long as you participate.

And if you don’t participate, all the problems are your fault. Not the companies making the stuff, they’re just doing what you want.

They can be, but verifying everything is close to factual is hard to do. I do think that what makes the friendship is key - if it’s something that’s enjoyed online, then odds are you aren’t going to be completely compatible IRL with other things, maybe even most things past the one thing you share. If it’s more general things, then the odds go up a bit, but you still don’t know the “vibe” the person gives off in reality, so there could be traits that you’re better off not knowing about. However, I met my wife online (back before “real” internet on Quantum Link, a national BBS for C-64) and we’re still compatible, so it can happen. Granted, it was a lot different then, but there were fakes and scammers then too.

Change posture, but also get up and move around. Take breaks away from the screen to let your eyes rest.

Of course doing this can also mess up the flow of ideas sometimes. Nothing worse than coming back and trying to recapture the zone you were in.

Dependency

My grandmother taught me that little rhyme along with the hand movements some 50 years ago. Never thought about it until I saw this.

She would appreciate the hell out of this meme.

That kind of coding is also where we get future self into trouble. Revisiting coding and having to figure out what the hell they were trying to do. They were just vibing, man. To read the code again, you have to rediscover that vibe, which may not be possible.

That describes all the coding I’ve written for decades now…even a side thing for work to automate stuff. I’ll be the first to admit I hack things until they work well enough and don’t legit code. Obviously coding isn’t my profession, that wouldn’t last long.

Try to search around for things in the past mentioning both Kbin and extensions, as well as the Monkey script addons (VM ended up being the stable one, but other versions were used). Hopefully you can find archived discussion about it all somewhere.

There’s nothing for Lemmy that I know of, but in the beginning of the first migration from Reddit there was such a thing being worked on by various people for Kbin. Kbin unfortunately is broken for a while now due to the developer’s health issues, but there was a fork made called Mbin. And the good news is that the extensions for Kbin seem to work for the most part with Mbin via ViolentMonkey. I can’t recall if I had to do much of anything to tweak it. I don’t know if there’s been any work since then, only that it still works for me now.

I looked back to find something to recommend to research, but short of using VM and searching for scripts to use with a Mbin site (like fedia.io) I’m not sure.

Not really Covid days yet, just the beginning and while very scary and chaotic, there was still some sense that the experts will step in and make things better.

Anyway…

Money alone can’t buy happiness, but it sure helps with the down payment.

First, no one knows if the picture is someone connected or a stolen cam footage to use. So we don’t know any identity. Could be automated or could be individually sent out. More important is the question of restrictions of postings in some way. How would one do this before the first attempts by each new user profile? When they first started there were a few other names used, but for whatever reason (ease or maybe enjoying the attention now) Nicole has become the one seen, through various instances that would each have to set up their own ban.

As for what the point is, that could be asked of so many phishing and spam attempts. Often times they’re so bad that even if you wanted to, the links are incomplete or don’t make sense. Spam calls can be the same way. Usually letting them go to voicemail gets them to hang up before anything is left, but I’ve heard some live and recorded where it doesn’t even get through the spiel. What was the point? Maybe to establish a connection…or maybe just badly planned implementation.

Anyway, no one knows yet about Nicole, and honestly if it wasn’t just the single name and picture/info, it would all just be part of the constant spam that’s out there. Perhaps “they” hit on a formula to retain recognition, but now just don’t know what to do with it.