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When I worked for a big IT consultant, the internal marketing department (why does that exist?) was tasked with promoting a new touch device. They had the genius idea of making stickers with "The mouse is dead" and a product link. Early one morning, they went around to every desk and put these stickers over the mouse lasers.

It took about 30 minutes for everyone to figure out why every mouse in the building had stopped working. There was urgent work that had to be done. People were furious.

I've had similar experiences with high powered esk8, scooters, EUCs, etc. having been on several group rides with them. Nearly all owners of more capable devices will invest in safety gear and learn to ride responsibly because there's more to lose. Meanwhile there are basic ebike and scooter riders all over the place with no gear, doubling up, using phones...

It's frustrating because local legislation is rightly responding to these rider issues, but when they do a crackdown operation they target the geared up riders who appear to be fast and scary.

It's actually easier to just use it every time. Deciding whether you need to is cognitive load that's better spent on other things.

Yes, and the all new TwinkedIn is already experiencing a surge in active users! Most of them are coming from Grindr for some reason, but it still counts!

One of the small blessings of social media has been more billionaires putting their unfiltered thoughts out there for everyone to see. It's become very obvious that they have no special skills or intelligence. If anything it's just a lack of imagination that allows them to indulge their fixation on collecting shiny things.

Crowdsourcing has been a blessing in my journey to relieve chronic migraine. There's a lot of misunderstanding and bad info out there, but at least it has given me options. Doctors have all fixated on blood pressure medication and abortives, which don't work on me in the former, and the latter leaves me incapacitated when they do work.

Going down the rabbit hole of online discussions helped me figure out I have histamine intolerance, which I was able to verify scientifically once I knew how to investigate it.

Communities that are mostly on meta are going to be tough to shift. One of my main ones is Electric Unicycles, which has a lot of activity over there because people rely on it for organising group rides and such. It means even the subreddit is pretty small.

I tried looking for less niche categories, like for Personal Electric Vehicles, no luck. The closest I found on Lemmy is for micromobility, but it's pretty dead.

It's strange of China to even propose this. Why would Australia risk drawing fire when we've escaped the worst of the tariff lunacy so far?

Turning it down is also an easy win for Albanese to look strong against two superpowers, weeks away from an election.

Even when I like the music, it goes down to about 50%. If games were good at dynamically adjusting the music so it doesn't compete with all the other audio when you actually need to hear things, I wouldn't. But here we are.

I thought it was Mr House.

Does he think people will just start buying things they don't need to make the tariff go away?

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