Huzzah!

It happens to the best of us. Don’t forget that Lemmy allows you to edit your post.

The daylight will come for you no more, Mr. Tallyman.

Even with an automod bot doing a lot of heavy lifting, we often manually ban spammers that slip past. And we have to review the bot’s actions for false positives, too, so we can revert those actions. It’s a very helpful tool but it isn’t perfect. I would not want to remove other tools (email verification, captcha) and rely only on the bot.

I was going to mention her Tiny Desk show. It’s a banger!

Women are underrepresented in a lot of roles throughout the world. It is usually due to some combination of social norms, expected gender roles, lack of opportunities, and old fashioned sexism.

It’s also possible you simply don’t see many female rappers because it’s not the music you seek out. There are lots of very talented women in the rap scene. Though they certainly do not get the attention they deserve (see the paragraph above).

Edit: to answer the second part of your question, I’ll go old school and say Rebirth of Slick by Diggable Planets. Missy Elliott and Lauren Hill are top-shelf, too. Other people here have mentioned Doechii; she’s a new star on the rise.

Best ever is probably a group trip to Whistler many years ago. We got to our condo shortly ahead of a big snowstorm which closed the road behind us overnight. We awoke the next morning to a fresh layer of powder, and nearly had the whole mountain to ourselves. The only other skiers were people who had also beat the storm just ahead of us.

Best recently was night skiing with my kiddo back in January. It was a Sunday night so we nearly had the entire hill to ourselves. The sunset and alpenglow were phenomenal. And multiple planets were out: Venus, Mars, Saturn, and Jupiter were all visible.

Ah, one of the rare SFW Oglaf comics.

Super Mario Brothers 3, only because I spent waaaaay too many hours playing it with my friend.

Super Mario World because it was not only fun, but gorgeous. It still is gorgeous, but it was gorgeous then, too.

This reminds me of a protest song.

The author and singer, Joe Wecker, sings the algorithm of the function dss_descramble, which is arguably the heart of the DeCSS package for unencrypting the contents of a DVD movie.

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/css_descramble_keith_dawson.txt

This picture is not from Wikipedia, but it is of the same incident. The picture was taken at noon. The smog was so thick the street lights had to turn on.

Source: https://explorepahistory.com/displayimage.php?imgId=1-2-DD

If money is no object you can buy your own custom-built private car and pay Amtrak to pull it on their lines.

Major League baseball does it, too. The sports leagues are for-profit entertainment companies that generate content. They can choose to license their content to whichever broadcaster or streaming service they like. It’s a poor way to treat their fans, but there is no legal reason they can’t do it.

Imagine a movie studio films movie in your city, using local actors and crew. They are not required to show the movie on local broadcast TV in your city just because they produced it there.

I don’t know if it’s directly related, but that is the year Richard Nixon effectively killed the Bretton Woods system and took the US dollar off the gold standard. That move is sometimes blamed, at least in part, for America’s recession and stagflation in the 1970s. If inflation is rising more than the minimum wage, then the “real” minimum wage is dropping.

FediDB has listed the overall Lemmy monthly active users at about 45k for a while now. It’s anyone’s guess how many actual humans that represents, since the number includes bots and alt accounts.

That number only includes accounts that post, comment, or vote. I would love to know how many silent lurkers are out there.

I was really hoping this was a case of intentional malicious compliance to draw attention to the stupidity of this new policy. No such luck.

FYI, you can use markdown in Lemmy to create spoilers

::: spoiler Who done it?
The butler did it
:::

will become this:

Police officers tried to starve the engine of diesel fuel and shut it down by shooting at the red fuel cutoff button

Lol they thought they were in an action movie.

Now I’m curious to try “good” lutefisk. I grew up hearing about how exceptionally awful it is.

Northwest US: smoked salmon with a side of berries. Sockeye with little or no sugar added is the best IMO. The berries should be native varieties if you want to try for authenticity, though the invasive blackberries are really tasty, too.