Put your hands over your eyes
Jump out of the plane
There is no pilot
You are not alone
Standby

If this community had active moderators, then your post might have been deleted, because it breaks community rule #3. But since almost no one reports breaking that rule, we admins seldom catch it.

They’re different things for different people & purposes. Lemmy is for pseudonymous topical communities. Mastodon is for following & interacting with personalities, mostly in a parasocial way.

I’m a comma-crazed Burgerstani, and I use those as well as the serial comma.

*Serial comma^[1]

Months should be adjusted so September, October, November, and December are the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th month respectively

Back of the line, Julius and Augustus.

Read the rules for a community before posting or commenting. Take this community, for instance:

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AFAIK bigotry of various kinds isn’t new. But racism was invented under capitalism to justify slavery and settler-colonialism, and to sow division between groups of working class people. It’s a divide and conquer strategy by the capitalist class. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_capitalism

I used to ride. People who say that know it’s just a bullshit excuse to be a dick. Just roll your eyes and/or flip them the bird. Actually, most of them get off on you flipping them the bird, because they’re dicks 🤷

Neat! I’ve only ever seen commercial-grade ones like that.

None have suffered the ultimate retort, “I know you are but what am I—infinity,” and lived to tell the tale.

“” should make it obvious what kinds of corporations I’m talking about: the kinds that are privately owned, including the ones on so-called “public” stock exchanges.

Sure, edge cases like that do happen at the US military-spook-industrial complex level, but I think the chances of my idea for a consumer product getting stolen that way are vanishingly small. Conversely, I’ll definitely never ship a product if I give in overly to paranoia.

ACAB: All Corporations Are Bastards

Why I didn’t say hot tub, I’ll never know 😞

so they won’t read it.

🤣 I swear to dog: 0.6% of the time, it works every time.

Yes, and it has nothing to do with stealing your product ideas. It’s about targeting ads to you.

Also if you so much as talked about this with anyone near a good damned smartphone, or googled your idea in anyway whatsoever, if it’s a good idea, it’s already gone.

Okay now that’s just silly. Your phone isn’t listening to you, and Google is only interested in (1) optimizing ads and (2) selling your data to others so they can optimize ads.

For some reason, commenters are focusing on patenting your product. But products as a whole are very seldom patentable. More often, one or more features of a product may be patentable, but there’s a fair chance that your product won’t have any patentable features, either. Since you haven’t told us anything at all about your product (a toaster? a time machine?), we couldn’t begin to guess if it’s patentable. In fact, for all we know, your product might violate others’ existing patents.