Not defending Subway, but food advertisement / photography uses all sorts of dirty tricks to make it look more appealing. What’s photographed may not even be edible.

It’s possible the amount of meat is the same in the photo but just shoved and piled up on the side to look like more.

Example: https://shotkit.com/food-photography-secrets-revealed/

That said, advertisements should be forced to accurately represent what you’ll be served and not an idealized version of it.

Surprisingly: High Credibility, Left-Center Bias, High Factuality

The Moscow Times is owned by TMT LLC, which is supported by the Dutch Foundation Stichting Oktober, promoting independent journalism in Russia and is based in the Netherlands.

So it’s based in the Netherlands which probably explains that.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/moscow-times/

Just reverse the polarity of the nacelles and they should drop right off lol

(sigh) Original link: https://globalnews.ca/news/10848094/iran-supreme-leader-threatens-israel-usa-over-israeli-attack/

¡Salud! 🥂

I hate you 😆

I develop a Lemmy client and have been re-working the renderers on this release. I daily drive my “dev” version to suss out bugs and such. There was a bug a couple days ago where it kept fetching 256 px thumbnails even when requesting the full size image.

For a moment there, I thought that bug was back and just about slammed my laptop shut and poured a drink.

Looking back, definitely lol.

At the time I was a lazy teenager / college student and just didn’t really think about it. I was also poor + without insurance so had to make them last. Usually when one would tear, it would be when I was taking them out / putting them in.

I have no idea how something like that didn’t happen to me.

I used to wear 30-day disposable contacts for like 3-4 months without ever taking them out. Would just squeeze the cleaning solution directly into my eyes every morning, give them a few heavy blinks, and then rinse with the saline.

Appreciate them! They really do not get paid enough to try as hard as they do.

That,too.

I’ve been meaning to try out a Fairphone

I mean, you can (and should) pay attention to politics IRL to stay informed and make informed choices. But blocking out politics on social media, though, is quite understandable and often necessary for sanity.

I never meme about individual users; that’s just not my style.

It’s merely an illustration of a trend I notice every so often.

Framework needs to make a phone lol.

(This is vague enough that I don’t feel spoilers are necessary)

Perhaps another computer attempting to join Starfleet, but it looks like a box rather than a person and asks Data to argue its personhood.

They kind of had that exact opportunity in Discovery. But instead of an entire courtroom episode, it was more of a forced arbitration scene :(

I wasn’t really looking at the MAU stats when I made this; it just felt like it’s been more actively lately (both good and bad). Unfortunate the numbers are actually trending downward.

For one thing, people might be turning away due to the upcoming USA election

Possibly. I’ve gone into self-imposed social media blackouts during election season many a time. Sometimes you just need a break.

Whenever I go looking for examples of such I usually find it in 0-60 seconds, by going to Lemmy.ml and browsing by Local … people are not willing to put up with such, and seem to be leaving us

Yeah. I have felt for a while that ml being the official or at least de facto flagship instance is doing more harm than good. I’m not going to tell them how to run their instance, but I am sad and frustrated that it seems to turn so many people away under the impression the whole fediverse is like that.

I’m cool with Fedizens 😀.

I think I was on Reddit for 12 (?), but I wasn’t nearly as active there as I am here.

Happens to the best of us.

As a Reddit refugee myself,I can’t disagree with that. But I will clarify that there’s generally two kinds of Reddit Refugees, though:

• The kind that got fed up with Reddit and wants to be part of something better
• The people who were banned from Reddit and think this is some kind of safe haven to continue acting on their worst impulses that got them banned elsewhere.

The meme is largely referencing the latter.