That, or just a general abbreviation. If doesn’t have to be a specific form of abbreviation.
Radar (Radio Detection And Ranging) also isn’t a strict initialism, or it would be called RDAR.
Phrases like etc. (et cetera), & co. (company), vs. (versus), are also generally abbreviations.
Abbreviations don’t strictly have to follow any specific logic, they just need to be understood. What you’re describing is an initialism, where you just take the first letters.
My best guess for pfp is that it’s an initialism of the first three syllables because the fourth is unintuitive, three letters was common enough back in the day of BBS and pfp was recognisable enough, while pp is fairly ambiguous. Someone started abbreviating it like this, people picked up on it, and by the time I was old enough to engage with English message boards it was the norm already.
That would be the initialism, yes, but pfp isn’t an initialism.
Most people like to feel like they’re better than most. Mediocrity is an insult to them.
Blessed are the simpletons that never realise or just don’t give a fuck.
https://hamsterdance.io/ is shilling a meme cryptocurrency though
I’ve started spotting more examples of goodness too, not just evil. I rather think society is polarising, with some people becoming more visibly selfish (out of desperation, I think: the more you worry about your future, the less charity you’re willing to extend) and others making a point of being nicer to counteract the negativity.
Part of that will be the influence of media. Outrage apparently sells better than kindness, and particularly where corporate influences are a factor, despair and division are useful to make the populace more pliable. If people are shit anyways, why bother trying to fix anything?
Lemmy is no saint either: It’s easy to jump to conclusions and throw accusations over what might just be genuine error or civil disagreement rather than fundamental hostility.
So instead, let’s also make a point of being nicer and more charitable to each other, and to others elsewhere. Good people aren’t gone, they’re just cowed and overshadowed. Let’s fix that, you and me and everyone else who wants a nicer world. The indifference wins if we stop, so let’s keep going!
I hope you have a nice day, a pleasen start into your year, and I hope you can find that faith in humanity again.
Just redirects me to the start page 😕
Edit: Doesn’t show up in the search either, but the “similar games” do give some hint about the nature of that game
Someone else pointed out they’re a right wing “news” account. They won’t cringe. Most likely, they got the implication but are trying to deny it.
The author is hella based.
This is one thing that irritates me about a tool I work with: It has built-in functions to calculate a median and to calculate an average, by which it means the arithmetic mean. I tend to use the median because the data I work with has severe outliers skewing the mean, but then I have to explain what that means (heh).
How about “Sic Semper Tyrannis”?
I think this is one of those cases where I ignore the providence of the image for the entertainment value.
Certainly preferable to some other AI slop people produce.
As protests go, I like this. More visible and tangible than sitting somewhere they’ll never go, but not really violent (at least not as violent as other things you could throw). I also liked the shoes that got lobbed at Bush for the symbolism.
Cheap shot.
Not saying it doesn’t hit.
Warframe has a roguelike gamemode where one upgrade you can get gives +100% mag size per stack and +1 shock damage per reloaded bullet. If you have two stacks of that with a weapon with a base mag of 30 shots, that’s a damage bonus of up to 90 if you fully empty it before reloading.
I got two stacks of it with a weapon with base mag size 200 and base damage 40. I don’t remember what the weapon mods pushed that base damage to, but I do know that the 600 bonus damage was very much felt… when I did the reflex reload after firing ten bullets and suddenly my DPS were abysmal.