Sarsaparilla

I know it's disappointing, but that's good to hear. I didn't have stitches, but many extractions, and even then the dentist told me to be very gentle with myself so as not to cause the wounds to start bleeding again. Take care, and rest well.

Adding the /s is like saying "I just told a joke." ... with sarcasm, well it's kinda like saying the punchline.

Umm, are there gonna be stitches involved? Because you probably shouldn't be jumping about.

I'm also noticing a satisfying lack of the /s tag.

Yes, because the suggestion made everyone laugh hysterically, even here in Australia lol.

Hello Mr @ernest

I think this is an issue, or perhaps I'm missing something somewhere?

When I receive a reply notification and click the person's reply comment, it doesn't take me to the comment in the thread, but rather to the beginning, and I have to scroll through the conversation to find my post and the replies to it. Unless I'm doing something wrong, this is going to become problematic in large active threads.

I click on their words in the notification message (as the timestamp is not a link), the comment highlights and even shows the comment number in the link for the post, but does not take me to it, even if I right-click/open in a new tab. Someone in another thread suspects this happens once the thread/and comment moves onto the second page of the thread (but making it infinate scroll doesn't fix it either).

edit: I should add that I'm on Desktop

Yes, that was my take too. I wish Australia would start moving on some of these sort of laws already. We still have very lax data privacy/retention laws and such ... our pollies definitely ain't thinking about protecting the public from AI chat bots!

Is it actually some kind of switch to activate the bot account, or is that setting just for transparency sake?

You both make such great points here. I've definitely had those times I felt like a post that's upvoted to the front page is really an advertisement. And within thread comments it has become almost impossible to know who is genuine, a troll, or a literal bot - along with being pretty toxic for a long time.

At the same time, there are some extraordinary communities and knowledge repositories that might be difficult to replicate in the fediverse. For example, I can't yet envisage how a highly factual community like Ask Science, or such, might work. But I love the retro feeling I'm getting here - of discovering a new, blossoming internet community - and the fact that there are seemingly real people behind the posts. lol.

John Oliver so sexy you don't even have to ask the AI to make him so ...

Word-processing. I fancied myself a bit of a writer when I was young. First my Dad gave me an electronic typewriter and that was a game-changer for organising ideas, sentences, paragraphs ... incredible, but my PC with Word, and Publisher, Wow! No more rewrites in countless exercise books, or liquid paper, or erasers. Amazing!

Same. My little lord needs prescription wet food. It used to be AUD$25 for a box of 12 sachets (which was already expensive for less than a week worth of pet food), creeping up over the last six months, now AUD$37.50.