I think the Pikachu one comes from associating it with Pichu

https://pokemondb.net/pokedex/pichu

The eyes are closed as if to say resignedly

“Goodbye cruel fluffy world.”

The earliest known reference to a vending machine is in the work of Hero of Alexandria, an engineer and mathematician in first-century Roman Egypt. His machine accepted a coin and then dispensed wine2 or holy water.3 When the coin was deposited, it fell upon a pan attached to a lever. The lever opened a valve which let some wine flow out. The pan continued to tilt with the weight of the coin until it fell off, at which point a counterweight snapped the lever up and turned off the valve.

Neat

Hi cheese_greater,

I agree that this question is better suited for one of the ask communities:

• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]

To the report about this post being suspicious:

I asked OP to email us with their institution email address, and I can confirm that we received a verification from a University of Toronto email address.

No problem! I can confirm that we received a verification from a University of Toronto email address.

Note to people downvoting:

Downvoting a news article doesn’t undo what the opposition leader said, but it does make people less informed about it.

I think it’s helpful to hear what happened and then read a discussion about it in the comments.

That comment is helping potential users vet your project before they use it, since not everyone has the motivation to go into the repo and take a look

I’m seeing some reports on this post from people who are suspicious about its legitimacy. It looks to be the same format as other Canadian university studies I’ve seen, and the fediverse is the right place to find people for such a study. To me it looks legitimate.

Maybe I can do a verification from the admin side? If you can send us an email from your institution account to support@lemmy.ca, I can leave a comment confirming that you are indeed from UofT.

You could also post this in [email protected]

Did they also promote the attribution removal?

No problem, I’m still making the polls/playlists and there’s no limit to the number of nominations per user. I’ll look into the popularity side to see if it is submittable

@[email protected], can you weigh in on if this artist would count as an international hit?

I’m preparing our poll now, and I can exclude this nomination if it is too big. These two songs were nominated from this artist:

• https://www.mystreamcount.com/track/4UXwfhy8RTOcH0QWJF8SMg
• https://www.mystreamcount.com/track/6iDKiCR13L8Ba6bkK6cqqt

America decides to tariff anyone using Chinese technology

America already decides to tariff countries regardless of what they’re doing

Why don’t you just implement federation normally instead of taking this roundabout way of doing things? As long as your site contributes content back, and makes it clear where content is from, other projects like piefed and lemmy would be happy to have your project join the network.

Continuing like this will likely get you IP blocked from wherever you’re mirroring content from.

Also these platforms are open source. You are allowed to copy and modify things for your own projects, as long as you follow the basic rules in the license.

Similar to what other comments have said, we created this page to go over the basic analogy to email and phone numbers:

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started

For the people who are really unfamiliar with tech, I research an instance for them and make a recommendation. All they need to do is make an account as they usually do.

Boost and Voyager for me.

We asked about this in our census and got the following results:

https://fedecan.ca/en/announcements/2026-04-03_censusResults#_3-1-10-on-mobile-how-do-you-access-the-instance

Unless people want to keep these posts going, I’m going to turn it off after this one. I don’t think it’s helpful yet, and it’s creating more noise than its helping.

2019

https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/whats-with-the-jacob-batalon-ceo-of-sex-meme-the-american-actors-viral-you-seem-chill-meme-explained

It helps those that want to sell unregulated and unproven snake oil

What happens in family game night stays in family game night