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TL;DR:  Let’s try to be less interesting!

Hello from your mod team (seems like just me, if you’re interested in being a mod ping me)!

I’ve noticed that things have been getting pretty interesting around here lately and we need to tone that back a little.  The goal of this community is to share things that aren’t particularly interesting that you come across. 

Yes, “interesting” is very subjective, but I think we need to go back to our roots and consider what brought us all here… we wanted to be mildly interested.

Also, this isn’t a place for politics.  There are many other communities for that, let’s keep it there.  

Here are a couple great examples of what I feel we should strive for: 

https://lemmy.world/post/34363323

https://lemmy.world/post/34336673

That’s all for now, thanks for your support and understanding.

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submitted 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) by SethranKada@lemmy.ca to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
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I figure the one just sat around for longer, as I've had extra blue-y cheese develop in my own fridge. Just never seen such a striking difference at the store, which I found mildly interesting.

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I used a VPN to get the latter

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I just saw this picture and it reminds me of Disaster Girl... Real prank was the idea for the scene in Real Genius where Lazlo Hollyfeld submits over a million submissions to a sweepstakes.

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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by renoxe@sh.itjust.works to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

"Artificial Intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google. If we had the ultimate search engine, it would understand everything on the web. It would understand exactly what you wanted and it would give you the right thing"

"That's obviously artificial intelligence. To be able to answer any question basically, because almost everything is on the web, right?"

"We're no where near that now. However we can get incrementally closer to that and that's basically what we work on. And that's tremendously interesting from an intellectual standpoint"

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by vogi@piefed.social to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

A normal computer mouse has its cord/tail coming out of their front which is very unrealistic! This mouse by logitech fixed this issue.

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The Library of Useless (www.libraryofuseless.com)

A website I created devoted to all the "facts" that have been changed or proven false since you graduated high school. User submissions welcome.

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dupe (www.latimes.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by slothrop@lemmy.ca to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

Found this while reading this:

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This is for strictly mildly interesting material. If it's too interesting, it doesn't belong. If it's not interesting, it doesn't belong.

This is obviously an objective criteria, so the mods are always right. Or maybe mildly right? Ahh.. what do we know?

Just post some stuff and don't spam.

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