How exactly does that prevent spam, vs just using other existing established verification methods like email validation? If the only goal is preventing spam, its overkill, and other web sites who also have to contend with spam don’t use it.

It’s trivial to create new accounts and emails to verify those accounts. It is not trivial to get a new phone number since virtual numbers are blocked by the verification process.

Monster Mash*

Neither have sauce in them, they are more akin to a calzone

That’s not what the definition said, realise is just the British spelling. If you re-read the definition in your screenshot, it says both realizes and realises are 3rd person present

you can, yes. it’s called hard drive shucking and is extremely common.

The chance of you rolling [6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6] is the same chance of rolling [1,5,3,2,3,5,3,4] that’s how randomness works

The 16 on the stick is because it’s sold as a 16g kit, and the 8 on the internal name is because that stick is an 8gb stick. Yes, this is common

there’s an entire wikipedia article for this that makes it super easy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirated_movie_release_types

Honestly I just picked it here because I thought it’d look nice giving a big hit of green color and gives a good texture addition since everything else is pretty soft, this adds some crunch to the dish. For me there’s no vegetable that really stands out to me where I will look forward to it, except maybe roast potatoes lol

I believe in China red/green meaning is reversed for things like this, where red means positive/good and green means negative/bad

kbin and lemmy are different softwares, but they are both used for link aggregation and the 2 softwares use a common protocol, so they can talk to each other. So there are kbin servers and lemmy servers, and they are all interconnected.

So now we can take this post as an example:

You are a user on kbin.social

You posted this question on /m/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world - this means the community you posted on is actually hosted on lemmy.world

lemmy.world then tells other instances that its federated with that someone just made a post on /c/nostupidquestions on its instance. what kbin calls magazines are called communities on lemmy, hence the /c/ instead of the /m/.

kbin.social and all the other instances will then also show this post, even though it originally was created on a different instance