asking if they subscribe to other myth based beliefs, religions, etc
What you actually said:
Out of interest are you religious or subject to some other form of mythical belief system? I ask because clearly you lack motivation for the truth, preferring hearsay and urban legend that I must assume supports a wider world view. by @Hackerman_uwu
My thought: this kind of behaviour is one of things that made Reddit fucking awful and I’d hate to see it flourish here in the fediverse.
So, it’s basically 4chans all the way down.
Nominally, you’d need to go through some request process to request federation with other large instances. Then they’d vet your configuration before adding you.
An online cafe dedicated to harvesting baby seal fur SEEMED like a good idea…
California, actually. Although that’s probably worse.
I would proudly stink of back-bacon and maple syrup, if given the opportunity.
What would “discrimination” look like in a reddit-like link sharing service?
I’m not even sure what word would imply in a discussion forum. It usually applies to things like wages, job opportnities, access, etc.
beehaw.org – a lemmy instance specifically geared toward quality discussion and keeping everybody nice to each other – has basically been told by Lemmy devs that the moderation tools they want and need just aren’t in the roadmap, and they’ll need to fork and develop their own version.
That’s an incredibly disheartening attitude.
I think the big challenge right now is sustaining growth. I don’t think many reddit refugees are paying for their fediverse services.
I support dessalines on Patreon, but I don’t really know what else I should be doing. I think that folks who want to run these services need to figure out how to charge money for it, or they won’t be able to buy infrastructure or network bandwidth.
EDIT: OK I just bought 5 coffees for ernest: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kbin
Yeah, I use the regular Youtube client more frequently, because my senses aren’t assaulted by a crapass load of thumbnails of dumb stuff.
Oh goody. There’s a RickRussell_CA@lemm.ee and it’s not me. And it’s using one of my older profile pictures.
EDIT: 2023/8/29 update – I posted to the lemm.ee support community and the admins decided to disable the account. Well done!
I like pixelfed.social, but I’m an admittedly “lite” user of Instagram, don’t really post my own stuff, just use it to find interesting photos. It’s been good for that.
I don’t know if you mean Apple IIs, or the scene in the movie.
If you want to learn how computers work, the Apple II was, and arguably still is, a great platform. 8-bit programming is still fairly comprehensible to the novice, and the MIPS assembly language that is used in academic textbooks draws a direct lineage from the Motorola 6502 instruction set.
I learned basic 6502 programming on my Commodore 64 in the 80s, and I was shocked when I took a computer engineering course in 2010 that used MIPS assembly for the examples. It wasn’t just easy to understand, it was the same in virtually every respect. I had no problem at all following the code.
Really look at that computer. The OP is in his fifties.
Apple II and its variants were used in schools well into the 90s. It was still selling pretty well even then. There’s a great scene about it in the Fassbender Steve Jobs biopic.
I have back problems, high cholesterol, high blood pressure
As someone who waited way, way, way too long too lose weight, let me recommend that you review your situation with a doctor.
I’ve lost significant weight in my 50s and it’s completely turned my health around. Cholesterol, blood pressure, blood sugar, almost every indicator was dangerously of whack. I was on a boatload of medications, it was doing jack squat.
Now I get tested and everything is where it’s supposed to be. I’m down to small maintenance doses for blood pressure and triglycerides, and I’m off the diabetes medical entirely.
I don’t know if weight it a problem for you, but if it is: you can get it under control.
Exactly. Break something, and the fun stops for now, but TIME FOR AN UPGRADE!
Part of it is looking back through rose-colored glasses. Sure, there was joy, but there was that time you stubbed your toe and you got so emotionally disregulated that you cried for an hour, or the time your parents put the wrong color socks on you and you screamed a bad word at them and refused to leave the house, or… etc.
You learned to regulate your emotions. That’s mostly a good thing, but it also means that you learn to control yourself in the moment, and you don’t tend to lose yourself in joy like you did as a child.
And that’s OK. I enjoy things differently now, than I did then. Back then, when I played with a toy car, it gave me great joy but if something broke, or things didn’t go my way, I also suffered uncontrollable anger and frustration. Today, when I take my TRX-4 trail truck out on the trails, I feel a different kind of joy that is mixed with intellectual understanding of the engineering of the machine, an appreciation of the beauty of the natural world that I didn’t have as a child, etc. And if something breaks, it’s not an emotional thing any more. I know I can fix it, I have the ability and the desire.
Heck, it’s enjoyable to break things, take them apart, and fix them again. That certainly wasn’t true when I was 6.
Or you went berzerk in a nursing home.
I almost became a meteorologist! 2 years of grad school, but decided to quit before I became the bitterest person on Earth.
That’s why you start with so-called “small talk”. It’s rare that anybody really cares to talk about the weather, or notable local news, or the performance of the regional sports teams. But these subjects are safe. They give your conversation partners an opportunity to give an opinion and hint at their real interests (their families, their hobbies, etc) without broaching subjects that others might find exceptionally unpleasant or offensive.
So, don’t “jump from one topic to another that has nothing to do with the previous”. Give your conversation partners opportunities to change the subject, in a way that feels natural.
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