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Lol.

Get home from a work trip and go into a deep introvert-recharge cycle. Lots of sleep. Solo hobbies and comfort foods. The most socializing I will do is asynchronous texting with two particular people, everyone else is getting ignored for a couple days.

I think the community I miss on reddit is less and less feasible these days with anything and everything being scraped for privacy-violating databases.

I really enjoyed the small backpacking subs where people would post trip reports and photos of their campsites. Bonus if their adventure dog was also in the photo. They were very much a mix of humble-brag but also-the-world-is-awesome-celebrate-with-me positivity. There’s less of that here on Lemmy. And I can’t even be critical because I also stopped posting such things as much, I am way more cognizant of posting any photo, even if I’m not in frame, that could be used to identify me or be a data input to anyone’s file on me.

I used the word poesy in a written assignment, as in the art of poetry. The teacher didn’t recognize it as a real word and deducted points from my grade. She had a policy that we could correct and resubmit for half points, so I did that but didn’t change the word, I just helpfully gave her the definition in a footnote.

Shocked, naive, innocent little me didn’t not know what to think when she took that as an insult. I was only trying to help her, didn’t she get that?!?

This was one of a handful of events when my sister started implying I might have a neurospicy brain. IDK, maybe, but I was just being accurate so I didn’t really see that as anything I needes to address. I thought the overly-sensitive and factually incorrect teacher was the one who needed to self-reflect.

Pressing the crosswalk button over and over will make the light change faster.

I challenge Karl, King of Ducks, for his crown.

I would question your friend on what they are drinking and where.

The easiest to find Australian beer in the US is Fosters. But go to Australia and few people there actually drink it because it’s not good and there are so many better options.

I once traveled to the UK and had a Newcastle Brown straight from the tap and it was delicious. Went back home to the US and picked up some bottles, it was old and tasted like barely a shadow of the fresh UK stuff.

If I judged Australia or UK beers on what I can find easily in the US, I would also think their beers are ass.

So if he is trying only what he can get in his country, 1) it’s probably old and 2) it’s rarely the “best” a country has to offer.

I have read about 2,000 pages on ebook so far this year, which is an average month for me. And I listened to about 20 hours by audiobook. I do count audiobooks, and I listened to less in January than average.

Split is about 75/25 fiction/nonfiction.

I hold zero affection for physical books. Less than zero even. I’ve moved too many times. I have maybe 50lbs of textbooks, high school year books, and reference books for hobbies and that’s it. I would have to be ready to settle into a home for the rest of my life before I could bring myself to buy physical books, and I’m still way too restless for that.

Enjoy your pulp books! I hope they’re good, even if “so bad and cheesy, they’re good”.

8-12. They are were inexpensive, versatile protein.

Damn, I’m running into that a lot with Lemmy apps.

About a week. There was a very early season snowstorm. Deciduous trees still had leaves and caught a lot of snow. The weight broke limbs which took down power lines everywhere. In older neighborhoods with above ground lines and mature oak trees, nearly every line and every house had to have crews working them.

Ha, fair enough. TY.

My shopping list to date.

• user tags
• spoiler tags work
• dark mode + color palette that doesn’t offend my eyes
• my “sort by” settings stick and don’t reset when the app restarts

If anyone out there has recommendations for a Lemmy app for Android, I’m all all ears.

Shoot, I like Boost, esp the user tags as a free feature. Upon further study, it looks like Boost might be inactive so time to search around again. TY.

Counterpoint: see similar IRL fuckwits in Texas progressing their similarly stupid agenda. Do not discount the fuckwits simply because they seem small in number and influence today.

Ha, I like your optimism that anti-abortion/anti-womens bodily autonomy types wouldn’t immediately try to start controlling the unfertile eggs. Plenty of them think contraceptives are evil after all, which is equivalent to discarding infertile eggs before they get fertilized.

We would see efforts to track women’s egg laying cycles and criminalize discarding them within the period they can still be fertilized. (See IRL Indiana attempting to make individual abortion reports public instead of as anonymized, aggregate data for studies).

Not sure I’ve noticed this one. As in a singular woman is called “women” or people dance around calling a woman “women” or say lady or female or something other than “woman”?

I’ve seen people uncomfortable with saying “woman” for some reason, but haven’t noticed if the same people say “women” or not.

My initial thought was “would chemists theoretically be less into labor protections than plumbers”?

I guess that puts me in a third bucket.

Capitalist.

I think it’s absolutely wild how archaic some systems are. And the worst offenders are those regulated by financial and medical industry laws. I have an account with one financial account that is protected only by password that is 12 characters max with special characters limited to just a few. I don’t know how they haven’t been breached and then sued into oblivion.

I’m fine with companies enforcing 2FA. Bitwarden is addressing the current weakest link in the chain: users.

Mike Flanagan was at one point signed up with Netflix to do a TV series adaptation of the Something is Killing the Children comics. It fell through. I want to see that series happen, very free reign to Flanagan with just a little bit of reeling in his long monologues.