what a beautiful song, thanks for sharing

If any hostages accept that money they become accomplices.

Not ever!

You don’t need bike lanes to ride!

Have you tried complaining? It’s amazing. One of my favorite activities.

Similar situation: I’ve switched from saying “daughter” and “sister” to “child” and sibling. I’m not perfect at it yet and it doesn’t even appear that important to them, but I’m trying.

Some corporations are so predatory that it’s a moral good to harm them in any way we can, including theft.

what year?

J/K, I won’t remember no matter what

“He who laughs last laughs hardest.”

I laugh the hardest regardless of turn order. I laugh so hard others stop laughing to stare in stunned silence. I laugh so hard concerned citizens call for an ambulance.

The most memorable game I’ll never play again.

I go through my kids’ playlists.

I ask friends and family to make me mix CDs instead of giving gifts.

I listen to local independent radio (Chirp in my case).

I carpool with coworkers sometimes and have them run the aux.

I ask people to tell me what their favorite song is.

I go to concerts early enough to see the opening acts, even if I’ve never heard of them.

And I participate in threads like this.

Mow mow mow mrooooooaaaaaa

I haven’t found anything better than Jerboa. To me, the only flaw is that it will never, ever support piefed.

It’s the closest to the RIF experience.

Yes:

chimney guys

masonry guy

and technically a handyman and not a contractor, but the guy who replaced the pump for my boiler

Satisfied but not completely happy:

HVAC guy

roofing subcontractors

framer who redid the finished attic

plumber

Unsatisfied:

local do-it-all

HUD-approved contractor who did initial work

any and all carpenters

kitchen guy

electrician

I would like to shout-out to the window sash repair guy at the local hardware store who does do site visits but can fix vintage window sashes I remove and bring in, he’s amazing

I don’t know who a lot of celebrities are. Ariana Grande I know, but Gary Sinese? No clue what that dude is famous for or what he looks like.

Frankly, yes.

Depends on if it’s something I do myself, natch.

Yes, it’s a social signifier, in multiple ways. But none of them good.

Some people don’t eat tofu because “that’s foreign food”

Some men don’t eat tofu because “soybeans make you produce estrogen” and they’re afraid of… having estrogen, IG?

Some people don’t eat tofu because “humans are meant to eat animals, it says so in the Bible”

Not eating tofu is one thing. Refusing to eat it ever is sus as hells.

“in this economy” veganism is cheaper than vegetarianism is cheaper than omnivorism

If you became malnourished you weren’t eating vegan, you were eating junk food.

But to actually address your point, we don’t need everyone to be vegan, or for those that do to be vegan consistently. Even cutting consumption of animal products by a third would have a huge impact.

Ugh, what a load of drivel. Article takes a lot of words to say only two things, and one of them is wrong. Combine that with the synecodochistic fallacy of conflating the fediverse as a whole with mastodon specifically, and it’s just a waste of time.

So, I’ll save you the read and summarize the author’s two observations:

• Bluesky was designed to be resilient, but their centralization onto a primary server made them succeptible to DDoS attack anyway.

• ActivityPub makes no mention of servers but the supermajority of Mastodon was unaffected by a DDoS attack on the biggest server — the author acts like this is a happy accident, an “emergent property”, rather than a core part of the fediverse ethos.

Article does not relate to the title in any way.

And can I say how much it really pisses me off that they got a grant to write this waste of time?