I feel that choice paralysis a lot. My reading moods fluctuate, so sometimes I want to read one genre or sometimes another, but I also have a massive TBR so I struggle determining what book I should read. I’ve learned to just let myself start something, and if it doesn’t work out, then I can stop and maybe pick it back up later. For instance, I just finished Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence, a book that I had tried to read three times prior. This was the first time my interest stuck, and now I am finishing the trilogy. But getting over that initial hurdle of “what should I read” can be difficult.
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Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•In your opinion, which FOSS software is by many considered "old" or "obsolete", but are in fact, in your opinion, in many ways better than the newer alternatives?
1·3 years agoThere is one for web site developers. You are meant to follow guidelines proposed by the WCAG and ADA.
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Food and Cooking@beehaw.org•What do you eat that other people think is odd?
1·3 years agoI think you might have responded to the wrong comment, but yeah, I like those- but only the chips, not the full dill
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Food and Cooking@beehaw.org•What do you eat that other people think is odd?
13·3 years agoSometimes I put a tiny bit of mustard on an Oreo to have a sweet and tangy snack.
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World News@beehaw.org•"Tipflation" may be causing tipping backlash as more digital prompts ask for tipsEnglish
2·3 years agoThis looks dope! I don’t know if I have the space for it right now (renter so can’t change the outside too much, plus most of it is not usable), but I’m bookmarking this for if/when I buy a house.
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World News@beehaw.org•"Tipflation" may be causing tipping backlash as more digital prompts ask for tipsEnglish
11·3 years agoI don’t really eat meat. The thing that gets me are the vegetables. If I want anything fresh, it costs so much more than canned or frozen. Frozen/canned veggies are fine for some meals, but for others they can really taste a bit off. We just moved and I’m hoping there are some good farmer’s markets around where I live now with decent prices (the place I moved from were worse than the grocery store).
I figured. I got to the part where they captured a woman and she sort of starved to death. They weren’t doing anything evil intentionally; she was completely foreign to their way of life. I assumed the ending would revolve around learning from each other or cohabitation - some type of mutual respect. Maybe not. I’ll get back into it. I have the audiobook on my waitlist for the library.
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Chat@beehaw.org•How long until Threadiverse is ready for normies?English
12·3 years agoI’m a normie and I get it. Surely there are more than just the tech people capable of understanding how the system works. It can be a bit confusing at first, but all that is needed is a really good guide explaining how to use the fediverse.
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Politics@beehaw.org•Trump now blames ‘mutants’ for indictment in latest Truth Social rant
11·3 years agoWell, X-Men has already been compared to the experiences of the LGBTQ+ community so really they should already be upset at them.
Some of the comments are on a sub that I know specifically did not go dark or private during the protest, so I don’t think it is solely from that. I’m going to do it again with a different program, and I will continue to do it until someone leaves it alone. Right now the reddit admin are on alert, but eventually they’ll stop paying attention.
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Reddit Migration@kbin.social•Updated: Reddit is quietly restoring deleted AND overwritten posts and comments
1·3 years agoThat’s ok. I am petty enough to constantly delete my stuff.
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Reddit Migration@kbin.social•Updated: Reddit is quietly restoring deleted AND overwritten posts and comments
1·3 years agoI used shreddit and mine are all back.
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World News@beehaw.org•reddit removing mods from subreddits
22·3 years agoJust checked my account and all of my posts and comments are back. :[
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Technology@beehaw.org•YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers
5·3 years agoWhat really irritates me is that I pay for YouTube TV because it’s the cheapest option out of all “cable-like” plans, and yet I am not allowed any benefits on actual YouTube. It’s ridiculous that I am already paying well over the premium amount so why do I have to watch more ads?
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Technology@beehaw.org•Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Day 3English
21·3 years agoI also bet there are people who haven’t already left that will abandon ship once the TPAs stop working. It’s not going to be fun getting stuck with their mediocre app, particularly since they seem to be testing the end of the mobile site.
Yeah, I figured Mars would be an underground territory since that seems to be where any nutrients might be anyway. Trying to form an atmosphere there suitable for life is likely impossible, but cave cities would be theoretically doable.
Although I don’t know how I feel about terraforming other planets in general. Humans have destroyed this one so much that I feel like giving us another is akin to not teaching a child not to destroy their stuff. On the other hand, it would just be cool to see what humans have accomplished.
Here is an archive.is link. You can use this website to get around paywalls.
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World News@beehaw.org•If we all cycled like the Dutch, CO2 emissions would drop by 690 million tonnesEnglish
0·3 years agoWe’re absolutely on the same page! I am hoping there is more incentives created for the electric bike movement for urban areas. Some states are successfully adopting and pushing through rebates for those who purchase one, so hopefully this inspires other states to do so as well. I think ebikes are much more friendly for people to use since they’re not as daunting for longer journeys.
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World News@beehaw.org•If we all cycled like the Dutch, CO2 emissions would drop by 690 million tonnesEnglish
7·3 years agoThis would only be possible if the urban places really migrated to this kind of system since it isn’t entirely feasible in certain places of the US.
For instance I grew up in the US South, specifically in farm country. The closest grocery was 30 minutes away by car. School busses took an hour or more from pickup to dropoff. No one in those kinds of communities are going to stop using a car for biking or public transport because it would take way too long to complete tasks. Switching to electric cars is theoretically a good idea, but we don’t currently have enough infrastructure to support it (and these places in the South definitely don’t). Plus, there are places still on coal and gas for energy, so by increasing their energy needs, you are essentially increasing that much more environmental damage. (I am not against electric cars btw, just see the pros and cons.)
On the other hand, where I live now is a suburb of a huge metro that has groceries, schools, and healthcare everywhere. It would be completely possible for us to use only public transport and/or biking because the community is more dense. These are the places that really need the push for more environment-friendly services, which would decrease our destructive tendencies enough for those places who can’t jump on this to catch up.


Someone losing copyright of their book doesn’t necessarily mean they’re going to write more. A vast majority of published writers cannot live off of a single book (a lot can’t from multiples). It’s actually incredibly hard to make a living off writing.