“Madam”

but apparently Yankees have some weird association between that word and age

I’m sorry, but the correct answer IS “secondhand”.

Though mostly I get them through the mutual aid network, not from thrift store.

Addis Ababa, too

xiuxiuejar, so onomatopoetic, I love it

tatterdemalion

it’s a beautiful words, fun to say, and I also like what it signifies

I think of both as “ranked-threaded discussion” because I basically have no interest in their capacity as link aggregators, and rarely interact with link posts.

pulchritudinous

it’s an incredibly ugly word

Single digits. I love shoveling snow, and cold weather makes me feel alive.

Always? I have never heard this.

I use a lot of math in my day-to-day life, but this isn’t one of them.

What distinction are you making, here? Everybody seems, to me, to be a black box that only relates to others through their inputs and outputs. How else can I like someone, if not by what they put into the world?

Public transit is not necessary for a 1km distance.

Is that a typo, or you’re looking for a community based on casual racism?

nap

I almost never see US politics. This is because I browse by “subscribed”.

Earth will only be around for another five billion years or do, so no.

last time I played neither my gun nor vest was working right, major bummer

Up:

• interesting posts that are on-topic for the muni

• posts in any community that have spawned interesting comments

• comments that are cogent or thoughtful replies

• comments that are funny jokes

• comments that explore a perspective I’ve never seen before

down:

• complaining about downvotes

• posts that are rule-breaking or off-topic for the community

• posts or comments with slurs, including misogynistic slurs

• misinformation, disinformation, and unfunny trolling

• advocacy for antisocial or unethical behavior (NB: illegal is isn’t disqualifying)

• incivility, over-the-top hostility, and petty bickering

• rhetorical sins like sealioning, the gish gallop, begging the question, and so on

• posts linking to videos that don’t provide a text summary

downvote and report:

• hate speech

• wishing harm or self-harm

• spam

It’s a lot less common to see prominent links to RSS feeds on a website these days than it was, say, fifteen years ago.

I do, I’ve been music for a while about an app that had all my fediverse accounts in one place, a long with my email and possibly reddit (but, uh, without ads). I never check my email unless I’m expecting something and I think a big part of why is because it’s a separate flow from checking my other text-based social media.