Am I dumb or what’s up with the radio stuff on the left? 😅 Is rust common for some sort of radio programming?

We’re we Here fuck We’re shit Queer up!!!

Personal experience so this is confirmation bias. I love my eBike. I drive it nearly all year. Winter is the exception. It’s not the cold weather either, I ride it sometimes as low as 10°F (≈-12°C).

Where I am, road conditions are the problem. Snow plows push snow into the shitty bike gutter lanes, taking away that option. You could take your chances on the sidewalk, but the city doesn’t put ice melt down, so then you’d need to be weary of other pedestrians, slick spots, and other hazards that come with sidewalks. You could take your chances going further into the road, but now You’re dealing with potholes, drivers who want to get by you, and still potential for more slick spots. Not safe at all. Lastly, the bit of biking infrastructure which isn’t a gutter but a proper bike trail just isn’t tended to at all.

Cities say they care, throw down money to at least build something they call infrastructure, but actually maintaining it is something that normally doesn’t happen.

Doesn’t necessarily invalidate anything other than the few American specific sentences. The main point still is there. America might be king of stupid, but does not have a monopoly of stupid.

I think it’s mostly subjective or anecdotal, but what comes to mind:

• The community generally is more friendly. Absolutely, there are still jerks or trolls around, but the ratio of jerks or trolls feel way less than reddit.
• I feel more active here myself. This one I can’t explain. The community is smaller, so maybe I’m not subconsciously worrying about being drowned out by other comments? On Reddit, I’d average about 1 comment a month at best. On here I usually leave a few comments a week.
• This point might not mean much if you didn’t join reddit when it was younger: I joined reddit when it was still young. I think back in '08? Lemmy feels like a young reddit, back when I enjoyed it most. Again, I can’t really explain this since it’s just a feeling, but one example of what I mean by “young reddit” is community wide memes. Wayyyyyy back in the day, everyone on Reddit was ravaging about “The narwhal bacons at night” or something like that lol. There were also a bunch of dickbutt memes… if you know, you know. Well, my first week on Lemmy everyone was posting beans for a good couple of days. No reason. Just beans. A few weeks ago there were a bunch of “Taylor Swift going to Australia,” Taylor Swift taking a swim," “Taylor Swift spotted at the airport,” titled posts, but all those posts were pictures of airplanes. The rotating meme right now I think is Jeans??? Idk. This is just a symptom of a younger community, and why I like it more, but there’s more to enjoy about it than rotating memes. This place just feels more genuine as opposed to artificial if that makes any sense.
• I feel like I’m not missing out on anything on Reddit and I have a healthier relationship with social media on this site than with reddit. Every once and a while, I log back onto Reddit to see what’s going on. Most of the “Big news” that’s posted on there is also posted here, but the experience now feels more bloated compared to here so I don’t stick around as long. As for this site… Yes there is less content. Yes there is less to scroll through. At the same time though, you can scroll for a very long time if you really want to. This eventually led to me being on my phone less and being somewhat a little more productive as opposed to doom scrolling.
• Lemmy absolutely has better third party support for well, anything. Sure, it doesn’t have official apps, but go to the app store and count how many different Lemmy apps there are vs reddit. Nearly all of these apps are better than the reddit app IMO. Most of these apps are also FOSS; they’re free with no ads. Yes, there are still few paid apps as well if that tickles your fancy. I know Sync for Reddit came over to Lemmy as Sync for Lemmy as an example. This shouldn’t stop at apps though. I wouldn’t be surprised if there are browser plugins.
• You have more say in your experience here. Again, with the smaller community, your voice is louder. On top of that, is your server’s admin doing something you do not support? Your instance is doing something you don’t like? Create an account on other instances! Lemmy is federated, so most of what you see should be the same as in other instances, but you aren’t under the rule of one toxic CEO anymore. I myself have like 4 accounts on 4 different instances lol.
• Piggy-backing off of the previous point: if reddit is down, it is down. If your instance is down here? Sign into another instance!
• On the opposite end of the spectrum, does some instance have a bunch of members or just communities you don’t want to see? Lemmy might not have native tools out of the box, but some Lemmy apps will let you block entire communities.
• One fun thing I like about Lemmy is you can post pictures in comments!

If anything, the only reason why I still use reddit is for smaller, niche, communities. To that end, yeah Lemmy is smaller, thus the smaller reddit communities are even smaller here. If I find myself wanting to make a post on a given niche topic, I typically post on Reddit AND here. Sometimes, my post on Lemmy will somehow get more comments than reddit still though. Reddit posts seem to fall off after a day or so, that’s not typically the case for Lemmy if you do trend something.

At the end of the day though, this is just a social media platform, and the enjoyment you get out of it comes down to you. ☺️ One tip I do have though is to sort by “Top of 6h” or “12h”. I don’t like the “Hot” sorting on here that much.

I don’t think this is definitively “better” than reddit. The functionality of the site is more bare bones. No big hidden features or anything like that. What you see is what you get as far as interfaces go. But I am enjoying it. It reminds me of a much younger Internet and much simpler times. I am loving that Lemmy servers are run by your average joe who just wanted to start up a Lemmy community. No single CEO who only cares about how profitable a site is.

I won’t have to worry about surge pricing from the Windy’s down the street from me. They’re always dead and I’m amazed it’s open. A “Rush” would have to qualify as more than 2 cars in the drive through lmao

Donkeys aren’t free of fascism either

It’s okay guys, the party of small government would absolutely never encroach on abusing their powers!

/s

It’s mid February and I’m in the Midwest. In other words, we’re still comfortably in winter and I’m in an area of the US known for having freezing winters.

The high for today is 74°F (23.3°C) . Outside of the polar vortex the US got which did eventually get us to -10°F (-12.2°C), I haven’t seen us even approach freeing since then.

When I go running around the neighborhood this time of the year, I’m usually in layers, not in tank tops.

I love this idea 🐐

This actually looks good. Figures they’d cancel it lol

If the company actually means it

There’s the key phrase. I’ve worked at 5 different places during my professional career. Not once has any “wellness seminar,” “wellness week,” or wellness-what-have-you has been as fruitful as you’re describing.

I’ve never gotten a wellness day nor a bonus for wearing a pedometer or being active in any manner. At absolute best, in all the places I’ve worked, I went to an optional meeting that had an interesting breathing exercise. But the rest of the meeting was dumb fluff like “don’t work more than 40 hours,” “tell your lead that you are over stressed,” “don’t spend money on stuff you can’t afford.”

Absolute worst case scenario so far, a week of mandatory 1 hour meetings each day required from HR. Every day was repeating the same garbage as above and could’ve just been an email. Also, even though HR requires the meetings, your manager still requires 40hrs of “project effort.” Meaning required overtime. I did not stay long at this job.

Something like what you are describing would be a breath of fresh air.

Meanwhile, the Americans that didn’t even put “new” in front of the city name and just called it Paris, Texas or some shit.

I didn’t know the Pope was antisemitic?! /s

I don’t own my digital media but nobody is taking it away from me 😎👉

I’ve never had the urge to get a bumper sticker until now.

Next time I put up a PR and someone leaves a comment I’m going to use this bumper sticker as a response.

Whomever may be reading this, I’ve recently found incredible luck with dawn dish soap.

• Run glasses and hands under water
• Put glasses to the side and lather dish soap on your fingers.
• Using your lathered fingers, gently apply soap to glasses
• Put glasses to the side and rinse off your hands so they’re not still soapy
• Reduce water pressure so it’s gentle, constant stream of water.
• Rinse off glasses

I only really clean my glasses once a month ish. Maybe twice. Of course if I smear my glasses or it’s an eventful week, I clean as needed. That’s just how often I clean them.

In order to play, you must leave the Wiimote in the vag. Effectively, you must chuck this woman when you are making your bowling motion.

This is why I was banned from my local bowling alley. They did not accept me treating my prostitute like a bowling ball.

I honestly think there’s a gray area here and it’s worth talking to a lawyer if anything. There are certainly some protections for peoples under 40. Being denied a promotion because you’re “too young” is certainly a protection. The catch is you have to prove it.

This case is easy to prove though if there are any laws over this.

Edit: but now that I think about it, this is only really a protection if you’re already hired at the place. If you just slam the door on people before they can get in, discrimination seems to be legal.