[12] And on the third day, Ted rose from the ashes.
[13] And there was a great consternation and much amazement among the humans as Ted did walk among them, proclaiming with meows and with postures:
[14] “Where is my food, Cecil and Emily? For until a cat has decided to leave, they should still be considered among you.”
The Book of Ted, Chapter 9 Verses 12-14.
The longest relationship I ever had: the person would say the craziest, most off-the-wall things in the world. I though they had no sense at all. Then I realized that whenever they said that sort of thing, they would be carefully observing how people reacted. That person frequently asked me for advice, but rarely took it, which was infuriating. Then I realized that they asked lots of people for advice, and carefully considered them all. Eventually I understood that person had solid grades despite serious life distractions, was an excellent judge of character, and was really good at making difficult decisions.
So I guess my point is: there’s all kinds of smarts, and it can be hard to tell who’s got em good.
[email protected] has a weekly thread on “How are you doing with your communities?” In it, several of the people who keep niche communities alive (usually through regular posting) talk about their challenges and successes.
Along with those already mentioned, my personal heroes are people who keep communities alive:
@[email protected] posts comics daily to [email protected] and others
@[email protected] keeps [email protected] going
@[email protected] posts regularly about [email protected]
@[email protected] has been killing it on [email protected]
This would be great for people who are fall risks.
Even if Reddit works at the moment, it might not soon, as they are enshittifying at a very rapid pace.
“My son, who is seven, is in the hotel room with me,” Vance told the podcast about the phone call he got from former President Donald Trump on the first day of the RNC to tell him he was his veep pick. “And he is really into Pokemon cards right now, he’s going through a Pokemon phase… I mean he’s really into it, so he is trying to talk to me about Pikachu and I am on the phone with Donald Trump, I’m like ‘son, shut the hell up for 30 seconds about Pikachu,’” Vance told the podcast.
Vance is going to find out that his political career is just a phase, but his kid will be into Pokemon forever.
I have a very elderly relative. If you can only eat food that is not too firm, and you want easy-to-prepare stuff that you can keep on the shelf, and your tastes are kind of old fashioned, this sounds great.
Facts, duh.
[email protected] - mostly games, movies, shows, and music in the cyberpunk sci-fi genre
[email protected] - music: synthwave, vaporwave, etc. A fairly new community, a couple different people have been posting
[email protected] - music community. I was hoping someone else would make the 300th post, if not I’ll post something later today.
[email protected] - a larger community, a couple of us are posting regularly, but could use more discussion
[email protected] - a community about how to help grow the fediverse. @[email protected] has been posting a weekly thread on “how is your [niche] community doing?” which is kind of like a support group for people keeping communities alive
edit: how could I forget, [email protected] - links to short stories online in all genres
Insane Clown Posse: Ringmaster (full album)
if you took the world and seperated its humans by intelligence, the “idiot” group is going to be much bigger than the “PhD” group. Like…by a lot.
No… you’d have a bell curve. But even that assumes you have a single good measure of intelligence.
I kind of agree with the rest of your post, but I would have worded it a bit differently, emphasizing that people who found it difficult to start using Lemmy might still be worth having around. Also, I don’t think “as large as Reddit” or “small niche unknown” are our only options.
at least two people with Lemmy World accounts downvoted this post.
Maybe they don’t like the thought of Ruud getting older.
Ouch, twice the price is rough, fair enough.
Sure, there’s a price differential, but I think of it as a “cover charge” for going and hanging out in their bookstore.
https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Spiritomb_(Pokémon)#Type_effectiveness
Use a Fairy attack duh.
what can she do to possibly deal with or go around the internal politics?
See if she can get a particularly influential parent on her side?
Probably don’t try any of that shit,
Now you tell me, I just spent the last couple hours trying to get free CompuServe access.
Do they even make baseball gloves for AI hands?