Nien! Blockade must be impenetrable. Nien! Nien! Nien!

/s

I’d love to see it come back, but there’s been no production activity on it for years. I hear the books are good, but I haven’t read them myself.

“que sera sera” es un ejemplo.

Corey Comperatore was killed by the perpetrator, but I could not confirm it was by the same bullet that injured the ex-President. It was in the same salvo of bullets.

I go with a ponytail, and haven’t had even a trim in 2 years.

If I had my preference I’d go in about once every few months to have more vivid hair dye applied, and get a trim then.

I wish we had time-limited blocks / mutes on Lemmy. I use them all the time on Mastodon to exit a conversation when I am getting to short. If it really matters, I can revisit after a fortnight of reflection.

Also, while other locations in the Fediverse might disable access to unauthenticated persons, comments and post in Lemmy are generally public in that way. So, a blocked user could simply logout (or visit from a different instance) to see the content.

Also, as a third-party I do want someone (e.g. a fact checker) to be able reply to a comment with more information, so that I can see it, even if the commenter doesn’t want to see replies (from the “woke mob” or wikipedians, e.g.).

I understand some people think the reply thread under their comments is somehow “owned” and should be “controlled” by them, but I don’t agree. I think this should also be true in most places on the Fediverse, tho it isn’t (as I understand it) on Mastodon (and the like).

It’s easier for me to us Patreon, because I’m already supporting a few other people/organizations there.

I’ve never used Ko-fi for a subscription.

Well, I would say you could immigrate to the U.S., but that’s a bad idea for a number of reasons, IMO.

No countryside up in Scotland anymore?

Come out to the country. Just make sure your field is outside city limits, and you’ll probably be fine living there, as long as your sewage doesn’t drain into a protected waterway. A 3-phase septic wouldn’t be too hard to put in, but it’s a lot easier if you’ll rent heavy machinery instead of shovels.

Yeah, I pay it off about twice a month, but usually between the day I schedule a payment and the day it arrives I’ve used the card again, so it’s rare for me to have a zero (or negative!) balance.

I do like the CC rewards, but they get that my “shorting” / charging the merchant. So, if the merchant is part of your community, try to avoid involving a CC processor by paying in cash. (I think cash is a pain to deal with, so my in-built preference is for some sort of card / phone payment system.)

They often are, yes. I’m not sure exactly what “in debt” means to OP. But, when I use it like this I generally mean “negative net worth” not “carrying a line of credit”.

I currently have a balance on a CC, but I don’t consider myself in debt, because it’s smaller than my checking account balance, and that’s smaller than my investment account balance, and that’s smaller than my retirement account balance.

I don’t own a home, but I also didn’t really consider myself “in debt” when I purchased my current car.

Oddly enough I would say I am “in debt to” my CC company, because I do owe money to them and they do not owe money to me. The “to X” part of the phrase restricts my consideration to just two-party financial relationship, in my mind. When you leave off the “to X”, I consider all the financial relationship I have and (roughly) sum over them.

I’ve dealt with people that made it to adulthood not really understanding that if they have cash in their pocket, but more debt than that, they don’t really have money available to spend on frivolous things. Some of them are my friends.

They will be “broke” 5 days of the week, but spend freely from when then cash their paycheck (or get that next payday loan!) until all they have is change.

But, I’ve been lucky. I got a degree without taking on debt AND the worst CC hole I had to dig myself out of was not even to the limit of one card. I think most people have to ignore student or medical or other debt just to function…

• Nestle, Part 1: Bad for your Food
• Nestle, Part 2: Bad for your Water
• Nestle, Part 3: Bad for your Shelter

Employment is a necessity under Capitalism. Performance is not.

I agree. I don’t really see any problem with her performing the play.

BUT, I’m not sure the library should be forced to let her use the space (or be assessed civil penalties). So, I don’t think she should sue or that the suit should go her way.

I could be convinced if the library is supposed to be providing performing space to the public and the library is controlled/funded by the government. Then, I think she might have free speech protections, especially after they had done some scheduling. Asking her to change the characters definitely seems like content policing, not mere “time and manner” control.

Tap water has too few electrolytes to restore your electrolytic balance after losing water (via sweating or urination). But yeah, it does technically contain electrolytes.

Yes, all the ways in which human lose water they also lose electrolytes (“salts”). More with sweat, but still some with urine. So, re-hydrating should include at least some of those. This has been known for decades, tho ravers often forget it and have died from hyponatremia.

I think my Reddit account still exists, but I haven’t logged in since 3rd party apps stopped working. It took me a bit to find Lemmy, and I’m still not on it was frequently as I was on Reddit.

I deleted my Twitter account when they announced they would be training grok on my tweets. I hadn’t logged into it since Elmu mass-banned a bunch of journalists for retweeting the “Elon’s Jet” account. I decided Mastodon was more likely to not get between me and the journalists I wanted to see microblogs from.

I’m not hardcore. I an still well-entrenched in the Google ecosystem (primarily YT). I still have a Facebook account, and occasionally login to un-tag myself. I use Amazon Pay / Paypal whenever I can, tho I at least stopped paying for Prime when they decided to start putting ads in Prime Video stuff.

“The un-fur-tunate fellow”