Oooh, you should make a community and bring it to life. I would not be disappointed if my feed had a steady stream of 3rd Rock memes.

A number of our Lemmy neighbors are in this one:

Maybe one of these?

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Mine is a video. In my memory it’s a well-produced, fast-paced, choreographed fight scene featuring the Power Rangers battling a band of generic goons for possession of some MacGuffin: a crystal or orb or whatever. The twist is, the whole thing is set to the song Run by Ghostface Killah. Every few years I look for it, and always come up empty-handed.

Know when the museums have free or discounted events for the locals.

Know that the library probably has free passes to the museums, too!

And if you’re in a city with a decent sized college, there are lots of cheap or free interesting things to do related to it: public lectures, music performances, theater, sports…

I missed that, my bad.

This also occurred in the middle of the Great Vowel Shift, a period when spoken English pronunciation was changing significantly.

I don’t even try to hide it anymore. My manager and I send each other memes during the work day.

I remember an mp3 going around where a guy turned it into a song, complete with the chorus, “I don’t like the DMCA.”

Originally, fire departments only dealt with fires. In the 1960’s and 1970’s it became clear that a rapid response health service would be beneficial. Rather than create a whole new system from scratch, that function was tacked onto the existing fire service by having EMTs and paramedics on staff. And the initial focus was primarily on providing rapid transit: delivering the victim to a hospital as quickly as possible. Response time was the dominant metric used to grade emergency medical providers. It took more decades to fully appreciate that treatments applied at the accident scene or in transit could be as important as, or more important than, response time.

There’s an argument to be made that fire departments are somewhat obsolete. They spend most of their time dealing with medical and mental health issues, not fighting fires. We would probably benefit as a society by replacing a lot of firefighters with house call nurses to help manage people’s long-term health issues before they become emergencies.

“…_forever…”

“No way, man. We’re going to keep on rocking forever!”

One of the main Lemmy devs is working on a federated wiki project called ibis:

https://ibis.wiki/article/Main_Page

I only know that it exists. I have not used it so I can’t give any opinion of its maturity or usefulness.

This is a crime.

V-TECH toys. Noisy, annoying garbage that people love to gift to infants and toddlers.

After that it’s a toss up between a phone, tablet, or Chromebook.

I Am A Rock by Simon and Garfunkel

A winter's day  
In a deep and dark December

I am alone  
Gazing from my window to the streets below  
On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow
I am a rock I am an island

I've built walls
A fortress deep and mighty
That none may penetrate
I have no need of friendship, friendship causes pain
It's laughter and it's loving I disdain
I am a rock I am an island

Don't talk of love
Well I've heard the word before
It's sleeping in my memory
I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died
If I never loved I never would have cried
I am a rock I am an island

I have my books
And my poetry to protect me
I am shielded in my armor
Hiding in my room safe within my womb
I touch no one and no one touches me
I am a rock I am an island

And a rock feels no pain
And an island never cries

As far as dealing with reports and removing inappropriate content, it scales exponentially with the popularity of the community and the contentiousness of the topic. Most communities require little or no effort on this front. A community like [email protected] might get a couple reports per year as people argue about whether specific posts fit the genre. A larger community like [email protected] gets a few reports per month due to users bickering. Really big communities like [email protected] or [email protected] get targeted by trolls and spammers and are a daily chore.

You should look at the community modlogs for a few communities that are similar to the ones you want to start. That will give you a feel for how busy you may be.

The bigger burden is going to be keeping your new communities fresh with new posts. That work is much harder than moderation, in my experience. Look at [email protected]: it has 4.9k subscribers but most of the content comes from a single user with a passion for the topic. Same with [email protected] and many others.

Every kid in my high school knew the “half your age plus 7” rule for bounding age gaps:

Age of younger person in the relationship = (Age of older person in the relationship / 2) + 7

So if you are 30 then you can date from 22 to 46. Science!

Though, really, beyond your mid-20s I think you can date as old as you like. As long as everyone is consenting, open, and honest, then have fun.

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Though it has been dead for two years. Maybe you can be the person to start posting and bring it back to life.

When making small talk, ask for opinions farther down someone’s list. Like, “What was the third best trip you ever took?” It catches people off guard in a good way, and garners better answers than asking for their top choice.

You can do it the other way, too. Saying, “that was the fourth funniest thing I have ever seen” immediately prompts questions from your audience. Just be ready with a good follow-up story if you try this.

Another option is to learn little party tricks that don’t require much talking. Learn to fold simple origami, or some coin tricks, or whatever. When you’re with a group of people and you don’t know what to add to the conversation, you quietly do your thing until someone notices. Suddenly a banal moment becomes a memorable moment and you didn’t have to say anything.