They’ll automatically defederate after a few days. As for search, it only searches your local instance and what is already there, so it’s just historical searches. It won’t be anything new.

Right? First thing I’d do would be to message my spouse that I’m okay but to come to the hospital

Researchers always make some of the worst coders unfortunately.

Scientists, pair up with an engineer to implement your code. You’ll thank yourself later.

Music was always the one for me. I couldn’t listen to that music or this music because “That’s gay bro”. It didn’t matter that I listened to a large variety, it was instilled in me that some music is okay, other stuff is not.

One of my earliest memories was being into Britney Spears. I was young, 10 or so. Dad was never home and I learned to like my own music on my own time without him, and I liked her music. My memory is that I was listening to it in the car, my CD of hers, and then I remember mom and dad arguing, and I don’t remember ever seeing that CD again. My mom confirmed when I was an adult that dad threw it out because he didn’t want me to listen to her. Did he share any of his music with me as an alternative? No of course not, I just couldn’t listen to that.

Now as an adult I’ve fully embraced it. I love me Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Queen, and other “manly” bands (Yes I know, I chuckle too at Queen), but I’m also an avid Swifty (I even mod [email protected] ) because sometimes you just want a song that feels a bit happier, and I even took my wife to the Eras tour. I love Olivia Rodrigo because damn if we don’t all have some teenage angst sometimes, and I’ve gone back a bit to Britney too - but not as much.

What a shame that people think that art should be subject to what they think the world is like. There is room to like many different things. Enjoying one thing doesn’t mean you dislike another thing. People can like many different things. I can enjoy A24 films while also laughing at Wil Farrell movies. None of that means that I’m this or that - humans are complex and like what we like. Thanks for reading this far :)

Best buy had one of the lowest lows and best recoveries I had ever seen while working there. The new French CEO made it about customer service, and I saw people and teens who had never considered going to a best buy start going. Stock price went up, people were happy.

Then the board ousted him a few years ago and made it all about profits, going right back to where they were in the downward spiral, completely unaware of the irony. I hope they fail now. They could have come out on top but greed took over again.

The article said there’s a phone companion app

There’s a good chunk of us who used it with the web, and they’re adding that to the vast Google graveyard. That in and of itself makes me excited to see an alternative because Google will kill the app version on a whim too.

It made me realize how addicted to reddit I was for sure

I’ve heard this too and it’s true, but also you don’t want to needlessly spend on things either. For example, a good bed is worth the cost, the saying holds up. However, if you buy the pro version of every tool you’ll go broke. You can instead buy the cheap one first, anything you use enough where it would break is then worth buying the expensive one

I didn’t leave Reddit, Reddit disabled the app I used to access it for over 10 years when they disabled API access. Figured they didn’t want or need my contributions anymore.

I honestly haven’t seen that in years. And even if it was everywhere, does it honestly matter what they prefer to go by? I mean, it’s honestly just a pronoun

Thank god the emoji is there, it tells me that it’s funny and I should laugh!

I’m guessing lawyers drew it up as a standard tos and they threw it over the fence tbh

It’s probably either failed or they faked the size, and that’s the average speed of the entire operation now. But yes, it’s abysmal

• Why should I return my cart? Someone else will come get it.
• Why should I drive a smaller more fuel efficient vehicle? Others pollute more than me

There are a thousand decisions like this.

You have to decide where your ethics are. You’re right, they’ll keep making them. It doesn’t matter what others do, it’s what you choose to do that defines you. Are you okay with taking a single use plastic bag and letting it sit in the landfill for thousands of years (or in the ocean) so you can have the convenience of not carrying a fabric bag in? Are you okay with a minimum wage worker collecting your cart so you wouldn’t have to take the 20 seconds to push it into a corral?

These are questions you can’t ask the internet, it’s your personal morals. I know where my morals are. Everyone else can be who they are, but I am the only one who has to live with my decisions.

Mmmm wood glue

Agreed, this is my go to response to everyone, (seriously there’s like a post a week about this same thing) asking it. Sounds like the perfect place to spread whatever garbage you want is the server you set up and pay for yourself, accepting all personal liability for. Go all cowboy with it!

If you own your home, you can drastically reduce your carbon.

• installing solar to take energy off the grid
• install a heat pump to generate heat and cool off of electricity
  • even if your grid is pure coal, this is still more efficient than burning your own gas
  • you can keep a gas furnace as a backup, look up “dual-fuel” systems
• take transit whenever possible
• if you are in a car dependent area, look into e-bikes and EVs. Even replacing just your commuter car can have huge impacts, you don’t have to replace them all.

Pixelfed won’t launch groups anytime soon unfortunately, I’ve followed closely and it seems it’ll be out about the same time as Tesla’s full self driving.

I think the best way would be choose yourself piefed or Lemmy, and then you offer mastodon or pixelfed as places for your users to join and subscribe. So it’s a little more natural to them.

While your goal is noble, reality is that I would expect a very small percentage of people to migrate. Less than one maybe even. I think that even a few hundred more people joining the fediverse here is a great idea, but I don’t want you to be discouraged when it doesn’t turn out the way you hope. People love their platforms. (I also just read your last paragraph after writing this, my bad, glad you’re in the right headspace :)

They probably will, doesn’t mean she shouldn’t be shamed for parking in the middle of the walk