My parents made sure to give me a will to fly the coop by making sure I couldn’t fucking stand to be around them

yeah i get the impression too that some parents are intentionally abusive sothat their children leave the house as soon as possible

nevermind the money that could be saved by multi-generational households.

american society wants young people to move out and get their own house sothat housing prices go up (which is good for everyone owning / selling / renting out houses, but not for those who then have to rent them)

written like a true american. no soul, just work

as a hobby game dev (i made this game), i can confirm that most indie games do not reach the stage where they would be enjoyable by other players.

And yet nobody would ever argue that store A is a better store.

apple begs to differ

wait until you learn about the information density of DNA

you’re writing as if you know what users want. let people decide themselves please. allow mastodon<->lemmy federation, make it an optional feature that you can activate on sign-up or in your profile setting. this way everyone is happy.

i remember there is an XKCD about it, i just can’t find it rn

edit: https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/

fun fact: street vehicles are still being used to transport data around. for large amounts of data, it’s faster and cheaper to write it on a disk, then ship the disk, instead of transporting it over the internet.

wait it isn’t?

hmm, when i copy-paste your username into my mastodon instance search field, i get:

so i can see your user profile. however, it reports as “0 Posts” and when i scroll down, i do get a few of your posts/comments, but only very few (like 20 in total maybe).

this is what i meant when i talk about a lack of compatibility between lemmy/piefed and mastodon.

In my personal (unsubstantiated and speculative) opinion, the biggest hurdle to adoption for Lemmy and the fediverse is the lack of content in most topics outside of technology and politics.

Agree, but one thing to easily improve this is better federation with mastodon.

How many of the posts that you see in your feed come from mastodon? For me it’s probably less than 5%. Well guess what, mastodon users are about 90% of all fediverse users. stats (active mastodon users: 1.5M, active lemmy users: 36k)

Why don’t we see the large amount of already-existing content from mastodon?

(If you want to make as much content for lemmy, as is already existing for mastodon, we’d need about 1.5M new users. instead one technological change could get us there too.)

nah i think the purple thing is the filter … the smoke goes through it and acquires scent that way.

lots of food products taste boring in the west because

• we’ve been told that stuff that tastes good is probably full of additives and therefore bad for your health (think of all the chemicals!)
• and because of the same christian mindset that got us the cornflakes:

Cereal would create fortunes and create multinational companies that we still know today. But Dr. John Harvey Kellogg , the inventor of corn flakes, did not care about profits. For him, cereal was not just a health food because it would improve Americans digestion. He believed a diet centered on bland foods like cereal would lead Americans away from sin. One very specific sin: masturbation.

it’s very well comprehensible if you’re good with numbers.

thank you!

haha :)

but it’s also about price. do i buy the 200g package at 2,50€ or the 350g package at 4,20€?

having things broken down to “per 100g” helps me with that.

remember that flock cameras can be seriously impaired with a little spray paint

why are they called authoritarian? what books did they write?

was it on some nightcore music video?