I didn’t say they sound bad, I said I don’t believe they’re real.

Walking around in the early evening and stopping wherever people are gathering.

I was just popping out for salad greens, and ran across a group of young people having a picnic on the sidewalk. They had way too much food and were offering to share it with everyone who passed by. I wasn’t hungry but I sat down and joined the picnic anyway. Great people! I stayed for over half an hour and I’m so glad I did.

And this isn’t a one-off. This is how I met my wife, too, sixteen years ago. You gotta be open to spontaneous experiences.

That calzones are a real food people eat.

Chicago restaurant scene is obsessed with Nashville Hot Chicken right now and it’s frankly embarrassing

no, my mother got remarried while I was out of the state

starting project early is stress-free? for who? this has never been my experience

I put it off to the last minute specifically to avoid being stressed the whole time

You’re missing out, Cheese is a hoot on a good day.

You saw the whole paragraph where I talked about how lemmy is not a democracy, right? And literally cited this as one if the reasons why?

Like I get that you’re probably responding to multiple subthreads right now, but it only takes a few seconds to scroll up.

It’s mostly about the sound of your voice. My eldest got Vonnegut and Law & Order. So much of the latter that both before and after birth the “dun dun” sound from the show noticeably calmed her down.

It’s called “voting with your feet”. Being free to leave is power. Means a hell of a lot more than up- and down-doots.

We’ve talked about this, Cheese: You need to use the post body to add context when you ask questions like this.

Since most expenses are static but my income is variable, I have done the calculation for how much my expenses are per day and per week. Then I just make sure I’m making at least that much every workday / workweek. All the surplus gets split between discretionary spending, long-term plans (home improvement, family trips), and investments.

I’ve managed to make it even simpler by making the investments automatic and hands-off, so I can just figure those into the per-week number since they’re also regular.

Lemmy is inherently democratic. If you don’t like a muni, or an instance, you go to another one. Without centralization dictatorship is impossible.

That said, it’s not democracy, either: It’s a federation of interdependent polities, each with their own laws and administrators. Which is good, because it allows for rapid response to spam, inappropriate content, and verbal violence.

And if the admins or moderators overreach, well, back to the first paragraph: we’ve got open borders, go homestead your own community on another instance. You literally cannot be silenced here.

Depends on the dictator, depends on the democracy. Ideally neither, but democracies are usually less awful than dictatorships.

I think that people should be able to have guns to defend themselves. I also think that, in almost all circumstances, people should not use guns to defend themselves.

Have you tried primal screaming?

It starts with us!

I could legit crush that RN

well, I’m subscribed to every roguelike muni on lemmy, soooooo

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