Source for the whole kidnapping aspect?

We’re getting closer and closer to wrapping back around and just having community. Just remove the sex aspect and boom you got a community going.

In some places, parking lots are monitored by security and you’ll be kicked out if you’re sleeping in your car in the parking lot.

I’m going to write in your username now.

Random is implicit in that statement.

Feasible? Sure. Pick 2 people randomly during that time? Unlikely. I have nothing against diversity. And I have nothing against an AI being encouraged to produce diverse outputs. I do think it’s a clear indicator of the internal prompts that guide the AIs choices.

There’s another theory running around that Stanley cups are also growing in popularity due to a demographic focus of Mormons.

It didn’t take long before netizens began pointing to a connection between the popularity of the tumblers and Mormonism in the United States. For those of you who don’t know, Mormons are taught to not drink hot beverages, as they believe that “hot drinks are not for the body or belly,” thus avoiding tea or coffee and instead turning to alternative fizzy drinks for caffeine.

To keep them at an approved temperature, the Stanley Quencher’s ability to keep a drink cold for hours makes it a perfect option, thus making it extremely marketable to this particular demographic.

Source [blog]: https://screenshot-media.com/the-future/trends/mormons-stanley-cup-craze/

I believe the “hot beverages” claim is a bit misleading. I’m not a Mormon, but my understanding is they “hot beverages” only applies to coffee and tea. It was interpreted as a medicinal phrase (like how a “cold compress” might refer to a particular medicinal application of cold rags and not any cold rags?). The Mormon Church allows members to drink some cold caffeinated beverages since they are not “hot beverages”. However, I think they weirdly still ban iced coffee despite it being cold…

Anyways, they represent a sizeable 2% of the US population. 6.5 million people who generally abide by these cold/hot beverages principles. So a running theory is they command a decent portion of the thermos market share.

I’m not an expert. I’m just sharing what I’ve heard.

Two holes.

No a penis.

I love to just have them on, in the background. These movies are self-aware. The Netflix equivalent has its own universe with internal references to each other, which includes fake countries, maps, etc. I’m no joke invested in the Netflix Christmas-verse or whatever the fuck.

Hallmark is a little less fun to watch, but still quality rubbish. Everyone knows it’s over the top. The actors, producers, and writers are all in on it. I’m not saying that makes them good. They are still bad. But when you watch them knowing the content is almost intentionally cringe, it’s a bit better. With a slight shift in perspective and perhaps a bit of squinting, you can see the Christmas overtures as nothing more than satire. Last year, one movie just threw in a vague reference to Santa. No beard. No glasses. Just a guy who wore a red coat and occasionally would get 1-3 seconds on camera breaking the fourth wall. He had like one line. No gifts. No reindeer. Never interacting with the Christmas Couple. Just essentially an old dude in red. To me, that’s the height of humor. It’s like they’re just wafting a single sprig of holly over the film in the editing room. I crack up every time.

Boom. Roasted.

Clowns are notorious for fitting many people in small vehicles.

My dog is loving and wonderful. But she definitely knows what she wants: the ball, the bone, the food, outside, and pets.

Thank God it has a base case down there.

I guess everyone is different. I used to wake up at 2am for gym + morning shifts. Eventually I woke up before my alarm consistently. I didn’t feel tired.

These days, I wake up at 7am most days and feel just like I did when I woke up at 2am.

For real though, it’s habit. They didn’t naturally start that way. They just kept doing it that the body eventually “learned” to set their sleeping rhythm to that schedule.

As a developer, I could oblige. But it would be nightmarish.

I feel this way about coffee. I was a barista for ~5 years of my life. I drink coffee everyday. I’m an advocate for coffee. I love coffee. But I can’t help but feel like it’s going to be demonized in the future for something we’re all missing.

On a related note - though - we also demonize weed, alcohol, and cocaine. All of which used to be very differently consumed back in the day. Alcohol used to be a lot less available. People couldn’t exactly go on benders unless they were the upper class. Weed was way less potent. I really wish I could buy weed that was not literally distilled to a super high quantity of THC or whatever. And cocaine used to just be chewed or drank as coca tea (which I’ve had since it’s super common in Peru).

I feel like the real issue with “problems” in society is humans take a good thing and super-charge it until it becomes a bad thing.

/ramble

Oh I didn’t know about the tafkars app. That’s awesome! I will contribute if I have the time.

I’m not sure I agree. I don’t like those two solutions. They basically try to centralize the platform. I think Lemmy is a little confusing at first, but that’s a UX/UI problem and not necessarily a good enough reason to change underlying features of the platform.

I think a user subscribing to communities across instances is a pretty tough technical challenge and it would be very difficult to manage. How are particular communities decided to be a part of a multi-community? Is it voted on? Is there a mod of the multi-community? If so, that could still lead to bifurcation wherein you now have a multi-community that claims to provide all /c/pokemon content across instances but is potentially missing many viable communities on some instances due to things like moderator in-fighting or moderator preferences.

I like how Lemmy allows for sort of duplicate communities. Reddit already had that issue and people naturally flocked to the communities that had the content that suited them. I think it would behoove Lemmy to stay away from trying to centralize it all.

However, I agree that it is confusing. I think this is a UI/UX challenge which needs to be solved. I don’t have the solution, but I think it’s clear that the app language needs to help users naturally feel comfortable living within an instance and moving across instances.

I am open to suggestions and I am fully happy to be proven wrong. But as a software engineer, the second GitHub issue gave me the heeby-jeebies on a technical front. Seemed a little hairy for a young platform to take on right now. I think there are plenty of other lower hanging fruit id prefer for the community to solve:

• Building a nice mobile android app Jerboa is pretty good but it needs some TLC. Timeouts happen frequently on my app and crash it/erase content I was reading
• Provide better documentation/marketing materials for new users. I’m open to the idea of a centralized website where users can go to create accounts, learn about Lemmy, and maybe initially subscribe to popular communities

All in all though, I feel like Lemmy is totally usable. Actually, the most confusing thing to me was learning that I could see my comments and posts on Mastodon. That threw me through a loop. I still don’t understand Mastodon since the UI - to me - just seems to be random comments. I don’t really have any thread-based context to understand the comments I see on my Mastodon app. So for now I stick to Jerboa.