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kersploosh

@ kersploosh @sh.itjust.works

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  • All the decorations are done!

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  • All the decorations are done!

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  • Before this month, I had no idea there were so many Christmas-themed Addams Family comics!

  • Even more Charles Addams

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    What do you want for Christmas?

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  • Even as a white guy with citizenship, coming back into the US was a pain in the ass 10 and 20 years ago. And my friends with student visas and green cards were occasionally hassled for no clear reasons. I can't imagine how stressful that experience would be now, especially for anyone without a US passport or who lands on the wrong end of the color card in that Peter Griffin meme.

  • Thinner!

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  • Product R&D engineer here. I have a product manager who only knows how to give one piece of feedback: make it smaller and slimmer. What requirement is driving this? Can't say. What user need are we trying to address? No idea. But smaller=better for some reason.

  • Enjoy Nature!

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  • The European mind can scarcely comprehend the soul-crushing sadness of suburban America.

  • Progress Bars

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  • It's 100% done, but I need you to keep waiting...

    Still 100% done. Keep waiting...

    Okay, actually done now.

  • I need a savoury, summery drink as an alternative to beer

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  • I have been enjoying sparkling water flavored with hops. It's distinctly different from non-alcoholic beer, and much better IMO.

    Unsweetened iced tea and cold brew coffee are also standards in my kitchen during summer. My significant other likes kombucha enough to make it at home sometimes, but I never liked the stuff myself.

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  • Articles of Interest. It's nominally a fashion podcast, but they tie it into lots of other topics: history, culture, identity, religion...

  • We Live a Life of Ease

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  • Our friends are all aboard!

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  • clubs here are filled with MAGAs and plastered with Republican propaganda so I don't feel as welcome as I used to.

    As a kid, my dad and I occasionally went to the local gun show just to look around at interesting stuff. The collectors selling antiques, fancy custom pieces, and guns with historical interest were always fun to chat with. But at some point it turned into crazy town. I don't go to those events anymore.

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  • 1: @Skavau@piefed.social is right.

    2, 7, 8: What's the goal here? Is Reddit the gold standard we're aiming for? I'm not convinced Lemmy needs millions of daily active users to keep a plethora of niche communities active, and to store a massive backlog for posterity. It's fine if Lemmy is smaller and narrower in scope.

    3: Reddit has duplicate/overlapping communities, too. I'm not sure how to avoid this without either (a) top-down control of community creation by admins, or (b) constant pruning of communities by admins. Neither are desirable, IMO.

    4, 5, somewhat 7: Adjust expectations to reality, and appreciate what we have. Lemmy isn't Reddit 2.0 and it never will be. There isn't big venture capital money sloshing around. But Lemmy has come along way without it. Hundreds of instances hum along reliably, day-in and day-out. There are surprisingly good browser UI's (look at Photon/Tesseract/Alexandrite) mobile apps. Not bad for an open-source project that runs on volunteer time and user donations!

    6: The complaint about moderation tools is legit. I really want a better reports queue, among other things. But I don't have the time and energy to contribute code, so I wait patiently.

  • Should I go back to college/university?

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  • Getting an engineering degree is generally a good thing. Demand and pay tend to be above average. A certificate can be helpful, but I have watched people hit a "paper ceiling" in their careers; people stuck with the title of "designer" doing an engineer's work without an engineering degree, and never getting an engineer's salary for it.

    Whether a bachelor's degree is beneficial for you personally will depend on a lot of things, not all of which are within your control. 20 years ago a BS in computer science was a golden ticket. Now the industry has shifted and the job placement rates for new CS grads are awful. It's hard to predict the future.

    I agree with the other commenter that going to university is good for the whole self. I was exposed to people, ideas, and experiences that I would never have encountered elsewhere. That alone made the effort worthwhile.

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  • The sun's shining brightEverything seems all rightWhen we're poisoning pigeons in the park

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    perchance ai text to image gen error

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  • Too long; didn't read.

  • In terms of wallet, keys, phone, etc, which pocket does each belong to in your jeans?

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  • This is me during warm weather. During winter the phone and wallet go into coat pockets. Sitting down is more comfortable with empty pants pockets.

  • And they expect to be taken seriously?

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  • Stats are valid when they are used in the proper context and are not being misrepresented. For example, Black and Native American people account for a disproportionate number of drowning deaths in the US. But it would be irresponsible to simply conclude that those groups are inherently bad swimmers. Just like the way the 13/50 trope is irresponsibly used to imply non-whites are inherently more prone to criminal behavior.

    All that aside, this meme isn't attacking men. It's attacking sexist tropes used against women.

  • And they expect to be taken seriously?

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  • Quoting crime statistics based on race, like the old "13/50" trope, is often used to enforce racist notions that minority groups are inherently bad people. It's punching down at marginalized people.

    This meme, at least as I see it, is the opposite. It's satirizing the usual crap from the anti-feminist crowd claiming that women are inherently inferior. It's punching up at sexist men.

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    kersploosh @sh.itjust.works

    Pushing back against the wave of bot accounts on Lemmy