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Heh, thanks. My main view is that there are lots and lots and lots of views that exist between the extreme ends of the ideological spectrum, and apparently that's a controversial opinion here. 🙄

I closed it up and made it a private development instance last year, but you basically just described Dubvee.

Far left crazies and far right crazies are removed with equal prejudice, though the far right is much rarer (and often just trolls). Regardless, it's moderated here to a, well, moderate temperature. We also don't federate with the Triad (Hexbear, Grad, and .ml) as well as a few other instances (one of them a big instance that throws an error on a calculator) that are centered around and encourage identity politics (another source of what you're describing in your post).

Even though we're "closed" I still keep the instance running in order to develop the Tesseract UI, and if you want to try out the kind of space that's curated here, I would be willing to approve your application. I've toyed with the idea of re-launching and seeking out another admin or 3, but haven't had the time to put much thought into it.

TL;DR is I've always tried to run Dubvee as "normie friendly" and cut out some of the more, uh, rabid parts of the fediverse, and if you want to try it out, I'd be willing to allow it.

https://dubvee.org/signup

It's the thing that heals Reed's leg in ENT 2x04 "Dead Stop" at that automated repair station. The prop they used for it is the same as the Exocomp from TNG 6x09 "Quality of Life" but turned on its side and painted grey.

I made this as a meme a while back at https://startrek.website/post/14769439

Technically speaking, I invented vaping.

In high school economics class, we had to invent a fake product, fill out patent applications, do focus groups, make a commercial and print ads, and do all the other stuff you'd normally do if you were a real company (except we submitted paperwork to the teacher, obviously, and not the USPTO).

My group's product was a weight-loss product called "FlavorAir" ("Anorexia Fast" didn't test well with our focus groups). It was a spray device that misted flavored air into your mouth to satiate cravings (our product prop was just breath spray). We advertised flavors like gravy, turkey dinner, mint chocolate ice cream, banana mint, and several others.

This was in the early 00's and predates vaping by many years. I should be rich.

RamNode for all but one of them. They're not the best, but they've been solid for years.

Does the VPS provider that runs part of my self-hosted infrastructure count? I've happily paid one of them for almost 14 years now.

I honestly think that's my last online service other than a couple Patreons for music.

Relatable. And I don't so much tan as my freckles just converge.

Chaotica still appears mostly monochrome

In all fairness, so do I. Summer can't get here fast enough.,

The worst part is I really want one of those now and am sad those probably aren't things that exist.

A Dax symbiote Matryoshka doll

You can also POST AS A GUEST TO THE FEDIVERSE without signing up.

Oh, dear lord. As if we don't have enough spam and drive-by trolls as it is.

Yeah. On the surface it seems like it would be a positive. But in practice, it shields people from criticism of their behavior.

Yeah, yeah, "use your words" and all that, but some comments are just so brain-dead or trollish that they're not worth a response, and even a downvote is expending far more effort than the comment is worth. So the person who made it sees 3 upvotes but not the 50 downvotes, so their takeaway is that "wow, 3 people liked my braindead comment" rather than everyone except 3 people hated it.

I get the appeal of disabling downvotes, but if I say something stupid, I wanna know.

The good ol' Ferengi Rule 34 (seriously).

Though I prefer RoA #76: "Every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies. "

Oof. I literally know your pain.

I want to go solar so badly, and yeah, the heat pump model was toward that goal. I may still go ahead and put money aside for it (they're like $1500+ and this gas one was $500). I could probably Craigslist the gas one and get a little bit of money back I suppose.

I just got the old one disconnected and pulled out and the new one unboxed, and thankfully everything is in the exact same spots and same sizes/threads as the old one. After I eat a quick bite, I'm gonna clean behind and around where it goes and should have the new one installed shortly after. 🤞

Yep, at least according to the images of the one I just bought so here's hoping this goes smoothly. Hopefully the intake/output connections are the same size too. It didn't list them and I didn't have time to read the manual without missing the same-day delivery cutoff.

That's basically me. Wake me when it's time to:

Eat
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