I finally got brave enough to do it. Between August and January I had made over 800%.

Trump has ruined that for me. Oh well.

Oh man, I absolutely love breasts. Too much, really. :p

I definitely don’t get foot love at all. I have always always always despised feet.

Now, when I’m worked up, you know? There isn’t a part of the body I don’t like at least a little bit haha.

Taranteentoe? Who dat?

I feel dirty for typing that haha. I love Quinten Tarantino’s movies so much.

He has said it is his favorite word.

I can’t speak for other people, but if lemmy.world were to shut down today I’d just pick another server.

I will admit, it was confusing and almost turned me off at first. I was very upset about the whole deal with third party apps on Reddit. My daughter gave me the whole email analogy and it cleared my hesitation to join Lemmy.

I don’t know how it is today, but I had to apply to join world when I first got on. It would be awesome if an app would sign a person up for, say, three different servers and sync settings between them. Something goes down, wouldn’t even notice.

Assholes ruin everything though and making it easier for bot accounts to exist would end badly.

I don’t know.

When I first got on here it was a mess. It didn’t work half the time and when it did no content was being generated. I stuck it out though and I’m glad I did.

I’m definitely not the right person to come up with any solutions.

Man. You just gave me an idea (which would matter if I wasn’t a complete idiot).

Instead of servers that all attempt to be a sort of clone of Reddit, servers could focus on content similar to the way subreddits work.

So you’d join any one of these servers and federate with other servers just like now, only content would be focused between servers.

Example:

This server is a games server. It has /c/games, /c/fallout, /c/vintagegaming, etc.

This server will focus on news and politics. It has /c/worldnews, /c/marketnews, etc.

Sure, it would still have the issue of being fractured, but it would narrow it down so much that it would be more appealing and easier to navigate.

It’s probably too late for that.

Ultimately, I’m happy with the fediverse. Algorithms aren’t dictating what I see. There’s no profit incentive that will lead to bad decisions, so when bad decisions are made, folks will talk about it and come to a solution.

I miss old Reddit, but it’s gone.

I’ll shit on your shit and they can eat my shit too.

It was ripped directly from my cd at 320kbps and played on an iPod 5th generation (iPod video).

Not OP, but I promise you that I can hear what sounds like digital water being thrown over the cymbals when listening to mp3 files below 320 kbps. Even then, every now and then I hear that sound here and there across whatever record I’m listening to.

I don’t experience it when listening to records, CDs, or cassettes.

My hearing used to be very sensitive. When the whole world was using CRTs, I could tell you who had their tv on just standing outside their house.

I thought it didn’t sound any different to me too. That is until me and a friend were riding around listening to Icky Thump by The White Stripes for a few weeks when it first came out.

Higher bitrate, ripped directly from the CD, pretty decent car radio.

We had been listening to my copy, he didn’t own it yet.

We stopped at a record store one day when we were out and he picked up his copy. He wanted to play the CD for whatever reason, and when he stuck the disc in, “berderwiddledod dahta dah BOOM BOOM BOOM”.

I couldn’t believe it. It was like the record just sucked the power out of us both and used it to burst through the speakers.

The mp3, by comparison, sounded shrunk down from the source and splashed with water.

It didn’t change my listening habits because of convenience, but damn. It was an eye opener.

He did this last time too.

Remember when America was white except for the hood that we didn’t drive through.

Minion farm remembers.

I can’t believe that gif exists. I expected to find more cheesy confederate minion pics though.

Edit:

Oh my God I need to make a bunch of crazy dumb minion memes centered around the Pepperidge farm meme and see if people post them unironically. You know they will.

Damn. I can’t imagine having enough people in my life to make lists.

There’s something wrong with me though. I’ve spent most of my life alone and my biggest fear has always been centered around being asked to leave my space.

Of course when you get older that gets harder. I’m lucky at the moment. I’m a stay at home dad who goes to spend time working on various projects with my uncle when I’m free.

If he died tonight I’d have no social life at all.

Me too haha. One of the first things I install.

I get it. I left Facebook when they changed the feed like a thousand years ago and I haven’t missed it.

My wife is definitely addicted though. She left it for a year, went back just to check in on family after a friend of hers had a baby and she didn’t know about it. She hasn’t put it down since.

She’s a very family oriented person and everyone is on Facebook. Their family is the type to wake up first thing in the morning and start calling each other.

Within minutes of being up, “Ok kids let’s talk to mamaw. Let’s talk to aunty. Now we’re calling great grandma!” Cousins, aunts, uncles, everybody. They’re always talking.

My family is tight like if something goes wrong, but we don’t talk much otherwise. Sister needs help with a bill, someone’s car breaks down, blah blah blah. We can count on each other, just not to talk.

I get why it means so much to her and why it’s been easier for me. I’ll know my cousin had a kid when I bump into her with it at the grocery store. That’s good enough for my people. :p

Edit:

Not that anyone will see this, but we were talking about it tonight and I was dead wrong. She missed her cousins wedding. That’s why she went back, she’s still very sad about it.

I like the neck tie myself.

I went nuts with retro restores and collecting in the 2010s. Now it’s just a bunch of shit in my bedroom that annoys my wife. It’s nice to have it all though. Here recently I’ve been using my Genesis 6 button arcade stick on the Steam deck and playing classic mortal kombat. I hardly ever have to buy hardware because I have everything that was made between 1980 and 2005.

It’s like the kid in me who only got two games per console and had to borrow the rest or rent them just exploded. I have a game shelf that my 12 year old self would sit before and cry. I don’t have time for any of it which would make him cry some more.

Oh, and your rifle gets all slippery!

Heeeeey. There might be a role for me after all.

I want it in Source at 800x600 on my end. CRT please.