Ha, I told a joke in middle school and they had to call the police, so I feel ya. It was 25 years ago.

How about humor?

Unfortunately it’s necessary, or you get people running experiments on children. We just can’t seem to rely on people to do the right thing, or perhaps they lose sight of it. Tunnel vision is real.

Yeah, otherwise you get some real assholes doing experiments on pregnant women and twins.

I think it’s a discussion worth having, so long as both sides realize there needs to be lines drawn.

I have. In the past couple weeks I’ve had to bring up multiple times how the opinion on Reddit six years ago, when Tencent invested, was concern that China would begin to sway the opinions on the site. Fast forward and here I am reminding folks of that as they ostensibly shill for China. It’s complete insanity.

My recollection is very hazy, it was such a technological blip.

Not just that, you’d hold the button so your portable CD player wouldn’t recognize the door was open while playing, and you’d write on the disc as it was playing and get perfect circles on a variety of colors. That was how you have people sweet mixes.

Not exactly this one, but I remember the old PC had 5.25 and 3.5", and the power was a big red switch, felt like you were juicing up the grid.

I remember buying a stack of CDs only to find out they were +R, not -R, and this utterly useless (or something like that, can’t specifically recall whether ±R/RW).

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So maybe to unbreak it just a little, the picture is some AI drawing of an actual woman, a convicted fentanyl trafficker. I just don’t understand why the cartoon.

Are you from the generation of email chain letters that asked you to scroll down and it’s be neat ASCII designs?

Scrolled far too long to find even a mention of Zebra. Uniball is the intro to good pens, but Zebra is where you land.

As it should be!

left over spaghetti

!!!

But yeah, there’s that whole thing with blood sugar and leftover pasta, I dunno, I’m not a scientist and I have a bad memory, but it’s basically healthier on day two.

I think your last paragraph hit the nail on the head. As with any drug, moderation is key. Social media is a dopamine drug 100%, and just like some drugs, people cut it with shit that’s bad. It’s an odd analogy, but I think folks (myself included from time to time), spend way too much time here, and if gets in your head. But winter is cold and windy and wet and inside just seems to keep leading back here.

I often argue that Reddit and Lemmy are not the same type of social media that Facebook and the like are, but they’re just as susceptible to influence. Individuals need to think more about themselves and their micro existence, before diving into global issues so much. At least, that’s how I try to avoid the crippling depression that comes from post after post written by chicken little.

This is a serious get off the Internet moment. This place and the predecessor are absolute doom and gloom 24/7, but I took my kids to the park earlier and we threw rocks in the stream and hung out under a bridge, and it was a nice day, and we had fun. I join in my community cleanups, I plant trees, I take part in things, and I love my town. Yeah, on a global scale, it ain’t pretty, but I do what I can to make my little bubble a pleasant place to be.

The last thing I want is to make spaghetti and still be hungry after I eat it. Whole box it is.

Poop back and forth, forever.