FrChazzz

@FrChazzz@lemmus.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I will never understand how brain rot got it's way to Mastodon⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve noticed a sharp increase in just GARBAGE re-toots (which wind up on the trending page) in the past year or so as more people migrate to Mastodon. Just the worst of Twitter offal finding new life. The trending page is where I get a bit disheartened. When I want to be reminded of what Mastodon is really like, I just click on the Federated tab and see all the random posts from normal people (and bots, so many bots) around the world. Way less snark and self-importance there.

  It’s also one of the reasons I was disheartened that .social removed access to the Federated and Local tabs (I got them back by making a complaint–I’ll eventually migrate to a smaller instance). I get that it’s crazy hard to moderate those. But taking that away made Mastodon feel smaller and more like “every other social media.” I don’t want that. I came to Mastodon because it’s different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Woke Veggie Tale Leftists Won't Tell You About This One⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a guy who long maintained that the Garden of Eden is found near the Florida panhandle and there’s a park to commemorate this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hmmmm⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  And as a result made an absolute mess out of what Christians actually believe about death and the afterlife (and you, John Milton, don’t think I’ve forgotten about you)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fogey-assed old dude says⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Three thumbs up!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I need an adult⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s kind of wild when you learn that words for blue are relatively new in human language.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Anon the asshole?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The obsession I have with Trigger…

  I love that Willie, a very rich man, still plays THIS guitar and only this guitar. Like, you go to concerts and there’s a guitar tech grabbing different instruments off stage, swapping them out. But ol’ Willie just up there with bus up Trigger looking like she’s about to collapse into splinters. But she produces such a unique sound that no other guitar can match.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The rich passing our money back & forth⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s almost like that scene in Office Space where the guys are trying to figure out money laundering, looking up the definition in the dictionary. Michel then says “What I don’t understand is how these Neanderthal Mafia guys can be so good at crime and smart guys like us can suck so badly at it.” It’s almost like these tech guys watched that scene and said “yeah!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you use the "uno reverse card"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I spent a month in Thailand, teaching English in a rural village on the border of Laos. Over the years the Thai teachers had acquired multiple decks of Uno. They merged them into one giant deck and developed some brutal house rules that I still use. They stacked every plus card. So if you put down a +4, the next person could put down a +2, etc. They’d secretly conspire with each other to run a gauntlet of plus cards. I once got in on the action and we went around the circle like three times stacking plus cards. We were targeting my best friend, who was teaching with me. Got like +40 cards or something built up.

  Then bro holds up the reverse and that meant the whole plan turned on me. Everyone was roaring with laughter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Literally nobody⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that weʻve seen a few MAGA pastors openly say stuff like “Well, Jesusʻ teachings were more applicable in the first century and we have to adapt now” is proof enough that itʻs not Jesus they believe in. I want to see this pushed more and more to get them to finally admit that theyʻre not actually Christians, but are actually like Cartman in the South Park episode where he starts a Christian band (“You donʻt know the first thing about Christianity!” “I know enough to exploit it.”)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Literally nobody⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This. I went through a similar thing, but wound up in a different place (grew up in fundie-leaning Southern Baptist world with a pastor that turned out to be a sexual predator and abused people I am close to; decided to revisit the Bible and all that and wound up a priest in the Episcopal Church). Regardless of how folks end up, breaking people free from their control is paramount. If a meme manages to dent the armor, so be it. And if it annoys OP, they can always just mute it and move on. I do it a lot with posts that are openly hostile to my beliefs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No ChatGPT for sexy time⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Iʻm no wizard of number words, but I think the declining birth rate there might have something to do with the decades of one-child policy that wound up favoring male children…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon notices a problem⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The man has actually combined the two! Avatar: go to space in order to go under water. The Abyss: Aliens come from space in order to live under water.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just Walk Out⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know it’s a shitpost, but man does it feel good to quit. I once had a job I HATED (lumber department at a chronically under-staffed Home Depot where I’d be the only person expected to work both lumber and building materials during the day when contractors were in wanting stuff). One day I was scheduled to close, then scheduled for the morning shift the next day. This meant not getting home until around 11 and then getting up the next morning at 5. Alarm goes off and I just pulled a Peter Gibbens from Office Space. I hit that snooze and went right back to sleep. Woke up a few hours later, loaded a surfboard in my truck and went to the beach. Left to see family for Thanksgiving a couple days later and sent every phone call from my manager straight to voicemail. It was immature, irresponsible, but absolutely liberating.

  I think the only time I felt as free was when I ended a rocky five-year relationship.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨forklift⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re doing forklifts again?

  I worked for Home Depot and it is the only job where I just left one day and never went back. My only regret was not grabbing my apron with my forklift certification on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨forklift⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Knowing what I know of lift-trucks, the mechanics necessary to make that jump boggles the mind

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Killing ownership is the method, killing the secondary market is the objective.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen the something similar on Mastodon. It’s become colonized by some of the worst of Twitter’s offal. A lot of them moved over to Bluesky, but I’ve seen a return since that platform’s shittiness finally emerged. Negative and fear-mongering news posts as well as entitled snark. It’s still better than the alternatives, but I’m starting to think that maybe the algorithms were only part of the overall problem… But at least I have the means to moderate what I see.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They're Lying To You. Get The Truth Out.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Bug Brother

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need a fact check if they actually do blur his neck scrotum⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As Walter Isaacson says in his Jobs biography: “Some stories are too good to fact-check.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"You'll own nothing and you'll be happy"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thing is, if “digital” actually meant “own” we wouldn’t even be having this conversation. Is this one of those things where the old “block chain” could be helpful? Like, a mechanism for actual digital ownership where one can have reasonable assurance that the thing one has downloaded actually belongs to them? That, so long as there’s a unique key, one can access that digital item whenever one desires–AND can transfer that to someone else by way of sale or trade?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Turns out Boomers did have participation trophies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Came here to basically say this. Who was the one handing out those participation trophies, Bill?! WHO?! Because it sure as shit wasn’t Brandon and Ashley!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Operation enduring algae⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe it’s like the slime in Ghostbusters 2. If we play Jackie Wilson real loud it’ll stop being so aggressive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Demon slayer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Plenty of Episcopal and Methodist parishes in the US favor neo-Gothic architecture (Kansas is one of the more prominent places for this, believe it or not) and, Episcopal clergy are known for wearing clerical collars (as are Lutherans, some Methodists and, increasingly, Presbyterian). Lutherans tend to prefer the “pastor” designation (though in the Episcopal Church, women priests will go by this out of an aversion to being called “Mother”). I’d assume that the image on the left is likely not an image of the aforementioned cleric. And while the story might be fake, it sounds more like this is a story of sexual assault/abuse where someone in authority is taking advantage of someone compromised by mental illness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Over on Mastodon I’ve referred to it as “Algaltraz”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨💤 😴 💤⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wasn’t there a study just published last month or so that showed that the blue light from phones is super over-blown? I know I just read this…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's a no⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know what it is, but in my experience, Hawai’i driving is just so much better than anywhere else I’ve lived–especially when it comes to this exact scenario. When there’s a lane closure, most people just… get over. Give a shaka, get a shaka, done. When you do have someone blast past everyone to try and merge at the last possible minute people just… let them in. Might get stink eye for do it. Maybe “one finger shaka.” But it’s either some tourist who doesn’t know better and we all feel smug knowing that they have to go back to where they came from or it’s someone in a genuine hurry and just let em go.

  I think it’s partly due to Hawai’i having a more collectivist mindset. Everybody is just trying to get to where they need to be, everyone kind of understands that traffic can suck and so no one is too concerned with “being on time” (again, my experience). Plus there aren’t any billboards on the roads (at least not that I’ve seen) and you pretty much have something pretty to look at the whole time you’re in traffic. Lower speed limits too. It’s peaceful. You rarely hear someone honk. Though I will say that I’ve noticed drivers getting more aggressive as more local kine people move away.

  I went back to Florida a few years ago to visit my mom while she still lived there and it was miserable to drive anywhere. I got the sense that no one wanted to be where they were–they didn’t want to be in their car so they raced off to work, where they also did not want to be, so they raced home, where they also did not want to be; all in Florida where I feel like most people who live there don’t want to be tbh. I used to be an angry and impatient driver. In Hawai’i I’m like one grandpa. I stay in slow lane and drive the speed limit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be The Sunshine ☀️⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Duality of Man

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is incompatible⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use LocalSend ALL THE TIME between my Linux machines and my iOS devices. It’s faster than AirDrop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plays World of Warcraft⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m old, so my first MMO was Everquest. I only did “hunt-and-peck” style typing using my index fingers prior to this. Within a month I was a skilled typist out of necessity.

  Everquest also taught me that I have to keep very clear of WoW because I realize that if I ever started chasing that dragon, I’d wind up homeless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nothing to see here⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  AWWW SNAP!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Washington man arrested for allegedly throwing rock at seal in Maui⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Totally. Not trying to defend the guy, just sharing the story. Just seems super convenient. Why not tell the people yelling at you that you’re trying to protect the turtles? Why are we only now hearing about this? Seems like the sort of story one of my kids would come up with to try and get themselves off the hook.