CombatWombat

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happened to the snot I blew onto the grass?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

What happens to a snot rocketed?

  Does it dry up

  like a raisin in the sun?

  Or fester like a sore—

  And then run?

  Does it stink like rotten meat?

  Or crust and sugar over—

  like a syrupy sweet?

  Maybe it just sags

  like a heavy load.


  <strong>Or does it explode?</strong>

(with apologies to Langston Hughes)

⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it okay to have more than one account on here?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
You should have more than one fedi account. For sure a mastodon or misskey, maybe a nodebb or bookwyrm, possibly Pixelfed or Vernissage, if you’re feeling spicy a wanderer or funkwhale – cut loose, try out a few services. If you wanna have multiple lemmy accounts, no-one’s gonna stop you but a lot of people that do run multiple are kinda lame and end up using them as sock puppets and to manipulate voting and stuff so don’t be surprised if folks are skeptical.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit repost bots taking over entire communities⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
We’re still here, but! do we have good taste?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what does it mean when someone says their worried about your emotional well beans?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Good news, I traded our only cow for those well beans because I know how fedi loves beans.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a difference between "comfortable space" and a "safespace"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Safe spaces, in my mind, are ones that are free of any language that could be construed as harmful, whereas a comfortable space is one that is free of any language that any member construes as harmful. Like, as a concrete but contrived example, I would expect a policy like: if anyone is uncomfortable, we’ll enforce that everyone says “person experiencing homelessness,” but until then, we understand that that being policed is uncomfortable and you can feel empathy and still say “homeless person,” so we’re allowing that, even if it is strictly speaking a signal of a safer space.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Michelin-starred restaurant fined for serving dessert topped with ants⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Is “ant farmer for Michelin star restaurants” a job that is hiring? It seems like it might actually be pretty fun?

They estimated the dessert was served to 12,274 customers, using 49,096 ants, for total revenue of about 120m won.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What could the US get rid of to balance the budget and make prices drop very quickly? How is some trash or misspent money on thing we no longer need?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You’ve gotta raise revenues. We’ve tried cutting our way out of this, and it just doesn’t work. Thinking of “how do we reduce government spending” is fundamentally the wrong mentality; we should reduce overall spending by increasing government revenues and expenditures. If we implemented socialized healthcare, as a nation we’d save in excess of $1T even though as a state we’d spend considerably more than we do currently.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come on pretty much all websites there is a way to report abuse, but not to report someone making a good comment or an inciteful post and then they get it advertised on the front page?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Is… isn’t that upvote button does?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I’m just telling you how I discovered his piece of information. It was a very normal household interaction but with a dash of source amnesia.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
thank you. I’m supremely annoyed that I’m reduced to posting to fedi to find good sources for a basic adulting question, but I’m equally grateful when someone comes through for me.
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where is the piefed.social instance based in?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Generally speaking, it’s best to avoid using the default instance. The fediverse works best when there are many, smaller instances, instead of one large instance and a few smaller one orbiting it. We should try to avoid the problems we see with the centralization around mastodon.social and lemmy.world happening to piefed as well, if we can.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The did a semi live action movie of the Lion King. Why doesn't hollywood do a movie or a couple seasons of Tail Spin?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
A live-action Gadget would create an entire generation of furries the likes of which the world has never seen
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does a game server differentiate between multiple clients on the same network? Do they even?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The internet is an inter-networking protocol. Your modem/router gets a single IP address to represent the entire network, but it assigns addresses to each device internally. When it receives a packet from the wider internet, it performs a translation to figure out which internal address to route the packet to. There are headers attached to the packet that your router uses to keep track of which internal addresses to send it to.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I could a buffalo chicken chili kale salad would the show off my cooking skills?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Whatever you do, don’t make something for the first time. If you’re looking to impress, adding an array of side dishes, like rolls, potatoes, steamed vegetables, green salad, fruit salad etc is much more effective than one really killer main.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there going to be something about potato buns tomorrow?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Well, you will now — a bunch of people saw this post and they’re gonna make it happen.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A couple mates and I run askhistorians.lemmy.world. How can we get more people to post instead of myself all the time?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
One thing you can try is to set hashtags on your posts so that users from other fedi softwares can find you. Most of the woso folks I see in !nwsl@lemmy.world are mastodon users.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

Are employers able to do that without having to deduct taxes?

No. You can pay employees their wages with things other than money, which is often called being paid “in kind,” but the person being so paid still owes taxes on the monetary value of their compensation. Being paid in RAM would be extremely inconvenient because you would still have to pay your taxes in your local currency.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there so many shit posts about beans?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Iirc, fedi bean posting predates lemmy, but I have no idea where it comes from originally.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Train from Warsaw to Chelm costs £9. In UK this 250 km journey would probably cost at least 10 times more.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Ah, I see. I thought we were talking about the relative price of 250 km train tickets between countries and struggled to figure out how your screenshot fit. Thanks for clarifying.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Train from Warsaw to Chelm costs £9. In UK this 250 km journey would probably cost at least 10 times more.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Imma keep it 100 with you, chief: I’m not smart enough to understand what you meant by posting a screenshot of bus prices underneath my question about the relative train prices between the US and UK.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Train from Warsaw to Chelm costs £9. In UK this 250 km journey would probably cost at least 10 times more.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
A ticket for the 278 km journey from Seattle to Portland tonight is $71, or ~5.5x this price. If you plan ahead, it’s like $27, or ~2x this price. Surely US trains aren’t cheaper than UK trains?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every payment option has a fee⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It is exhausting. It would be nice to live somewhere with consumer protections, but shockingly those places aren’t particularly enthusiastic about taking immigrants from the US
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With all the bad news hitting the states all of a sudden, is there anywhere I can go online for good news? Instead of mourning all this stuff?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I dunno if it qualifies as “good news” but you’re always invited to come watch women’s soccer !nwsl@lemmy.world
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone out there?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Oh wait… um… yes, here on the threadiverse you can gamble with your time! Will you see anything worth seeing? Maybe! And it’ll pay off at unexpected intervals in random amounts so you’re addicted! Mwahahaha
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone out there?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Uh… obviously our answer is going to be yes because all the people who answered no left and didn’t come back.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This sandwich⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
PWA is short for progressive web app. It’s the website plus a little extra browser magic so you can save it to your phone’s home screen.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This sandwich⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The pwa
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This sandwich⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Also mildly infuriating is the lack of crosspost button so I can add this to !mls@lemmy.world — I guess it only appears when the post originates from a piefed instance?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨¿Qué carajo es esto?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Oh sorry, I didn’t actually read the post you linked and assumed it was his going away message. Another L for reading comprehension on fedi.

Rimu added a feature to Piefed a coupla-few releases ago to limit the number of upvotes and downvotes each account can give per day. The meter you have in your screenshot is how many of your quota you’ve used today; if you give too many you’ll get a little pop-up that has some “you’re doing that too much, come back tomorrow” message. The concern was that the cost of federating votes was disproportionate to its value – making the network connections and passing the events takes a lot of overhead. He set the quota to something where like 95% of users would never hit it, but bots and truly unhinged users like PugJesus and I do. I really do not want to sound critical of this decision – all development decisions are about tradeoffs, and if my instance goes under because Jerry can’t afford to run it anymore, I lose access to all my friends, not just one, so it isn’t like with a corporate social media where cutting costs increases profits, it’s just decreasing the rate at which they’re losing money. And piefed isn’t the only service that doesn’t federate likes the same as other activities – on mastodon, you generally only see likes from your own instance. Pug was just tired and disabled and in pain a lot and took the change hard because he’d migrated from instance to instance many times (which I have too, and I completely understand the frustration at feeling like you have to start over), and so he announced he was quitting fedi completely rather than doing it again. The fediverse is an extremely hard problem space to work in because there are very diverse use cases, and basically no money allocated to work on solving them, and this is just what happens when you have two well-intentioned actors trying their best.