AFKBRBChocolate
@AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world
Yet another refugee who washed up on the shore after the great Reddit disaster of 2023
- Comment on Why isn't Putin receiving the same level of hate than people like Trump and Elon are? 29 minutes ago:
There’s a huge contingent, even here, who loves both those guys, but maybe more importantly, they’re supposed to be on our side. Hell, Trump is the president! Putin is the dictatorial ruler of an enemy country, we expect that he’s going to do and say stuff that’s terrible.
- Comment on If Orange Dickhead dies before taking his oath again will sucession still be applicable? Like Vance the new pres and Johnson the new VP? 3 days ago:
That’s only after the electoral college votes.
- Comment on Young Frankenstein is not available for streaming 3 days ago:
Heh, understandable. I’m one of the older Lemmy folks, I’d guess. I’m a software engineering manager for an aerospace company.
- Comment on Young Frankenstein is not available for streaming 5 days ago:
My wife and I moved into our first house together on Halloween, 1995, so that night we drank a bottle of champagne, watched Young Frankenstein, and handed out candy. Every year since then we’ve done the same thing to celebrate our anniversary of living together, though sometime a different movie. This year, we couldn’t find our DVD, so decided to stream it and found what you did. Apparently Disney bought it and for some reason decided not to make it available. Very frustrating.
- Comment on Sleepy Bees 5 days ago:
For those wondering, this appears to be true. Most sites that say it all reference the same person, whose study doesn’t seem very scientific, but I found this much more controlled study that did indeed replicate the conclusions.
- Comment on This scammer pretending to be Greenpeace 1 week ago:
That seems high, though I guess if they’re doing it in a state with high renewable energy, that’s what they’re using. It uses a crazy high amount of energy though.
- Comment on This scammer pretending to be Greenpeace 1 week ago:
I wonder what fraction of Bitcoin mining energy comes from renewable sources. I bet it’s teeny tiny.
- Comment on Why do I fart all the time when I'm trying to sleep?! 1 week ago:
Farting as you relax and when you bring your knees up towards your chest (common when you sleep on your side) is pretty normal. It might also be a timing thing based on when you go to bed relative to when you’ve eaten.
You might look into why you fart so much if it’s excessive. For instance, I have an odd food intolerance called fructose malabsorption - excess fructose doesn’t get digested, so it just ferments in my intestines. If I eat a lot of it, I’ll get massively painful diarrhea, but usually I just get some gas.
The same thing happens with people who are lactose intolerant: they can usually have some amount of lactose and they just get gassy, so some people don’t even realize they have it.
Other things can also cause unusual amounts of gas.
- Comment on What positive things do you expect from Trumps upcoming four years? 1 week ago:
Why without you think I didn’t?
- Comment on What positive things do you expect from Trumps upcoming four years? 1 week ago:
For people who have 401Ks or other investments, the likely deregulation pushes up stock prices (which is why the stock market had a big bump this week). Oh, sure, those regulations help protect the environment, workers rights, worker health and safety, etc., but: image
- Comment on Nuclear Demonology 2 weeks ago:
Reportedly he has a very worth of $50M. If that was just in investments getting 4 percent a year, that would be $2M annually for doing nothing. Kind of gross to stoop to that level for money when you have so much.
- Comment on Nuclear Demonology 2 weeks ago:
Courting the same demographic
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 3 weeks ago:
I wonder if that’s related to a user base that skews heavily toward techies.
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 3 weeks ago:
I did, thanks.
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 3 weeks ago:
Completely agree. I personally I’m fine with the trade-off I made. There’s even some benefits to a smaller site. I remember on Reddit there were lots of times I didn’t make a comment, even when I had something to say, because there were already literally thousands of comments, some with thousands of upvotes, and I figured anything I said would be lost in the din. Here, if you’ve got something to say, it’s very likely to be seen.
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 3 weeks ago:
For sure, though that really doesn’t solve the problem. If I’m really into sports-themed shot glasses, making a post in a community for drinking ware, or for sports merchandise, isn’t going to mean I get more content about sports shot glasses, and it doesn’t increase the number of people on the site who have something to say about them. On a platform with millions of users, there might be enough other people with the same interest to generate a critical mass of content.
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 3 weeks ago:
Right, exactly. And let’s not forget that a healthy percentage of all online communities is made of lurkers who don’t really want to post at all, but they enjoy reading stuff they’re interested in.
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 3 weeks ago:
This is kind of bullshit. On a big platform, like Reddit, where there are orders of magnitude more users, the likelihood is that there are a good number of people interested in whatever niche topic you want. That’s a draw for a lot of people. I left Reddit for Lemmy for good, but we’re just not up to that kind of user base.
And it’s not zero effort to get a community going and keep it active, especially with a small user base. It’s perfectly reasonable for someone to want a place that discusses their niche interest without wanting to be responsible for running that place. It doesn’t make them bad or lazy.
- Comment on How to improve your Lemmy experience 3 weeks ago:
I agree, I’d like to be able to block a community from the main page as well. I have no issues with things like gay porn, but it would be nice to be able to block it from my feed without having to open the community.
- Comment on How to improve your Lemmy experience 3 weeks ago:
I have no issues with any of them. I don’t think I’d be a frequent Lemmy user if that’s all there was though.
- Comment on How to improve your Lemmy experience 3 weeks ago:
You must get nothing but memes, Linux, and porn.
- Comment on Brand recognition 5 weeks ago:
Because then anal sex would just be too weird.
- Comment on Magic Mineral 5 weeks ago:
My dad was a contractor and he had a big sheet of it in the garage that was leftover from some job. It looked kind of like a sheet of drywall, but was grey and rougher. I used to take it into the back yard with a little blow torch and and lay on it while I melted metal things. I was probably ten to twelve at the time.
It was a different time.
- Comment on Brand recognition 5 weeks ago:
I remember once upon a time not knowing what it was and watching one. If I saw that in real life, I’d call 911.
- Comment on Brand recognition 5 weeks ago:
Could be.
- Comment on Brand recognition 5 weeks ago:
Here’s the “fun fact” related to the term. When dogs poop, their butt prolapses a bit, meaning some of the insides extend to the outside, and then retracts after. That’s why they don’t generally have a bunch of poop on the outside afterwards.
- Comment on Brand recognition 5 weeks ago:
Maybe, but you’re going to get the real experience on a porn site.
As an aside, with no intent to kink shame, I’ve always been surprised at how significant/popular that subcategory is. I have a hard time even seeing the thumbnails.
- Comment on Brand recognition 5 weeks ago:
I typed in the URL figuring it wasn’t going to be real, but it is.
I’m thinking that there were people in the chain who recognized the issue, but didn’t speak up because they thought it would make them look bad. A grass roots emperor’s new clothes kind of thing.
- Comment on Brand recognition 5 weeks ago:
Use “prolapse” as a search term on a porn site
- Comment on I didn't think I'd be doing this at my age. 1 month ago:
Either the ‘N’ in “sandwich” is backwards or it’s a large, lowercase ‘n’
