This is the kind of dad joke we need more of.

ikr it’s like dressing goth as you get older bc you look in the mirror and are like: “I look old and decrepit… cool!”

Piglet just needs to get some Intro to Rocketry texts.

!creepywikipedia@lemmy.world

Well, I agree that we should collectively move away from plastic crap, so let’s hope that happens.

(different person here)

The contradiction is that if you buy a new object every time you do end up with lots of objects sitting in your cellar or attic looking like a dumpster. And nobody’s keeping a checkerboard for a century – your heirs will just throw it in a landfill.

If you make something yourself, at least you spent some time constructing it during which you learn something and keep your mind active. Ideally you use things you have laying around the house and when you’re done the thing can be re-used for a future project or recycled. And every once in a while you make something that’s a little different and you have something new.

But if it makes you feel any better, your side is winning. People are indeed buying Super Soakers instead of just using a hose. And to convince them, there are ads everywhere.

You know, I can look up the definitions of HSA and FSA and things like that, and I can have the definitions right there in a document on my screen, but they still don’t make any sense to me in terms of how they relate to me specifically. A lot of times they seem like they depend on me predicting things in the future that are unknowable, like my future health or how and where I will be billed for something. And that’s assuming I also look up related terms like APY and deductible and figure out what those mean. If I ask any HR people they’re like “just contact the provider for an explanation” and I’m like yeah, I totally want to deal with the phone menus and hold times of some faceless corporation, just to have them pull some BS like OP’s talking about.

Sorry about the rant. I guess that’s what I find mildly infuriating.

take a look at !goodoffmychest@lemmy.world, see if it fits what you have in mind.

I admit that while I know that many people like being in big cities, I don’t really understand why. The tourist attractions presumably get boring quickly even if they were interesting at first, and after that what’s left?

Every week something interesting’s happening. Concerts, sports events, art shows, book readings, parades, festivals, etc … usually multiple things per weekend and a couple during the weekdays. Then there are restaurants and cafes of all types to discover, crafts stores and bookstores and markets, clubs and meetups and demonstrations and celebrations. I’m an asocial shut-in who spends all his time on Lemmy but I still was really into wandering around town (yes, using mass transit) and just… coming across unique stores or organizations that were in a historical building and were randomly having an open-house and it turns out that it’s Armenian Heritage Week or something.

I’m not trying to change your mind. I’m just saying what I find good about it. Where I live now there are only 1 or 2 interesting things happening per month.

Fam, I felt kind of bad that your honest feedback about the new congestion toll has been downvoted so much. And if you truly found nothing in Boston (and presumably Cambridge, Somerville, Brookline, Allston, etc.) that interested you then… OK, I can respect people’s differences. And if you say walking to work through Manhattan would somehow be bad, and that the only reason you live there is to be close to work… sure, there are people like that, I get it.

But I think your situation is kind of like living in Hawaii and then saying it’s unfair that you can’t just drive to the mainland.

Punk is probably easier / lower-cost.

• find the oldest t-shirt you own. turn it inside-out. A) if you do NOT want to keep the shirt, spraypaint or marker an “anarchy” symbol on it and tear the sleeves off. B) if you DO want to keep the shirt (or if the shirt is black), make the symbol using masking tape.
• the denim jacket approach sounds promising. print out a bunch of punk band logos/names on card and safety-pin them to the jacket. If you can get your hands on a flag of some sort, pin that to the back. If you can’t, just get a plain cloth, scrawl with a marker some punk-related slogan (in my days it’d be “out of step” or “too drunk to fuck” or “no future” or something - edit: if you want to make it obvious you’re a punk, write “punk’s not dead”) on it and safety-pin it to the back. get some lightweight chains (cheap at hardware store if you don’t have) and safety-pin them to the jacket.
• if you have any really old jeans, those would work great, just safety-pin a couple chains. if you don’t want to tear/cut them, use some black masking tape to make a couple random lines on them. If you have black boots that would work OK.
• spike your hair… look for temporary dye… maybe do a mohawk… I’m not familiar with that stuff but you can probably find tutorials online

That’ll get you 90% of the way to a costume version of a stereotypical punk. FWIW back in the day if you went to a punk show most of the people there would just dress like regular people (jeans and a t-shirt).

I agree with your point about making it harder to find good memes. Technically the original definition of “meme” from Dawkins would encompass this post, but it is more suited to !tumblr@lemmy.world or wherever they found this. Wait, let me say it this way

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yeah, lemmy.world is a good starter server. To find your next one:

• look here to see the relative server sizes (sort by “MAU” = Monthly Active Users): https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy
• look here to see who is defederated from each other: https://defed.xyz/

It’s currently happening with !lotrmemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com which is splitting off from !lotrmemes@midwest.social.

A couple months ago a few communities moved off of lemmy.ml.

The trekkies did something along these lines a while back but I don’t follow that…

• I would text my housemate my location and where I planned to shelter.
• if i was at home I would go to the lowest floor in the middle of the house away from the windows. in my current place, I think I’d be in the ground-floor bathroom, so I’d also fill any available containers with tap water while I still could
• I’d follow the news online as long as I could, switching to my radio if/when necessary
• see web pages like this for more tips: https://www.ready.gov/ especially: http://www.ready.gov/sites/default/files/2021-11/are-you-ready-guide.pdf

Remember that sailor you won that hand of poker against? The one who stalked away mad? Well he has a brother in the missile command…

Reminds me of something I heard back in 'zine times. “The trick is not to ignore the mainstream, but to selectively raid it for things we can use.” -Mike Gunderloy. The resources are there, so go ahead and use them – just do it on your own terms, consciously. I don’t have Amazon Prime, but when my elderly relative needed a safety device and I could only find it on Amazon, you bet I got it from there.

• the one where the guitars go “da da da da, du du du du, DA DA DA DA”
• the one that starts “AAAAAAAAAAAAA”
• the one with the lyrics that are like WOAHWOAHWOAHWOAH urghurghurghurgh AAAAAAA
• the one that tells nazi punks to fuck off

ikr this is literally step 1 of enshittification.