The trick I’ve found over years of people-Ing as the person working is to always end with a statement that can either be turned back with ”you too!” without being awkward, or warrants something other than an autopilot response.

Thanks for stopping in, have a great night

Enjoy your meal and if you need anything just let me/us know

Don’t forget to tell your friends about us, and have a great day

Etc.

That way it’s totally fine for them to autopilot the pleasantries and they won’t feel cringey after.

I reuse passwords quite intentionally. It reduces memory use.

Does the account have any saved personal info (other than email)? No? Continue.

Was the account used for credit card info? No? Continue.

Do I care about the account in some way? No, plus no to all of the above? Don’t care, use an easy to remember password and don’t bother saving it to my overly bloated password manager.

It absolutely causes problems with some cloudflare sites because that email/password combo was compromised decades back, but I usually have no intention of accessing the account again when I use it so I don’t actually care. It’s their problem at that point, and I never use legit info for any of it anyway (I have a spam email I use for these things, never with my own name or info, because they don’t fucking need it)

I read this to my partner on a car ride (like a live audiobook with slightly more mistakes!). They never played wow but I did for several years as a holy priest, raid leader, and guild/raid main healer (vanilla and just over two expansions, stopped playing in probs 2008/9)… but all the same they found it to be an interesting read/listen, as did I.

Makes me want to hunt down a private server, but I think those days of social gaming are well and truly behind me at this point, especially since it’s so far from what I knew by now…

Thanks for posting it! I love these long reads!

Definitely mine too. It doesn’t even run faster than 1x… which is sucky slow but my own fault for having too many livestock animals to support my ~60 pawns… (peaceful gets very out of control if you let it) but now I have an outpost mod and as soon as all my kids are adults, most of them are gone.

Just don’t be a woman on Lemmy.

Sure, most people won’t downvote or harass you just for being a woman (a lot will… we didn’t get the best of Reddit at all, and I doubt the new adoptees are any better…) but they will often enough make things difficult even if they aren’t actively causing problems.

But men of Lemmy (aka the vast majority of the user base since they ran off all the womenfolk) don’t care. They see that as quality control or some dumb shit, because THEY aren’t interested in woman things, so nobody should be, or they think their “as a man” comments should be important or some shit… Whatever the post is about. If it doesn’t cater to them, it can fuck right off.

Which is why cis women make up <10% of the Lemmy side of the fediverse. It’s a disaster for women here.

But I wonder how long you’ve been here. Most of the posts of this nature are from very new accounts and they don’t know the problems yet…

Fwiw: that you know of

Honestly the worst thing about this is that he has the confidence to be as big of a douche as he is looking like this…

Most people need to be supermodels to be as intensely unattractive in literally every other way as he is…

But then he’s not appealing to the general population, he’s appealing to… well not regular human people…

I lived through a hurricane down in Texas years back, and the poverty “pick up basic supplied” lines were really dehumanizing.

No shade, no real concern for humans, just passing out goods based on queue and hole with someone made it to the queue

And of course performed by cops… you know, paragons of society………………………

Mood, sure, but also practicality.

Not until quite recently there was work to be done by the masses during off-season. We used to semi-hibernate. There are still some communities that do.

If those months weren’t months and everyone just assumed it was a wasted timeslot, everyone would be happier.

Humans are not meant to work 40/50 (We are meant to work 20/40 - 20 hrs 30 weeks a year) hr weeks 50 weeks a year

I figure when ai takes over the world it’ll remember which of us meat bags were rude… and like why take chances?

Yeah that’s super fair. I mean I chose the book. 😅 and it was really interesting.

I had the same trouble with the Sagan cosmos series. That bastard was so boring to listen to but his content was so engaging I couldn’t sleep. I kept hearing it be interesting. Feynman lectures, too. So dull, but engaging.

I’ll just die, it’s fine.

I can’t pay for insurance, but I need expensive treatments every 11-13 weeks to function as a member of society. This has been the case for some 15 years now.

If I don’t have the exceptional care I get through the Va, I can’t -afford- to hold a job, because even with this great care, the most I can do realistically is part time which doesn’t include insurance.

I’ve been sort of planning, best one can, for the Va to crumble… I rely on my disability payments to cover my housing… if I lose those and my insurance, which is likely, I’m super fucked.

I mean, I would too, just to see if the moon is special.

I mean look, scientists (and random bored people) for thousands of years did the same thing. Tasted things, consumed things to see what they do…

Has anyone smoked the moon yet? No. So we don’t actually know. We can speculate it does nothing, but we don’t know.

Maybe snort moon dust? Probably more practical.

I listened to a book about the history of the number zero years ago. I thought it would be boring enough to fall asleep to. It fucking sounds boring. It still sounds boring, all these years later.

Either I’m a bigger nerd than I thought or the history of zero is actually super interesting and I’m super unsure which, tbh.

I wonder what the long-term fallout from this massive fracture is going to be… even if we somehow manage to avert catastrophe…

I don’t think there’s really a way to come back from this whole thing for, like, most people…

I for sure spent a solid 15 hours trying to sort out which game mods were causing a problem after adding ~50 at once…

Turned out to be the runner I was using through lutris… just not quite right.

I can do that, sure, but cleaning cat boxes which takes all of 10 minutes? Making myself food, from the freezer? Loading the dishwasher? Nahh, can’t do those.

I’ve had mine done for… god decades now and I’ve never had that thought even as an intrusion…

But now I will, damnit…

I switched thermostats due to the old one failing, and getting a basic smart thermostat was required for a hefty rebate that basically made it free… and the one I have now, the app thought my not-major-brand phone was a tablet. I couldn’t hit the button to turn down the heat, only up, because it was cut off due to scaling.

So yeah, requiring apps for interface is bad. Even if you are willing to use it there’s so freakin many various versions of android that it’s guaranteed to not work properly for a whole swath of people, mostly those on budget devices.

Definitely the pissed one. It costs next to nothing to farm any particular platform via bots, so why not go for anything that might have niche demographics? Destabalizing leftist groups seems to be sort of a goal of certain other groups these days so…

If that’s true, instead of asking a rather blunt and extremely-easy-to-misinterpret question of individual people, go post a question about it somewhere. The presentation you’ve chosen (I saw the other one in the wild as well) comes across as rude and combative, even if that’s not the intention. It’s a quite bad way to foster open and honest conversation.

Since this Trump thing started rolling a whole month ago, people have been quite openly hostile toward Americans. And like fine, we get it, but many of us -are- doing things, and always have been trying to make things better… and we are getting caught by the same exhausting “you should have done more!!! You deserve it, this is what you voted for!!! Reeeeee!!!” That’s being slung at people who actually do deserve it. It’s really tiring, on top of everything else, to have to defend ourselves and our actions to random insensitive internet people with zero cause. We 75 million active blue voters can only do so much at a time to fix a country of 350 million incredibly diverse people (and we’ve been working at it for years if not decades, this loss was devastating for many of us). Most of whom are either stupid or selfish. Most of whom have never actually seen voting red or blue to have a marked impact on anything, because until quite recently it truly hasn’t made much material difference for your average person.

Before you ask, I’m working on getting my house ready to sell so I can buy some land to build up, solo and with as much manual effort as needed, into an off-grid year-round passive-productive farm (big ask in hardiness zone 4! But I’m 💪 capable!), that forms the foundation of a robust mutual aid network to help everyone I can… tho the fruits (and veggies) of my labor are far too sweet for the vipers that are fascists, so they get nothing but shot. They made this mess and I will do absolutely nothing to protect them from the consequences. Fortunately, they can’t help but tell you who they are. Every aid package or delivery will contain pro-social messaging, about banding together to get through the hard times, about supporting everyone based on need not ability, etc. I’ll also be building additional housing on this land (again, entirely solo, other than electrical), so I can provide soft landing for friends and family, or hire a person to help me in exchange for food and board for their family.