A Lemmy server is like Facebook if there were a hundred other Facebooks people could be on and connect to. There’s no reason for you all not to join the same server. People who care enough can move easily.

The only thing I’d say is bad is if you pick the wrong server and it shuts down because then everyone is forced to find a new server.

Let’s say you have 800 friends. What service do you recommend to try to convince FB users to move ? This platform would have to have all the same functions, videos, pictures, events, pages, etc.

Mate, I don’t believe in hell, but you just described it to a ‘T’. Good luck in your search!

This is not a problem that has a technical solution. This requires a business solution—stop doing business with that vendor. Whatever service agreement exists between your companies is either not being enforced or was negotiated by a drunken mule.

Swimming.

Well, I’ve never had a problem with credit cards. Maybe they handle going over your limit differently. Hell, I couldn’t even rent a car with a debit card once when I was traveling for business.

I don’t know if there’s anything in there for you to take away, but I can relate.

You might’ve missed this part because it was kinda buried there. I’m not telling OP what to do or judging. But I related to the feeling and shared what I did.

I mean… yeah. I’m not going to hang our laundry out, dirty or otherwise, but we have plenty of conflicts and sometimes it’s good to know what is worth fighting over and what isn’t. This wasn’t.

They need to make it big enough to cover folks driving F-350’s or something. Idk how much they take. It was generally $75 about 5 years ago. They don’t do that with credit cards. Hotels are really awful about that, too.

My wife got me a bartesian for Christmas last year. It makes the worst fucking drinks I’ve ever had in my life. It takes up space in my kitchen. The drink pods are like $3 each. It takes cleaning and maintenance. I hate everything about it.

I acted happy about it. Privately seethed and ranted. I literally would rather have gotten nothing than wasted money on that. And then I tried several drinks from it before “deciding” I had fun mixing my own drinks, but I still use it for guests and for her drinks that she likes.

I think it’s god awful but I realized it made her happy and that is something I treasure. I don’t know if there’s anything in there for you to take away, but I can relate. Sometimes we just put on a happy face and let our loved ones enjoy giving us something.

Fuck all of that. It’s nice to have cash as an option but I’d not do much where it was required because I’d have to run to an ATM to get cash just for that thing, and few things are worth that extra effort for me. And then I’d have to keep track of that cash, which means I’d just foist it onto the next homeless person I see.

Guess I’m not really making a good case against lol.

I’d take it all to the casino and bet it all on one game. Walk out ten minutes later with 100k or the nothing I’d have at the end of the day anyway.

Not because of emails. And a lot of things prevent the release of actual photos or videos except super redacted. For good reasons, but still it would take witnessing him actually raping someone for them to do anything. And even then you’re not going to get everyone.

“Sounds like she’s enjoying it.”

“He didn’t hit her that hard, that was just a love tap.”

And of course, “any man would ‘give in’ surrounded by beautiful women all the time,” but only from a woman, because no guy is going to sign his name to saying there’s a certain number of women at which point he’s helpless but to rape a few.

Boolean Algebra is one of the few things I learned in electronics that I still apply in programming all the time.

Trump is a singular idiot, and because he only speaks at about a 3rd grade level, he has been able to politically activate a part of the population that was disinterested in politics because it was above their head.

If you look at voting patterns, there are an astounding number of voters who go to the polls to vote for Trump and leave the booth without voting for anyone else. In Michigan there were hundreds of thousands of fewer votes for Supreme Court justices than for Trump. Because those races are nominally non-partisan, they had no idea who to vote for. The liberal candidates both won handily while Trump took the state. Midterms have gone against Republicans and I think it’s because Trump isn’t on the ballot.

I think if we can get Trump out of office, there is a good chance America will return to normalcy, albeit with a greater awareness of the current of fascism that bubbles before the surface.

If you are starting from a place of zero knowledge about investing, invest in a S&P 500 indexed mutual fund with the minimum “load” (percentage taken by the platform/company you invest through).

That will never be the wrong move, though other strategies might perform better in some cases.

Starting your own business is fraught. Investing in real estate is a completely different beast and I can’t offer anything there.

Google is full of SOE slop. I think I prefer AI slop.

I’ve never seen anyone shoplifting food.

And I never will.

It rarely comes up, but when it does I make a point to address them by their chosen name (like a worker with a name tag that matches their gender expression). I usually avoid pronouns when I can and use they/them when I can’t—better to avoid gendering them at all than misgender.

That’s it. Other than that, I give them a little more grace than my default because someone else probably went out of their way to give them shit that day.

That’s been the whole Internet for a good chunk of my life. This feels more comfortable to me than slick corporate sites.