toynbee

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[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

My understanding is that Edge is Chromium and will also eventually be impacted by this.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Just like the secret to flying.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Then why do they have those mufflers that stick above the car?

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Thank you for the information.

edit: I played this for my similarly aged wife and she said "is that from an ad?" but couldn't identify which one.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I was born on the eighties and remember the nineties. The music sounds vaguely familiar but, even after the one minute mark, I have no association for it.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I sleep better with lights, noise and distractions than without; without gives my brain time to think about things like elections, exactly how much time I have left to sleep before I have to get up for work, what troubles I'll face at work the next day, etc. I slept so much better during the days than I do during night.

edit: For some reason my client decided to post this as I was in the middle of typing a sentence. Edited to actually finish the post.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

I nearly literally started a friendship based on showing the other person this movie. It's a fantastic movie and apparently why Christian Bale was chosen as Batman.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I think it's a The Office reference.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

I usually just talk about something very unlikely to sound predatory or sexual. "I like your hair," things like that. Hair is one I bring up frequently also because one can usually tell whether a lot of effort was made; as I mentioned, I think complimenting something that involved effort is more impactful than just random, possibly meaningless things about the person.

For example, I don't usually say anything about clothes (on men or women) unless there's something particularly striking about them; recently I saw a woman wearing a shirt expressing a political opinion that is not popular in this area (but with which I agreed) and complimented her on it because it seemed like it probably took courage to wear. However, I wouldn't comment on someone wearing a plain white tee.

I have learned that I don't necessarily always enunciate properly and therefore should say "I like your shoes" rather than "I like your boots."

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

I like this and similar gifs.

 

Before last night I didn't even know my sister still painted. It's great that she does.

 
 

Nothing in my life has prepared me to answer that question, let alone to a 5-year-old.

 

They had an idea and they went with it.

 

Them: Knock knock!

Me: Who's there?

Them: Unicorn.

Me: Unicorn who?

Them: Unicorn. Unicorn. Stop saying unicorn.

edit: Line breaks.

 

Sorry if not.

I was on Reddit for a lot of years and enjoyed most of them, I really did. Almost all of that was through the Reddit is Fun app, it was one of the few apps I liked enough to pay for it.

I stopped opening RiF the day the API incident happened and I switched to here (using Connect, after some experimentation, because the UX was most similar to RiF). I wasn't confident we would gain enough users to make it worthwhile to switch, but I wanted to try and I didn't want to support spez. Just this morning I told my wife that we probably had several thousand users, then a few hours later I saw a post saying we had almost 1.5 million. That's amazing!

I struggled a bit with Lemmy when I started using it, but either Lemmy or I evolved - probably both - and now it's a wonderful experience to open every day. Y'all are great and I appreciate your presence.

edit: Probably should have said it in the original message, but in case it wasn't explicit: thank you all.

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