Zitronensaft

joined 2 years ago
[–] Zitronensaft@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

I do check one niche subreddit for a TV show about once every week when a new episode drops, but I hadn't used reddit at all until this season came out. I will go right back to not using it pretty soon here. I used to read reddit during the majority of my down time, but the attitude Spez had was so awful that I have no desire to return to regular use. I spend a lot of my time on discord, some on Firefish, and a little bit on Lemmy. I do more things offline now. I thought it would be difficult to replace reddit, but it hasn't been.

[–] Zitronensaft@feddit.de 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

At one point I had every other Friday off and even having the three day weekend only every other week was really refreshing and such a nice break. I miss it, I've been hoping it becomes more common.

[–] Zitronensaft@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I remember Postal Service profitability being a political issue under the second Bush, too. Trump didn't start that. He probably even benefited from the previous rounds because he bought a historic post office in DC when it was sold off and he turned it into a hotel. That's the same hotel where people stayed during his presidency to curry favor with him.

[–] Zitronensaft@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

My cousin visited Texas from Germany and took a train from Dallas to Austin. The track sharing with freight was insane, the trip took 9 hours due to freight having right-of-way on the tracks. It's only about a 3.5 hour drive. He was not impressed at all.

[–] Zitronensaft@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

MTG is more clear than Empty G. There isn't a lot of overlap between politics and ridiculously expensive card games, use context clues to figure out which one people are discussing.

[–] Zitronensaft@feddit.de 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Some people don't want to come off as really crass and aggressive. I don't understand why people get so offended by polite language. It's not a religious thing, plenty of religious people swear up a storm.

My dad was in the army, so he was no stranger to swearing. My parents weren't strict or religious when I was growing up. I just didn't like how harsh and, frankly, how stupid swears sounded, so I decided not to use them.

People like to say "you can swear on the internet", but just because you can do something doesn't mean you should do it. The people on the internet are every bit as real as people off the internet and words can cause a whole lot of hurt. Why not make the internet a more friendly and inviting place?

Does it really hurt anyone that this person edited this post to match their personality better? Why is this even a big deal?

[–] Zitronensaft@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I use the default PWA for my instance and whenever I go back to my home page it acts like I am logged out until I reload the page. It gets old fast because it switches me from subscribed to local posts. I may finally cave and seek out a dedicated app in the hopes it works more smoothly.

[–] Zitronensaft@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Boring Company is alive and well in Texas, they just held a job recruiting event a few weeks ago.

https://www.teslarati.com/the-boring-company-jobs-texas/

[–] Zitronensaft@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

She is a member of the US House of Representatives, her district is in Colorado.

[–] Zitronensaft@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's when you put butter in the sauce to stick to the butter on the pasta.

[–] Zitronensaft@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

They were so much more expensive than Pandora when I tried them out and the free tier was too awful to want to reward them with my money, so I did pay but it went to a competitor. Their music recommendations were terrible compared to Pandora, too.

I don't use Pandora now though, they got bought by SiriusXM who I will never pay again after they made cancelation such a difficult process.

[–] Zitronensaft@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sarcasm in person generally comes with a distinctive tone of voice, facial expressions, and body language that are lacking in text-only communication. If people know you well enough in a text chat, they can often make assumptions about your seriousness based on what they know of your beliefs, but we are on an anonymous message board here. The people here have no experience with whether or not you are naive or a jokester or seriously confused. There's a reason it became standard to mark sarcasm on reddit with /s, it is the simplest replacement for the missing tone and body language context that would go along with a statement if we were communicating face to face.

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