Economy of scale. Our local soup kitchen could do more with $20 than an individual could

Alpha Centauri

I still have no idea why they just let the IP drift into oblivion, and chose to keep milking Civ instead…

https://www.vice.com/en/article/guardian-trans-journalists/

Sorry about the Vice source, but it does publish the letter in full, complete with links to the problematic Guardian articles.

Ha! I had an electrical engineer friend with a similar story. He thought manufacturers were idiots for colour coding their cables with shades that are so close to each other.

I think he’d been in the industry for about 5 years when he found out…

shows wild gains

Pffft… typical hyperbolic headline

1400%

Okay, that’s pretty wild.

Ok. Rub teeth against doorknob. Got it. Thanks!

Love it. Thank you kind stranger!

Aye for a trial.

I’m an adult; I think I can block users and communities on a case-by-case basis. If it becomes unbearable, I can still vote no at the end of the trial.

Yes. With an ebook reader, I can now not read the 500 books I carry!

do you react the same way to sci fi or fantasy movies

I know where you’re coming from, but there are people who genuinely do not care for neither musical, fantasy, nor sci-fi.

aggressive spread and resilience to remove

Many would argue that mint is an herb. But if you ever had your garden invaded by mint, you’ll definitely classify them under weed.

Always plant mint in a pot. And if your neighbour has mint in their garden, you better have a 2m trench filled with concrete between their garden and yours.

They’re just mystery meat with herbs, rolled in crumbly pastry.
The mystery is part of the fun… Is it beef, pork, or roadkill? We don’t care!

If they meant paszteciki, it looks like what the anglosphere knows as a sausage roll?

Did you mean keming?

I specifically looked online before replacing my last one – it didn’t just beep, it screamed at the top of its lungs.

Now a happy owner of a silent LG microwave. (You hold two buttons simultaneously to put it in silent mode)

The mechanics are similar. All the conscious guards I’ve put against anxiety are down and they start creeping in…

One thing that I feel hasn’t been addressed enough by the comments:

**Stay. The hell. Away. From. Social. Media. **

It is toxic, and will bring nothing but misery, jealousy, and insecurity.

We had ours late in life, so had the hindsight of having our circle of friends going through parenthood before us. You mentioned ‘social’ pressure, norms, expectations, etc. All of them are amplified 10x by social media, which presents an unrealistic, curated view of parenthood. Not to mention the 50 different ‘advice’ on what you ‘should’ do as a parent. (You should breastfeed or your baby will be a serial killer. No, just start with formula, it will make your life easier. No, you should give them organic goat milk to help them grow better).

We deleted all the apps just before the baby was born. It has now been a few years since we touched any of them (except FB Marketplace, because buying anything new is ridiculous. And, I guess, Lemmy). The only pictures you’ll find of our little one is in our family chat group. The only advice we’ll take are from the midwives and nurses that keep track of the baby’s growth, and has a 24h hotline for us to ask literally anything.

People you know, including parents, will give unsolicited advice. Feel free to listen to them, but know that most of the time you can tell them off or ignore them. This is your baby. Your family.

And feel free to ignore this advice from a stranger on Lemmy 🙂

that one dude who wore the hoodie and had the stroke and then turned out to be fucking insane

I hate this timeline. Living across the Pacific, I actually know about Fetterman.

An Australian shouldn’t know the names of so many American politicians. But it’s hard when y’all are trying to out-crazy each other every second day.

I couldn’t even name our current speaker of the house, yet I can identify Mike Johnson whenever his mug shows up in the news. This is truly the dumbest timeline.

It’s hilarious that they say

Swiss made nail clipper with two functions

Followed by not mentioning what the other function is…

Forget the alpha male; this is the year of alpha-gal.