A mild copyright violation based on a system designed around the constant distribution of copies of things is NOT a parable about sexual violence, people.

I feel like this extremely insensitive rape take is the fediverse’s version of the Godwin Law.

Keep pants on! Got it!

I think it was a one or two day thing, but it was glorious!

The fediverse has a built-in search engine?

I can only comment on my experience searching for communities in lemmy and people to follow on mastadon, but in both cases I am not sure I’d say “works quite well” would describe my experience.

But also that’s not what I think OP was talking about.

They want a search engine for a random fact like google. It’s been long true that you need to add “reddit” to the end of any google search to find the info you needed.

It’d be nice to have a fediverse alternative.

The link seemed to work for me from lemmy. I see three posts there when I click it at least.

My joke answer is to directly tell them that they are not allowed to come on your lawn, to not let their kids do the same, and that it’s your property, not a zoo.

This way you’ll guarantee that your house is egged often enough that some of the eggs may not break, and some subset of those could be adopted by the ducks and hatched into baby birds that the kids also won’t be able to come look at.

¿Por qué no los dos?

I am currently a dog person because I have a dog and for a while had two.

But I am a cat person because I have had four cats in my lifetime.

Dogs are more difficult, but I also love my furniture so I am probably sticking with dogs for a while.

Those well-meaning-but-terrible-in-practice consumer protection laws are probably a good indicator of why the EU isn’t a hub of technological innovation.

They’re at least a symptom of the same underlying outlook on the industry.

I don’t know the answer but they pointed this out further in the press release:

However, it’s also important for us that Mastodon is one of the few, if not the only social media platform that operates out of the EU, and we would like to keep it that way.

I’d assume that this is for a reason, too. If it were advantageous to run your company out of the EU people would probably do so sometimes.

I bet there are even people in their dreams, those monsters!

Of course they do. About 8 hours per day extroverts are forced to shut up and not bother any introverts. It’s torture for them!

While she doesn’t go into specific incidents, she wrote this amazing post on the subject back then, which I think makes it clear enough how it came about:

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?id=100044406400340&story_fbid=822482421272294

I think there are just too many categories of favorites for me to choose a single option.

If I had to try, I’d maybe pick Ben DeLa Creme. She was robbed horribly on her season, then destroyed All Stars but was also kind enough to let Trixie have a chance to become the super star she is.

She’s also incredibly talented and puts on amazing parody shows with Jinkx, which I think DeLa does most of the writing.

RuPaul’s Drag Race season 16 just wrapped and it was spectacular!

I am generally a harsher drag race season critic than many, but I think 16 might have been my favorite since , maybe 6 or 7?

From early this year until recently we had 4 concurrent seasons of Drag Race to watch. UK vs The World season 2, Spanish All Stars, Belgium season 2, and this mainline season 16.

All were a blast, and highly worth watching.

This is the type of whataboutism I can get behind!

This is me in you form!

Stores close and you can’t get fentanyl at those stores as easily.

They sell it at higher prices to the mentally ill and drug addicted people who are at those markets which are usually referred to as “open air drug markets.” I don’t like that term but it may give you reference to how this harms the community, though.

Unless you live where I do, where people steal mass amounts of junk food from convenience stores and then resell it at the nighttime markets to our struggling, marginalized, population of unhoused folks at an exploitative mark-up.

Because that is actively harming me, and the community I live in.

Though even with all that, confronting or reporting them isn’t helpful. But if asked, and I saw it, I would say so.

Yes and no. Yes, life is, well, life. There’s not really some magical other that will make life something different.

But no, that’s not guaranteed to be it for you, because things change all the time! There’s all sorts of experiences you haven’t yet experienced, good and bad, and tons you never will!

When I was about to turn 30 I was in a stable seeming relationship with a guy who I thought I was going to build a family with. Just before that he became a completely different person suddenly, cheated, and started dating someone else.

It devastated me, and sent me on a course in my 30s that made it my most complicated and varied decade of life. But I am now 41, the most successful I’ve ever been, in a relationship with a much lovelier man than before, and while I am experiencing some midlife crisis now, I still have options and time to pursue them.

I hope your 30s are much more calm than mine were, but either way, there’s other things you will experience as you keep on living.