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Curious, how many users here actually use ActivityPub's capabilities to see other social media sites?
  • Yeah, I'm not clear either. At first I thought the microblogs section would work more like Mastodon but that doesn't seem to be the case. Big missed opportunity

  • What movies, books or tv shows are meant to spoof/parody a particular genre while actually being a great example of the genre?
  • After watching Season 2 of The Orville I'm of the opinion that Seth MacFarlane should be put in charge of the next mainline Star Trek series. The man truly gets Roddenberry's vision.

  • What law or rule exists because of you? What happened?
  • I honestly don't know if I have any pictures from back then. I should, but I dunno where they would be.

    At the time I was also fond of wearing brightly colored collared shirts too, so between my hair and my clothes I probably was safe to go hunting in terms of visibility.

  • What law or rule exists because of you? What happened?
  • It is now state personnel policy that, for the purposes of visibility, hair can be counted as visibility headwear so long as it is the correct color of bright orange.

    I dyed my hair traffic cone orange one summer and asked if I still had to wear my hat. My boss was amused and asked his boss. His boss was also amused and asked his boss. On and on and on until a memo was issued signed by the director of the entire agency saying that no, anyone with traffic cone orange hair did not have to wear a hat.

  • What are some examples of your tastes changing as you got older?
  • Funnily enough the one time I had the other kind of mushrooms I was expecting them to taste awful based on all the warnings and my own issues with mushrooms. Turns out I don't mind the flavor that much.

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  • What's the benefit of using Kbin over Lemmy?
  • It just gives me a 404 when I try to use it on kbin, sadly.

  • What's the benefit of using Kbin over Lemmy?
  • Has anybody made a kbin script/userstyle that has the same information density as old.reddit? One of the things that drives me nuts about most of the fediverse is that every damn site seems to love this wide spread out low information density mobile web awfulness.

  • What are some examples of your tastes changing as you got older?
  • Mushrooms. When I was younger I just knew I hated them, then as I got older I realized it was because after I had more than a mouthful of them my throat started burning. I figured it was an allergy and that was that... then I fell in love with a woman whose third favorite food is mushrooms. She spent years trying to find a way to get me to appreciate mushrooms, and not a casual effort I should add. First we figured I was fine with Enoki mushrooms (the little beansprout-like ones you get in Miso soup sometimes), then it was Oyster mushrooms which are pretty damn versatile, if low on flavor. Started incorporating those into my cooking, and for years that was the extent of it until one day I had something with white mushrooms in it and realized the damndest thing: my throat wasn't burning. I'm not sure how or why, but whatever problem I had with mushrooms had gone away. Now I have mushrooms almost every day, usually as part of my breakfast.

    TL;DR: Mushrooms kick ass.

  • People who work in food service or customer service: What’s the dumbest thing a customer ever insisted was “the law” or “illegal”?
  • Very few states allow it, and none of them in public. It's only ever allowed in a private residence (usually the residence of your parent/guardian) while under the direct supervision of your parent/guardian. Even then it can become a crime if somehow the law gets involved and they feel like pressing charges.

  • People who work in food service or customer service: What’s the dumbest thing a customer ever insisted was “the law” or “illegal”?
  • During my very brief stint as a security guard at a casino I ran into that last part way more than I ever would have expected. It is astounding how many people do not understand that the laws from their home country do not apply in the country they are visiting.

  • Hey, you, what controller do you use for emulation?
  • For general use I have a wired Mad Catz 360 pro controller with textured grips. Modest dead zone, no drift despite a decade of use, and comfy as hell. It's an absolute workhorse and still works as well as it did when I bought it.

    If I'm playing something that doesn't require analog input I have an 8bitdo M30. If I'm not using it through Steam it can be a pain to map since it has a 6-button layout instead of the usual ABXY, but I vastly prefer the 6-button layout so it's worth a little headache to me.

  • Why is youtube recommending conservative "talking points" to me?
  • It's also kinda dodgy what YouTube considers "viewing" a video. 3 seconds of autoplay? You viewed it. Misclick an ad trying to skip? Viewed it. AndroidTV previewed the video when you left it highlighted for too long? You guessed it, viewed.

    Fortunately figuring out what it considers you to have viewed is pretty straightforward: if it's in your watch history it considers it viewed. You can also go through that and manually purge things.

    Of course there's still the question of why YouTube will so consistently recommend videos that get people started down this downhill slide of absolute dogshit atrocious content.

  • Which systems or games you always fawned over when you were younger?
  • The Sega CDX. I had a Genesis, I had a Sega CD, but the thought of having both of those systems combined into one compact unit that also could be used as a discman (a really bad one, even I knew that at the time) was so appealing to me. There was one at the local game store for some absurd price ($350 I think) for literally years, and I would salivate over it every time I went in the store.

    Ultimately I never got one, but at least I didn't miss out on any games or anything.

  • What reason could Zuckerberg and Meta possibly have for wanting to create a federated social media site?
  • Hadn't even considered this, but I think you're onto something. Even if it's not the main goal, that could definitely have factored into the decision.

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    What is your opinion on Andrew Tate?
  • He's living proof that being a regressive incel troglodyte isn't limited to people who are ugly.

    Well, ugly on the outside anyway. Much like beauty, true ugliness comes from inside, and that man has an inner ugliness that cannot be denied. He can do all the reps he wants and he'll still come across like someone who shouldn't be allowed within 1000 feet of a school.

  • Shower Sitters, Are You Out There?
  • I bought a nice shower seat for my spouse several years back so she didn't have to balance awkwardly on one foot to wash the other. I've used it on occasion when I'm not feeling super great and oh damn does it make a the shower that much more relaxing, at least if I can get the showerhead aimed so I'm not being pelted in the face.

  • It will feel like home once I hear about the undertaker throwing mankind off hell in a cell
  • As much as he pissed people off I did like Sal Bundry using every opportunity to talk about his 5 touchdowns in a single game.

  • It will feel like home once I hear about the undertaker throwing mankind off hell in a cell
  • That really felt like the kind of question someone would ask only if they're lactose intolerant. "Load up on cheese before you go camping so you don't have to poo" is pretty common wisdom.

  • What do you think about disabling downvotes?
  • Removing downvotes does not improve the experience other than giving the illusion that nobody disagrees with anyone else. Unless your instance has some very weird need to maintain a false sense of positivity, downvotes should be enabled.

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