[-] slowd0wn@kbin.social 22 points 8 months ago

I haven’t played many of the indie games on the list, but I’m glad to see Sea of Stars get some love. It’s probably the best game I’ve played in the last year

[-] slowd0wn@kbin.social 56 points 8 months ago

Her manager and one of the other co-workers participating in the group sex act were vomiting, she said in her lawsuit. While one vomited in the trash, the other threw up right in her guacamole bowl, she alleged.

Probably the best paragraph in the whole article.

[-] slowd0wn@kbin.social 14 points 9 months ago

Last time I flew in the US was back in April, and I still had to do all of those things you mentioned. Not sure how you got a free pass

[-] slowd0wn@kbin.social 18 points 10 months ago

‘You fucking donkey’ is a personal favorite

[-] slowd0wn@kbin.social 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I agree with you, but the article states she bought these vapes over the counter. She also had asthma and was regularly using her inhaler after vaping, which can’t be good, and also suffering a cold at the same time. Also, was 12 years old and started vaping at 9, going through a 6000-hitter in 2-3 days. As a current vaper I can’t imagine burning through a vape that big unless I’m doing some serious bing drinking

[-] slowd0wn@kbin.social 70 points 10 months ago

He knows the origin of the word “totalitarian” without looking it up. Because memorization is obviously the cornerstone of critical thinking

[-] slowd0wn@kbin.social 32 points 11 months ago

This is definitely me. I never feel hungry in the morning until I’m nauseous. Fortunately, my wife found these protein bars at Costco that are pretty good. I’ve been packing one of those with me to work and i eat it just as I’m starting to feel gross (or all the coffee starts tearing up my stomach). Small enough that I don’t feel more sick, but enough food to get me through the rest of the day.

[-] slowd0wn@kbin.social 56 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Republicans pulled this same shit during Obama’s tenure. They have no intention of negotiating in good faith. They want the shutdown so they can point their fingers at Dems during their campaigns in the coming year. We’ll have a shutdown, suspending important government agencies and furloughing hundreds, if not thousands, of Americans just to manufacture an anti-liberal talking point.

[-] slowd0wn@kbin.social 44 points 11 months ago

I’m at a loss

[-] slowd0wn@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago

I kind of enjoy the circlejerking to an extent. It’s like watching fads come and go in real time, and I like seeing these dumb memes evolve over a week or two before disappearing

[-] slowd0wn@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

… Phyllis Emerick, the chief deputy public defender in Monroe County, argues that because Hannah’s husband and his family consented to the surveillance, they gave up their rights to privacy. “He agreed that he would not access electronic devices in his household in exchange for release,” she says. “It was the family’s choice to continue living with him.”

jfc, how heartless is this man? The husband hasn’t even been convicted of a crime at this point, and his rationale is, “well, you chose to still live with him.” This whole thing is disgusting

[-] slowd0wn@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

I think a lot of mods probably use RES on desktop, which will still be functional after this. But yeah, statistics say that 3PA are only used by about 5-10% of users

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Provocative title, yeah?

There has been a lot of discussion about what different instances should strive to be. I see a lot of posts and comments wanting instances to become subreddits, e.g. a gaming instance, a politics instance, etc. That kind of thinking is too restrictive for my taste.

To be clear, I am not a tankie, nor do I support tankie ideology. I DO believe, however, that the concept of Lemmygrad is what I would like to see the fediverse become.

Lemmygrad is an unapologetically tankie instance. For fuck’s sake, its name is a play on Leningrad. However, the instance is not restricted to discussions of communist ideology. Lemmygrad contains communities about gaming, food, shitposting, and everything else you might associate with a link aggregator. This is what they get right.

In my ideal virtual future, or “vuture”, the fediverse would be comprised of instances each geared toward a specific topical focus, with a wide variety of community posts and discussion. The majority of my IRL friends and I initially bonded over technology and gaming, but we like to discuss a wide variety of topics when we get together. Why should the fediverse be any different? I imagine instances that are gaming focused where m/politics is filled with Bioshock-themed shitposts and discussions about laws that influence the way we handle technology. Sports-focused instances share pictures in m/food of what they are making for Super Bowl Sunday. If I’m a gamer that is also really into militant communist politics, I might sign up for a gaming instance but subscribe to c/politics on Lemmygrad as well.

We don’t need subreddits in the traditional sense. Let’s turn instances into our little neighborhoods, our cul de sacs, and make the fediverse our town hall meetings, our sports arenas and our bars.

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