The .ml domain stands for the country of Mali, but lemmy.ml definitely chose that domain because it can stand for Marxist-Leninist.

“Panama isn’t about a city, it’s the stage name of a stripper from Albuquerque!”

• David Lee Roth

I think people really overestimate how much everybody knows about the US.

I’d say there’s a large population that only know NYC, LA, and Chicago.

Alaska, Canada, Russia, a few on the -stans.

This is the longest straight-line all-water route on earth.

$100M of $VT, secure my ultra-comfortable retirement right then and there.

The GameCube was pretty mediocre as a console, but SO MANY of its games have aged like wine.

Antibiotics. Turned so many lethal wounds into minor cuts.

I spent so many hours in the Sonic Adventure 2 Chao garden, training and breeding the ultimate racer.

What is your background. “A job using Linux” is super broad and remote work only narrows it further. If you don’t have plenty of experience, it’ll be hard to get a remote position.

Suuuuuper easy to say when it’s not your ability to pay rent on the line.

I like caffeine, don’t like coffee.

I mostly drink Pu-Erh, but I got a craving for green tea on my last order and accidentally ordered a way bigger bag than I intended. So I’ve been working through that for a while.

10/10 plan

New Zealand: It’s the fucking eleventh!

You sound like the CEO at my old company 🤣

Fediverse makes improvements on existing social media formats, but there are so many issues inherent to online social media that cannot be fixed by slightly changing the format.

Short-term, consequence-free interaction with strangers is not a substitute for actual social interaction, but it’s become one of the default modes of socialization in the modern world. It’s a bell that can’t be un-rung, but moving from reddit to lemmy isn’t going to mute it in any significant way either.

I’d say solidly GenZ. Thinking that everybody else is stuck in the vortex of lies but you have now broken free by [doing something only marginally different]. The kind of idealism you see in youth. Fediverse apps help with some of the problems we see in other social media, but ultimately it’s a new diet, same shit.

I read once that a major reason the coffee is supposed to be good, is that the animals (in the wild) tend to seek out the ripest, healthiest coffee beans to eat. They’re abundant (prior to human intervention), so why settle for less?

But then we cage them and force-feed them whatever, so they’re just medium (or low) quality beans to start with. So even if you look past the cruelty, it’s not even the quality of coffee the reputation suggests.

Ah, Voat. Come for the freedom of speech, decide not to stay because ABSOLUTE freedom of speech inevitably becomes racist.

I think it’s just a symptom of “people”.

I grew up near the Mississippi. More of a wide brown line.

Similar to what you’ll find on the underwear of a cop that got spooked by a citizen with a cell phone.

Yup, RTGs are still subject to the second law of thermodynamics.