I'm probably misremembering, but I swear our phonebook was at least 5 inches thick. We used collect the neighbors because they didn't want them, and then me and my friends would stack them in the club house we chairs.

Mind if I DM?

I'm not the most familiar with the story, so many I'm remembering wrong. But I googled it to make sure before I posted that.

PDF the screen shot is from

It's honestly so freaking good. I really wish they'd make another season, but I don't see it happening now that they've done Echos (which I haven't seen yet, no spoilers!). My only complaint is the first season doesn't have Felix's voice actor, but season 2 does, and it's fantastic.

Haha. So fucking funny. Omg, my sides hurt from laughing so hard. These people absolutely deserve what's happening because they've been taken in by bad actors and cult leaders.

Hey, fellow Tennesseean anarchist. I lived in Erwin for a while, as well as Kingsport. Closer to Knoxville now. Are you still local?

Unicoi county went for Bernie in the 2016 primaries. It's a very small town that has gone through a lot of shit trying to claw it's way out of horrendously bad politics in the 80s and prior. Bumpass cove, where I'm sure some of worst damage was, was the site of nuclear waste dumping, and has been the nucleus of a major swing to the left for a lot of people in the area. Right down the road is Johnson City, a very progressive college town. Dumping on the victims of a disaster because their neighbors, or even they, have shitty politics is a shitty thing to do. Maybe those school kids deserve to get shot because their grandpappy is a Republican? Yes, moments like this should be catalysts for change, but victim blaming isn't the route to take to that.

There's a podcast sequel to Orphan Black that uses the plot from your last point, and it is excellent

I feel like I'm about as computer savvy as most gen z. Born in 91, but we was poor, so it was the family dell (that I wasn't allowed to do much with*) until 2008, got my first laptop in 2009**, it broke almost immediately because poor and cheap, and then got my first smart phone (T-Mobile G1) in 2010, and basically didn't touch a laptop again until I started school 2020. I basically started over from scratch at that point, but now I run fedora full time and made myself learn some basic stuff, but I would consider myself pretty tech illiterate.

*Because my brother was caught looking at porn, so computer time was severely cut back. Then I was caught sending sexy messages to someone. And then the final nail in the coffin was when I tried to dual boot it with some Linux distro, I don't remember, borked it, and we had to wipe the hard drive

**Technically I had a netbook before this, in like 07/08, that I used Wubi to install Ubuntu on, and I loved that. But never got more than browser level into it.

That's what my Dom calls it, too

As a licensed, dues paying gay, I quite like the male form. Even body types I'm not particularly attracted to can be very appealing, and I've rarely regretted getting a dick pic or body shot. The only nudes I'm not really fond of getting on Grindr are close up booty hole pics. Sometimes they can be hot, but mostly they're not done well

I'm not familiar with what's going on with that. Care to enlighten me?

And I totally get what you mean. More content would be great. I specifically miss my philosophical and spiritual communities from Reddit. I love learning about mythos and different religions, especially the more esoteric stuff, as well as political philosophy. That content just isn't here in the same way (or sometimes, at all). It would be amazing to have that here. But I'd also rather go without certain things if it means not feeling like I'm being sold a story. Reddit felt like it wasn't social media in the same way as Twitter and Facebook, but the moment I left it for Lemmy it was this scales-from-my-eyes kind of moment. It was crazy how toxic reddit was for me, and going back a few times, and looking at my old profile, I do not like the person I was there. Always on the defense, always on edge, always prepared to argue a point because I knew some asshole was going to attack me for no reason, and make me defend myself. It's like it activates the caveman part of the brain and put me in fight or flight. I'd love for Lemmy to get big enough to have awesome content, but not so big as to devolve into that. But I'm not smart enough to know what that balance is, or if it's even an issue of size, or just culture.

I wonder if the lenses are off gassing? They're a type of plastic. But most likely I think I just have a face that the US would try to deliver democracy to if they found out about lmao

I'll be honest, I hope Lemmy doesn't reach a mainstream audience. It's nice having a smaller site away from all the bullshit that will inevitably come with mainstream attention. We can say "just defederate! Join another instance" but when we get to a point where giant corpos are running instances that host 95% of users and 99% of content, we'll be in the same boat as now if we defed, except that Lemmy will then have a mainstream (and thus mostly right of center) image. If this, or a little more, is all we're ever really going to get on an open source platform that feels open source, I'm okay with that. I like seeing the same usernames around, and feeling like I found the internet equivalent of Stars Hollow, CT

Honestly, that really does track with how shit works in here.

"The orphan crushing machine may contain components known to the state of California to cause cancer"

And we're done! Fixed all the problems!

The really reputable outlets will phrase it "'this [Lemmy] is... Journalism"' claims user of the increasingly popular reddit alternative, in post positing the decline of all other forms of media."

This reminds me of Torchwood

no one under observation from a three letter agency should use this.

Whew, good to know I'm safe as I'm only under investigation by the New Mexico Bureau of Investigations. The NMBI

Nope, no rashes that I've noticed. But I stopped wearing a belt last year. No good for my body shape. Lol. Swapped it for suspenders, so now I look like a simple country lawyer. Lmao

Haha. No, his birthday is just super easy to remember numerically