Without reading the article, I choose to believe she finally found the perfect Christmas gift.

She’s raising your twin in the attic to keep as a spare in case you decide to become a “prompt engineer”

Yup. So… sick… of… shoveling. And I’m norwegian, it’s kind of built into my genes.

It didn’t help that I had a station wagon that was RWD with almost no weight in the rear axle. Driving it was like that Bambi on ice scene. And due to a slight inclination and a sharp turn to get into my driveway, parking was a special skill that involved a 4-wheel skid.

Anyway, last summer I bought a new car, AWD SUV, built for the climate, and with a defrost/prepared timer. It was amazing. I was actually looking forward to winter; All I needed to do was to ensure I could physically enter the car. And this winter, due to an abnormally dry and warm winter, there’s almost no snow. Whomp whomp.

I’m reasonably vanilla myself, but I know that if I liked something “weird”, people judging me for it wouldn’t help anyone, least of all myself.

Drawing fetishist NSFW art. A friend of mine was (and probably still is, I just haven’t had any contact with them for ages) pretty good at drawing. If you’re into hentai and/or furry stuff, there’s a non-zero chance you’ve seen his work. He also did some more “exotic” drawing.

He (allegedly) wasn’t particularly into it himself, but he was good at it, and it gave him a couple of extra bucks per month.

For those who never had a real one: yes.

To the rest of us: They’re not even close.

Yeah, I haven’t seen that anywhere else. I also liked that each user had a limited amount of votes to cast and thus would (presumably) spend them wisely.

Source: Excellent slashdot karma from when the site was good.

• Be positive
• Don’t let anything negative get to you
• It’s not my duty to convince anyone. If they hold a stupid position, don’t try to debate
• when making conversation, bail once they start treating it as an argument they need to win
• OPs mom is fair game

Future you is talking smack about you.

Correct, I thought that’s what you were after. Beyond that, I do not know. It seems that comments have some sort order in posts, but this seems to vary between new and top. Community specific, maybe?

In that case, hit the bell icon on your top right, and select between “All” and “Unread”. It shows replies to your posts and comments.

Depends on how you access Lemmy.

In Voyager I can click a comment to collapse it, and if I later return to the thread the comment stays collapse. So in effect, collapsing comments as I read them will hide them. However, it would also hide any replies to those comments.

Also, in Voyager at least, any replies to my comments and posts will show up in my inbox, newest on top. That’s usually how I read replies.

Glenn Miller Orchestra was formed a while after Glenn Miller (of “Glenn Miller and his orchestra”-fame) disappeared. The new band was more or less a continuation of the old band, and they’re still active.

IIRC, the intention was for Deep Purple to continuously have members come and go, effectively making them a Band of Thesseus. However, there was one lineup that was a lot more successful and famous, so changing the lineup was detrimental to success.

Normally no. The only exception is jeans: Buying a few pairs at Target a while back resulted in the first instance of me actually liking the clothes I bought. They were just so damn comfy.

Home by new. All by top 6h

Most people don’t think about them, as there aren’t many (any?) around where I live. Personally it’s a bit different, as I work with a lot of them when I’m traveling on business. They’re like me: they do what they do because they have bills to pay. The only difference is that I butcher the pronunciation when using their names.
While probably not sanctioned by the Chinese state (or our employer), I did get quite a few chuckles because of an offhand comment/joke about Taiwan that doesn’t align with Xi’s worldview or policy. This leads me to conclude that all the reporting about “Chine is doing X/Y/Z, omagerd!” Is limited to the state, and while the state certainly has its supporters, the populace as a whole don’t care and just want to live their lives like anyone else would.

Asked my GF who’s an aspiring crazy cat lady:

It’s because cat food is engineered to contain all the nutrients they need. While it looks like a bland mush of only one thing, it’s more like the cat equivalent of having several full nutricious meals run through a blender. The required variety is built in.

My knee-jerk reaction would be “if you’re happy”, but I had an epiphany a while back:
I was chitchatting with a coworker over way too many beers and he asked me something along the lines of “were you happy growing up (insert background here)”, and after weighing my words I responded that “I would’ve been, except I’m generally not near happy as a baseline”.

So am I satisfied with my life? Yes.
Do I have worries? Yes, like anyone else on this planet. Mine are pretty minor and not debilitating.
Do I consider myself happy now? See above.

But yet, I’d conclude that I’m living a good life, even if I’m generally a grumpy guy.

You might want to edit that post title, lest you attract “yes”-replies from people who don’t bother reading the post body.