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Ok, so we’re planning on opening a music+Alternative store in the near future and one of the medias were wanting to stock are cassettes especially since they’re becoming more popular. However to anyone who knows about cassette tapes, they are extremely susceptible to yk. dying

As the title says, how often do you admit you’re wrong? Is it different when it’s a factual dispute versus something more subjective?

Online or offline. News keeps reporting about loneliness and disconnection, but in my experience it’s just that it’s harder to interact with people in a civil way because they are so hostile, angry, and arrogantly convinced their viewpoints and experiences are the only legitimate ones.

I’m always picking apart movies and TV shows for subtext, deeper meaning, Jungian archetypes, revelation of social patterns, inner psychology, etc., but it seems like there are two related trends that make the traditional, scholarly approach of a close reading increasingly unpopular:

I posted asking for advice on looking for work and lot of suggestions said I should try networking. Well that hard to do at 46 and have no true friends or colleagues to reach out to. Now we all know about dating sites, but is there a open source site that is for meeting for friends, or even networking like LinkedIn but not so much bullshit?

for me it’s famicom in first place PC engine in second place and Sega Master system in third place

My go is for the Buzzard, it would sure as hell make desert trips and heat waves seem a lot less worrying and paranoiac.

how to earn lot of money [ is stake a good option if played with disciple or nay other option ]

I am sick and tired of Indeed. It nothing but sales jobs and it ignores your filters. Monster full of scams or just links to other job searching sites that want you to create an account on their platform. Last ziprecuriter is also full of spam and garbage.

It was doing pretty good back when it came out, but now it has 3.4 stars on play store. How come? I thought everyone liked it.

i think the title is self explanatory, i hope this isn’t a support question.

The other day I had a dream about checking in on some of the old PHPBB Forums that I used to visit. I won’t explain what the acronym PHPBB stands for.

Hi. After discovering the connected instances list on my instance, I saw a huge list of blocked ones, which(as I assume) is unique for each instance. So, I started to wonder: is there an instance that federates with as much others as possible and has the smallest black list? Maybe some kind of an observer instance on which you can access as much of Fediverse as it is possible? Thanks in advance.

What are your hobbies? Genuinely trying to find something new for myself.

I’m a hobby chess player. I play on Lichess. And whenever I find the time, I love watching live tournaments. But I have a recurring issue: the moment I start watching, I inevitably end up rooting for one of the players. It feels almost compulsive.

I got a Medusa tattoo over the weekend and I’m tryna come up with names for the 4 cute lil viper gals that now inhabit my arm.

For example [vaguely]: writer creates a character who behaves like X, despite nobody actually behaving like X in real life. Then characters behaving like X become a wide-ranging trope. People in the real world begin to think it’s normal to behave like X, and subsequently start actually behaving like X themselves.

If so, why do you want them / how do you like it?

I need some good news to lift my otherwise shitty situation. What was the last thing that brought you to tears from happiness?

Yesterday it kinda hit me that the feed left a lot more “reddit-y” suddenly. More american politics for one.

so, most people don’t have any clue of scales involved with economy at large. let’s play a game:

I had a dream recently where I was guiding a civilisation over multiple thousands of years. Att the end of the dream when they had finally overcome their problems, one of them said to me ‘being a person, when really you’re just a blob of goo, is the most profound thing you could ever do.’

In the past week I’ve been absolutely roasted for criticising two different countries. Normally I’d be okay with that, I can handle a mild toasting and after all debate is a good thing.

If you would like additional framing: you have only 30 seconds to prepare and you can talk for 10-30 minutes.

How long will it take for the moon to drift far enough away from earth that the lunar month extends by a day? Or two days?

Do you ever catch yourself reacting to things the exact way your parents did, even when you don’t want to?

So I’m watching a movie, im 37 in September ( BS 2013, Still feel meh), but damn it seems like every movie is teens or “other genre” like horror (still focused around young audience or w.e So I want to ask, if you could play one moment , one spaghetti of your life over, what’s that fuck up…. Or leave it in _ and tell us what you wish you did instead

For a good yawn I need to really open my mouth and push/strain my jaw muscles. If that doesnt happen, then the yawn feels incomplete to my body and it happens again and again till it works “right”

And by immigrants I really mean immigrants: you don’t have the nationality and live in the country = you’re an immigrant.

EDIT: wow you rock!! woke up to a huge list lol thanks everyone I ll give everything a try

For example, I’d like to see a Lois Lane movie

Edit: thank you for all the kind suggestions! 🩷 I ended up keeping my current TV for now. I was this 🤏 close to buying a 48 inch LG B6E. Just before heading to the store, I got cold feet and decided to look through the settings of my current TV again. It’s a 43 inch Panasonic 6700 from 2020. I don’t know how I didn’t realize this until now, but I was actually able to remove ALL preinstalled apps, which made the TV way snappier. I also found, after an unreasonable amount of digging, that there is a setting under input sources - HDMI 1 called HDMI Ultra HD that was TURNED OFF by default. 😱 My only gripe with my Panasonic is that it emits a lot of heat. When I checked out the LG earlier today, it barely felt hot at all… Well well… The heatwave is passing anyways, so… 😅

e.g It might teach you to ride the wave of destiny, and treat life more like a rollercoaster than a linear videogame that you’re supposed to grind and minmax in.

I am looking to learning about the political ties between modern day Egypt and china. Unfortunately, no matter what terms i use, All Search Engines always default to Ancient Egypt on any given topic. I wouldn’t mind some fun history facts about Ancient times but i am more interested in the current political ongoing of modern Egypt.

I was reading a comment section and I saw that some people were banned, but the comment wasn’t removed. This got me to thinking: how are banned and removed treates on the threadiverse?

Came across a reddit post claiming the Sony online backlash is making publishers nervous. While unverified, this seems plausible enough.

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Is there some kind of block?

I’ve noticed some people treat their lawn like a carpet. If there is 1 leaf, that’s clutter that needs to be picked up. If a tire touches their grass, it’s like you got oil on their rug. They’ve usually manicured their lawn into 1 species monoculture grass with zero weeds and zero bugs. Which because of this lack of diversity, it is now incredibly fragile.

I speak English as second language. Whenever I hear new stuff, I save it to my Anki. Here’s my Cool Phrases deck if anyone’s interested.

It seems like every time my phone fails to connect to a site it just hangs forever until I toggle Airplane Mode on/off. This behavior has followed across 3 Android phones and I’m wondering if it’s just me.

When I had a chill, stable life, I fantasized about living a wild one. Now that I have a wild life, I fantasize about having a chill, stable one.

Like what biological function thinks it’s helpful to want to die? It’s a visceral reaction so it has to be a kind of biological intuition.

I was wondering when people consider themselves to have a new PC. Technically I’ve had the same PC for close to 20 years now, but every part’s been upgraded several times over.

Obviously this is a broad and controversial topic (especially since I’m asking about both on and offline) but as individualism and isolationism seems to be increasing in the western world, I’m wondering what can be done and what others have done to counteract this trend.

It doesn’t matter if it was a pet, a child, or someone else, just that you were taking care of them.

There is a thing that I want to talk about, but I don’t know which community is the best to do so. It doesn’t have nothing to do with politics or something like that.

Obviously I mean total blindness and not legally blindness, where some vision can still be there.

I’ve never remembered one of my dreams, so I’m not really sure what to expect. Give me your best stories!

I feel like I’ve been thinking about this too much in the last few days.

Why is it good that you exist and why should we care?

What’s your honest advice for a young person struggling with rent, money, and finding a job, still relying on parents financially right now?

Think Creep (Acoustic), The Dog Days are Over, A Sign of The Times. It’s all something deep and special that I can’t exactly place, but it hits you like a god damn train sometimes.

I remember the old AOL promo disks, they gave away to sign up for aol but they were basically a browser and isp iirc. Or atleast thats what i thought it was when i was 10. The point being, there seemed to be a fairly large gap between paying for browser service and browsers selling your first born child’s identity to pay for the fines they got for stealing people’s data. Im not calling any one or the other out and if you need me to then youre already too fucked to care.

why are we here on earth ?? [ motive of our lives ] is it happiness or sufferings?

I’ll start: printers.

is money really very very important , is it above all things , is it right that we can buy happiness with money ???

I had a better way of articulating it, but I went with that.

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In Britain we have a load of royal named things, e.g “The King’s Head,” “The Prince Henry,” or animal themed pubs like “The Three Pikes,” The Red Lion (most common oub name) or something gorey like “The Hanged Man,” “The Village Chopping Block.” On that note, we also have pubs named after landmarks, e.g “The Old Oak,” “The Anvil.”

The question is purely academic. I am not having technical issues and I am NOT asking for technical support.

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Is it the fear of AI and automation, or fascist laws that severely restrict freedom, or is it about future wars, hunger or a worsening climate?

After the bubble pops how much would our lives be impacted?

I was there during the crypto-bubble, the housing market bubble, but I don’t have any memory of the internet/dotcom bubble, and I was not alive during the rail-road bubble.

My state is actively ruining employees’ lives by reducing taxes for businesses (less revenue), which is making it so that the state cannot afford raises and are constantly increasing healthcare costs for employees.

This one is mine

Specifically the US but I guess this could be asked anywhere.

Any recommendations on doorbell cameras? I used to have Ring and it was ok. Moved and got Blink- sucks, didn’t realize it was battery only, constantly dead. Looking at Eufy from Costco- hardwired and no subscription because it uses local storage. Thoughts?

what is happiness according to you ??

Would companies do it ?

Now a days people refer to AI instantly for an answer. Maybe it’s a problem they could have solved within 10min in their head or a question they could have done an internet search on and read a few forums to figure out. However, now people go straight to AI which is known to give many many wrong answers.

Feeling pretty doomy right now, lemme hear some positives! Generally positive, specific to your life, whatever you got. What’s something good going on that makes the future seem a bit brighter for you?