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I think that begging the mods for refederation will be a common occurrence in the newly emerging fediverse, but I think we'll all just have to get used to the idea that the fediverse is about voluntary communities and you'll have to forge your own path using multiple accounts/etc. The entire point of defederation is that Beehaw doesn't want certain communities or people with certain viewpoints congregating here - that's the choice of this community and the use of multiple accounts does get around that but it's just what will have to be done if you want to be someone associated with defederated communities.

Was waiting to see a good knife on here. I got my first good knife this year... It's insane how much of a difference it makes.

I got a fancy carbon one so I need to wipe it off after I use it pretty quickly too, but I honestly love the character of the patina that is developing (it's just a few mm of the edge that is reactive, the rest is sandwiched between nonreactive metal). Still, a good chopping experience makes me happy to pull out the fancy knife and chop even chicken tenders into feather fine slices for a salad or wrap 🤣

Omg... Fancy cuticle nippers have been a game changer. No more biting at hangnails!!!!

Ironically my safety razors are Gillette brand but I bought a big pack years ago and haven't had to buy any since. Recently misplaced the box in a move so I might need to order more if I can't find them but "lost all my excessive amounts of razor blades in a move" is a lot nicer of an economic picture of safety razors than running out lol.

I'm a lady too... Lady razors are soooo expensive. Learning to shave sensitive areas was intimidating but the safety razor is amazing. I have super sensitive skin and boar bristle hair so the safety razor has been a game changer in terms of ingrowns and whatnot. I get an extra 12 hours or so without the stubble growing back too compared to conventional razors. Cut the outside of my ankle once but that's the only accident I've had lol - the trick is not to apply pressure like with a conventional blade because the safety razor does the work for you, and don't underestimate the delicate region on the outside of your ankle lol). It's not just economics - dragging just one super sharp razor across your skin is much gentler on your follicles than 5 less sharp blades (since conventional razors have multiple blades, each one passes over the follicle). Shaving the same area 5 times with the safety razor would still cause less trauma because the blades are sharper.

It's been 5 years and I haven't bought new razors or had nearly as much razor burn or ingrowns ever since! And of course my legs are much smoother and the shave lasts much longer (which still isn't much for me since I'm part sasquatch but still).

We really need to start asking ourselves what a "future-proof" social media could or should actually look like.

Does any media company actually think about it? I know there are some big tech ideas like Meta or whatever but I'm serious, it feels like no one running anything has any real thoughts about the future except for in terms of propaganda or advertising. No one actually cares about the social part of social media which is why people have to build it on their own... Hence, the fediverse.

I lean left and find CBC to be fairly reliable. It's liberal.

Honestly, I think the most valuable CBC entity is The National. I trust that people who have been literal war reporters can help guide me to take in content that I would never watch on the internet on my own (Ukraine war footage, etc). There is something so chaotic about having complete access to all war footage and everything and not being able to trust myself to know if I'm informing myself or simply being a voyeur... When The National plays war footage, I'm filled with a sense of relief that fairly trustworthy journalists and editors have decided that the footage they play is something that the general public can see without terror, and that it is also important for the public to see. It's like how I needed to build up trust with a certain history podcaster before attempting to listen to the Nanking and Kmer Rouge episodes. There are certain topics that I believe people need their hand held a bit to engage in so I think the CBC does a good job. Maybe it sounds cheesy or something but in the book Oryx and Crake the teen boys watch horrible stuff on the internet and become desensitized, and no longer really have the ability to understand what is real and important or not. I read it as a teen myself and it terrified me how prescient that book was. I don't want the serious stuff in this world to just become noise to me - having framers or meaning-makers or guides is important.

I'd rather trust experienced journalists at the CBC than random hacks throwing content at my face... It depends on the topic of course, but I honestly believe that the CBC is neutral seeming as a leftist and that is good good good news. Of course there is bias in everything but if a news piece seems neutral, it means the journalists are doing their jobs and I don't feel like I'm being manipulated or having my rage stoked up so much (like some other news sites with clear agendas).

I'll never forget the episode of the National where they aired Trudeau stumbling over his words for a question, taking a deep inhale and then getting cut off... I burst out laughing and told my parents "people who think the CBC is Trudeau's mouthpiece should see this clip". It was a few months ago, can't remember the scenario now but it was absolutely comical. It did honestly show Trudeau's unpreparedness/unwillingness to answer a question on a serious topic but it was also hilarious.

I learned cursive but never practiced beyond 5th grade so it never developed...

Instead in high school and university when I was doing a lot of handwritten notes I ended up creating my own version of cursive which is just visually schwa'ing some letters. My writing and typing has always been a mess so it doesn't matter much.

What is the up arrow then if not an upvote? I'm on Lemmy Jerboa so the available up arrow (I'm from Beehaw so no downvotes) seems like an upvote to me.

I wonder if the fediverse would be easier for people if we brought back forum-style comment signatures... For example, I'm on Lemmy using the Jerboa Android app so everything will look different compared to what you're doing on KBIN.

Might be a super cool way to show new users the vast diversity of access experiences possible if there were a tiny automatic darker coloured line in the comment subscript showing what access point/app the poster was using when they made their comment. It would also help new people not be as confused because people wouldn't think that certain design features are available when they are talking about a different version of the fediverse/app. For example, apparently Mastodon allows users to interact with Lemmy but Lemmy users can't go on Mastodon (yet...?). I really like the popular guy who always makes it clear that he is posting on Lemmy from Mastodon - it was an incredibly inspiring thing to learn about the fediverse and its possibilities.

The more times you listen you'll end up developing your feelings more.

Apparently according to Spotify I was in the top 2% of Pink Floyd listeners in 2022? I only listened for 751 minutes though, which isn't that much. Mostly listening to The Wall on repeat.

There is a movie that goes along with The Wall, of you didn't know. I think that it kind of narrows the ability of people to interpret the songs in their own way but it's still excellent. It's part love action part animated. If you haven't seen the hand drawn animation that goes along with Goodbye Blue Sky and The Trial, you should definitely check it out. It's absolutely insane.

My fav part of The Trial animation is when the mom is introduced with her long "baaaabbbbbyyyyyy" and she is like a fighter jet bearing down, whose wings open up into vulva and from the core an umbilical cord shoots out to grab the rag doll Pink into her arms as she embraces her son... It's just a moment but holy shit. It really adds to the scene. The ex wife is characterized as a praying mantis in two songs...

I saw The Wall Live in like 2011/2012 and it was an incredible show. The 40 foot puppets torturing Pink were awesome. The mom puppet appears in the song Mother and her eyes glow red, the words "big mother is watching you" splays across the wall set as her head swivels back and forth over the crowd...

I'm not sure if there is a Wall Live recording online but I'd really recommend watching the original movie and then watching a concert version. It's probably the most insane set ever built for a musical show (they build up the wall over the course of the first half, the last brick is placed as the character bids the audience goodbye... We return from intermission and Pink is easily corrupted by the worms into a fascist when his mind is blocked off - then they literally explode the 40 foot wall set at the end... So awesome).

Listen to Wish You Were Here! It's generally about the loss of their dear friend and band founder Syd Barrett, a musical visionary lost to the challenges of schizophrenia/the origins of the band. It's very very good. Some of David's best guitar is in the Shine On You Crazy Diamond songs.

Hehe. Depends on if you're too busy to flip or not. Opening up the gorgeous album with the double wide purple jungle scene and slipping the sleeves out is sexy in its own way.

NotJustBikes is honestly a force of nature I think. His content is so awesome he's basically created a new generation of urbanists. We need people like him because his content can actually change the world.

Of you don't know where to start on his channel, the Strong Towns 4 part series is essential viewing. It's a summary of the Strong Towns research project/community and it basically presents decades of expert research as a tidy little series. Everything else is window dressing to the core messaging of that - crappy spread out suburbs are financially insolvent and cannot sustain themselves. Towns and cities die without a reliable tax base. Everything boils down to that. There is a 30 year cycle where new suburbs pay for the old ones and in 30 years they become a net negative to city budgets.

Mississauga in Ontario recently ran out of municipal land... Their strategy has been suburban expansion for decades. Now they're out of room. It wouldn't have been a very exciting headline except now we know that new suburbs must be built to pay for the financial drain the old ones place on the city... So they MUST become more dense or else the city will become bankrupt.

There is also a video on the channel about how Guelph did a financial analysis on what parts of the city are financially productive and which are net negatives on the budget. I'm sure you can guess the results! Really cool 3D bar graphs of the city divided up into blocks/sections. it's just interesting because politicians always always pander to suburban voters and people think suburban tax money pays for inner city programming or whatever and the reverse is the truth. The inner cities are the ones subsidizing the suburbs. Density = people = economy. Population density = productivity = money.

Imagine if politicians ignored homeowners and focused on the people actually funding the budgets? Suburbs are a financial drain only kept alive by the Ponzi scheme of creating new suburbs to find the old ones. Until you run out of land like Mississauga. Then you get slashing of budgets and lack of programs, decaying infrastructure, etc... Then cities just die like so many have across north America.

I predicted forcible demods...

But like, I feel like the one thing that would work is the one thing no one has been talking about.

A mod strike!

Maybe it has been suppressed because it would seem too radical but like, if the communities are going to die anyways might as well go out with a bang. Mods should all go on strike and spammers can run free and burn the site to the ground. That's basically what happened with Twitter, right? Has Spez seen what has happened to the valuation of Twitter this past year or what?

I went on Reddit during the blackout and on the front page there were shitty tattoos of bdsm furries with their dick and balls out... If the front page could all turn into that and the enforcement of NSFW tags was lost due to lack of mods, I can't imagine that the shareholders would be happy about what the site has become.

Mod + user direct action - everyone should post spacedicks/porn and mods should refuse to enforce the rules. Reddit wants to destroy the mods? Then reddit should see what a world without mods on the internet actually looks like... Especially before the IPO. Plus, the internet can get VERY active when it comes to participating in mischief instead of watching things slowly fall apart. I'd upvote spacedicks for the cause.

I have no idea why no one is talking about this unless posts/comments like that are being suppressed. Since it seems like most 3rd party apps have the best mod tools and most mods won't keep up their work if they don't have the right tools, the end result will be the same anyways.

Edit: they can't afford to pay people to replace enough mods. Spez deserves a look at what reddit will become BEFORE the IPO in my opinion.