Ah, North High. I played a bunch of flash games and watched the back half of the Naruto Chuunin Exams arc in the media center there since Cartoon Network’s website wasn’t blocked for some reason. Good times.

Time Squad. I was shocked that my mind could dredge it up after all these years.

It’s like Mr. Peabody and Sherman except instead of going back in time to educate the kid they’re time cops going back to correct history and the kid is the one who knows how it should go down. Think something like going back to colonial America and finding the founding fathers wanting to open a tea shop to have a tea party in, then coaxing them into the Boston Tea Party and kicking off the Revolutionary War.

BRIZINGA!

That was my first thought as well, but it left me wondering what elephants had to do with getting up (or something along those lines).

Man, I still think about that Humble Origin bundle sometimes. Being a broke high schooler at the time, $5 for Mirror’s Edge, Crysis 2, Dead Space, and more was a helluva deal!

I’ve got 21 more of these memes to post over the next few weeks >:)

Southland Tales. Don’t read up on it, just get some friends (and maybe some gummies) together and press play.

That’s a fair presumption to make, in this case it’s just that Canadian gaming is being affected by US law.

It’s the principle of the thing!!!

Did you bake the bread itself? Do you have a recipe you could share?

Moral philosophers create trolley problems. Moral philosophers are murdered. Epistemology philosophers inherit the department! But can they be sure of that?

Nah, I just don’t care for gritty foods and all nuts end up gritty as they are chewed. I forgot the word gritty exists while writing my original comment so it ended up written weird.

Man, I watched The Second Civil War for the first time a couple months ago, and thought it was kind of an interesting take on what issues might be prevalent today. I thought the mass immigration of certain groups to appease political groups seemed a little far fetched though. I guess nothing is satire anymore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_Civil_War

I went camping along the north shore last weekend to see the stars unobstructed by light pollution or moon. With me was a good friend. We chattered for the entire 5 hour drive. We chattered most of the 2 hour hike we took before sunset. As we were nearing the campground, we saw a grouse and froze to observe. As our attention turned away, the silence became apparent, nothing but the river running a mile away and the odd tweeting of birds unseen. We listened to the nothing, and I found my mind relaxing, slowing, growing calm. When I next spoke it was with a voice more measured and deliberate than I had used in quite a while.

Later, after watching the stars (and satellites) materialize in the sky as the sunlight faded, I sat looking at the vast expanse of mostly nothing. I first felt so fortunate to be a part of this wide world, and my mind turned toward a distant future where there would be people moving among those dots. I then recognized something I had known but never considered, “I’m going to die on this rock.” I will never be one of those stellar, let alone interstellar travelers.

This left me with the hard questions of life I had been staving off for weeks, months, years maybe as I tried to get through life day by day, week by week.

Who do I want to be before I die on this rock?

What do I want to do before I die on this rock?

When will I do them?

Where will I need to go to do them?

How will I put myself in a position to do them?

I won’t tell you how I answered most over the hour I sat pushing my mind for answers while looking to the stars for reassurance that the universe is still out there, but I’ll say two things. There were many things I often do that never crossed my mind, and as to why across my mind there was one answer I could find. I need to do these things.

The time and effort it takes to dig every bit out from around my teeth and get every last bit ground down into paste heavily outweighs the reward.

Yes? One is smooth and the other isn’t.

Nuts of any kind. Peanuts, almonds, pistachios. Sure the flavor is fine, and the first crunchy bite can even be good. But then I’m left with not a nut in my mouth, but a bunch of smaller nut bits, and when I chew on those they turn into even smaller hard bits that get into every nook and cranny of my mouth. I swallow and feel the little bits scrape down my throat which is kinda uncomfortable.

Sure some of it ends up a manageable paste (which still isn’t great) but the time and effort it takes to dig every bit out from around my teeth and get every last bit ground down into paste so heavily outweighs the reward that I just don’t understand how people enjoy it. And all that is eating a single nut. You throw more in the mix and it just gets worse and worse.

All that said, peanut butter and nut-derived foods that don’t have that texture can be pretty great.

I joined Lemmy.world a couple years ago after kbin.social closed down, and made a Piefed account a few months ago when people said it was pretty good. I use both daily for different things.

For Lemmy I have found there is a big block button on each community page, so I use it a lot more than on Piefed. I also have my default sort set to top of the last 12 hours and to hide a post after I have viewed it. Sometimes if a post is only an hour or two long and doesn’t have a ton of comments I’ll wait a few hours to open it to have more comments to read. If it’s immediately interesting/relevant I’ll open it in a new tab, read it, then leave the tab to refresh later for further discussion since it won’t show up on my home page again. I also make heavy use of the Active sort after looking at the first page of 25 (I think) top results, which often leads to finding posts that I maybe wasn’t super interested in a day or two ago that now enough comments to make me interested in what the discussion is going on. There’s also a bug in the Active sort where the second page doesn’t load which is great to me because it encourages me to get off of Lemmy at that point.

All this has led my Lemmy usage to be very focused on what I am interested in, and there is a much higher ratio of posts that I am interested in. When I am bored and want to look at my phone, Lemmy is what I open. It’s where I tend to discuss things most frequently because I tend to find posts here first and they are more frequently things I want to speak on.

Piefed is where I go after Lemmy (You’ll never guess my username there). It looks like you can block communities, but you have to dig into your account settings and search for the community, which takes more work than I care to give. Unlike Lemmy, you can block keywords in your settings, so I blocked “Trump” and “Musk” when I made the account which has cut out the vast majority of the exhausting posts I would see otherwise (I do leave Politics and World News unblocked on Lemmy to see the biggest politics posts that float to the top). I have my default sort set to top posts of the last 24 hours and since I have no communities blocked I get a lot of comics and memes that I have blocked on Lemmy. The first page loads what feels like 100 posts instead of the 25 on Lemmy. I don’t know what the Active sort on Piefed is doing, but I do not care for it. I really like that I can set the default comment sort on Piefed, as it saves me the click and loading time of selecting Top comments every time I load a post.

All this leads my use of Piefed to feel like a funny junk drawer of mostly memes and comics that make me go “heh” every so often and occasionally share a meme to my friend group chat. The top 100 posts of the last day don’t change quickly so it usually only feels worthwhile to scroll once, maybe twice a day. I also don’t (can’t?) hide posts on Piefed which leads to a greater sense of redundancy, which by the time I’ve reached the bottom of the front page means I probably shouldn’t be scrolling more anyway.

If you can, you should make an account with both and see what feels best to you. Maybe you were looking for a more technical answer, but I can only speak to how it feels as an end user. A year ago I did start to throw a couple dollars to Lemmy each month for the server usage.

Yeah, it’s been 60 days so they are supposed to need congress to approve any further conflict. This lets them pretend that this is a new operation, and therefore a new conflict, to reset the timer.

I read Kickstarter and thought Patreon. That would be a huge blow to nsfw content. This is still upsetting.