asklemmy

You have been sentenced to life in a micronation of your choosing (Sealand, Molossia, etc.) The micronation must have actual land and you may never leave that land. What micronation do you choose?...

There’s an emergency at the Facility down the road, and everyone in a six-mile radius is very likely fucked....

I am looking to move on from spotify, what music streaming service pays the artists the best while still having a large library.

What do you think would be a more compelling sight to behold from the scale of an ant?

Pure curiosity:...

Hey all....

for me it’s steam deck it’s like a portable pc

I’ll start: if they have hobbies it’s a green flag for sure, doubly so if their hobbies are outlets for creativity.

i was in middle school and went to olive garden with my parents. the waiter had one of those voices that…you know, that men in the gay community normally have....

By commercialism, I’m aiming at a mix of spending a lot and sifting through bloated business models (e.g. this or that accessory/equipment, microtransactions, etc.). Feel like many can relate to this sort of commercial fatigue, and yet it creeps even into hobbies where one tries to unwind....

For starters, you can add weather stripping to outside-facing doors and windows. If your landlord doesn’t want to pay for it, then it can be found cheaply on aliexpress. Also, add insulation outside-facing switch covers and outlet plates.

Here’s some of mine:...

I love horror movies especially the cheesey type of horror movies that are so stupid that they are great. I do prefer the ones that would always appear on SyFy, but any other type (that is not like the ones on SyFy and look a lot better) is fine too.

very kirk van houten coded...

The owner kind of makes a weak attempt to seem like they’re trying, but if I weren’t there, they wouldn’t intervene at all. I’m asking because I want to make sure that I don’t over react next time.

I’ll start off by saying that he has a bad past life. He was obviously abused by his previous owners and straight up abandoned in the woods. He has bad anxiety that he is on Prozac for, and it seems to be helping for the most part....

I’m glad people are active, but why are the most upvoted memes things from years ago? Bots? Users desperate for content?

I found someone in our user database with the name “Deekshita Anusri”. I then imagined the poor soul at the border who had to read that name in front of the person named so....

It’s known that sneezing is a reflex to prevent dust or nose hairs or whatever from getting down into the lungs, but why do people and animals sometimes get hiccups? What function does that serve, and what causes them?...

I keep seeing communities which seem to consist of nothing but a bot that reposts stuff from Reddit....

Please prove me wrong and suggest me some modern ones that stand up to the older ones....

I use Firefox as my daily driver but sometimes sites just work better on a chromium based browser. I had been using Brave but it seems like they keep adding on more bloat (crypto, VPN, AI) and I’m over it....

Hi! My less-than-10-year-old has their own iPad (registered under my apple id) and wants to be able to “text” with the rest of the family. Most of us are not Apple people though: Android phones, using some combo of SMS, Discord, and Signal. The little one doesn’t have a phone, so I think that prevents us from signing them...